Hurry & get here before you break something else!
Ken H
On Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 7:52 AM Richard Denney via Gmclist <
> So, after all my extended project replacing the rear...everything, I took
> it for a spin today before driving to Mansfield tomorrow. Everything worked
> fine. It stops pretty darn well, though I still can’t lock the brakes.
>
> I installed a vacuum pump similar to the one JimK sells to replace my leaky
> JC4 and as long as it has power, I can’t run out of boost. It sucks from a
> one-gallon vacuum reserve tank. But it ran and ran on Saturday when I
> installed it, until I found that check valve in that tank not fully seated
> and leaking. Maybe that JC4 pump wasn’t so leaky after all.
>
> But here’s what happened today:
>
> Macerator wouldn’t run. Turned the shaft with a screwdriver—that didn’t
> help at first. Fried the fuse in the attempt. Finally got it to run, but it
> does not start on every throw of the switch. I can live with that, or deal
> with it in Mansfield.
>
> Fantastic Fan would open but the fan wouldn’t blow. After much fiddling,
> figured out it was the remote out of synch with the fan, and it was
> thinking I had set the fan to a higher temperature than we had, and would
> spin up the motor. Got that working.
>
> Water tank wouldn’t drain. Bugs had built a mud nest in the drain pipe. Got
> that fixed.
>
> One of my two propane tanks has a leaky attachment. I used two 20-pound
> portable tanks, so I switched to the other one. Fine for now.
>
> Power Level air pump would turn on. Huh? That’s been working hard for the
> last few weeks. Checked the fuse, which is an inline fuse to the main power
> feed to a load-reduction relay. The fuse was actively burning up. Turned my
> main kill switch off to stop the current. Cut that melted and fried fuse
> holder out and replace it. Works fine now.
>
> But the goofiest one came at the end of my test drive. About a mile from
> home, on my bumpy dirt road, I suddenly heard a metallic dragging sound.
> Stopped and circled the coach looking for some rear-suspension reaction rod
> or brake part I had installed dragging on the ground. Nope. Then I saw
> it—my lovely stainless steel air tank was dragging and held only by the two
> air lines. The bracket was bolted to the bottom of the battery tray, and
> the bolts had come loose and fallen out. I had to cut off the threaded rod
> used on the bottom of the clamp because of rust, and then reassemble and
> re-attach the bracket. That took an hour to fix.
>
> Just a normal prep day for a trip. Sheesh.
>
> Good news, though. No evidence of mice since I bought all the stainless
> steel scrubbies in a five-state area and stuffed them into every possible
> entrance point. We vacuumed up a thousand or two stink-bug carcasses, but
> that’s normal.
>
> Rick “hoping it makes KenB feel a little better” Denney
> --
> '73 X-Glacier 230 "Jaws"
> Northern Virginia
> Offlist email: rick at rickdenney dot com
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Ken H
On Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 7:52 AM Richard Denney via Gmclist <
> So, after all my extended project replacing the rear...everything, I took
> it for a spin today before driving to Mansfield tomorrow. Everything worked
> fine. It stops pretty darn well, though I still can’t lock the brakes.
>
> I installed a vacuum pump similar to the one JimK sells to replace my leaky
> JC4 and as long as it has power, I can’t run out of boost. It sucks from a
> one-gallon vacuum reserve tank. But it ran and ran on Saturday when I
> installed it, until I found that check valve in that tank not fully seated
> and leaking. Maybe that JC4 pump wasn’t so leaky after all.
>
> But here’s what happened today:
>
> Macerator wouldn’t run. Turned the shaft with a screwdriver—that didn’t
> help at first. Fried the fuse in the attempt. Finally got it to run, but it
> does not start on every throw of the switch. I can live with that, or deal
> with it in Mansfield.
>
> Fantastic Fan would open but the fan wouldn’t blow. After much fiddling,
> figured out it was the remote out of synch with the fan, and it was
> thinking I had set the fan to a higher temperature than we had, and would
> spin up the motor. Got that working.
>
> Water tank wouldn’t drain. Bugs had built a mud nest in the drain pipe. Got
> that fixed.
>
> One of my two propane tanks has a leaky attachment. I used two 20-pound
> portable tanks, so I switched to the other one. Fine for now.
>
> Power Level air pump would turn on. Huh? That’s been working hard for the
> last few weeks. Checked the fuse, which is an inline fuse to the main power
> feed to a load-reduction relay. The fuse was actively burning up. Turned my
> main kill switch off to stop the current. Cut that melted and fried fuse
> holder out and replace it. Works fine now.
>
> But the goofiest one came at the end of my test drive. About a mile from
> home, on my bumpy dirt road, I suddenly heard a metallic dragging sound.
> Stopped and circled the coach looking for some rear-suspension reaction rod
> or brake part I had installed dragging on the ground. Nope. Then I saw
> it—my lovely stainless steel air tank was dragging and held only by the two
> air lines. The bracket was bolted to the bottom of the battery tray, and
> the bolts had come loose and fallen out. I had to cut off the threaded rod
> used on the bottom of the clamp because of rust, and then reassemble and
> re-attach the bracket. That took an hour to fix.
>
> Just a normal prep day for a trip. Sheesh.
>
> Good news, though. No evidence of mice since I bought all the stainless
> steel scrubbies in a five-state area and stuffed them into every possible
> entrance point. We vacuumed up a thousand or two stink-bug carcasses, but
> that’s normal.
>
> Rick “hoping it makes KenB feel a little better” Denney
> --
> '73 X-Glacier 230 "Jaws"
> Northern Virginia
> Offlist email: rick at rickdenney dot com
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It was HOT today.
