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        I have coach1518 with the cummins 600 engine.  I added freon and slugged the compressor and need to replace it.  Does anyone know the model number for the Sanden compressor for this engine?   Any suggestions appreciated.  We are in Houston Texas.

Hello to everyone whom shares the feeling of freedom, sense of excitement and adventure every time you pull up anchor and depart for the next place of wonder and fellowship. Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Steve, I have spent the last 40 years of my life in no particular order raising 4 children, starting and managing 3 businesses, being married a total of 28 years and divorced twice. During that time I built or renovated 6 homes for my family, started my obsession with motorhomes in 1983 with a 1978 28’ class A and worked my way up through a 30, a 36 and a 40’ Eagle. Most of our motor home expeditions were winter affairs traveling with my children to almost every ski area in the Northeast and then out West. Ask me anything about how to boondock at 8,000 feet in subzero temps with blizzard conditions. Or ask me what can’t go wrong, especially in one of the early coaches! 

Well times have changed and so have I, no more children, with the lady of my dreams and finally finished being a slave to work. I retired this year at 63 and am planning how to spend the next 3-4 years traveling around this magnificent continent meeting interesting people and looking for adventures  wherever it may be. Right now I am doing my diligence and comparing a select few coaches. Newell’s are high on the list for all the obvious reasons, the market for Newell’s has me looking at coaches between 1999-2003. There are some exceptions and this is where I am going to ask for some help.

Newell’s seem to be made for the long haul, many are powered by Detroit’s, I get somewhat confused when I hear of Detroit’s having rebuilds at 100–150K. What’s up with the million mile tag line? That being said when would mileage be a concern with a Newell? The construction and materials of these coaches would seem to indicate the potential for many years of usage. I guess my question would formulate to how will or when mileage affect the price of a coach? And by virtue should mileage affect the price? I wish to thank anyone for advice and look forward to future ownership of a Newell.

Just purchased our second Newell from Montana, here are both of them headed to Beaver lake in Arkansas.

i am posting this on behalf of a fellow guru who is currently driving.  he has an 02 newell.

he said while driving all the gauges and everything electrically related to having the ignition on goes dead on and off randomly.  he hears clicking in the relay panel in front of the passengers feet.

suggestions?   he has replaced the ignition relay several times in the past for ignition being dead.  

thanks

tom

    What is the proper name fro this actuator?

As related in another thread I drug the Aquahot exhaust trying to back into my driveway a couple of weeks ago and ended up with a puddle of coolant on the street.  I assumed that I had cracked the weld where the exhaust enters the tank.  I talked to Rudy and he tended to agree but suggested I pressure test it to make sure.  I finally got my hands on a pressure tester and after pumping it up I got no leaks.  I fired it up on diesel and brought it up to near boiling but still no leak.  After starting the engine to pressure up my air systems to check them I started getting the leak.  Any Ideas?

K     Any ideas beside this inverter being made in China, Junk. Why it will not power my T.V.

1. I can plug a drill into the outlet on the inverter and it works fine.


My system should be very little draw since the inverters just power the 2 tv’s. When I attempt to switch  the inverter switch the solenoid works but the inverter errors as it drops volts eventually blows the fuses on the inverter. 

2. Second clue is if I plug into a gfci plug from my house it will trip also when I try to plug in my tv circuit. I can plug into another house plug and it will work fine.

3. I question is my problem the 12 volt/ 120 ac relay causes me issues, if so do I even need this relay. Could I just connect the hard wire the 120 volt wires together. I wonder though if the power would back feed to the inverter. I’m thinking the relay must activate when shore power plugged in because I have power at tv’s

Lastly I remember those plug style inverters are a little finicky. Will a hard wired in inverter solve my problem.

Any thoughts?

    Need help, anyone know what this valve does, and should it have a hose hooked up to the bottom barb.

I noticed it was leaking air when I turned key on and  my dash heating controls, what was weird was my supply tank was empty until I turned on heater controls, once on the supply tank filled with 65 lbs of air and I noticed My left side airbags deflated. I assume the airbags filled my supply tank. Any thoughts. Thanks

https://www.rvtrader.com/listing/1987-Ne...5004000644

Just listed for sale after being off the market for several years. Beautiful Classic. For those interested, it is coach #129. 

If you have not visited http://newellcoach.com recently, you might want to take a look.  They have just revamped their website with a new look, new menus, a "Customization Gallery" with some of the unique features and designs they have built through the years, personalized contact information on many of their team members, better performance on mobile devices and an interactive virtual tour of standard floorplans (remember that you can customize your floorplan or use one of the standard floorplans whichever meets your needs and requirements).

Take a look!!