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anyone planing a trip for the big tent show in 2018?
Please let me know if any of you are at Miami, OK - we are surrounded by new and less-than-new Newells! Plan to take a quick factory tour, grab parts for automatic transfer switch and head out by noon if possible... would love to chat with some of you if you are here. We have to be in Las Vegas by Sunday and still have 20 hours to drive! :-( (where is the Time Travel button on this thing?)
Hello everyone,
I'm glad to have found this site. Sounds like there is allot of knowledge within the group and great to hear about all of the assistance given to the newbee's
I Just became the owner of a 2008 Newell 4 slide #1223. I have been looking at all sorts of motorhomes for a couple of years and no matter how hard I tried to be "thrifty" I just could not buy one of the mass produced class a or b's. Was interested in the Prevost lines but when I found the Newells it was just the kind of quality I was looking for. Picked up 1223 from the factory with a 2 year warrantee and have been very impressed with the factory folks so far. I pick up the coach on the 20th and will be cruising close to the factory for a few days checking everything out and then its off to the great adventure.
Hope to see you along the way.
Best to all,
Mike Mandall
Howdy Gurus,
I wanted to start a discussion on next years rally if we decide to have it.
i little background. planning rallys is a never please all for time and place.
so far as official newellguru rallys we have had them
Spearfish, SD
Table Rock, AR
Lake Tahoe, CA
then twice in Ruidoso, NM
we have had anywhere from 32 coaches to 5 coaches.
all were incredibly fun.
we dont charge anything for the rally and you just cover your own expenses. we have usually done potlucks most nights and tech sessions during the days
in addition there are other newell get togethers. steve bare does his in alabama and we went last year and had a ball. i think he said over the course of a month there were like 15 newells that came and went. when we were there i think there was 5 of us.
and others do informal get togethers as discussed in the forum.
i have done them with planning committees, and i have done them totally with me deciding everything. you guys are like herding cats....ha
several of you have contacted me about doing regional guru rallys and that has been fine with me. i do ask a few simple things that i will be glad to discuss with you if you would like.
so.....can i get some discussion from you guys about if you are interested in doing one next year.
picking where is challenging. far west coast doesnt seem to work for most gurus. far east coast the same. so somewhere in between.
some folks are date constrained and some are not. when i plan them they are in early to mid june.
when finding and negotiating a location park for us to be at, it is challenging as to what to tell them the numbers might be. if we have 5, it is easy, and discount probably not much. if it is a much larger number, then potentially better discounts and use of facility and such. if we all want to be together we have to block out numbers of spaces. it is much nicer when we are by each other.
so.....ideas, thoughts and such?
ultimately the former executive in me comes out of retirement and will make a decision.
thanks
tom
yesterday my daughter sent me a text with a picture of a 40ft prevost country coach blocking the main street in wickenburg az where she works and 20 miles from us. he had come out of a parking lot and was entering the street and got caught on the dip i guess.
this morning she called me and said the same bus was stalled on the side of the road about ten miles from our house
so i hopped in my car and went to see if i could help. it was a man probably in his 70's by himself that was a cowboy. a roper.
he had been pulling his horse trailer and had an incident with it that damaged it and where when it jackknifed on the back of the coach. the rear bumper was also pulled out where he had caught the day before.
when i drove up it was idling and sounded like a metal bucket of rocks was being rattled. we talked and he was having a variety of problems. his key would start the engine but not turn on any gauges on the dash. the rattling was there, the coach in the rear was way down and not raising up at all.
the rattling was the alternator. it was literally coming apart. the rear housing was loose. it was no good. so he just cut the belt off which was totally cracked and bad anyway. i told him to just run the generator with merge on and he could get the 15 miles to where he was headed.
he needed a new alternator
the key problem i had no idea and he could drive it the way it was.
he ran at high idle for a long time and the rear did not come up. he decided to head off anyway. it looked like it was trying to do a wheelie. the front end was way up and the rear wayyyy down. i hope he made it ok.
i gave him my name and number and to call me if he needed.
i think the reason he got caught on the street the day before is that he wasnt getting to ride height.
tom
Just wanted to say hello to everyone and I hope that I may be of help when I can and I hope to learn when I can't and become more familiar with the Newell Coaches.
I'm new to your site and have always been a fan of the quality of the Newell Coach. At present I have a '94 Foretravel Unihome 36'. I know some of the Newell Gurus visit our Forum and I thought it would be nice to see visit your site since I have thought about seeing how things were done here. I am always trying to learn from others as well as just learning by renovating my own coach when I can. I've seen a lot of Newell Coaches on the road and know the quality is top notch and by learning more about the Newell I thought that some of the ideas I pick up here I can apply to my own coach. Also, maybe someday I may find a Newell that suits my budget and needs. I'm retired now and live in Maple Ridge, BC. I've had my coach for 4 years now and really enjoy showing my wife places she has never been to, especially the South Western states.
John
Mrs Cobham, ( AKA navigator) spied this Classic Newell off the highway in a small rv park in Asheville North Carolina today, not far from the Vanderbiilt Biltmore Estate. It is plated out of Arizona. The toad was gone. Looks like no one was home...Didn't want to appear to be a stalker and continued on our way ,Nice looking coach. I better get to polishing ours 
I've been asked many times how I catch the oil. Found a tool that works great. I was able to drain the oil & change the filters at the same time. No mess on the floor to clean up. There are many different brands & designs. This is the one I selected and it worked great. Has a manual pump to pump the oil back into containers for recycle.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MS9...UTF8&psc=1
Gurus,
This morning I was awakened by a dripping noise in the front of the coach. I investigated and found water virtually pouring from the top aft side of the number 1 slide. (The one that has given me so much trouble). I quickly tilted the coach to the drivers side and down in the back to get the water off of the seal.
It had been raining, but not storming, so I suspected the seal had deflated. I looked at the top edge of the seal from inside the coach and could see that the seal was inflated but there was light coming through.
When I investigated, the seal had air...but was softer than the rest. I adjusted the seal air regulator to add some air. This significantly reduced the light that I could see. (There is a seal joint in the middle that still has light coming through).
I checked the rest of the seals and found different air pressures on each of them.
So...what is the correct pressure that should be on a slide seal? How much is too much? and.....if you run higher than normal, will it blow the seal or reduce its life? Finally, what is the life expectancy of a slide seal? Is it measured in inflate / deflate cycles? Years?
Thanks!
bill
edit: After it quit raining, I looked more closely and found that the gap between the top of the slide and the slide seal is significant. (Even with the additional air pressure). It looks like the bar that is supposed to lift the middle of the side is not working. (Newell adjusted the bar when they rebuilt the ceiling of the slide about 9 months ago). Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Well, I've just had the coach for a couple of weeks and the family and I have been doing some interior remodel and removed the existing carpet. By removing the carpet we ended up
removing pretty much everything from within the coach (except one dinette booth that we couldn't remove without removing one of the furnaces completely).
It is still a work in progress but I wanted to post the change on the floor so far. We ended up using LVP and, except were the step cover is that it bends a little when you step on it, it looks perfect. I was thinking in removing the plywood that sits on top of the step cover and replace it with sheet rock but it is too heavy to do that, if it gets worst well replace the plywood with something else and see if it doesn't give up that much.
We'll start putting everything back inside as we have a small trip this weekend but we'll remove all seating again to re-upholster everything on a different color. We are really happy that we've removed the carpet.
Some of the pictures are from the before and some for the after (out of order). If you want to see a special part or section just ask.
and a few more pictures on this post (limited to 20 per post).