06-13-2016, 05:26 PM
What a great Rally at Ruidoso Motorcoach Ranch this past week. We really want to thank Tom and Darlene for all their organizational efforts, including the reception they hosted on Sunday night, and shopping for the food that was provided compliments of Newell Corp.
We left Saturday morning and spent the night along Hwy. 40 at "camp" Walmart in Weatherford, OK. Because our low-fuel light was on when we stopped we went for diesel first thing. The station where we stopped would only let us charge $95.00 or about 45 gallons. They said it was their policy. Ed was pretty bent out of shape because of this, but thought it would get us home. (Lynda is writing this because Ed doesn't type). Ed's knee was really hurting him, so I took over driving just east of Tulsa and drove the rest of the way home. It was very uneventful, Ed went back and slept with his knee stretched out and everything was great until about 60 miles from home, approximately Lamar, MO. I had noticed it was getting pretty warm in the coach and about 30 miles later finally Ed got up, checked the generator...it was running, but not generating electricity. We were going to bring the coach home to unload, but took it to the barn so we could plug in.
After thinking about the generator problem last night, Ed inserted a wooden yardstick into the fuel tank and it didn't even wet the bottom of the stick! We evidently blew into town on fumes! I actually remember it "coughing" a couple of times, but I was going up hill and just thought it was the transmission. After putting two 5-gallon cans of diesel in the tank he had about 2" on the yardstick. It took 173 gallons to fill. The generator finally sputtered and started, but was not generating electricity.
After talking to Cressley at Newell, the lesson learned is: The pickup tube for the generator is about 2" above the pickup for the engine, so as a safety measure it throws a switch in the back on the stater. After switching it on and off and then on again...Voila! We have power. Ed was ecstatic...he said it was like he save $2000.00!
We left Saturday morning and spent the night along Hwy. 40 at "camp" Walmart in Weatherford, OK. Because our low-fuel light was on when we stopped we went for diesel first thing. The station where we stopped would only let us charge $95.00 or about 45 gallons. They said it was their policy. Ed was pretty bent out of shape because of this, but thought it would get us home. (Lynda is writing this because Ed doesn't type). Ed's knee was really hurting him, so I took over driving just east of Tulsa and drove the rest of the way home. It was very uneventful, Ed went back and slept with his knee stretched out and everything was great until about 60 miles from home, approximately Lamar, MO. I had noticed it was getting pretty warm in the coach and about 30 miles later finally Ed got up, checked the generator...it was running, but not generating electricity. We were going to bring the coach home to unload, but took it to the barn so we could plug in.
After thinking about the generator problem last night, Ed inserted a wooden yardstick into the fuel tank and it didn't even wet the bottom of the stick! We evidently blew into town on fumes! I actually remember it "coughing" a couple of times, but I was going up hill and just thought it was the transmission. After putting two 5-gallon cans of diesel in the tank he had about 2" on the yardstick. It took 173 gallons to fill. The generator finally sputtered and started, but was not generating electricity.
After talking to Cressley at Newell, the lesson learned is: The pickup tube for the generator is about 2" above the pickup for the engine, so as a safety measure it throws a switch in the back on the stater. After switching it on and off and then on again...Voila! We have power. Ed was ecstatic...he said it was like he save $2000.00!
Ed & Lynda Perkins
2002 Newell #638 (4 slides)
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1998 F250 Work Truck
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