11-09-2017, 06:14 PM
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
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
2002 45'8" Newell Coach 608 Series 60 DDEC4/Allison World 6 Speed HD4000MH
