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Have any of you who own early 80's Classics with a 6v92 power plant pulled out your block heater heating element to just check its efficacy,  or just replace it? How big is it,  and how difficult was it too change out? Mine is working fine with no issues,  but my brother-in-law's (Glenn Parker)is not working, so this is more for him than me,  but I'm wondering, too.

Just noticed 1462 at The Motorcoach Store...$577,777. Rather striking grey interior which has become much more popular with recent vintages:
https://www.themotorcoachstore.com/defau...id=8567189

background.....

i just changed a front drivers side airbag on my 99.  aired it up and measured each corner from friday till today.   holds steady for 3 days

i started the engine up briefly to straighten the front wheels out.  after turning it off there was a loud air leak i could hear as soon as i went out the door.  

traced it to the engine compressor air dryer in the drivers side rear wheel well.  when spraying soapy bubbles on the back side of it that was facing the rear engine firewall, you could hear the bubbles hitting the leak as you sprayed it    no bubbles though since the leak was so big

took it off, and the pictures tell the story.  inside was totally gunked up and the you can see the holes on the side of the filer cartridge that was facing the rear firewall and had rusted through.  

i had one in the supply cabinet so changed it out and all was good.  

i did put jackstands under it and a jack at the rear trailer hitch.  didnt want to loose an arm.....ha

btw,  the reason it didnt leak only on shop air is there is a check valve there somewhere that isolated that filter from the main coach air. when i started the engine up, it put air on that filter and it started leaking.  

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Hey all I'm about 300 miles outside El Paso are there any good places to stay?

Six years ago when I bought the coach, the generator took three or four attempts to actually fire and run. You could run the prime on the pump and it would crank right up. Replacing the fuel pump ( with it's internal check valve) solved the problem. 

In the last month it started again. Ok, I know this drill. Amazon delivers the pump and I install last night while fending off mosquitos. 

However, it is really hard to get it to fire now. Fire and stumble. Fire and stumble. Repeat about ten times despite burping the fuel system twice. I finally get it running. Flip on the ACs to put a load on it and it dies. Hmmm, try the Aquahot and the generator slows and dies. I am thinking about this time that das ist nicht gud. 

Ok, calm down. Do you put the old pump back on? Let's think, diesels are simple animals that need fuel and air. What keeps it from getting fuel. Filters. Hmmm. Change out both filters, prefilling them with ATF. Fires right up and runs without any further problems. 

Yeah, yeah, I know. Follow my own advice. Look at simple first. 

In my defense, in 15 years of motorhoming, this is the first time I have ever had to change a filter because the engine was starving.

Last January (2019) we visited Richard and Rhonda in Inverness, FL.  Richard had removed their Villa passenger chair from their Newell and had offered it free of charge to anyone who would come to their home to pick it up.  We accepted their offer sometime in 2018 knowing we would be in Florida in January of 2019.

We arrived at their home on January 4th, and on January 5th we began the removal of TLE's old, worn out Flexsteel captain's chair, and the installation of the Villa chair in its place.  In all it took about 5 hours beginning to end, and having Richard helping made that timeline possible....without him it would have taken me a couple of days.  He provided the Grade 8 bolts and washers, and gave me very good advice about the proper installation to avoid it ripping out of the floor in an accident, or very sudden panic stop.  The pictures below show the initial installation on January 5th, 2019.

   

   

The Villa chair had been sitting for about a year, and a couple of the power functions were not working properly.....the foot rest would only raise a few inches, and the reclining feature would only move an inch, or so.  We suspected the drive screws needed lubrication, but by that time the seat was installed, so it would be necessary to remove the back leather panel to access those items properly.  

Fast forward to March 18, 2020.....I had still not taken off that back leather panel, but finally decided to stop procrastinating.  As I began to remove the staples holding the bottom of the panel in place I began to realize why I had procrastinated......over the space of 24" I had to remove over 70 staples, and that took the better part of an hour.....

   

.....finally the underside of the Villa chair was exposed.  Next I had to identify which motors, and drive screws moved the footrest, and the reclining of the back of the seat.  The first picture below shows the drive screw controlling the footrest.....

   

.....and the second one below shows the drive screw controlling the reclining feature......

   

....I sprayed some penetrating oil on both drive screws on both sides of the drive motors, waited a few minutes, and them pushed the toggle switches to see if they would now work.....the footrest immediately began to rise, and the back of the seat began to recline.....both functions now work perfectly....

   

....lubing the drive screws was quite easy, it was just getting access that took so long.  We will reattach the leather back panel with Velcro.....no more staples, or tacks!

Hi all,

The time has come for us to part with coach 540. She has served her purpose well over the past couple years but we're just at a different phase right now.

Here's the RV Trader listing with all of the details:

https://www.rvtrader.com/listing/-5011830419

Some highlights:
Replaced carpet 2 years ago with LVP flooring
Replaced all airbags
Replaced both slide seals
New 120V and 12V water pumps
~160k miles

It seems that campgrounds are being closed due to the Coronavirus.....such as Florida State Campgrounds starting this Friday.   Truck/Camper magazine has begun a petitions asking that this be stopped — here is the article, and the petition — as there is danger that all campgrounds could follow suit....and many live in their coaches, RV’s - what then.  The petitions suggests very reasonable rules that could be followed and still keep campgrounds open.   I am attaching the link.....please read and sign....

Thank you —

Pam Cameron

https://www.truckcampermagazine.com/news...VKDwPZ38Ls

  One of the neighbors in our 55+ community returned from a 7 day cruise this past Saturday.  He immediately went out visiting throughout the neighborhood.  Then yesterday he posted on Nextdoor that "HE WAS NOT INFECTED".  I along with a few others called him out and told him that according to CDC guidelines he needed to consider that he was infected and self-isolate for 14 days.  He finally admitted we were right and is (hopefully) going to isolate himself.  BUT for 4 days he was out among others including riding in his golf cart with a friend.  Again our neighborhood is all in the demographic at highest risk.  Hopefully he is NOT infected and hasn't passed it along to others.  We are keeping our distance from others as long as it takes.

Take care friends and be cautious of others. 

today me and my buddy changed the front drivers side airbag on my 99.  it is a firestone W01-358-8087

the one on the coach was badly checked and was leaking on the side of it when i sprayed bubbles on it.  

it is not a hard task if you have the tools.  

a trick we used was to put the new bag in, we sucked the air out of it with a shop vac and then used a piece of wire to keep it compressed so it would go back in easily.  

we had to rotate the bottom of the bag to get the mounting bolts to break loose.  

the old airbag had a different rubber bag part than the new one.  the old bag had the metal bottom held on with 4 nuts.  once they were off, the bottom came off, the plate inside the airbag came loose and you could stick your hand inside the bag.  the new bag was sealed on the bottom and had one bolt that held the bottom metal mount on and you could easily rotate the bottom to align the mounting holes.  

1.  lifted coach as high as it would go with air leveling system,
2.  put 4 jackstands underneath.  let all air out of front bags using down arrow on hwh control.  
3.  put my air over hydraulic jack to jack up the wheel off the ground.  
4.  used 1" impact gun with 1 1/2" impact socket (left hand thread since we were on drivers side) and took lugnuts off
5.  used wheel dolly to remove tire/wheel
6.  broke loose air fitting and removed on top
7.  removed 4 3/4" nuts on top of airbag mount
8.  removed 2   3/4" bolts from bottom mount
9.  used two large pry bars to squash bag down to remove it. 
10.  removed air fitting using 1/2" impact gun and installed in new bag with goop
11.  loosened nut on bottom of new airbag and oriented bottom mount properly
12.  used shop vac to suck bag down and compressed and tied with piece of 12g wire.  
13.  put in mount.  started two bottom bolts into mount,  then aligned top bolts in upper frame
14.  connected air hose and partially inflated bag using hwh up arrow on panel
15.  verified bag was aligned and not twisted.
16.  put on all mounting bolts and nuts and tightened air hose
17.  put wheel and tire back on and torqued with 1" torque stick to 475ft lbs.  verified with torque wrench.  

here are a few pictures

tom