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We are the proud owners of coach #125, a 1986 model. Has a new rariton water heater that works great with engine heat but not with electric. I must be missing something in the wiring/switching. Breakers in bedroom are good, switch at drivers panel is on. What am I missing??

Also have a leak in/under toilet. Have removed the toilet for a rebuild. I have searched the forum and have found good info on the toilet. That will be todays project.

Also ant ideas on interior primer and paint?? Pink must go.

We have made a couple of trips with the Newell so far. Awesome driver.

Thanks for now, Mark

http://panterracoach.com/coaches/2004-ne...ple-slide/

This one’s not too far from me. I can go put a set of eyes on it for someone if needed. 
Bryan

The fan blower motor in the front plenum heat exchanger died on me a few weeks back. I had gotten a replacement VDO blower motor, but when trying to transfer the blade wheel, I noticed that the hub in one was already cracked. While trying to extract it from the slightly rusty shaft on the original motor, it just came apart.

The blower fan blade unit was a Cary Products #900. Found a couple places that carry it for maybe $35. Also found that the following appear to be equivalents:
Victory 062-00183 ($24)
Danhard 16-2511 ($24)
Four Seasons 35528 ($11 from Amazon!)


Unfortunately I had some weird shipping madness from Amazon but after several weeks of no front blower in 16 degree night time temps, I can report that the Four Seasons unit is a direct replacement.

Note that I've read that some people have a wheel with a set screw and others with a clamp to hold the wheel on the shaft. This is the clamp variety. The Four Seasons also came with a new clamp.

One bedroom slide, Detroit Series 60. $99,833 https://www.rvt.com/Newell-45-1998-Seffn...7-UX109919

The thread on mods produced some interesting ideas. 

This one is aimed at useful info that may help a Guru in a jam.

My favorite hacks. 

1. The HWH leveling system loses it's mind, and you need to move on. Open the HWH panel, read the schematic and find the terminal that feeds all four leveling solenoids. Jumper that terminal to one of the 12V + studs in the bay. The travel solenoids will be activated and you can be on your way.  (Bad solder joint on HWH board, happened in a rest stop in Wyoming)

2. You lose an airbag or HCV on the side of the road. As you know the coach is going NOWHERE. Jack up the frame of the coach to lift it off the axles. Put wooden blocks between the suspension and the frame. It will get you off the side of the interstate. Remove airline to HCV and block the end. ( Inner rear dual blew out taking out airbag and HCV. 14 degrees I 40 outside of Knoxville)

3. You rub a hole in an airline or one develops a serious leak in an airline. Cut out a small section and replace with a double ended push on like this  https://www.mcmaster.com/#push-to-connec...s/=1aya43i  I have had to do this twice for the bedroom air seal airline which runs in the wheel well.  (Left the tag in remove weight mode, coach sat down on tires, oops, operator error)

4. You lose the alternator. Crank the genny and merge the batteries. (hmmmmm, every trip with the double V belt alternator setup)

5. All the batteries are DEAD. Turn both disconnect switches off for house and chassis. Connect the jumper cables from the car to the hot side of the house batteries, and upstream of the negative disconnect switch. You should be able to start the genny now. Then you can turn both disconnect switches back on. The reason for disconnecting the house and chassis batteries, is that both are huge low voltage loads if they are dead. The car battery will not have the oomph to overcome those dead batteries and crank the genny .  (left the headlights on overnight when boondocking for the night)

6. I almost forgot. Blew out the front slide air seal. I used the round foam caulk backer available at any Lowes to force into the crease to stop the wind noise till I could get to Miami to get it fixed. https://www.lowes.com/pd/M-D-20-ft-Gray-...ip/1043667

Can't wait to hear other ideas that you have used in emergency situations. I have used all of the above in my travels.

Detroit 8V92, 42' $64,995

https://www.rvtrader.com/listing/1990-Ne...5000910683

Quad slide Cummins ISX 650 hp, bath and a half, $825,000

https://www.rvtrader.com/listing/2012-Ne...5001053926

Most of the guru crowd has pimped the coach in one way or another to address a permanent fix, correct a design flaw, or simply add customization. It's kind of slow, because of the holiday, so I thought I would start a thread on the top ten favorite coach mods.

Here are mine:

1. Three way toggle switch to activate jake brakes off of accelerator or brake pedal
2. Treadle style air brake pedal
3. External contactors for AC compressors
4. Solid surface flooring
5. Combination style door lock
6. 365 Front tires
7. Aluminum  Coolant Expansion Tank
8. Air Ride Drivers Seat for Passenger side
9. LED Headlights with relays
10. Direct Drive Generator Blower

And looking at the other lists reminded me:

Rear Sway Bar

In the holiday channel surfing, I stumbled on a TV program on Direct called Bus Life Forever. The show is about a guy who specializes in school bus conversions. I thought it might be interesting. 

I watched and did a big "What!!!!!!!!" when the budgets for three conversions on this episode ranged from 30 to 100K. 

Man, that is some wicked kool aid, or some terribly uninformed people. 

I am guessing this is a spillover from the Tiny House folks who are paying nutty prices for tricked out storage sheds.

The saga of coach 660 continues. Brakes now. The calipers have two bolts, both fine thread metric. The longer of the two, on the bottom, is GONE. trying to get information on the brakes, axles and drive carrier is almost impossible..

contacted Newell, no help. called who i think was the mfg for the rear drive axle. no help. been calling every nut and bolt mfg and you can guess, no help.

the missing bolt is an M16-1.5-approx 140-160 mm.

if anyone has suggestions, i am certainly open for them. Going to be at Newell on 1/8 for slide work and a couple of other things. I still don't have a fix for the erratic door closing