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Anyone ever had their coach towed. Waiting on tow truck now on side of road. Haggling with moorons on the phone. 

hi all,

for some reason i cannot find where i put the hwh part number for the air solenoid valves in the six packs.  

can someone refresh me with it?

thanks

tom

Hello, this seems like a great and knowledgeable group, I will appreciate any insights you may have.

I've been dreaming of owning and living full time in a luxury coach probably since I first saw one as a child. I'm seriously considering making that dream a reality by purchasing a Newell. The unit i'm considering is a 1997, coach #453. It looks good in the pictures I've seen, I'm just trying to gather as much information as possible. My biggest concern is that it has some water damage on the inside trim pieces of the slide out. The seller claims that the previous owner took it back to Newell to have the slide seals repaired, I guess there would be records of such things. I'm wondering how reliable the slide out systems are on units of this generation?

What are the things I should be looking out for as potential problems? I'm very technical, and familiar with heavy-duty diesel systems.

This is just a start I guess, I'll definitely have more specific questions at some point, just testing the waters.

Thanks.

Today was my turn for a head scratcher. I could not get the HWH system to go into level mode. The travel solenoids would not energize. I set the ride heights manually with the leveling pad and drove for a while. At the rest stop I thought I would do a little troubleshooting while taking a break from driving. I checked every fuse I could find with none found open. Not really understanding the system, I thought maybe it was connected to the slide out not locking since my leveling light and emergency brake light has been on for a year. So I deployed the slide. BIG MISTAKE !!!!!!!!  There is a very good reason to only deploy in travel mode. The coach was torqued and it racked the slide. I couldn't get it back in without one upper corner being over an inch out of flush. 

I tried a couple of times to untorque the chassis with the manual leveling but no dice. 

So, I made a jumper wire with a switch and I hot wired one of the travel solenoids to 12V. They are all tied together so that forced the coach into travel mode kind of. When the coach was leveled, I cycled the slide several times and it squared itself. 

When we stopped for the evening. I went hunting for a miracle. Since I had the hot wire to the travel solenoids, I measured terminal 75 on the HWH board. It now has 12v, so that told me the problem was not downstream of the HWH brain box. There is a fuse on the back the leveling board that I has previously checked visually but with more time I thought I would ohm all the fuses. When I moved the board to access the fuse, the travel solenoids clicked on, and the LEDs for travel lit up. Hmmm, maybe a loose connection. 

Here are pics of what I found. A burned connection and a bad solder joint on the board for that particular connection. It is the 12v supply to the solenoids. I don't know which came first the bad connection which melted the solder joint, or vice versa.

Anyhoo, I resoldered the joint, and cleaned the connector. All seems to be good now. 

A blind pig occasionally finds an acorn. 

       

I must be suffering brain death since I cannot figure out how to post images to the commentary I composed regarding the re-laminating of my entry door: HELP please.

i wanted a place to go for a few days after staying in shingle springs, ca before we went to tahoe.  

i looked in big rig friendly book and this place was the only one near.  

it is the coolest park.  small, but pristine, in the mountains, grass, paved spots, trees, super clean,  easy in and out.  

wes, the owner gave us two back in spots that make a 100 foot long pull through.  

we are sitting outside in the cool breeze after visiting with some fellow rv'r for quite a while.  

larry, i went down and said hi to wes for you.  

i highly recommend this place.  and it is very reasonably prices.  like 35 bucks or something like that.  

and for the first time in a week, i have a clear enough view for the sat dish to lock on.....

we are here till friday when we head to tahoe.  

the drive here was pretty, but quite windy and narrow roads all the way.  but ok.  

tom

If anybody has some old A/D/S equipment that you want to sell I might be interested. As some of you know I'm restoring a 1993 Newell that was vandalized. Many of the components were damaged. Even if what you have is broken I may be interested. Feel free to PM me.

DD series 60, bath & 1/2 and 365 upgrade on front tires. Looks like a good buy...........................

http://www.rvtrader.com/listing/2003-New...-114782497

 Works on LP, Costco has these on sale for $300, valid 6/1/15 - 6/21/15 while supplies last. http://www.costco.com/Ancona-Casetta-Ser...15229.html

http://www.anconahome.com/index.php?rout...uct_id=497

my main sewer dump air valve was exhausing when the paddle was closed. just started. i capped off the two lines running to the cylinder and it still did it when the solenoids were energized for the down position. so, not the piston seal in the cylinder of the dump valve.

i had an old solenoid valve body so i changed it out. that is really hard to get at and my arms are like chewed up. it didnt fix it but i did use one i think had problems.

so, i just capped it off for now and will do it manually till i fix it.

so....now i have had to stuck open air valves.....makes me think i might have some moisture or gunk in my air tanks. i drained the one in the front blower bay and no water. the one inside the rear passenger side wheelwell and no water, but there was some on the small separator in the engine bay.

tom