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Found this fun website that reminds us to know how tall our coach is and observe height signs at all times.

Once I got to the bridge at Baxter Springs and turned around when it said 13' 8". I had visions like this website of cleaning off the top of my coach. Since then I have ridden under that bridge several times. Still scares me.

11foot8.com

Judy and I have owned one Prevost conversion and three Newell's. Our current Newell is #793 and is a 2007. We live on a farm near Kearney, MO, where we have a small cow calf operation. We spend the winters at Desert Shores RV Resort in Indio, CA. Our son takes care of our commercial real estate investments and developments, thankfully. We belong to Bus n Biker's and enjoy attending their rallies.

We want to change our flooring in the salon from carpet to either wood laminate and tile, thought we might have someone local do the work rather than spend $10,000 to $15,000 at the factory. Sure could use some advice on what products to ask for and where to get it done more reasonably.

I have a Fleetguard set of transmission filters with gaskets and o rings in original sealed box. These filters are #HF 28943. They fit the 4000 series trans. Sell for $50.00. Will deliver to rally.

The readout on the main switch panel above the coach cooktop always says Lo scrolling across the little Aqua Hot round screen. It has never been any different since I got the coach and I have had heat most of the time. I have intermittent problems with the amount of heat, usually only luke warm air coming out of the vents. Luke warm hot water sometimes also.Could that be caused by a thermostat somewhere in the Aqua Hot that is not reading correctly and giving this lo temp reading? Any idea what to check to see if I can repair it and what it might be?

I said on a previous post that while Clarke and I had the center console out the other day to put in a new electric heater we discovered a hidden cord that appears to plug into something (last three pics). There are many wires bundled and wrapped on it with two other wires to the outside. The switch you see on top says "lock" so you are able to connect to something and lock it in place. Anyone know what this is and what it does??

Now for round two. The first pic is a switch mounted on the side of the console facing the driver. The switch has a flat side that a knob of some sort would sit on and turn. Obviously the knob is gone, but here again Clarke and I could not figure out what it is for??

Since I bought the 93 coach I've been nonplussed by the seeming lack of power compared to my previous 77 coach.

Well.... I was doing a spring checkout of the coach and decided to take a peek at the air filter. I could not see any air inlet to the filter. Continuing to fiddle with it I discovered the the air inlet grid was pointed upwards into the top of the engine compartment and was mostly blocked off. I rotated the the housing so the inlet pointed to the rear. Holy scoot Batman, I now get up to 22 psi boost and the coach accelerates nicely. I no longer can afford to go to sleep pulling away from a traffic light for fear of running up someone's backside.

I have been in contact with the factory and thankfully no employees were affected by last nights tornadoes. Quapaw which is 6 miles from the factory was hit and 2 people lost their lives.

Clarke and Elaine have arrived in our home town this weekend. We so enjoy spending time with them and hearing about their travels. We have had a couple of great dinners already with the Hockewalds. One was at a tiny but quaint place called Mama Lata's followed by desert at a national award winning pastry chefs place very near by. This evening my wife fixed us a fabulous meal of steak and swordfish. She is such a wonderful cook that I am spoiled.

Our lovely weather has taken a dive though as the wind has been a steady 20-30 MPH with a temperature that has now dropped and settled into the 40's. I are parked my coach next to Clarke's at the fairground camping area to work on projects and learn from the madter We did some outdoor projects today on the coaches until the rain chased us inside. Once inside though we did manage to stay productive and change out two of our electric heaters. I was glad to do this knowing they were both almost 30 years old and others had warned us to swap them out for safety reasons.

While we were changing the front heater inside the center counsel between the driver and passenger seats we found a switch and also some sort of plug that neither of us could identify. This is not unusual for me still being a newbie but even Clarke was stumped. I will try to upload some pics soon and we can play my favorite game of "can someone tell me what this is and what it does".

I found this space saving furniture very innovative , someone was thinking when they came up with this http://m.resourcefurniture.com/videos/

I have 8 sets of these in our coach. Last year Cindy replaced the cord on 1 set with Darlene and Elaines help. Well the cord on the same one broke again. Cindy and Darlene repaired it again. But while doing so we figured out why the cords are breaking. On the bottom rail there is an end cap with a brass bushing that the cord slides through as you raise or lower the shade. The brass piece is worn and has a groove that the cord is now passing through causing it to abrade and break. I plan to call Vista tomorrow and see if these end caps are available.
Since they fixed that one another one broke and the end caps are worn just like the other one.
So if you have problems check the end caps.