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My Marantz AV surround receiver SR4300 just blew up. Driving today had classic vinyl on xm on dish playing, not loud so we could talk. Heard a loud thump/pop and no mo' music.
Oh well guess it's time to get another one.
I'd like one more compact and with a remote.
Any suggestions? Don't want to spend too much maybe $100-200.

I had the privilege of visiting and touring Forest and Cindy's Coach just before they left Motorhomes of Texas (MOT). I thought I might like this coach if I had the funds available and sure enough, I liked it a bunch.

While there, I mentioned I have read the Newell forum almost everyday for several years. Forest encouraged me to register. He also encouraged me to share I am a Factory Authorized Mobile Aqua Hot Service Center located in greater Houston, Tx, area.

I have been servicing heaters for 3.5 years now. I am not as busy as my friend Roger Berke (a true Aqua Hot Guru) so I can offer phone help to any forum member needing assistance with their heater for free. All I ask is if there is a failed part, please purchase it from Roger. He offers a modest discount, most of the time free shipping and no sales tax outside of Ca. This helps him support the funds needed for the Aqua Hot forum several of you all have found helpful.

I have a Newell client in the Houston area which has giving me some experience servicing a Newell install. They are the very best installs of any I have worked on.

Should you wish some assistance, e-mail me at jrlegett at gmail dot com or phone at 7 one 3 - 8 one 8 - 3234. I see my e-mail on my phone which is on during the waking hours of each day. If I can not talk right then, I will call back soon. I consider it a privilege to help other owners with questions regarding their heaters.

I am enjoying finding this forum as I have missed the informative posts I used to read on the old forum and have found members that I have wondered where they went. Now I know, thanks Forest.

While I am not as skillful as encantotom and my Foretravel is not as substantial a coach as a Newell, I have used info found here to improve my Foretravel, so many thanks for helping me in the past.

All the best and safe travels.

I'll post a picture of the tool that I copied from Tom. Tool allows you to isolate individual sections of your air system to determine if that section has a leak.

I'm posting this for a fellow Newell owner who is broke down in a rest area outside of Amarillo, TX. He has a series 60 engine. Looking at the side of the engine from the last compartment on the passenger side, there is some type of air valve that mounts to the back side, up high on the engine air compressor. It has castings that say: "Bendix T-293975-G". It is above where the fuel pump mounts. The unidentified valve has two 1/4" air lines going to it that disappear going forward in the coach. On the side of the valve is a threaded port that is identified as "exh". Bob has air escaping out that exhaust port. He is only able to build 50 psi. Photos below:

Do our SCS basement air conditioners have filters?
Where are they?
Are they the replaceable type or washable type?

today when i was doing the new sat dish, i ran the wires and installed the Engenious ENH200 wifi repeater on the roof. it seems to work pretty good. i hooked up easily to my house wifi (which it wouldnt get inside the newell before).

will be interested to see how it does in other places.

tom

Once we decided to upgrade we started looking at a few coaches. Mainly seeing what floorplans would work for us and whether we needed slides. We thought a no slide coach would work ok but realized that 1 or 2 slides would give us much more room and comfort when we were parked for a week or more. Which we plan to do, find an area we like then park for up to a month.

After searching online and narrowing our floorplan wants we were at Steve Magown's for a few days. He had helped a couple people buy from Motorhomes of Texas and seemed impressed with them. Also Chester Stone was helpful with his experiences. So we left Steve's and drove to Nacogdoches. I had spoken with Mel and actually put a refundable deposit to hold our '98 until we got there to see it. The first day we spent a few hours in it making sure the floorplan would work and there were no big problems then we test drove it. We spent the first night on their lot hooked up to electric in our '93. Then moved to a local campground since there was lots of road noise there. We spent the second day going through everything we could think of. Made a list of things we wanted them to take care of. Then we sat down late Tuesday and started negotiations. We agreed on a price with our trade-in that we thought was fair and gave them a deposit.

Wednesday they started working on our list. We popped in a couple times to check progress on Wed. and Thurs. They took our satelite receiver so they could change the in-motion dish to DISHTV. They were working through our list then sent the coach out for rear tires. I had told them to turn the valve stems out and make sure they put new valve stems. Well it came back with the old stems and I found that out over the weekend. So they sent it back Monday for new stems. I don't fault MOT for this since this seems to be a common problem and I've had this happen before. Friday we signed the papers and started moving in. We parked both coaches together and moved in over the weekend. They were pretty insistent for us to not leave until we were satisfied everything worked. This gave us time to make sure everything worked properly and see if there were any other problems. We did find a couple problems that they worked on Monday all day. Tuesday everything was done to our satisfaction so we said our goodbyes, dumped our tank and took off.

Overall it was a pleasant experience and they did everything on our original list plus a few things that we found out over the weekend after we paid for it. They told us they wanted us satisfied before we drove off and we were.
But the sale was "as is" and we both understood that. So once we drove off we didn't expect them to do anything else.

They do have technical support after the sale which we used for a couple things (tag switch which was operator error, and sticking check valves on Aquahot which are working now). But we don't expect them to fix anything else.
So I can highly recommend MOT they are honest and very helpful. It was much nicer to be able to trade in our '93 and have them fix things on the '98 so that we could start out knowing there are no problems we have to fix right away.

Thought it might be a Delta but can't find it on their website.
What makes it different is the drain rod is in front of the spout.
I want to change the handles so if anyone can identify the brand that will help me.
Thanks!

Nice coach at California Coach in S. CA. I've walked it and it's very nice. Two slide/Mid Entry

More info here: http://www.californiacoachcompany.com/in...asp?id=305

Mark

I left my 4 year old Tire Safeguard system on my '93 when I traded it in.
Figured I would start over with a new system.
So what are you guys using?
I will use VMSPC so have the option of getting Pressure Pro and running it through VMSPC. But it looks like it will be $800 to do this.
The Tire Safeguard had flow-through sensors which I liked. I also had problems with the valve extensions leaking when I first installed the sensors on the rear inners so I pulled off the extensions which made the flow-through nice.
Tire Safeguard did have a few problems, dead monitor battery, a couple sensors went bad. If it was in warranty they replaced these no question and quick shipping.
What other brands?