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First time out in 435 - cwl1979 - 06-16-2025

As many of you know I'm selling my house and moving to Maine. I bought coach 435 last fall and have done most of the repairs it needed before winter. Airbags and tires are almost completely replaced. Waiting on 4 more airbags for the drives. Tires are uniroyal all the way around and not horrible on price. 
The first weekend selling the house was rough with loading up 5 people and 4 dogs and being gone while they do open houses and showings. I decided it's time... loaded everything we needed into the coach and away we went. 
Drove about 50 miles and stopped just to check everything and saw belts hanging out of the rear hatch. Looks like the dash air conditioner compressor is seized up. Now I'm 50 miles from the nearest parts store so 100 miles round trip I might as well keep going. Turned on the generator and made sure the inverter was charging everything and continued down the road. The next 150 miles were trouble free. Made it to my destination. A friend's place about 30 miles from Homer Alaska. 
The driver commander on the dash said I was getting about 5.5MPG way better than I thought it would get. 
Since I bought the coach in the fall I didn't want to get water in the system since it had been dry for years already. On Saturday my buddy and I tackled that. Honestly it went better than I thought. The water filter housing had been frozen at some point and pulled all the threads so major leak there. One 3/4 sharkbite and thay problem was solved. All the shut off valves were drippy but a quick snug up with a socket fixed that. The city fill regulator was leaking out the top and bottom connectors. We removed that and soldered some new copper pieces and almost got it fixed. The bottom connection is leak free but the top connection busshing was to far gone to save. This concluded Saturday. 
Yesterday I had to drive our pickup back to the house and get my son from his grandparents house so I got fittings to replace the upper connection. Water should be flowing trouble free today. 
Now that water can come in everything needs to leave as well. The air valves were locked up and stuck in place so we took those apart and cleaned everything up and reassembled with silicone grease. Slide like champs now. At least by hand. Seems I've got an air leak from the 110 compressor I need to locate. 
To the sewer hose connection the simple solution would be to find the right fitting but I've searched everywhere and I'm not fond of the cup idea. I purchased a 3 inch fitting saver reamer and will be boring out the old fitting and gluing in a 3 inch Valterra connection. Then all readily available sewer hoses will work as they should. 
By the end of the day I should have a fully functional coach. Or I'm going to need to rebuild all the valve connections from the black tank and Grey water bypass. 
Let's hope for the first outcome. Either way Coach 435 is back on the road after her 6 year vacation in a heated storage garage.

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RE: First time out in 435 - Richard - 06-16-2025

So glad you are finally getting to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Thank you for the report.

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