[Drea5000]

Hello everyone I recently joined the group and I am taking possession of 351 and the next coming weeks

I have been following a lot of of you guys’s post and I am extremely happy that I found this website. I have some experience with the Diesel pusher as I solo traveled in a 2005 Alfa gold 39’ Diesel pusher for about 2 1/2 years it was nice, but this thing is like 1000 times better. 

it’s in a little bit of rough shape as it has sat for about six years I believe  the motor sounds beautiful, but pretty much nothing on it works lol maybe one of the ACs out of the three, but I think with you guys’s help in a little bit of money ((maybe a lot)) I can get her back on the road. She already has brand new tires.

I’m hoping to find someone who is mechanically inclined in the Texas area before I go long distance. I’d like to see what I can do by myself and then I would love to maybe go buy someone else that is like way more knowledgeable on all the systems to see if maybe they can help :-).


As you can see some of the pipes are busted :-(I’m guessing they forgot to winterize it when the father got sick Only thing I could get to work was one of the ACs two of them are still pretty warm, but I was using a 5000 W Ot Gen Generator because I couldn’t get the 17.5 on board Generator working, but I suspect it’s because the batteries are too low and it’s not enough fuel so I think once I put the new batteries in there and put some diesel in there, then I can start troubleshooting the generator.

[Richard]

Welcome!

Tell us a bit about your mechanical and electrical experience so that we can tailor answers to your questions.

[Greasepower]

I see the engine temp gauge slightly over 200 and it appears check engine light is on…..that is hot for an old 8v92 at idle

[Drea5000]

Welcome!

Tell us a bit about your mechanical and electrical experience so that we can tailor answers to your questions.

Well i’m decent with basic stuff like oil change on my generator. I do a little bit of work on my Lexus LX 470 Toyota Land Cruiser, like spark plugs oil taking small things apart. I replaced the sunroof motor before 

on my Coach. I have replaced a pump on the aqua hot before I have fixed some electrical stuff on the suv as well. Today my ac controls shorted out do you condensation. I isolated it and put a dryer on it lol now it works again I need to find out why the compressor is getting cold enough to make a lot of condensation. I suspect I’m over on the Freon I would say I’m 3/10 on mechanical stuff lol

[Drea5000]

I see the engine temp gauge slightly over 200 and it appears check engine light is on…..that is hot for an old 8v92 at idle

Yeah you know it’s so concerning because it’s literally out of Diesel shop that’s where the previous owner was storing it at and so it just seems like they don’t know anything about it at this point because if you’re telling me that’s hot, I did look online and figure out how to read the check engine code by holding the DDEC and the codes were 
low coolant 
oil/coolant over temperature 
Oil pressure sending voltage
Engine over speed 


The batteries are extremely low. They have to jump it. They have one set in the engine bay completely disconnected so there’s jumping  2 8D batteries to get the coach started and then they’re literally idle in it and having to manually hit the gas to try to get the bags to air up. Smh   How horrible is this. first thing I asked was did they check coolant and did they check oil even before I ran the codes I was told that they did. They actually did show me the oil and it seemed like it had enough oil smh how worried should I be

[Richard]

First, the gauges on the dash will be insanely inaccurate at this point. Get a Bluefire set up OR find a used VSMPc to read the temps and codes digitally.

[Greasepower]

First, the gauges on the dash will be insanely inaccurate at this point. Get a Bluefire set up OR find a used VSMPc to read the temps and codes digitally.

I 100% agree, always use blue fire.

But check engine and the other engine light is on. Those are reading from the digital output of the DDEC(same as blue fire will read)

DRea5000, you sound like you have enough knowledge to get started on this adventure.

Check those fluids yourself and spend the 250 bucks to get a blue fire.

You will need to find your communication port. It might be 6 pin or an ALDL plug(If I remember)*you need to know what com port you have to order proper adapter harness.

Check your belts and everything yourself. Let the learning begin!

[Drea5000]

I see the engine temp gauge slightly over 200 and it appears check engine light is on…..that is hot for an old 8v92 at idle
absolutely that was one of my concerns. Also the vote I checked the alternator while running and only got about 12.8 I checked the batteries and got 12.6 so I will be taking the alternator off on Monday and taking it to a rebuild shop also I ran the code with my Prolink determine that the Diesel shop that is at absolutely lied about the coolant level but it’s my fault because I should’ve checked it before operating the engine. It was low about 4 gallon. my question is where did the coolant go now it has that for six years. my plan is to do a coolant flush and change out the air dryer filter and see if that helps if you have any other suggestions for getting the temperature under control. Please let me know. Also, is there another way for you to check the temperature because my gauges don’t seem to be reliable for instance, my speedometer is wonky. my fuel tank gauge is crazy so I’m not 100% sure I can rely on the gauges. I did thermal gun on the engine and the radiator and the temperature did not seem to be even close to 200  I’m not sure if I did it correctly

[Drea5000]

First, the gauges on the dash will be insanely inaccurate at this point. Get a Bluefire set up OR find a used VSMPc to read the temps and codes digitally.

I 100% agree, always use blue fire.

But check engine and the other engine light is on. Those are reading from the digital output of the DDEC(same as blue fire will read)

DRea5000, you sound like you have enough knowledge to get started on this adventure.

Check those fluids yourself and spend the 250 bucks to get a blue fire.

You will need to find your communication port. It might be 6 pin or an ALDL plug(If I remember)*you need to know what com port you have to order proper adapter harness.

Check your belts and everything yourself. Let the learning begin! It’s the ALDL 6 pin.  I have a prolink with the wrong cartridge lol I will get online and find the bluefire asap. yeah I definitely wish that I would’ve checked the levels myself, but I did check the oil and there’s no coolant inside the oil so I’m assuming it didn’t really get too hot, but I wasn’t able to get the actual readings from the computer to tell me how hot it had gotten then or in the past