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RE: air compressor for inflating tires
To answer wny pat's question, why do you need a compressor when you already have one on board. Because the on board compressors will typically turn off at 120 and back on around 100 psi. If you need more than a 100 psi in your tires, you have to bleed air to get the compressor to cycle back to 120. It can be a long and frustrating process to Air your tires. I require 120 in the front tires so I use two solutions. One a pancake compressor good for up to 150 when I am at home, and I use an air pressure doubler when on the road . The doubler is a small diaphragm pump that does run off the coach air and it doubles the air pressure. They are made by SMC for use in industrial pneumatic control. Mine fits in the palm of my hand. The only problem is they are not cheap. I suppose they go for 250 now.
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Bikeboy57
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06/16/13 04:02am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: West Virginia
I 64 to I 79 for sure. I 79 has some hills but it is West Virginia after all.
Do not even think about trying to get into Beech Fork in a 40 footer. The park is level but the roads in have a couple of places where you see your tail lights.
Stonewall Resort SP is just off 79, easy access, and flat spots.
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Bikeboy57
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06/07/13 08:17pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: why alcoa wheels?
Three things to add to this post.
In general the aluminum wheels tend to me more true to round and easier to balance.
More importantly, it is not the absolute weight that is the key factor. Rotating weight is to the fourth power header to accelerate or decelerate than static weight. So the lighter the wheel the easier to accelerate or brake.
And lastly the wheel is unsprung weight, lower unsprung weight equals smoother ride and compliance to bumps.
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Bikeboy57
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05/30/13 06:52pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Detroit Diesel 671 fuel issues
Shane,
You might want to join one of the two bus conversion forums. You'll get hooked up with lots of folks with hands on experience with your rig.
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Bikeboy57
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05/15/13 07:20pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: driving issues
If you have electric mirrors,mitt them down to see the area you are talking about. I do that all the time in campgrounds.
There are numerous camera systems that work in conjunction with your rear view camera that use side mounted cameras in addition to the rear view.
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Bikeboy57
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04/27/13 05:10am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Tandem bike
I went about the problem in a different manner. I put a tandem roof rack on the toad. That way if we need to take the tandem some where to ride, we are good to go. I have hauled the tandem on a rocky mounts rack for thousands of miles while towing it behind the coach. Never a problem. I do lock the bike to the rack.
And if we are not taking the toad, I drop the front wheel and roll it into the pass through basement bay.
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Bikeboy57
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04/26/13 07:41pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Ride Height Vavles
I have had good luck with king of the road hcv's. all metal construction.
Please, please, please never crawl under your coach without blocking it up somehow. It will ruin your day if it drops on you. Remember you were actively messing with the system that inflates the air bags. A member of this forum was crushed when his coach lowered on him.
I don't mean to sound like the safety police, just trying to educate on the danger.
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Bikeboy57
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04/19/13 06:15pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Water temperature gauge on 2007 sprinter
Get a scanguage or ultraguage. Less than a hundred bucks, plugs into the obd port, gives all kind on info.
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Bikeboy57
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04/07/13 07:09pm |
Class B - Camping Van Conversions
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RE: Cummins ISO 400 C0713 (wrist pin Campaign)
I get the just of the idea behinfd assessing risk based on serial number distribution, but there may be a wrinkle in that approach. In order for the statistical analysis to be valid yu would need to know how many sources of con rod are in the mix. Let me illustrate. Lets say that the supplier of the defective part had five machines or positions on a machine that made the part. If only one of those positions was responsible for the defect and the other four good, then trying to assess risk by finding the middle of the failure distribution will not really tell you you're risk. On the other hand, if the defect was caused by heat treating then you could assume all parts in a heat treat lot were at risk.
Bottom line is without having an idea of what the root cause was for the defect, then you don't have a good way of assessing the risk.
I have had the head and pan off my DD series 60 because I had a cracked cylinder liner at 100k miles, on an engines that is considered a million mile engine. Things happen. I will say that with the right hands on skills it can be done in frame and with the right skills.
It is going to boil down to your own risk tolerance. Keep in mind that you may open a whole new set of risks by tearing into a working engine.
If it were me, I would put a fraction of the money it would take to rebuild the engine into a great towing insurance package. And then quit worrying about it.
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Bikeboy57
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03/31/13 06:59am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Spartan Chassis Wandering?
Red,
I lived in Fort Worth for ten years and had negative experiences with the alignment shops there. Only because they all tried to set up the alignment like an OTR truck. The truckers like to run neutral toe to maximize tire mileage. A motor home set with neutral toe will wander all over the road. If you end up in an alignment shop tell them to set it up with maximum toe allowed in the specs. Ivylog is right on. 1/8 is about right. It is not rocket science. After spending 100s of dollars at truck shops, I set mine din the driveway.
If you or someone else starts fiddling with the steering Gear box play, be very careful. It is easy to get it too tight, and that is evil. If you can disconnect the drag arm you can adjust it on the coach. If you get that far pm me and I'll walk you through it.
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Bikeboy57
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03/30/13 06:57am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Flat Tow a Subaru Crossteck
I haved towed an outback with 5 spd for four years with no issues. Well if you remember to unlock the steering column that is.
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Bikeboy57
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03/25/13 05:29pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Overpriced Roadtreks
I heard someone comment relative to appraisals once that something was worth exactly what one person was willing to pay and one person was willing to sell for. Simple definition of free market economy
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Bikeboy57
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03/17/13 06:08pm |
Class B - Camping Van Conversions
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RE: Alternator putting out 16+ volt and squels on house batties
With the engine idling measure the voltage at the chassis battery and the coach battery with your voltmeter. If the voltages are 14.3 to 13.7 then you don't have a problem. The belt squeal comes when the alt is trying to charge rapidly. Low batteries or just replacing the cranking juice can cause that for a short period.
If the voltage is ok at the battery stop fretting about the voltage at the Alt. you also need a pretty sophisticated voltmeter to measure the true voltage at an alternator terminal since the voltage is a sine wave. Suggest you go to penntex alternator website and look at alternator diagnostic suggestions
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Bikeboy57
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03/15/13 06:20pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Winter Weekend
no prob
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Bikeboy57
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02/16/13 09:11am |
Class B - Camping Van Conversions
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RE: fantastic fan reverse air flow
PSW
if you want to do that do some internet research on PWM pulse width modulation for slowing the motor down..
OHMs law being what it is will say that reducing the voltage will raise the current and hence raise the heat. Its a good recipe for cooking the switch and motor at a minimum, and causing a fire worst case.
You can build your own PWM from radioshacck parts for less than 20 bucks and have infinite control over the fan speed.
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Bikeboy57
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02/16/13 09:10am |
Class B - Camping Van Conversions
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RE: Diesel Fuel Spike ....
Cold weather. There are limited fractionations that the refineries can do to separate crude oil into gas diesel jet fuel naptha and other components. They can alter the ratios but only so much.
So in the winter gas is more plentiful than diesel and heating oil hence the bigger price differential right now.
Now if we could only go back and use DNA technology to reengineer those dinosaurs to produce more diesel like we have engineered turkeys to have bigger breasts then we would have it made.
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Bikeboy57
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02/16/13 08:58am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Motosat Phone #
I have a working dish that was removed. Pay the shipping or come get it, if anyone wants it.
Yes I know it's kind of like an 8 track tape, but still if it helps someone out.
pm me if you need it
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Bikeboy57
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02/15/13 09:06am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Air Bag/Spring Installation ?
Use the yellow pipe dope from Home Depot lowes used for gas fittings. The Teflon tape can put little bits of tape in your air system and stop up the small orifices in your leveling valves
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Bikeboy57
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02/02/13 06:35pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Side radiator fan on Freightliner running all the time
If the two speed control valve fails, it fails in the high speed mode. Look for a valve in the hydraulics system that feeds the fan motor. The valve will have electrical leads gong to it. Mine was less than fifty bucks
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Bikeboy57
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02/02/13 06:30pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Looking at 89 newell coach
Go over to newellgurus.com and ask your questions. You will get responses from Newell owners. Great group of guys and gals
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Bikeboy57
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01/21/13 09:50am |
Class A Motorhomes
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