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Engine: 454 Chev.
Miles: 36,000
Year: 1994 Pace Arrow
Symptoms: Lost all power
Effect: Would run at idle only, just able to pull to side of road
since we were going up a long hill
Cause: Throddlecable broke
Outcome: Was towed to a campground in Bullhead City, AR. It was
Saturday and nothing open so waited until Monday, went to
Napa. They found one and had it the next morning. I
installed the cable and was back on the road by 11am.
Jim
2003 Beaver Monterey 40
Cummins 350 ISC
2005 Saturn Vue
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Dick A
Spokane
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RV particulars: Rexhall F-53 chassis
Driveline (Engine, Transmission): Ford 460, E40D transmission
Miles: 32,000
Year: 1994
Break Down Description: (2002) Engine stalled on warm day at St. Charles, MO
Symptoms: engine popping and backfiring, no power.
Effect: Engine hot and stalled - symptom was like vapor lock.
Outcome: Let engine cool. Engine then started and made it to RV park (Sundermier). Stayed a few days, checked all fluids, changed fuel filter on frame rail. Continued trip. Would run ok as long as we were at highway speeds. Would stall sometimes when pulling off to fuel. Managed to get home a week later after a stop in Wyoming. We had the thermostat changed there, but no help. I had ordered a full Banks system before leaving for trip. During subsequent installation, found radiator plastic tank seal broken. Replaced radiator. Also, several exhaust manifold bolts broken, causing excessive heat in the engine area. Probably causing vapor lock problems. Replaced one head with broken manifold flange, had all valves replaced on both heads, water pump, hoses, fan clutch, etc. Changed all fluids to synthetic, added B & M extra capacity transmission pan and transmission temperature gauge. No problems in 2003 traveling over 8500 miles. Preventative maintenance before 2004 trip: Replace in-tank fuel pump known for early failure.
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wa0mqe
Florida
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RV particulars: 24 foot Safari Trek
Driveline (454 GM w/ 4L80E 4-speed
Miles: 16,000
Year: 1997
Break Down Description: Would not start after stopping to dump.
Symptoms: Turned Key to start but nothing
Effect: Setting at the dump station blocking traffic. Was able to start engine with aux battery switch. Drove home.
Cause: corrosion on battery cable connector
Outcome: Had battery checked at auto-store for capacity. Checked
okay, cleaned battery cables and posts real good. No problem since.
Bob Bowers
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larmcintsh
Rathdrum, Idaho
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Engine 5.9 Cummins
Transmission 3000 six speed
RV 1994 Monaco Dynasty
Was driving on Highway 54 in Oklahoma, by Guyman. It was raining, and all of a sudden thought I had a blow out in the rear tire. Lost all air pressure and steering. What had happened was the sewer hose which was in a PV pipe. The rear cap came out, and the hose wrapped around the drive line. It cut all air hoses, and hydraulic lines. The road hardly any shoulder. Of course, all air bags lost air, emegency brake came on. Called Monaco, they said it was road hazard, ha. Anyway was towed into Guyman, and was three days getting back on the road. Have since moved sewer hose. If anyone has a sewer hose back there move it. Larry
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nathan
Fort Myers, Florida
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Badeye, Thanks for starting this thread. I think we could write a book on breakdowns the last 2 1/2 years including failed slidout and tire blow out but will just recap two major ones.
1. 260 Cummins 5.9 engine Spartan Summit Chassis
Allison five speed
10100 miles
2001 Travel Supreme
Sympton: temp gauge starting increasing when we were leaving early one morning from traveling in the mountains. Engine shut down. Re-started and same thing happened. Finally started third time and with a highway patrol escort got one mile to safe place to park before shut off again. Saturday late we finally got a tow truck recomeded by Cummins and towed us 30 miles across mountain to Spartan Chassis Approved repair facility. A word of caution here, be sure the tow company has a vehicle that tows motor homes!
Cause: It took Repair shop one month to determine it was a broken serpintine belt! They replaced it and Cummins recomended we take to their facility and have checked out and they determined it was from a defective idler which they replaced. I carry a spare serpintine belt now.
2. Same motor home with 21,350 miles.
Sympton: While taking pleasure ride with mother in law we smelled diesel fuel. We were near an exit and pulled over. Looked underneath and diesel fuel gusshing out. Shut engine off and tried to locat a Cummins or Spartan Repair shop late on Sunday. You guessed it , no luck and cell phone about to go dead. Luck had it we located a RV technican that services the busses for Clemson University.
Cause. One of the fuel lines had worked loose and was almost impossiable to get to. Finally got tightend enough to get to his shop and spend most of eveining trying to fix. Fixed to where we could get on highway. Called Cummins first thing next day and took to their faciliy where they did a through job tighting all lines and steam cleaning engine. You should have smelt the diesel. Everything fine now.
Tried to keep these descriptions to the minimum, just the high lights of the story and to advise if you have a problem withCummins/Spartan look for Cummins first because my experience with Spartans auth repair facility have not been good.
Nathan & Becky Smith
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rooster
somewhere in the Ocooch
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Badeye, good idea. Mine are as follows:
Cat. 3126
Allison
22,000 miles
Alternator needle started going "down"
After awhile, engine was running, but shifting was getting erratic
Cause was a failing Leece Neville alternator
Freightliner dealer in Waco Tx. got us in immediately, diagnosed the problem, & ordered the new alternator. It came air freight, & we were on our way late the next day. Freightliner & Leece Neville declined to cover cost as "it is out of warranty".It was because of the age, by about 4 months, but still only 22,000 miles.
My second was the familiar "zipper" blow out on the Michelin tire. It happened on an interstate, cool temps, not even close to overload, at about 25,000 miles.
Tony & Cam
1999 Tradewinds 7371
2001 Cherokee
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wa0mqe
Florida
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RV particulars: Damon w/ Workhorse P32 Chassis
Driveline: GM 8.1 4L80E transmission
Miles: 8,000
Year: 2001
Break Down Description: Cruise Control shutting itself off
Symptoms: Slow down.
Effect: Just like you press the brake or turn off the Cruise switch.
Outcome: Problem was a manufacturer defect. Something to do with a resistance wire in the harness to the brake lights. The Cruise Control was sensing this as the brake lights coming on so would shut itself off. Took two tries at the dealer and calls to Workhorse to take care of a fix.
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Whaler
IN, USA
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Two problems neither of which stranded me but could have.
Cummins 5.9 Allison 5 sp
National Carribean - Spartan Chassis
Mileage 18,000
Electronics
Left home (One mile) start getting electrical fault code which clears
Decide to stop by Cummins Mid- South since it is on my route.
Fault code comes and goes during 60 mile drive.
Finally three miles from Cummins, code stays on and power drops to 50 percent. Limp into Cummins.
They run pc on system finding faulty Crank Shaft Position Sensor.
Replaced and on road in couple of hours, also replaced oil sending unit.
Mileage 24,000
Trip West
Fuel system
Leaving Yellowstone - noticed engine cranked longer than normal.
Engine cranked longer on each of three successive stops
Could not find reason but have had a history of loosing fuel pressure.
Make it to son's in Washington and shut off before going to his rv hookup. Decide to move to hookup. Engine cranked but would not fire, test of fuel pressure was very low at injectors but within specs at fuel pump. Unit was towed (another learning exprience)to Eagle Freightliner where some water was pumped from fuel tank (thought to be the cause)Actual cause was a faulty VP 44 fuel injector pump which Cummins replaced. No other serious problems at 32,000 miles.
Whaler
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pashir
Buchanan Dam, TX
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1991 Flair
Ford 460
In-tank fuel pump failure [common happening with Fords]
Fix: Ford dealer wanted to empty fuel and drop tank [about $500]. Thinking this will happen again sooner or later, I ordered them to install an inline aftermarket pump in the fuel line close to the tank and mount it on the frame rail. Works fine. Sucks fuel thru bad pump in tank and sends on to the high pressure pump.
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pashir
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1997 Country Coach Intrigue
8.3 Cummins 325 HP
Gillig chassis
King Controls cuise failure
replaced 2 boards before discovering reason. The boards have a stepper motor with a cable wind-up pulley. The pulley on each board came loose on the shaft because the two throttle return springs were way too strong.
bought new springs with proper tension at hardware store. No more problems. Don't know who to blame, CC, Cummins or Gillig.
Another time
Lost power but engine would still idle. When opening throttle, black smoke poured out of the exhaust.
Pacbrake was stuck closed. Let it cool about 15 mins., unstuck and went on with pbrake turned off.
adjusted butterfly stop screw 1/2 turn out to keep butterfly from closing so tightly. No more problem.
One more time
Noise coming from rear while descending a long grade. Sounded like maybe a u-joint failing and got louder and louder.
Hose from pacbrake solenoid was routed too close to the exhaust manifold and burnt thru resulting in lost air. Compressor couldn't keep up and the air suspension was allowing the coach to lower itself down onto the tires. Right rear outside tire was rubbing first and got worse as we went.
Turned off pacbrake and pressure came back up. Replace hose at next campground. Took old one to hose place and had new one made
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