Trablyn
Orlando, FL, USA
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RV particulars: 1998 Monaco Windsor
Driveline (Cummins 6C 8.3 300hp Turbo Diesel: Allison MD3060 6-speed WT):
Miles: 15,714 and at 32,662
Year: Sept 1998 and Jan 2001
Break Down Description: Three episodes of discovering that 12volt system was not functioning. The first experience was a Newbie "Duh", and turned out to be the doorway 12v disconnect switch being bumped (and switched off) while unloading after a trip. The two noted above were a result of equipment failure.
Symptoms: All 12v electrical inoperative.
Effect: house lights, thermostat, appliances, etc., without power
Cause: failure of continuous duty solenoid located in main automotive panel.
Outcome: first failure replace under regular warranty, 2d occurrence covered under extended warranty and fixed using an upgraded heavy duty solenoid. Work was done by my RV dealer.
Randy
98 Monaco Windsor 34'
06 Saturn Vue V6
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liljoe
Washington
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Joined: 02/16/2004
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Break Down: Tranny would not shift or even realize it was in 1st,2nd or Drive.
Vehicle: 94 Ford F250 7.5L E4OD Trans
Actual Problem: 16.00 vehicle speed sensor
Ford has these vehicle speed sensors on many of the electronic trans trucks and if the vehicle has no idea what speed it is going because the vehicle speed sensor is out to lunch, the transmission has no idea what speed it is going, when to shift or even what gear to be in.
Symptoms: I thought for sure the Tranny was gone. Vehicle wanted to start in Drive gear or even 2nd and not shift or extremely hard shifts.
It is worth every penny of 16.00 to purchase this little plastic part and throw in your glove box for that one rainy day. I have a new one in my glove box right now. Don't leave home without it.
Joe
Tow Rig: 94Ford F250 4x4,7.5L 460,Sterling 1 ton rear,4:10's,Gear Vendors U/O drive, complete E40D upgrade with manual presure riser,Banks power pack, MSD ignition,Tornado throttle body spacer,4core radiator, B&M engine oil cooler behind a 96 bumper, MG 220 Alternator,K&N AF,Dbl stack plate 30k GVW trans cooler, B&M 3.2qt. trans pan (22qts AMS OIL), full guage cluster, Advanced 2qt diff cover (5qts Redline),Bilsteins, 5k airbags, 10ply Toyo's. Yes, it will pull a house down!
TT: 2003 Arctic Fox 26XFKS
Honda Rancher 3504x4 ATV x2
Suzuki LTA50 ATV
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Journeyman38
San Diego, Ca.
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What kind of rack are you useing to support that hog?
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Quixote
Clarkston, MI USA
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RV particulars:
Driveline (Engine 300HP Cummins ISB, Transmission Allison 6spd, Freightliner XC chassis, Damon Ultrasport 2002):
Miles:approx. 5000
Year:2002
Break Down Description:
Symptoms: red "stop engine" light display on dash.
Effect:No physical symptoms with driveability of vehicle (all gages showed o.k.)
Cause![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/eek.gif "eek") ngine oil pressure sensor failure, causing signal to be sent to engine ECM indicating low oil pressure. Problem apparently due to rear-engine vehicles running warmer.
Outcome![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/tongue.gif "tongue") roblem known to Cummins Engine. Vehicle towed to Cummins dealership for replacement of sensor and wire harness, and recalibration of ECM software.
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Badeye
Bonaire GA
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Quixote,
Just for your information, the sensor that supplies the information to the dash is not the same sensor that goes to the ECM. I did not realize this till I had a problem with my sensor that goes to the dash guage.
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The Sand Man
Darlington, IN
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Horror Stories...wanna hear? Southbound on I-75 headed to the Bristol Spring Race, two years ago. We were in the hammer lane running 70 MPH when all the sudden a violent vibration occurred. I moved into the pokey lane, rather quickly I might add, then the rear end just blew up. After two tow trucks and a lenthy stay in in Lexington KY, everything was fine. Followed up the next week with a fully loaded rig, toad in tow, to Panama City Beach Fl, no problem after that. Honestly, we loved that coach!!!
RV particulars:Georgie Boy Cruise Air
Driveline (Engine, Transmission)![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/cool.gif "cool") hevy 454
Miles:22,000
Year:1994
Break Down Description: (You can add any description of the problem here that you think would help others in understanding the situation and problem.)
Symptoms![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/doh.gif "doh") evere vibration in the rear end
Effectomplete disenegration of the rear pig
Cause:unconfirmed catastrophic failure
Outcome:New ring and pinion, new LH axle, hub, brake caliper and pads.
Pat and Cassie Hayes
2004 Ultrasport with Subaru Toad!
Sarah, Cami, Hailey and Sam
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The Sand Man
Darlington, IN
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Second horror story...really not so bad. While enjoying a nice ride up US 231, south of Montgomery Al, the sudden odor of diesel fuel rolled from the back to the front our 2001 Gulf Stream Sunsport. it just happened to be dark outside...but, at first look under the coach I thought we had big problems. Well, to our surprise, the problem was a loose fuel line fitting on the injector pump. One small problem...the fitting was 3/4" and all I had was a pair of channel locks. Long story short, we had the fitting tight enough to make it to the Montgomery Al Wal-Mart store. I now keep that 3/4" stubby (wrench) with me when ever we travel.
RV particulars:2001 Gulf Stream Sun Sport
Driveline (Engine, Transmission): Cummins / Allison
Miles:17,000
Year:2001
Break Down Description: (You can add any description of the problem here that you think would help others in understanding the situation and problem.)
Symptoms:Nice odor of raw diesel
Effect:numbing
Cause:loose fuel fitting at injector pump
Outcome![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/mad.gif "mad") inor loss of time,
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denisondc
Alexandria, VA USA
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My breakdown:
* 1972 Winnebago D22, on Dodge M400 chassis, 413 engine, 727 tranny.
* 90,000 total miles.
* 1972 RV. It happened in 2002, the RV was 30 years old.
Break Down Description: Driving along at 55 mph on the last day of a 3 week 4000 mile vacation, the engine lost oil pressure completely, and though it was running nicely, we shut it down as soon as we saw the gauge reading. It may have been zero for many miles.
Symptom: There had been a very slight valve ticking noise for the last 40k miles, since we got it 11 years earlier. Im used to a little tappet noise in old mopar engines.
Effect: Anxiety. Engine water temp and all other gauges normal. Motor sounded fine, no plume of smoke, no oil trail behind us.
Cause: A bent pushrod finally wore in two from rubbing against the head casting, the pieces dropped away, and the cam lobe pitched the lifter up out of the bore. This opened up the oil gallery, so lots of flow but zero pressure reading on both of my oil p. gauges.
Outcome: We got it towed the 200 miles home - $700. First time-ever tow.
Post Mortem: The bent pushrod pieces and lifter were in the cam valley. None of the pieces got in the way of anything else. I replaced the pushrods, and while I was at it, the engine bearings, timing chain, front and rear main seals, and other things easy to reach with the radiator out. I also replaced the valve cover gaskets, and painted the top of the now clean engine. The old bearings showed no sign of adverse wear beyond what you would expect at 90,000 miles. I spent about $800 on parts, and about 2 months of pleasant weekend free time.
I have had several other "events' that could have been breakdowns but I was able to fix them while we were stopped for sightseeing, eating, or cammping: fuel filter clogging, finicky headlight switch, vapor lock - solved that with heat shielding, vent cover broke off, broken throttle cable, kink in shifter cable, ign points needing replacement, etc.
72 Winnebago D22T
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Waynrdude
Chattanooga, Tn
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Wow, I like to read these postings but maybe they should be broken up into makes of RV and gas/diesel. I told my wife after we had been seeing the maps on back of motorhomes with the states filled in by color, I told her those maps must be the sates that they have broken down in!
For a $2.00 part in your tool bag this might save some time. We had a left rear air bag failure. After being on the phone with HR (no help) we were painfully aware that we were 80 miles from anyone to fix our problem. When we called around local no one wanted to even work on a "Roadmaster" chassis. We were quoted 1 to 2 weeks.
After climbing under the motorhome for a couple of hours learning what did what, I determined that the air bags were good but the "air switch" that tells the air to fill or let the air our was bad. You are not supposed to run this chassis with a bag down, especially the rear because of the drive line.
I went to a tractor supply place, (any auto parts or Walmart will have them) and bought a female air chuck like you use on a air hose. The air bags have a "T" at each wheel well because they split the air going into the two bags. When you take the "T" loose it leaves a 1/4" male fitting that screws right in to the air chuck. Take a hose an air it up to be level when the other bags are up. It got me 80 miles to the service center, I could have finished the trip. The motorhome was under warranty but they would not tow it.
The biggest problem was, it was Friday and we got to the service center after hours and they were closed on Saturday, diagnois was on Monday, part was flown in on Tues.
RV particulars:2002 Holiday Rambler
Driveline (Engine, Transmission): Cummins / Allison
Miles:15,000
Year:2002
Break Down Description:
Symptoms: Motorhome leaning bad to one side.
Effect:
Cause: Bad air level switch
2002 Blue Holiday Rambler Endeavor.
Our Toad is a Beetle 2001 Blue.
Full time by 2005 is the goal.
Alaska this summer, let's go!
WB4IEJ is my ham call, what's yours?
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Waynrdude
Chattanooga, Tn
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Here's a short one, Cummings diesels on Holiday Ramblers have sensor problems. It did happen in South Georgia in a terrible rain and wind storm and it might be contributed to that. We fueled up at Flying J in Valdosta. Thirty miles latter the warning light come on. All guages said ok. We made it to I-10 and pulled off and checked all fluids and hoses, nothing. Got back on the freeway after calling Holiday Rambler (no help). Then 30 miles down the road the STOP RED light came on and the computer put it in limp mode and throttled back on the turbo. I relied on the gauges and limped in to Ocala where our trip was taking us. I called Cummins and it would be a week before we could get in. We took the HR to Daytona and no lights came on and then drove back to Ocala.
Cumming said "there are a lot of bad sensors on the 330 hp" I had them do the 15K on the engine and the lights never came on
RV particulars![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/scratchead.gif "scratchead") R 2002 Endeavor
Driveline (Engine, Transmission): Cummins / Allison
Miles:15,000
Year:2002
Break Down Description:
Symptoms![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/awink.gif "awink") arning and Stop lights on
Effectcares the heck out of you
Cause: Bad sensors or water in computer sensor
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