Coast Resorts Open Roads Forum: What Did You Do To Your Class B Today ?

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Topic: What Did You Do To Your Class B Today ?

Posted By: MelinProv on 03/11/12 12:21pm

Me too Goreds2--- in the low 60s and I uncovered mine and ran it. Ran the (stand alone) gennie and it took 15 mins to get that to start -its been sitting for too long.Springtime please hurry!

Posted By: Atlee on 03/12/12 07:40pm

Spent $865 to remove, repair, and replace the Onan generator. The muffler broke off of it back in the fall. So the Onan needed to be removed and a new muffler installed. And since it was off the Roady, I figured a general tuneup should be performed, so the spark plus and air filter were changed, plus I had the oil changed. I was going to have to do it, but I figured the RV guy could do it since it was off the RT.

Then I was told the carb was bad, so a new one of those was installed.

The genney has 553 hours on it. I try to exercise it regularily, but must have missed a few times which helped clog the carb.

In any case, it runs like a top now.

Erroll, Mary
2021 Coachmen Freedom Express 20SE
2014 F150 Supercab 4x4 w/ 8' box, Ecoboost & HD Pkg
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Posted By: My Roadtrek on 03/12/12 09:33pm

Errol, a couple of suggestions about the generator, if you plan on not running it for a while, you could put a fuel cut off in, and run it try. Also, a little Seafoam in the carb. every so often, sure won't hurt anything.
Hope you have a great Roadtreking season.

Rodger

I do miss sometimes not having something to do to the Rt. but I still have the memories. [emoticon]

Posted By: Atlee on 03/13/12 05:08am

My Roadtrek wrote:

Unfortunately, unless the cutoff is a remote control one, that will be next to impossible. I don't foresee crawling under the van and cutting off a manual cutoff switch inside the Onan.

And AFAIK, to install one on the Onan now, it would have to be dropped again, and hopefully that is not going to have to happen for quite some time.

That said, I'll have to remember to put Seafoam or Stabil in the Van's fuel tank, mix it up, and then run the genny for a while to get the mixed gas in the genny.

I use the RT into December every year. This year I used it go 2000k miles down to New Orleans & the Sugar Bowl New Year's weekend.

Posted By: TinyoneRV on 03/13/12 06:58am

Got it out of storage and brought it home. Finished installing new curtains and started provisioning for our first trip of the year. Today will fill the inside fresh water tank, get the antifreeze out of the lines and then fill the water heater. Afterwards will test all systems to see that we're ready to go this Saturday.

Posted By: goreds2 on 03/15/12 02:16pm

I got the Air Conditioner recharged. Mine is a 1990 and did not know it had been converted to R-134. It is less expensive. Ended up being $85 dollars after the misc fees etc. I am happy as I went all last year without dash AC.

I also went to go get my oil changed for the first time since Nov. 2010. They said since it only had 1500 miles since the last oil change that it does not need it even though it had been 16 months. I appreciated their honesty and left without paying a thing. They did top the oil off and said it is still clean. Me is happy and saved about 40 bucks! [emoticon]

(I know everyone has their opinion about this...)

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Posted By: TMBLSN on 03/15/12 02:56pm

goreds2 wrote:

(I know everyone has their opinion about this...)

Yep, everyone has their own opinion. If you are using dino-oil, then I'd change it every 12 months, regardless. If fully synthetic, let it ride...

Posted By: ennajean on 03/15/12 05:50pm

Started putting things back in for next months road trip.

Anne and Dick

DABEE a 2006 Ford Sportsmobile Penthouse top.

Posted By: kmessinger on 03/18/12 12:13pm

That's all folks!

* This post was edited 03/18/12 12:24pm by kmessinger *

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Posted By: goreds2 on 03/18/12 01:35pm

kmessinger wrote:

That's all folks!

Very nice. I aired out and vacuumed the Class B today.

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