Help On The Road

[davidkerryedwards]

The road coming into Ouray from the south could make any coach boil over.
I was just thinking a few days ago that a manual fan switch would be a
valuable addition to the coach since it could be used to stop the
initial climb from 180 to 195 degrees.
However, I think a lot of the heat produced on those kinds of climbs
comes from the fact that the lock up convertor unlocks and produces a
heck of a lot of heat in lower gears. Did the tech mention that at
all? A separate transmission cooler might be helpful if a person was
to drive in those conditions continually.
Did you put a higher pressure cap on the system?
There is another alternative but it might be prohibitively expensive
given the size and complexity of the Bird cooling system. Evans
Waterless Coolant has a boiling temperature of around 335 degrees.
You can run Evans in an unpressurized system, reducing the possibility
of leaks from high pressure, without worrying about boil overs and
providing cooling over a wider range of temperatures. The stuff is
not cheap however.
Did you check your tranmission fluid to see if it got burnt from the
heat load?

Kerry
82 FC 35
Denver

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Eric Johnson"
wrote:
>
> While traveling in Colorado a couple of weeks ago our FC35 had to
tackle some grades we
> hadn't seen in a long time. We experienced some "boil-overs" from
the cooling system
> and lost about 3 gallons of Cat antifreeze solution.
>
> I called the Caterpillar Engine Call Center Hotline I had read about
in the FMCA magazine.
> The line is staffed 24/7 to help Cat powered RV owners. The number
is (877) 777-3126.
> The man on the line was very knowledgeable and helped me locate the
nearest source of
> Cat parts and antifreeze.
>
> I called Bennie Collier at the factory on (800) 992-6337 and
consulted with him on the
> symptoms and got some good advice on a cap replacement plus
suggestion to add a
> cooling fan manual switch I don't currently have. Local NAPA store
didn't have my cap so
> Blue Bird parts (800) 495-7787 overnighted a new cap to me to the
Ouray, CO KOA and
> we had no more problems on return trip to Texas.
>
> I don't know of many 22 year old coaches that enjoy this level of
technical support and I'm
> danged glad I own a Blue Bird. I wanted to share the phone numbers
with others in case
> they don't know about them.
>
> Eric in San Antonio
> 84FC35SB
>