Slobber No More!!!!! & Thoughts on fan override

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Slobber No More!!!!! & Thoughts on fan override

Success! I love it when a plan comes together.

The Racor CCV 6000 is everything it is advertised.

No oil residue on the coach or the WHITE Trailer!

I had Prevost in Nashville attach the oil return for me, they spliced
it into the automatic oilier tube just where it goes into the block,
they used standard brass fittings. It took them a while to figure it
out. It took 3 hours shop time, half of that was, you wanna do what!
I'm not knocking them, but no body outside the boating industries
knew anything about CCV (Closed Crankcase Ventilation). Prevost also
removed the old slobber tube, you'll have to take off or loosen the
cold air pipe from the cooler to the intake manifold a few mounting
claps, and then wrestle it out. Not a big deal.

No oil residue anywhere, clean and Dry. No residue on the trailer,
quite a deal! Very please with the results 5 STARS!!!!!

Just returned from a very, very hot 10 days in the coach and all I
can say is 4th A/C please. 3 just barly kept up with the heat.

Speaking of heat I see a lot of folks talking about fans and over
ride swithches, I run with the driver's air on most of the time so to
me it doesn't really matter.

The fan runs with the driver a/c on, or you can run it manually, or
you can let the coach decide, I don't recommend that, mine over heats
all the time in that mode. Does it eat HP and use more fuel? Who
cares!! In 1year 16000 miles from sea level K.W Fla. To Rocky Mnt.
Nat Park 12890 feet or what ever it is, I don't remember exactly. I
just about always have everything turned on. My Blue Bird Guru said
if you can't find the problem let the fan run! Well I can't find the
problem and it really MESSES WITH MY HEAD! It should work! Why
doesn't it work all by itself? I Du Noo, He A He, HeY GOOBER! What's
wrong here!!

In the last two weeks I've run in the hottest weather ever in my 42
PT pulling a 24' Hallmark Edge trailer with all my gear, a Pontiac
Grand Prix GT in it. The Silver Leaf recorded engine temps only up to
207 degrees and she just kept on going, no problems, this leads me to
believe everyone has an oiled up radiator and air cooler and that it
isn't cooling well or a radiator fubar, or perhaps the solenoid
doesn't work or maybe your gauges are off, or something else is a
problem!!!!!!!!!


HEAT, GIVE US THE HEAT!!!!! Only if you how to use it.

Take look at your engine compartment. The Series 60 has the turbo,
intake, exhaust, the fresh air intake pipe, parallel to the exhaust,
the cold air in to the intake manifold is just mm away from the
exhaust pipe up to the exhaust stack. It's all on one side of the
engine and its stuck in-between the block and all you're cooling
radiators! HEATS, Heat, Hey! You want know what the gates to Hell
feel like? Open the rear on a hot day in Illinois! Aug 8, '07!!! Who
designed the Mess! It's no wonder if anyone knows what the fan is
doing. Can anyone say RADIANT HEAT!!!!

So what to do?

HEAT BLANKETS!!!!!!

INSULATION!!!!!

The theory is to contain the heat in the exhaust system and to not
let it affect the other engine components. It's supposed to spool up
the turbo faster and to facilitate scavenging of the exhaust. In
other words it's cooler and the exhaust leaves the motor faster.
Sounds good. So if it works as advertised it should help all the way
around the trickle down theory. The domino effect, I don't know if it
does all that but if it keeps my bed from being to hot to sleep in
I'M ALL FOR IT! It is supposed to help extend the life of everything
in the engine compartment by way of shielding it from excess heat.

If everything is cooler then perhaps the fan situation will not be as
prominent or pertinent a problem as it is now

Another quick easy fix. Well that what I'm praying for. So far
research is progressing I have spoken to several companies and so far
I have a turbo blanket and an exhaust manifold blanket for the series
60, cost about $220.00. I have sent photos and they retuned a C.A.D.
drawings and I had BB sent a parts page for the 95 to 97 Pt42's. I
need to measure the rest of the pipes and brackets and they will make
the blankets from these specs. Sounds COOL!


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