Shock mount: Re: Temps

[Pete Masterson]

I guess the jacks toggle the dump relay when they're activated to level the coach. I do note that if I forget to dump the suspension before lowering the jacks that the coach doesn't settle down as much as when I dump first, wait a few moments, then deploy the jacks. (That usually ends up leaving me way up in the air -- and that often makes the first step from the ground a real challenge. Wife just says it's good exercise for us.)

Since I live some 6 to 7 hours away from CCW's facility -- and because it kept looking like we were _almost_ done, I was suckered into hanging around. I did have my laptop and Internet connection, so I was able to handle some of my business and keep in touch. I was also able to search for parts when their inexperienced service writer was having problems finding some of the bits and pieces.

When I first described what I wanted done over the phone (to a now no-longer-there employee), he first said, oh, they'd need the coach for 3 weeks or so...! When I said I planned to be on board, the time estimate evaporated down to "2 or 3 days"... When I got there, he was long gone and the new service writer didn't expect me. <sigh> I probably should have re-confirmed the appointment a few days before I drove down. I'd made the initial appointment about a month before the planned date to be sure they'd be ready for the service. Everything took longer to a lot longer than I would have guessed. Some of it was due to the inexperience of some of the staff and some of it was due to unanticipated issues (such as taking 2 days to get a computer to read the DDEC codes -- with the IT guy trying different things, getting different computers, wires, adaptors, calling the software support folks, etc. etc.).

The length of the stress crack and the shape of the torn metal causes me to believe that this was damage that was long in coming. Had I known that it was a "known issue", I certainly would have been checking it frequently and I may have been able to have it attended to before it was so seriously compromised. I'm unhappy with the repair performed at Henderson's in that it led me to believe that I didn't have to worry, since it was fixed. So my inspections were misdirected when I first heard the popping sounds. (It didn't help that it sounded like it came from the opposite side of the coach, but I now realize that was an aural distortion caused by the furniture, etc. inside.)

Yeah, it really hurt to have a $250 shock ruined, too.

Pete Masterson

'95 Blue Bird Wanderlodge WBDA 42

El Sobrante CA

"aeonix1@mac.com"

On Jun 19, 2008, at 9:12 AM, bumpersbird wrote:

Pete & PT-42 guys,

My left front shock mount was also torn up. My BB guru said it's a 

known problem???!!!&&#@$%^&*WHAT THE !@#$%^9)_.

The fix, just weld it back up! What the F@#$!

After installing new shocks a few months latter I replaced all the 

airbags. When they lifted the front end up with jacks and the front 

axle was hanging with all it's weight and no air bags attached the 

shock must have just pulled everything down, ripping the mount off the 

frame. Of course the new Koni was toast.

The mechanic was under the coach and I queried him, Hey DUDE, I think 

you missed something here. Well it got fixed, he was a certified 

welder, they did add some gussetts as I recall. I'll try to get some 

photo's of mine as well just to compair notes. The work on my coach was 

done at Prevost Nashville.

If this is known problem. I would say anyone with a PT-42 95 to 97 

might want to check for a potential problem.

Dang Pete 10 days in the parking lot! I think I might have rented a car 

and gone home. I've been there to and sometimes you think well their 

almost done and bang, you find something else to get fixed.

My coach has an air compressor although it's not really very good, well 

it's just loud. I can air up the bags befor hitting the STOW/STORE 

button. So I either air up from Aux. compressor of from the engine 

compressor before I let her down. I never had a problem doing it that 

way. In my coach it doesn't matter if the jacks are up or down the air 

bags will inflate or deflate on command. 

Kurt Horvath

95 PT-42 WLWB

10AC 

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