Shock mount: Re: Temps

[bumpersbird]

Maybe your coach air and leveling system function that way due to no
aux. air compressor. I dunno, just a thought. You know not all birds
are the same. I'm sure your coach being all electric and mine having
propane App's. could account for some of the system diffrences. I
know propane doesn't apply to the systems were talking about but an
all electric coach is diffrent than mine.

I will keep an eye on my shock fix also. At this stage of my life I
don't trust anybody's craftsmanship, been bitten too many times.

I was just in the middle of installing the mounting brackets for the
extra cooling fans on the right side engine louvered door, and I
scratched the you know what out of the paint :{) Mad at myself for
not keeping to protocall when drilling through thin metal.

Oh well another beauty mark.

Kurt Horvath
95 PT-42 WLWB
10AC


--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, Pete Masterson
wrote:
>
> 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 $250 shock ruined, too.
>
> Pete Masterson
> '95 Blue Bird Wanderlodge WBDA 42
> El Sobrante CA
> aeonix1@...
>
>
>
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 9:12 AM, bumpersbird wrote:
>
> > Pete & PT-42 guys,
> >
> > My left front shock mount was also torn up. My BB guru said it's a
> > known problem???!!!&&#@$%^&*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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