heat while driving

[Curt Sprenger]

Your 'Bird is a couple years newer than our '87 so may be some differences.

Is there a Summer/Winter switch in the upper dash above the driver? Set it to Winter.

Is the Heat switch in the lower dash set to Heat? Our Heat switch location is just below the two Fan switches.


At the rear of the coach engine we have 4 gate valves. These need to be in the open position. They are located just forward of the rear bumper, about shoulder height on the street side next to the engine thermostat housing, a little lower on the curb side by the exhaust tube, can't remember the location for the forth valve. Opening up those valve will let the engine coolant flow throughout the coach and you should have heat.


There is is a heater under the couch that works off the engine coolant. Next to the vent are two switches, one is ON/OFF, the other is the fans speed. Set to On and High/Low. Set the wall Thermostat to 70 degrees and be sure it's in the ON position. The thermostat in our coach is on the wall above the couch reward end.


There are more heaters, probable at least a dozen in your coach. Makes for a long story.

You can also run the generator and turn on the electric toe heaters that are just above floor level.

Hope this helps.


Good luck.

Curt Sprenger
1987 PT38 8V92 "MacAttack Racing"
Anaheim Hills, CA

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Jana Ewart <"janaquilts@gmail.com"> wrote:

 

We are finally on the road "full-time" as of this morning.  It is cooooollllldddd up here in the north.  Can anyone give us some ideas how to get dash heat while going down the road?  We have the right vent and left vent closed, the front heat under the camera is all the way to heat -- but the right and left fan switches only blow cold air.  Is there another button or switch we need to turn on?  Thanks so much.

Jana (with ice cube feet)

89pt40wb

The Bird House is on the road!

Still in South Dakota

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