Maiden Voyage Complete!!!

[Pete Masterson]

Keep in mind that these 'birds are old enough to have had owner mods. You mentioned your tubes were red ... mine were clear plastic. Dunno which was OEM or if neither were. I was under the front edge of the coach (working on another matter -- moisture in one of the headlights) when I noticed the drain tube dangling and saw (through the clear tubing) that it had a couple of feet of water in it. After poking at it and being unable to express any water, I cut off the end that had a black thing that looked like some sort of one-way valve or screen, presumably to keep insects from entering the tube. 

With the "thing" removed, now the tube runs freely and I haven't had any trouble with insects, so far. 

It was on the very end of the tube. It was very obvious.

Sometimes I get leaking inside the coach from my center unit (and sometimes there is condensation running over the edge of the coach). So I know there's some problems with that one. The leaking depends on the slope and lean of the coach at the time of the leak. While up on jacks at CCW, the center AC dumped a considerable bit of moisture in the galley cabinet over the sink. Fortunately it was _exactly_ where we store dish towels -- and they absorbed the moisture. I have the cabinets open to air, now. (But they seem to be dry.)

I planned to remove the cover and clean out that one before our next major trip (in a few weeks). Perhaps I'll just block off the drain holes, if it's possible that the tube causes a leak inside. (I don't really mind the water running down the coach side wall that far back...)

I replaced my front and rear ACs with new ones about 2 years ago...

Pete Masterson

'95 Blue Bird Wanderlodge WBDA 42

El Sobrante CA

"aeonix1@mac.com"

On Jun 23, 2008, at 12:26 PM, bumpersbird wrote:

Pete,

There is a one way valve on the end on the drain tubes??????

How far up are they?

I tried to clear them and had no luck. My BB GURU told me to block the 

drain up at the roof. I did and it stopped leaking inside the coach.

Now I get AC runoff on the drivers window and sometime a vortex makes 

it hit the windshield as I'm driving, very annoying.

Kurt Horvath

95PT-42 WLWB

10AC