The DW and I love the tamboured doors on the cabinets and it's one of the reasons that we bought the 95 vintage. I think it's nearly the last year for them.
Also like the 8.3 cummins, seems to have great reliability. But at idle she seems to rattle a couple of the tamboured doors.
Has anyone come up with a solution for that. I thought about a small strip of felt in the channel but before I go there, thought I would ask. There is NO better resource for this kind of thing than the Foreforum.
Just one more little thing towards perfect.
We love out tambour cupboard doors too and I agree that '95 would be our preferred upgrade if we were ready to do that. I've never heard ours rattle but I think that I'd let the engine idle, and gently run a finger along the tambour doors to see where the rattle is worst. Then I'd probably put a dab of silicon... just a drop... in the most likely spot to see if that would damp the movement.
Felt would work, though... just seems to me like it might be a lot of work for only a few spots that might be creating the issue.
On the other hand, for me at least, turning off the hearing aids would work, too. But then I wouldn't be able to hear my DW's voice... oh, wait.... :D
Craig
I always carry a good supply of those little stick-on brown felt "dots". Every time I identify a "rattle" source I'm on it like stink on a skunk (or some other such phrase). I put 2 dots on the frame of each tambour door, at the point where the door contacts it when closed. Haven't noticed any noise coming from them, but then (like Craig) my hearing isn't what it used to be... Sometimes it's a blessing.
There is also a screw on the throttle control (on the engine) that you can use to adjust the idle speed. I thought ours was too low when we got the coach, and I bumped it up slightly. Made the coach feel a lot smoother at idle, especially when "in gear".
If you do mess with it, be careful not to set the idle speed too high, or the transmission will not move out of neutral.
Possible your engine mounts are dryrotted and transmitting too much to the body? You may be addressing the symptoms, not the problem.
Haven't figured out the quote thing yet.
Craig.
The silicone dots would go on the door strips? where I wonder if they might come off when the door coils up. Or on the channel.
Chuck
I like the felt dot idea. I'm getting a pack of those for wherever they need to go.
I did get schooled on that engine idle thing when our coach wouldn't start on the trip home ( little piece of carpet under throttle pedal and the Alison wouldn't let it start). Thought there was a specific idle rpm that it should be at. Have that checked ? Or overthinking it ?
Matt
So at 20 years and 150,000 the engine mounts are maybe due ? I'll ask the truck shop today when I pick it up ( rear brakes).
"Luck of the Irish", as the saying goes. In three coaches with those beauty tambours, NO RATTLES! I've always used a dry lube on them and tried to keep our stuff from sliding against them. ^.^d
When our M11 idles at the "proper" RPM (around 650 RPM) several things in the coach vibrate if we are stopped for a quick "driver's pit stop." In addition, even though the oil pressure is within spec limits (around 10 PSI) I prefer to have it somewhat higher. Therefore, I generally use the cruise control to bump the idle up to about 800 RPM during "pit stops" and pretty much everything seems to calm down--and I am much happier.
Crank up the idle a few rpm. Turn the idle adjustment screw. I cranked mine up a tiny bit as it was low and rattled everything. I think I went with 700-750rpm?!? but I can't remeber.
Bottom of a wax candle shaped to fit the track
That's a trick that I wouldn't have thought of.
Lots of options here to try. I know one of them is gonna work.
Two screws on the top & two screws on the bottom and you can remove the entire tambour door as an assembly and then play with reducing the perceived rattle using whatever method you desire, including squeezing the track narrower or packing the track with whatever you think might work.
Mine rattle too ,but only at extremely high Volumes of Molly Hatchett Flirting with Disaster or other such energizing tunes!!!!LOL
Vertical slat horizontal sliding tambour doors wear differently that a vertical sliding door or one in a roll top desk with horizontal slats. Lubricating with wax will make the doors slide easier but likely won't reduce the rattling. If youncan remove the doors and tracks as nighthawk suggests then a thin self stick layer of felt on one side or the other on the top and the the bottom. Try that, if not enough then do the other side.
Adjusting the idle speed might work but firming up the door track fixes the actual problem.