Heading down I-5... in the rain, of course. Windshield wiper blade started to slide out of the mechanism. Got pulled over and fixed it with a quick application of pliers. Back on the road. Smell of propane throughout the coach. Back off the freeway. Turned off the propane at the tank. Finally arrived at our destination. Water alarm screaming. Anyhow, the propane turned out to be a stove knob partially on and the water alarm, a leaky Motoraide valve in the water pump compartment. I threw the valve and bypassed it with a hose barb to finish the trip. When I get home I'll clean up the compartment and re-plumb the Motoraide. Anyhow, the beat goes on.
jor
If nothing ever happened, you'd be bored to tears. 8)
Ok what's the inside on a water alarm? Never heard of one of these before.
jor.
Get the water OUT OF THERE. That is right above the rear bulkhead.
I added three of the little battery powered water alarms after fixing a bathroom sink leak that was dripping water into the wet bay compartment (behind the panel). It doesn't take much to set off the alarms. Good safety idea knocked off from Barry and Cindy.
jor
Thanks, Brett. No problem with this leak as it was light and is now fixed. Only water was in the water pump area. This coach has had the bulkhead repair done at Extreme and I won't allow that kind of damage to occur again.
jor
Argghhh... another screaming water alarm today. Same area. This rig has a cruddy old water pump and a Rube Goldberg winterizing plumbing setup. I think the leak is from that plumbing. When I get home, I'll replace the water pump with a nice Aqua Jet, throw the accumulator, rip out the winterizing deal and plumb it properly.
Part Deux: Turned on the water heater to get ready to take a shower. Water pouring out of the water heater pressure valve. That is the likely leak. I'll try and replace it in the morning. Damn, this little 270 continues to annoy.
jor
My least favorite words are "it never gave me no trouble." From a Rv owner regarding their trade in.
Good one Mike.
I quit being disappointed long ago with these type issues.
Almost every owner did not know that their coaches needed work.
They wait for things to break.
I really like those little alarms. We have one in the wet bay area and it went off once when I was washing the coach. Got a little to aggressive rinsing around the water heater vent and it let me know right away so that I could get the bit of water dried back out.
We also have one with the remote sensor under the toilet pedistal another one with the sensor in the channel overhead running front to back of the coach.
Sorry about the issues JOR. I read the thread " what did you do to your coach today " as though I should do some little thing to my coach every day...... I'm way behind schedule :)
The only coach we've had that was trouble-free was our '83 'Stream, which had 28k original. It was at 80k when all hell broke loose, and I learned what a "CB" was!
Yea, that is the best way. I call it elective maintenance. This coach had basic mechanical maintenance over the years but as far as I can tell, no elective maintenance. When we get back I intend to go through it stem to stern.
jor
If I was the PO you could be assured.
jor
All fixed. $20 part.
jor
I know that. I'm still kicking myself for not buying that beauty of yours, but as we talked about, I'd have two cool coaches and no DW! ::)
I use water alarms in areas where piping/pumps, etc., are located and not normally observed. It really beats replacing rotted sub-flooring. Have a great day ---- Fritz
That's a fact, Jack. That's also the reason that I am hereby claiming first dibs on Jor's current coach when it hits the market right after he has thoroughly renovated it and the saucy gleam of a 320 catches his eye.
Actually, yes we did. The previous owners were totally "up-front" with us and did their best to make sure everything was completely road-ready and repair or replace anything they even suspected wasn't road-ready!