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Reply #25 – December 04, 2018, 09:04:46 pm

Jerry,

Check your door magnet to see if it is loose causing the step to open/close when you hit a bump.

Mike

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Reply #26 – December 04, 2018, 10:01:10 pm

I think the plan is to call a shop in Yuma or Tucson and make an appointment.
I was fortunate that the shop I found in Barstow even had the time to inspect it. To get any repair work done would be a week out to just get started. As we will be in Ajo for two weeks. We should be able to have a more thorough inspection done and order parts. If they are going to be working on the suspension. Might as well have the air bags done and new shocks installed.

Talk about sucking the fun out of our first long trip. Yikes!

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Reply #27 – December 04, 2018, 11:29:37 pm

Tight is a realitive term when the coach is static and not moving. Bad rubber bushing if covered by a large washer may hide. Is there a way to support a unihome or unicoach so the suspension can be somewhat unloaded to check?

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Reply #28 – December 04, 2018, 11:55:22 pm

A go pro type camera pointed at various parts of the suspension while driving the coach might be necessary to help diagnosis what's wrong. My older go pros can send the pictures live to my phone or iPad if memory serves me,

Different mounts from them should allow a secure mounting?

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Reply #29 – December 05, 2018, 12:42:41 am

Good idea. But with the forthcoming outpouring of yet more coach bucks. I doubt she who must be obeyed will let me have a GoPro.😁

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Reply #30 – December 05, 2018, 08:17:39 am

Another place to try is All Aboard America in Mesa. Talk to Leo (service manager), great guy. He also does work on the side.
480-962-6202
230 S. Country Club Dr., Mesa, AZ

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Reply #31 – December 05, 2018, 08:27:44 am

You might also check the brake calipers. If the pins are worn, they will rattle on bumps. Shake them to see if they are loose.

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Reply #32 – December 05, 2018, 09:27:56 am

The brakes were rebuilt 2 months ago.

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Reply #33 – December 05, 2018, 10:02:14 am

What you might do when you get down here, before you plug everything in, is take me for a ride, perchance I can walk around the coach when you're driving and spot the noise location.

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Reply #34 – December 05, 2018, 06:30:09 pm

Quote from: mike leary – December 05, 2018, 10:02:14 am

What you might do when you get down here, before you plug everything in, is take me for a ride, perchance I can walk around the coach when you're driving and spot the noise location.

Or ride in the joey bed...LOL

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Reply #35 – December 05, 2018, 07:04:25 pm

Agree........ Mike would be able to pinpoint many more noises from that location!
Please film and post your findings..............

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Reply #36 – December 05, 2018, 07:17:42 pm

The good thing about SR 85 from Gila Bend down to Ajo, is it's rough, and we may be able to replicate 'the sound'.

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Reply #37 – December 05, 2018, 07:52:38 pm

Quote from: gracerace – December 05, 2018, 06:30:09 pm

Or ride in the joey bed...LOL

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Reply #38 – December 05, 2018, 07:54:59 pm

My thoughts exactly Mike. We need to go for a ride. Any good bars down Mexico way?

I was also thinking that if I can score some wood wedges to keep the Joey beds still. That might help. To my and the dw's ears. It does have a Joey bed sound to it towards the galley. But there is also a distinct metal sound in the front that I can also feel through my feet.

Perhaps bad bushings can cause a domino effect and the uncushend shock is transferred to the beds. It could even be an issue with the Joey bed it self.

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Reply #39 – December 05, 2018, 09:50:26 pm

I had a loose engine compartment door make a lot of banging noises from mid coach.

Your have to slowly lower the door and watch over the top edge to see if the part at the bottom is actually over the pin with the rubber on it. Plus rotated the rubber as it was worn and grooved.

Second noise was our chest freezer banging against the compartment door. Retaining latch was worn at the bottom and moved up allowing the chest freezer to hit the door.

Towel over the freezers handle stopped the noise.

See if you can rattle the engine compartments door? Fan on and off changes the pressure under the bed,

Make sure the bed is latched down also

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Reply #40 – December 05, 2018, 10:08:24 pm

I planned on checking all the side door latches. I think both large bay doors need adjusting. I may try to do it here at Cattail so we can see if it makes a diff next week on the trip to Ajo.

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Reply #41 – December 06, 2018, 10:49:00 am

Jerry, you have not composed the 'song of the siren' so we could start taking bets as to what it is. Is it one metallic sound, or a 'click click rattle shake' sound? That's a nice Park you're in, have spent time there, too!

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Reply #42 – December 06, 2018, 11:08:07 am

Jerry, one of my rules for finding a problem is to check everything that was changed since the last no problem trip. I know it is a long shot, but you have had the brakes done since your last trip. Check all the hardware that was changed, or removed and put back on if the fronts were involved.

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Reply #43 – December 06, 2018, 11:20:41 am

Quote from: craneman – December 06, 2018, 11:08:07 am

Jerry, one of my rules for finding a problem is to check everything that was changed since the last no problem trip. I know it is a long shot, but you have had the brakes done since your last trip. Check all the hardware that was changed, or removed and put back on if the fronts were involved.

I don't think it's a long shot, at all. I thought the same thing, too. The nice thing about 'the noise', is it seems, merely:

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Reply #44 – December 08, 2018, 11:53:19 pm

My generator slide tray made a heck of a racket when braking, terrible racket. Took mc to generator shop and he installed two rubber washers on slide hold in bolts after he pushed and prodded on tray to duplicate noise. Problem solved. It had just been serviced. He apologized for charging me $35. I thought the generator bearings were shot. Good luck.

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Reply #45 – December 09, 2018, 12:15:13 am

Quote from: Realmccoy – December 08, 2018, 11:53:19 pm

My generator slide tray made a heck of a racket when braking, terrible racket. Took mc to generator shop and he installed two rubber washers on slide hold in bolts after he pushed and prodded on tray to duplicate noise. Problem solved. It had just been serviced. He apologized for charging me $35. I thought the generator bearings were shot. Good luck.

We'll get it sorted one way or another.

I have always had what sounds like Joey bed noise since buying the coach. But having never been in a coach before, Much less a Foretravel. I had no idea of what to expect for road noise and such. The Joey beds do make a big racket when I'm loading stuff on them or moving them in & out. So why wouldn't it do the same bouncing down the road.

It was the more pronounced metal sound that I could also feel through my feet after Cali. I-5 that made me think something else was amiss. As it was a new noise added to the other noises.

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Reply #46 – December 09, 2018, 08:28:55 am

I drove I-40 east bound on the way home from LA, after the first day and damage to coach i let 20 psi out of the coach tires down to 85 psi which turned out right for my coach axle weights. Weigh your axles. In AZ you could see the whoop de do's coming and I just shifted the coach over to the right so I was straddling the center of the lane and the shoulder

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Reply #47 – January 18, 2023, 11:29:28 pm

What ended up being the problem!

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Reply #48 – January 20, 2023, 05:07:01 pm

Quote from: Ldillow – January 18, 2023, 11:29:28 pm

What ended up being the problem!

Well, Not totally sure.

After leaving Tucson that year. We went to MoT and had the bulkheads looked at (they were fine) so we had the shocks and airbags replaced.

Two or three years ago. I had a big suspension shop in Tucson check the suspension and alignment. It checked out. The thrust angle on the drive axle was just within spec but is none adjustable. Being in or out of spec is a function of the bushings being good or worn out. I do have a set of bushings in the garage at home.

After new shocks, The noise did quiet down quite a bit.
I suspect it is a combo of niggling things. Like the side doors being in need of new gaskets and thus have gone out of adjustment and i couldn't get them properly adjust with the bad gaskets. Then the joey beds are in need of new rollers. The pass side is especially bad.

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