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Dash Switch Question

   I have a switch on my dash that is not mentioned in the manual. I assume it is a engine fan switch but I am not sure. Any input on its use would be helpful. Thanks

Regards, Mark Zettek

See Picture Attached (switch on the right)

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Mark and Tanya
Milton , Florida
US Navy Veteran (DV)
1999 U270 Special 40' CAI , 2015 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

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  I have a switch on my dash that is not mentioned in the manual. I assume it is a engine fan switch but I am not sure. Any input on its use would be helpful.

Looks as if someone added a engine fan control switch and a entry step switch. These were not standard.
The selected media item is not currently available.Barry BEAM #16014
2003 U320 40' AGDS
Beamalarm, Foretravel technical help and specifications
"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve"

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It may be a non-standard electric radiator fan. I installed one on my coach for additional cooling in the hot Oklahoma Summers. If so, I think you should be able to hear it come on and turn off if your standing back by the radiator. They have a distinctive sound. Have someone in the cockpit turn it on and off while you are standing near the radiator.
The selected media item is not currently available.Kent Speers
Locust Grove, OK
1993 U300 SSE 40' (Restored at FOT 2009) Build 4323
720 watts Solar
6V92TA DDEC Silver Engine
2014 Subaru Outback

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Thanks Barry and Kent,
      I will have my son turn it on and off and see what I can hear or see in the engine compartment.

  Regards, Mark
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Mark and Tanya
Milton , Florida
US Navy Veteran (DV)
1999 U270 Special 40' CAI , 2015 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

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Barry you were right about the switch. I talked with the original owner yesterday and found out it is a switch the factory installed to bypass the temp sensor for the engine fans. He said it is used to help keep the trans cooler when the retarder is in heavy use. Also found out why my coach says U285 Special on it. He said he bought five new top of the line coaches from Foretravel over the years. When he went to buy the 99 he asked them to build him a U320 with the light oak cabinets in it. The factory said no they only put them in a U270. After a lot of bargaining he asked them to take a U270 on the lot and run it back throught the factory and put all the U320 options on it. He had the U285 Special logo's made up and put them on the coach as a joke to the factory because it is the only one of its kind out there. It was interesting to talk with him about all that he did to the coach and how well he took care of it.

Regards , Mark
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Mark and Tanya
Milton , Florida
US Navy Veteran (DV)
1999 U270 Special 40' CAI , 2015 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

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That's a great idea.  I was muddling about, heading toward the same idea, since when the engine is cool (as when going down a hill), the fan doesn't turn on high, and I've noticed our trans doesn't get cooled as much.  Could also be that in my U270, the low speed fan isn't turning as fast as it should?    Anyhow, should be not too hard to add an electrically controlled shunt valve across the hydraulic thermostat valve on the radiator feed pipe, sort of like Barry Leavitt did with a manual one.  http://www.foreforums.com/index.php?topic=3433.msg12608#msg12608
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Our 1997 Cummins coach has a thermostatic hydraulic valve on the radiator line from the thermostat housing to the radiator.
This valve is supposed to close when coolant reaches about 185-190 or so. When this valve closes the two radiator fan motors are supposed to rotate faster. The fastest speed is reached at about 2,000 engine RPM, when hydraulic pump pressures are quite high.
I put a ball valve on the small hydraulic line to close off the valve so I can keep the fans at high speed all the time.
I did this bypass because the thermostatic hydraulic valve may have failed. But we have seen higher heat since this manual bypass, so it may rule out the thermostatic hydraulic valve. Barry & Cindy
Anyone got an idea for sources for an electric valve?
Dave and Nancy
1999/2013 U270 36' Xtreme
Motorcade # 16774
2013 Subaru Outback
KD0NIM

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Hi Guys

I too have a dash switch That says reset on it. Dose anyone know what it is for?
Thanks fore your help.  Nothing in the manual address it.

2004 U320 42

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I too have a dash switch That says reset on it. Dose anyone know what it is for?
Nothing in the manual address it.
2004 U320 42
Is it on the side panel with the other rocker switches?
Then it would be the HWH reset.
The selected media item is not currently available.Barry BEAM #16014
2003 U320 40' AGDS
Beamalarm, Foretravel technical help and specifications
"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve"

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Hi Barry
No it is next to the parking brake. ( It says over ride) its a rocker switch.
Thanks Karl

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With a 42 footer it sounds like tag axle override.
The selected media item is not currently available. Dave Head & Megan Westbrook
Titusville, FL - The Great Outdoors
'98 270 buying this month
Toad is a 2018 F150 XLT