woodylmiller

Strange. It is for the awning. Are there wires there? Somewhere along the way that wind speed has to be converted to an electrical signal to cause the awing to retract. On mine there is a control box located in the upper most cabinet on the left curbside. Not sure why someone would remove that, or maybe a low hanging branch took it out?? Woody Miller

I am trying to find the coolant filter on my ISM500. I can find the part number for the filter, but I can not find where they put it. Please give me a clue where to renew my search. There is a filter on the roadside area with a gage that lets you know when to replace it, but I think that's the hydraulic filter. That filter is located above and to the left on one of the fuel filters and to the right of the tag axle air pressure regulator. I have looked everywhere around the radiator, but nothing, unless they really did a good job of hiding it. Thanks. Woody Miller 09 Dynasty Regal IV

My middle A/C had a plugged drain line and water would run onto the roof and down the side. For some strange reason this year the drain just started to work. I did put the shop vac to the hoses and all drains are working. I do notice that the two drain lines that run to the front have a "belly" in them somewhere since the water will just drip and then a couple ounces of water will just dump out. Nothing to worry about, main thing is that they are all draining. If it were me I'd get rid of those duck bill drains. By my way of thinking those duck bills are a solution looking for a problem. More important for me to watch how the water is draining in real time. Woody Miller

I didn't do any changes, but I'm wondering how folks get the residential units in their coach. I'm thinking through the front windshield maybe? Fortunately we will be doing this if our Frigidaire dies since we have a chip in the windshield that can't be repaired anymore than it already has been, the glass shop it needs to be replaced, which insurance will cover. We will be looking for a shop that can "rebuild" our Frigidaire since it has the matching cherry wood on the doors that match our cabinets. My DW has made it clear, the wood doors on the refrig are staying. I don't think they are making reefer's with wood cabinet doors any longer. Pat D., that valance(?) above your Norcold, is there anything in that space? Cables, wires? If not I would think you could gain an inch or two with a little work on it. Oak trim is readily available, looks like just a natural stain and poly. Good luck. Woody Miller 09 Dynasty Regal IV

Just a guess, I had a leak one time in the condenser, that's what I call it, the "radiator" of the system. Road debris had flown up and put a small leak in the tubing. Should be oil staining there if that's the case. Woody Miller

Getting ready to flush and replace coolant. Was looking for a guide on the type of coolant to use. ISM500 engine, looking for what is the best coolant these days. What is the latest trend in coolants? Thanks, Woody Miller 09 Dynasty Regal IV

I agree with Vito, new hoses would be a nightmare to install. A hose shop should be able to cut and splice new ends at both ends of the hoses if that's where your leaks are. An appliance shop should have a Freon sniffer to find your leak. They just wave it around your fittings and it will beep if it finds Freon. Woody Miller

Concerning the Dynabeads, do you put the beads in every tire? or just the steer tires. From the chart it looks like 12oz per tire. thanks, Woody Miller

We have a sink/toilet in the half bath. The full bath has sink/toilet/shower. Wouldn't be without it. I was on the "must have" list. We didn't look at any coach without the bath and a half. DW thinks I'm a heathen, therefore I have my own half bath, she lets me use the shower if I behave myself.

I'll check RV Cams. I called my credit card company today to dispute the charges with Tadi. Been a week with no response from them. I had informed them yesterday by phone and email that I would do that if no one contacted me by today. I hope this will get their attention and I can return the 3 right side cameras. I did look at RV Cams, and yes they are more money, but, if I can get the cameras I need I can continue on with my "simple" mod on the monitor and cameras. We head south in less than two months and I need to get these simple tasks finished. Woody Miller 09 Dynasty Regal IV

I need two side view cameras, one left one right. I bought from TADI brothers, long story, but I have 3 passenger side cameras. Been a week now without any word from Tadi, no phone call or email. I ordered a left/driver side, they sent another right/passenger. Trying to correct this but Tadi has not returned any phone calls or emails. No one is answering the sales line or the customer service line. Any suggestions for another source? I tried some other vendors, but their so called "side view" cameras are not. Trying to finish what I thought would be a simple upgrade, new BOYO monitor and rear view which both work well. Side view is the problem. Don't know about you, but I'm sick of hearing the covid is the reason nothing happens, no one to talk to, no responses, nothing, except "due to the covid........yadddaa, yaddaa, yada", bullcrap.

I was quoted a price of $30 per tire for mounting and balancing. There will be an extra charge for say adding the bags of beads for the front steer tires. The TOYO M144 is an all position tire, regional use. Should be just fine for motorhome. I do not know about the date code on the tires I bought. I will be fine with them being several months old, even a year. To honest with you it was more important just to find tires. I was beginning to lose hope on finding anything. I had quotes on TOYO's at $6500 and Michelin's at $7100. And that shop had only found a few of each tire. I'm guessing things will get worse before they get better. And a big price increase when the tires do come back in stock. Woody Miller

Took several days, many phone calls, and websites claiming to have the tires when they didn't, but, 8 TOYO M144, 295/80r/22.5's are on their way. $4,100 total delivered to my house. Shipped via FedEx and should be here in 2 or 3 days. Got them from "tires-easy.com". Girl said they had "a lot" of them. I had given up on finding the TOYO's and was going to go with Falken's, motorhometires.com told me that there were 11 of that size tires in North America. Another dealer told me less than a dozen Michelins and fewer yet of the TOYO's. No tire shop within 100 miles of me had my size tires and they had no idea when they could get them. I will say that I could buy 295/75r/22.5 all day long. I took Frank's advice and stuck with the 80r's, a big thank you to Frank, his wisdom and knowledge is priceless. Reason for lack of tires, no shipping containers. Rumor is Amazon has under contract or bought most of the containers, therefore no way to get the tires here. Also, they are expecting a 20 to 30% price increase when the tires do get here. So, for tonight there is reason to celebrate in the Miller household. New tires, before inflation hits. The TOYO's were $431 apiece before some of our state fees. Woody Miller

We have the bath and a half and a side radiator. 2009 Dynasty Regal IV. It was built in 2008 from what all the chassis tags say, chassis may be older, ISM 500 without the DPF or DEF. Woody Miller

ATT replaced the Mobley with the Spark, which we have. Same problem, shut down after 20 to 30 minutes, unplug, restart and keep going. We use the reboot time to refresh a drink, get something to eat etc. A pita, but it's better than RV park wifi. Since getting a Cradlepoint cell router however we hardly use the Spark. But all in all, the reboot time wasn't the worse. Woody Miller

I'm also looking for the Toyo's. Motorhometires.com were no help to me, I couldn't get an answer on the tires or installers. Simple Tire is out of stock. Michelins are way over priced, by double. Adding to all the confusion, I happen to notice yesterday that a previous owner put 275/80r/22.5 on all the rears. The chassis tire chart clearly reads 295 all around, and there were 305's on the front when I bought it. I'm still holding out hope for the Toyo's, I have until Sept. for our next trip to Southern CA for winter. I believe this has more to do with the coming price increases than covid delays. Or has the planet run out of rubber? Increased demand = higher prices. Just checked Tiresdirect.net. OUT of stock on the Toyo M144 295/80r's.

Thanks to everyone. I am in the Spokane area, actually a couple hours north. Local Les Schwab are waiting for a delivery but not date when they might have them. This is primarily a logging area and many of the trucks are running 24.5. Hoping to get the Toyo M144's. I'll stick with the 80's. Current tires have aged out, they are now 7 years old but still plenty of tread and no sidewall cracking or other defects so I'm comfortable waiting for awhile. Woody Miller Just got a response from Simple Tire. The Toyo's are out of stock. Checking with some more online suppliers on Monday. Nice how the websites advertise having tires then don't have them once you want to place an order. We have two commercial tire companies in my town who carry Toyo's. One tells me their supplies don't list the M144 tire, they don't know what it is. ????? The other is so far out of stock I'll will have to order them online, once I find them. I tried to use Motorhome tires dot com that is advertised over on IRVII, but all I got was form letter responses that made no sense, I didn't call them. The site asks you to use their sponsors but that went nowhere, again, very strange. So Monday the hunt continues as time allows. Just discovered a supply water line leak on one of the TECMA toilets, dang!!! Always something.

Tire chart says 295 80R 22.5. Can find plenty of 75R's, but very few if any 80R's. 1 inch difference in diameter. Will throw the speedometer off a little, but any other problems? A little less ground clearance. How many others have forgone the proper 80R tires and gone with the 75R's and any problems? thanks, Woody Miller 09 Dynasty Regal IV

Going through this same thing now. Zip ties, Ty-Raps, whatever, "twist" the tail off and it does not leave a razor sharp edge. I have a ty rap gun type device that tightens and then cuts the tail without leaving that bleeder razor edge to it. I replace all the ty's I come across that have that razor blade tail. The wiring is a mess. I have found a couple places where someone went from white ground to a yellow with a green stripe so check with a meter. Monaco used white for almost everything, hot and ground. The hot will be marked with the source and destination but I notice their "naming" doesn't seem to make any sense, plus you need at minimum a magnifying glass to read it, and then hope someone along the way didn't splice on to it with no documentation. I use white electrical tape to write on with a sharpie to mark all the "strange" wires I come across once I figure out what it is. You think having a rat under the dash can make a mess, we had a grey squirrel in ours at one point. The only good thing that came from that is we have not had any rodents in the coach since. Squirrels eat mice. Woody Miller 09 Dynasty Regal IV

I agree that it is quite the adventure to take a look at what all is in the mess of wires and other things in the dash. This was not under the dash but, while installing new headlights I find splices inside the black wire looms where the wire colors were changed. The wiring is bad enough as it is without hiding splices and wire color changes. Woody Miller 09 Dynasty Regal IV

Very nice work. Those front windshield shades are not the easiest things in the world to install. I just had mine down to do some work around the dash and corner post areas. We have the motorized on all the cockpit shades. At night, one button sends them all down to the correct length to black out the entire cockpit, in the morning one button will bring them all back up. Pricey, but very nice. Woody Miller

I want to replace my old factory system monitors. The house/chassis/solar display has a demon. The fresh/gray/black tank monitor is a joke. I'd like to clean up the cabinet that houses all this old stuff and replace with some space age displays. Any suggestions? I like the see level stuff, if that's the right name for it for the tanks. The electrical monitor I'm not sure what all is out there. My current panel displays all kinds of numbers each time I move the switch. I have one solar panel that at times has displayed nothing or the highest I've seen on it is close to 20 amps which is not possible. Thanks. Woody Miller 09 Dynasty Regal IV

This will work. I had to "temp" some stuff until I found a shop, REV in Coburg, to put in new switches and use the CADET software to get my Kongsberg going again. That is all the easy stuff. We lost the engine brake at times when our system failed. That was something you can't work around. Cummins can redo the engine brake set up but that will run probably close to 10 grand before they are done with it. Having been there, lights and wipers are the least of your problems if your Kongsberg CCM fails. I would also suggest the mods to step down all that current in your front run box. There is a file on how to do it that Frank posted. It's a cheap insurance against a fire. If yours is like ours that front run box is fed from 150 amp breakers in the rear run box on 4/0 cable. I interrupted that feed and took it down to 50 and 60 amp protection in the front run box. Also, never take "no" for an answer. We were told by 95% of shops the Kongsberg could never be fixed, it can, as long as the CCM is good. Good luck. Woody Miller 09 Dynasty Regal IV

I can see the solenoid/control for the door seal. The hose is going in the complete opposite direction, from curbside to roadside. The door seal supply is on the curbside part of the firewall. Of course the door seal doesn't activate until around 5mph as I recall. I'd have to check that next time I'm on the road, but who knows. I can check that with a hand pump though in the meantime just to rule that out. Been too hot here for outside work. Woody Miller

Ivan, does it make sense that the line is twice the size in diameter of the single vacuum line leaving the pump on the firewall? It does head that way from drivers side to curbside where the vacuum is located on my coach. And the presence of that gray foam on a section of that line behind the instrument cluster. So if it did go through the firewall it could not go far and I just don't see anything that is could reach or control. Now, if a person was to go to the right that would make that hose a little longer to reach something in the middle of the firewall, above the gen. ???? I was looking for something more around straight ahead of the steering wheel. I guess I'll take another look. But, the length of hose between the end and the foam is about a foot, a little less really, so it would have to be something mounted to the firewall. Thought I would take a few minutes and "clean up" some of the "stuff" under the dash while I was in there installing the new cameras and monitor, boy did I open a can of worms. Splices, black tape, ty-raps and no documentation. Did find a constant on voltage for the monitor during my looking around. I have no idea what it was there for, it's not a factory splice, just a wire with a fuse holder just hiding out in there with all the other "stuff". Without documentation a ten minute job turns into a week. Woody Miller 09 Dynasty Regal IV