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Urban Hermit

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  1. Most welcome. Pex is the pipe to use down here on elevated beach houses. It can freeze and blister, the blister can be hammered flat, and the pipe won't break. (Whatever you don't don't ever use polybutylene (that gray plastic stuff) inside anything. Fittings have a bad habit of shattering suddenly and completely, resulting in full flow inside walls, ceilings, floors, or wherever. )
  2. I suspect that's a standard flat washer deformed by a unique pex fitting configuration and high torque. If all else fails, you can find the fitting below at Lowes, but you 'll have to come up with a crimping tool to install them. https://www.lowes.com/pd/SharkBite-1-2-in-dia-Brass-PEX-Adapter-Elbow-Crimp-Fitting/1000182985
  3. It's in a freightliner shop, and they did set the ride height. Also found a rear air bag collapsed and I assume have replaced it -- if they haven't they will. Good info about the ground buss bar behind the dash -- hope it's easily accessible from inside -- and the PVC conduit. Both helpful info.
  4. I hope it's a simple as that, though it would mean that each of the several shops the previous owner too it to missed the chaffed wire(s) or didn't even think your thoughts -- and mine. My other observation is that if a ground wire is ground out, it makes no difference. But a loose ground wire connection disturbed by frame movement could for sure. I haven't told the present shop, a Freightliner dealership's parts and service facility, that story. I see is should. Thankee . Indeed -- and I had the dealership send me photographs of the trailing arms before I traveled to look at the coach and matched them to the photographs a nice lady at Monaco sent me of the revised trailing arms. Thank you for the thought.
  5. Gawd help anyone who has to drive the Texas interstate system anywhere near Dallas . . . I wonder why the coach didn't come apart from Dallas to Texarkana.
  6. Bought a 2006 Cayman 36STB in early April with a howl in the drive train that occurred only at exact balance between pulling and compression slowing. Drove it 750 miles home and put it in the shop. Shop said (a) coach is running nose-high and that might be affecting the drive train, which is designed to move only through a very few degrees; (b) a rear air bag is completely flat; and (c) the drive shaft was out of phase., and that all three conditions could be involved in causing the howl. The drive shaft has been phased, the front end lowered until the coach rides flat, and -- I assume -- at this point the air bag has been replaced. This is all background to the question to come. I contacted the previous owners by mail. They phoned me and were most gracious and helpful. They told me they'd had the front of the coach raised because -- here it comes: When they bought it as second owners, if both front wheels hit a bump at the same time the dashboard lights would either all go on or all go off (I forget which he told me) and the engine would momentarily stall out and restart itself. Multiple shops tried to find the problem and could not. When the front end was raised the phenomenon stopped. Now --- anybody ever heard of this? Any ideas/answers/references to Nostradamus? The coach is still in the shop waiting for parts cost information so it hasn't been driven except to test the drive line after the repairs, so I don't know what to expect when I come off a poorly-matched bridge/blacktop transition.
  7. If you can get them bared I'd sure like to see a pic. Looks just like my 2006 Cayman. P.S: does your big slide come in with glacier slowness? Mine does. Makes me hold my breath expecting it to stop. Normal or a concern?
  8. Marine deep cycle 12v or (much better) twice as many 6v golf cart or equivalent.
  9. I disagree with "ignore CCA" when considering chassis batteries. A chassis battery needs to be able to discharge briefly but rapidly at a high rate since its main use is turning an engine over -- very high amperage, or "cranking amps." However CCA is irrelevant for coach batteries, which are not subject to extremely heavy amperage demands. For coach deep cycle, designed to discharge slowly over a very long time, are appropriate.
  10. Didn't know Freightliner has a battery line. I've just bought a Monaco which probably has a Freightliner chassis -- I'll have to look into Alliance when the time comes.
  11. Motocraft of Delco. Stay away from Interstate. Run in a panic from anything from Battery World or Battery Life or Battery Bamboozler because it's all fatally flawed Chinese junk. Learned that the hard way by buying D8 ad D4 marine batteries it takes Charles At Last to lift and J. Paul Getty's estate to pay for. If you have room to switch from 2 x 12v for house to 4x6V, do it -- lots more endurance. Get all the CCA , cold cranking amps, you can for your coach battery.
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