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Art Perrone

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  1. Thank you all for your help. I am not concerned with lubrication. It's too late for that. If anyone knows what they are called, in order to order them, that would help. At the present time, I will likely remove one and see what happens. Has anyone done that?
  2. MOTH BALLS! I hear people telling me it doesn't work, but in 47 years of motor homing in 7 different coaches and staying in hundreds of varying locations including storing my coach in a horse barn with horses being fed daily while the coach is sitting idle, I have only had perhaps 4 mice enter and found 4 locations that I missed. I agree that the service bay is the most common entry location for them to enter given the demons just walk up the cable, water hose or drain hose so I make the holes as small as possible as shown by JDCrow then use the convenient bag of moth balls that come in the box and cover any holes remaining so that they are repulsed before they try to enter. They follow their nose looking for a place to eat or nest. I usually put a couple of bags in the engine compartment, the generator compartment, on top of the fuel tank and alongside of the fresh, black and grey water tanks, and alongside the battery bank. I find the smell doesn't get into the living area of todays coaches the way it did in my 1970 Banner or 1976 Kings Highway or 1985 Travel Craft so I don't need to remove all the moth balls when I hit the road. But even in those old motor homes, I seldom had issue with rodents except when I found a location that I missed. Whatever you do, DO NOT USE POISEN! If they do get in and eat the poison, they will likely die inside the coach and the smell may never disappear even if you find all the dead bodies. I have always had antique or classic cars and use the same method when storing them. It works for them although the camphor smell takes some time to dissipate in the car and sometimes I am putting the car back into storage without completely clearing the smell. I find it not bad and definitely better than rodent smell. I have never heard of any bad health effects from breathing the smell. My relatives used to have winter and summer rugs for their houses and stored the rugs with moth balls every season and I grew up smelling the camphor with no ill effects. I am 78 years old and all of my family, parents, grandparents, siblings and aunts and uncles lived to ripe old ages with no ill effects from smelling camphor. I hope this helps Happy Motoring, Art Perrone
  3. In a similar situation, I brought the TCM to an Allison dealer. They were able to get a look at the programing and values in the TCM. The TCM is easily removed from the coach. No special tools are required. Good Luck, Art Perrone
  4. My '07 Dynasty has 4 hydraulic slides but only the DS front has a lock on the outside that "operates" when the slide is totally closed. When the slide is closed a lever on the bottom is pushed out and a bar on the top moves up on the inside apparently locking the slide room so that the top cannot move out. They are on the outside of the room with a black plastic cover over the mechanism from top to bottom riveted with plastic rivets. This slide is not the longest nor the heaviest but has these locks, (one on front and one on rear) while the other 3 slides do not have any locks. My question: Do I need these locks and has anyone removed them? The plastic rivets keep breaking and now the mechanism is coming apart and the machine screws inside holding the base plate and other parts have fallen out and been lost or are stripped. This has become a big problem to repair and I don't see a reason for this lock. Any input will be appreciated. Thank you in advance. Happy Motoring, Art Perrone
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