Craggar

Good catch and good decision.

I was pretty nieve about diesel pushers until I bought the one I have now, but after finding and fixing the crap the previous owner did I have learned alot. When I buy my next one I don't think an exprienced inspector will do a better job going over then what I will be able to do.

Lol whoops, that was who I meant, don't know why I said Ivan instead.

Thanks guys, you're right Ivan I was using the wrong search term but when I try what it should be nothing comes up local. Now that I know what it's called I should be able to find it somewhere local tomorrow.

While waiting on my injection pump I'm cleaning up some other things on my to do list. One being the air intake hose that goes to the air filter. It's about a foot long and 7" in dia., everywhere I look for it I find 6" or 8". This is what I was going to give a try. https://floraflex.com/CAD/10-inline-duct-fan-fif-102503

Mine is a 98 so it might be different but I don't think so. Here is the part Donaldson #P537448. You should be able to pull it up and check the dimensions.

Just wondering if anyone with a P7100 has a picture of the throttle linkage at the pump? I'm taking my pump off now to fix a leak on the throttle shaft and know that the way the linkage is now has been Macgyvered in the past somewhere in it's life and would like to fix it while I have things apart. I've searched online and found everything boat engines to military trucks but nothing for a motorhome.

I think we all agree that it was 100% the m/h drivers fault but the truck driver could have avoided the accident by just backing off and letting the m/h in. I know if it was me I'd rather let him in than watch someone destroy their m/h and possibly get serious injuries or worse.

Sad when the truck driver just let it happen. Sure the rv shouldn't have done what he did but all the truck driver had to do was lift for a second and let the rv in too avoid what happened.

Well from my experience the quality has got much better. I worked for a company that has what you can call a no name brand of gears that are 1/2 the price of the top name brands which they are a distributor for as well. They don't get any more warranty on those gears then they do on the name brands and this isn't a small company, they have several branches across Canada. I bought a crane a few years ago from China at Con Expo that came with a Cummins engine, Rockwell diffs and many other top name made parts with complete warranty and the filters on the Cummins engine were not from Cummins. I also bought an oil pan for my 8.3 from China because Cummins wanted a ridiculous amount for the same thing. The oil pan which came with gasket and bolts was as good a quality as what was on my engine and cost less then the gasket did from Cummins if I remember right. It's not all slum factories over there either, we have all helped them get to be where they are now by buying their products. The company that made the crane I bought has a huge part of the European and North American market with some products and is a state of the art manufacturing facility. Part of the reason they got where they are with cranes was because they use to make the booms for Leibherr cranes, not copy them. The same goes for their excavators and other equipment they make, they built many parts for well known brand names then decided to just make them for their own line. My point was that it's pretty hard to know where parts are from when used to build and assemble things over here. The way China is now I would love not to have to buy anything that has something in it that came from there but thats not realistic. If I was trying to make a point it wouldn't be over a part in an alternator possibly coming from there. I don't want to make this a debate or anything because like I don't like where things are going with China anymore than anyone else but I don't know what the answer is to changing it either.

Almost everything we own has off shore parts including the new one probably.

If you don't get an answer here I would post on IRV2 as well, I know there are at least a couple on there that are in the area and would know. If you are west of Ottawa near Arnprior there is a truck stop called Antrim Truck Center with a full service truck service center that if nothing else could steer you in the right direction. Maybe give them a call.

It was interesting thanks for posting it.

I can go at least 5 miles at highway speed in 80+ weather before mine would start to overheat. I know because I had closed the valve that controls the fan by mistake once. If I were you I would try something on the outside first that you could take off easily if it doesn't work like cardboard taped on. I'm guessing the tires are kicking up a lot of the sand as well though.

If your parking area is level then there is no way one wheel should be off the ground when leveling the m/h.

I made my own pipes but any muffler shop can make them as per sample for you.

Sorry to hear your loss, I want another so bad but it was so hard losing the last one that I don't know if I want to go through it again.

Same when I was still racing, had a couple friends pulling stackers and no issues.

On mine the one going to the thermostat housing was about to start leaking just above the 90 degree bend where the clamp secured it to the bracket. The rest of the pipe was solid and I probably wouldn't have noticed the bend when I did if I didn't have to move it to get the oil pan off.

Stainless looks better and will last longer but is costly and time consuming if you have to get someone to make them for you. I made my own out of mandrel bends and .095 wall tubing. I figured if the originals lasted almost 25 years being mild steel then the ones I made should out last the motorhome.

An fittings come in steel as well as aluminum.

I'm in the club too, bought this one from an old guy who wasn't able to drive it anymore who seemed pretty honest and I didn't checked it over as good as I should have so now I'm fixing the things he failed to tell me about that were obviously there before I bought it. I have the P7100 fuel pump and the steering box leak to fix this spring still but the rest is pretty much done. I was able to go on a couple good trips so far with minor issues though including a cross Canada one. I think by the time a fix what's left of what he didn't tell me about I'll be at 10G's roughly.

Got link to that interweb site? We all know that you can get whatever answer you want on the interwebs.

Where did you read that?

lol