A couple of weeks ago I finished up the installation of our new residential refrigerator in our coach. Our Norcold RLIM1200 had not given us a seconds problems in this coach until both July and August's trips so I yanked it out and replaced it with a new Samsung 18 cubic foot bottom freezer model. Wife and I got back from our first trip with it and she loves it.
Went from this, Norcold RLIM1200 12 cubic foot absorption refrigerator.
To this, a Samsung RF18 residential refrigerator. Only draws 3.9 amps when the compressor is running and has dual cooling technology.
Last week the parts for our Onan 10kW genset showed up so I was able to get it back up and running as well. It ran fine all of last year and then the one trip I needed it for this year due to high temperatures heading to Ouray in August, the dang thing wouldn't stay running. After extensive troubleshooting I found out the control module went out.
While I was in there I decided to replace the brushed in the generator half of the genset.
I then replaced the control module and she is up and running again.
Lastly, I had an intermittent delayed starting issue on the engine of our coach. After diagnosing I replaced the lift pump on our Cummins ISL400 engine.
New Cummins lift pump.
Old Cummins lift pump.
And the mess it made of my tools.
That lift pump was hands down the dirtiest, messiest job I have done in a long time. In a class 8 truck it would be a very simple and easy to get to pump, but stuff that in the rear of an RV with only about 8" between the side of the engine block and the frame rail and it turns into a nightmare of a job. Glad that job is done.
After a test drive she is running great again. She just turned over 104k miles on the odometer last trip so now I am going to shoot for the 200k mark. This coach has been relatively trouble free for the past 8 years we have owned it, very few issues other than regular preventative maintenance, but the last two trips really created some work for me.
Oh well, at least it is done and ready to go again.
Mike.
