Daily Archives: March 20, 2009
Palm trees and AC’s and rope lights, Oh My!
Today was my day to work on one of our coach’s air conditioning systems. We actually have 3 AC systems.
Coleman Rooftop AC Unit
Two of them are the rooftop units that cool the coach when we are stationary and plugged into shore power, although we can run them on our Onan 7.5 KW diesel generator if we were say, parked at a rest area having lunch.
The 3rd AC system that I’m working on is pretty much like the one on your car. It cools the coach while we are traveling down the highway and runs only when our diesel engine is running.
When we were looking at our coach before we bought it, I noticed the belt that drives the engine AC was shredded and lying on the ground under the engine compartment. The salesman assured me it would be fixed.
And it was. At least for a while.
Somewhere between Houston, TX and Fairbanks, AK, the new belt disappeared. Since we were traveling in February, March, and April on our round-about trip to Alaska, we only used it a few times and it worked every time.
Since we were coming back to Houston in the Fall/Winter timeframe, we also didn’t need it.
But this year we are going to traveling in Florida and then up the East Coast, and we’re probably going to need our AC.
I believe the problem is with the idler/tensioner pulley that keeps the AC belt tight. But I’m having a problem getting any info on it.
Cummins Diesel, the company that built our engine says they did not install the AC assembly on the engine.
Spartan Chassis, the company that built our chassis and installed the engine in it, also doesn’t seem to know anything about it.
That only leaves American Coach, the company that took the chassis/engine combo and built our coach on top of it. It seems to me that the AC would have been installed before they got it.
So I guess I’ll have to wait until Monday to follow up on this.
Around 4:30pm Jan and I headed out to Franco’s Italian Restaurant in Orange Beach. Jan and I shared a large pepperoni/mushroom pizza and it was one of the best we’ve had in a long time. And the tiramisu we shared for desert wasn’t half bad either!
After dark we drove around the park to look at how RV’ers decorate their coaches and sites.
Palm Trees
Palm trees and rope lights are very popular as well as Christmas lights and outdoor lamps.
More Lights
