| Check those heater/radiator hoses [message #267599] |
Mon, 15 December 2014 14:47  |
kerry pinkerton
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Registered: July 2012
Location: Harvest, Al
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Doing some tuning tweeks on the coach after all the work of the last month. Laying on my belly board (new one that covers over the alternator so I don't have to worry about getting the timing light wires or my shirt sleeve into the alternator fan), and I noticed the slightest smell of antifreeze. About that time, I saw something tiny hit my glasses. So I whipped out my trusty energizer pocket flashlight (worth it's weight in gold!) out of my shirt pocket and started looking. Sure enough there was a drop of water on the heater hose coming off the water pump. Upon further inspection, I noticed a TINY spray of fluid from a pinhole in the hose just above the clamp. So I shut it off and let things cool down. I was able to just cut off an inch and a half and put it back on but the hose feels a bit spongy so I guess it's time to replace them all. The PO did it in the last few years before I got it but that's been 5 years now.
Water leaks in hoses NEVER get better. NEVER!
Kerry Pinkerton - North Alabama
Had 5 over the years. Currently have a '06 Fleetwood Discovery 39L
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| Re: [GMCnet] Check those heater/radiator hoses [message #267649 is a reply to message #267599] |
Tue, 16 December 2014 06:03  |
Jim at the Co-op
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Location: Orlando Florida
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Remember that our coach was designed in the later 60's or so when diagnosis
didn't involve computer engine management systems. The preventive
maintenance charts and a diagnostic tree that included touching about
everything before any important use -- that's how you find stuff -- you
stare it down... Firing the motor, looking at it while it's running,
tightening bout every bolt or nut you could reach. Pinching rubber,
tugging on them -- you know all that stuff. Today we are soft, we forget
we have to do all that stuff -- I don't do much of anything to Janies Dodge
Dakota -- something stops and we replace that part. You can't do it that
way on these coaches. If you are into some system, you renew the whole
thing. Has to be done, I mean that is if you are trying to increase the
integrity of the system. If you are just getting it up to move or
something but what usually happens is it works and we leave it. So yea,
constant, vigilant attention is it.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Kerry Pinkerton
wrote:
>
> Doing some tuning tweeks on the coach after all the work of the last
> month. Laying on my belly board (new one that covers over the alternator
> so I
> don't have to worry about getting the timing light wires or my shirt
> sleeve into the alternator fan), and I noticed the slightest smell of
> antifreeze.
> About that time, I saw something tiny hit my glasses. So I whipped out
> my trusty energizer pocket flashlight (worth it's weight in gold!) out of my
> shirt pocket and started looking. Sure enough there was a drop of water
> on the heater hose coming off the water pump. Upon further inspection, I
> noticed a TINY spray of fluid from a pinhole in the hose just above the
> clamp. So I shut it off and let things cool down. I was able to just cut
> off
> an inch and a half and put it back on but the hose feels a bit spongy so I
> guess it's time to replace them all. The PO did it in the last few years
> before I got it but that's been 5 years now.
>
> Water leaks in hoses NEVER get better. NEVER!
> --
> Kerry Pinkerton
>
> North Alabama, near Huntsville,
>
> 77 Eleganza II, "The Lady", 403CI, Manny Brakes, 1 ton, tranny also a 76
> Eleganza to be re-bodied as an Art Deco car hauler
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