| [GMCnet] Trip Report [message #175281] |
Mon, 02 July 2012 09:51  |
jhbridges
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Registered: May 2011
Location: Braselton ga
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Last weekend was Montgomery, 220 miles one way. Since it's been hoty. I've been relogious about filling the coach with no alcohol gas. It runs OK in 110 degrees. However, as I pulled into Sisterinlaw's yard, the roof A/C shut off. Open breaker. When I looked, ruined breaker - won't reset. K&K RV in Prattville AL had an exact replacement. Stuffed it in, AC comes on and cools, but at the first cycle, the compressor won't restart - locked armature, hum, and trips the breaker. So, we cvame home yesterday morning starting at 5 am to best the heat. Only the last 30 miles or so going around the city were sweltering. I just left the cpach off with Frady pere and fils for repair. The word is, maybe there's a problem wioth the cap bank the cmptrssor starts from, otherwise we have an expiring compressor which they can't repair. The unit is a Coleman Mach and it's about ten years old and has seen heavy use, since the coach has lived in S
Florida.
Frady has on hand a 15K BTU Dometic low profile he ordered for a customer who then didn't want it. He says he can get close on the price. Or he can order and get another Mach if I prefer. Both in case the one I have isn't reasonably fixable. My AC guy says assuming he can get the compressor, he could replace it and braze service valves into the lines and get it going, but he points out "You'd be close to the cost of a new one" so if Frady can't demonstrate a bad cap and a working machine for a day in his lot, I lean towards the Dometic. Whatever I do has to be reliable, San Antonio next week, and I can't take a chance on no AC halfway there or back. We will see.
Interestringly, Entec Fuels in Alabama has pumps with two hoses - one being three grades, the other being no alcohol 87 octane gasoline. Filled the coach for the return trip for 2.89 a gallon, no price change with or without alcohol. www.pure-gas.org is Your Friend. Surprisingly, there are very few puregasoline outlets in Tejas. Being an oil state, I would have thought they would be a no alcohol haven. No such luck. Anyone have any idea why?
johnny
'76 23' transmode norris
'76 palm beach
--johnny
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