Recent content by ScepterToad

Well, the first commute on the Mickey's went as well as I'd hoped. Almost no road noise whatsoever. The only downside is the spare no longer fits on the rear mount. I've always had a swing tire carrier on the list but it just moved up considerably. I originally wanted to swap out the wheels...

Got the coach tires put back on last night, along with the centramatics. I cleaned up the rims best I could and cleaned up all the mating surfaces. One thing I found interesting during this whole process was the suspension on the coach. Jacking from the axle on one side raised essentially both...

Now for the coach. My idea was to jack stand the frame by raising the air suspension up, jack stand, then lower the front air bags, setting the frame down on the jack stands. That wasn't to be. On Friday, I started this project thinking I knew how the suspension on the coach worked. So much...

Next up, I started working through removing the stees from the coach. However, I ran into a few issues so I moved on to the Jeep hood for the time being. I scored this hood for a cool $100 and it's in pretty decent shape. There's one small dent and one area where the paint is rubbed through. I...

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend! Busy weekend for me as I worked in the sop all day Friday and part of the day Sunday and had family party on Saturday. Also went to see my folks on Sunday morning. More on that later. I stopped in the tire shop last week to inquire about two new...

Nice information on the HWH Mike! Seems like a lot of folks (myself included) are at a loss when it comes to these systems. One day I'll dig into mine and figure it all out, but this is a great start. Thanks!

Here's my only really odd clamp. From a little bit of research, this may have been an industrial clamp given the large clamping pads. I don't have a measurement of them, but I'd guess they're about 2" in diameter. I don't use it for much, so it just hangs with the other c-clamps. I got...

I hope everyone had a great Father's day weekend! I was able (while I was visiting my folks for Father's Day) to get the exhaust brake solenoid bench tested further and come up with the actual problem this time. In my previous post, I had blown back through the outlet with shop air and the...

Mike are you going to carry cribbing in the coach when you travel???

Exhaust brake time. this has been bothering me for a while. Sometimes when I'm driving the coach at low speeds, I can hear an air leak when the flap closes. Only sometimes. This last trip to college graduation, I felt like I could hear it louder. and it appeared that the air gauges were dropping...

I hope everyone had a great weekend. I was finally able to get back in the shop following a solid month and half of college graduation for the youngest, grad parties with friends, helping the oldest get into her first house, and working on my own yard to try and bring the back patio back from...

That's perfect Mike, thanks! The deck coming into contact with the vehicle was exactly what I was thinking when I saw the picture of the Jeep front tires coming off the ramps. That particular Jeep is probably high enough for the trailer to not hit the bumper, but anything shorter would. A...

Nice to see that trailer in action Mike! I was wondering if the bed would lay back down by itself once the car came off the ramps, but looks like it sits right there. Does it just balance there, or is it hydraulic?

Looks like a productive weekend in the shop Mike! I haven't been able to do any work in mine for over a month outside of some actual work work. Where's the fun in that?? The list is getting long....

Thanks Mike! I may try to roll another window down a bit and see if that helps. I'm just getting dang tired of all the noise. I get that it's a Jeep, but it's a bit much.