Thursday, March 31, 2011

Alternator oil lines

After spending some quality time with the alternator in the bus. I managed to remove one of the two oil lines that supply lubrication and cooling to the alternator.

 After dis assembly and some clean up you can see how serious the hose was. One end gave up easy but the other put up a fight.  After a short trip to Aircraft Spruce here in PTC 1 ft of Aeroquip 303-3 hose @ $5.85 with a 3000 psi rating should last another 31 years.

I cleaned up the old fittings and re-assembled the hose. Now to remove the other hose and install this one.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Flat tire problems

In the quest to resolve the below situation.
 I purchased a 60/1 gear reduction crank capable of "Tons of torque".  Looking at the Lugs they are marked L8 I could only get them to pop and move slowly until I started cranking clockwise now I have most broken loose. They are Left handed Thread. I have managed to crack the powder coat off the brace leg of the tool.

Yesterday I removed the tire and attempted to seat the bead on it to no avail. Today I took the tire to a tire shop and they couldn't deal with the tire either. A customer of mine that maintains large tractor trailers told me to bring it by and they set the bead and inflated the tire in less than 3 minutes. The down side is there is a hole in the sidewall of the tire and it's JUNK  First estimate for a replacement it  $460.00.  This beast has 8 tires!!!
 With the assistance of my Diesel generator I used my air compressor to break loose most of the seats from the tracks with my butterfly impact wrench.  The generator will be moved into the AC condenser bay in the final build.  Today it heated the coach with a ceramic heater and powered not only the air compressor but my charger for my battery drill. for ~2hrs of run time it only used ~1gal of diesel.  It will probably use more under full load. I was amazed at how quiet it was just sitting in the basement not in a quiet box.

Seats and OIl leaks.

After two hours working on "The Last Resort"
I have all but one seat loose.
 It seems like there is a lot more room when the seats are racked along the walls.


 I pulled up the covers under and in front of where the rear seat was and found some oil leaks.
 This is a view of the supercharger coupling I need to clean it up to find where the oil is coming from.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Progress today

I started making some sense out of this tangled mess of wiring and weeding out some of the circuits.
I think I may have found the problem with my speedo.  I found a pushed connector in one of the junction blocks in the wire run to the wheel pickup.
 I would take it out to test it except I still have this to contend with!!!
Yesterday I received my new torque multiplier. Three planetary gears stacked on each other claiming to have "TONS" of force. All I can get it to do is Crack each one of the lugs then heat generated by the movement locks the nut on the stud again.  They will come off eventually but LOTS of work will be required. The good news is that a new Harbor Freight store will be opening soon in Fayetteville and I will be able to buy a air/hydraulic low profile jack to put under this thing.



I fired up my generator and used the 115 volts to run a pancake air compressor to power a impact gun and get some of those filthy seats loose from the mountings

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Introductions

Yesterday I took my Brother and his wife to meet "The Last Resort"  Susan had a fun time playing Ralph Cramdon at the wheel both think it's neat but a lot of work and yes it is. My sister in law Dawn had fun as well but was the only one to get a picture behind the wheel.