There are 2 solar panels on the roof and they seem to have kept the house batteries topped off. They were also replaced 4 months ago. The night we picked it up we spent 2 hours trying to start the beast. I had just started it 2 weeks earlier and it started up in under 5 seconds of cranking. We drained the house batteries pretty bad that night, but they kept doing their job for 2 hours. (That wasn't continuous cranking, 10-15 second cranks every few minutes). We finally got it started after pressing the air purge button on the fuel system. I assumed it was for the air suspension, but apparently there was one for the fuel and since then it starts in 3-5 seconds of cranking. As we were getting ready to leave we realized how badly rotted one of the front tires was and limped it over to a truck tire place. Ended up having to replace both steer tires. The 4 in the rear are all in decent shape, but the 2 front ones didn't age well. So that cost me $588 for both before I had even got to drive the thing...
Once started I had power at the dash, to the computer, etc, so I'm pretty sure the alternator is still good. But yeah, I do intend to replace the chassis batteries as quick as I can.
I'm waiting for the police to get me a copy of the receipt for the batteries so I can return them.
I have not run the water from the pump, so far just city pressure. When I checked last night the pump wasn't even hooked up, I'm guessing from when it was winterized, so we hooked it back up, When I hooked up city pressure I did turn the knob for the fill valve to figure out which way was which and I could hear it filling the tank but I only left it in that position for a few seconds, so I will need to fill it some more.
All of the low point drains seem to be off, because I turned each one to figure out what it was and saw water shoot out the bottom of the coach and turned them back off.
It appears the previous owners tried to hook up some sort of water filter because in the box where the ice maker hookup is, it's just hanging loose not attached, and there are no pipes of the correct diameter for it to hook to. There is also some blue pipe that matches the picture on the box for the filter, but the filter itself isn't hooked up, it's still in the box. So for now I don't have it hooked up. However while we were hooking up the pump, the output side of the pump tee's and I accidently bumped the filter pipe and it loosened it enough that it started to leak water, I quickly ran over and turned off city pressure, but this line sprayed for several minutes, and here's the weird part, the last few gallons of water that came out were very hot. So it appears the aquahot is producing hot water, but again it's never reaching any of the fixtures.
We found a shutoff valve on the passenger side, approx directly across from the aquahot, no other water pipes in the area, just a single shut off knob. We turned it approx 180 degrees and went inside to test the hot water, still nothing. Anyone know what this valve is for? It didn't seem to make any difference, and was extremely hard to turn, we were scared of it breaking.
I will try to get some pictures of the plumbing/pump bay so you can see what I mean about no place for the ice maker to hookup.
Another question, has anyone ever had the washer/dryer combo serviced? Ours is acting like there is a belt not connected, the drum never turns, but it goes thru the rest of the cycles. Just curious if this will be an expensive repair or not.
Thanks,
Tim & Ann Schafer