Pulled into rv park in Island Park, ID and found that the hyd oil cooler was leaking, got the coach parked and checked it out. Two years ago when the POS Goodyear tag axle tire blew the rubber slapped the bottom of the sheet metal and bent the bottom row on the cooler so I figured that was where the oil was seeping out. First off started calling around to see if I could find a shop that can weld aluminum, found one 93 miles away in Idaho Falls, (First Street Welding) called them up and they said bring her in, Ok remove the cooler head to the shop, we put the cooler on the welding table pressurized it with air and could not find any leak anywhere, they didn't have but 120 psi air pressure. So I fugured the only was to find this seep was back 93 miles to the coach re-install loosely so it would stand out from the rad so I could see the back side, fire up the coach and found the leak about 6 rows up backside in the front end. Scribed real good where the oil was seeping out, remove, back to the shop and showed Shane where the leak was. He ran a beautiful bead about 8" long down that side we also took a real good look and the rest of the welding on the cooler. When this cooler was welded up they had some undercutting on the ends of the tubes and that one finally let go. Oh and they only charged me $43 I told them they were too cheap.
Back to the coach re-install again, start her up and no leak, dry as a bone, we're not down in Alpine, Wy and all is good.
I can just imagine what the drill would have been like it they were not able to weld up the cooler.
If you're anywhere around Idaho Falls, ID and need some welding done you couldn't go wrong with First Street Welding and Fab.
