07-24-2018, 12:50 PM
Shortly before the last No Rally Rally, I pulled the release to my 20k Kohler to check fluids. Lo and behold, when I came around the front of the coach, the gen was dangling out the front with the fiberglass cover 6 inches off the concrete. The only thing that stopped it from hitting the ground was the fully extended ram and as it tilted, the back of the valve cover hit the roof of the enclosure. Creslie at Newell said this has never happened before, so leave it to me to be the example.
The gen is mounted by four motor mounts to it's frame, the frame slides out along heavy duty rollers on it's carriage attached to the air powered ram on my "97 #458.
The four carriage mounts had all disintegrated and nothing was holding the whole assembly in it's housing but it's weight. As I extended the gen out, once it reached over center, out it came. The hard part was trying to stab the exhaust pipe back into the larger pipe that let's it telescope with the ram coming in or out. After days of trying, with a tractor, forklift, jacks, meditation, lack of anger management etc, I went inside and called Forest to tell him I was giving up and not coming to the rally. He talked me off the cliff and after a stint inside in the a/c, I figured I'd give it one more try. I then pulled the exhaust off the Kohler and found why I couldn't get the pipes to mesh. The end had bent as it was coming out of the pipe, as the gen was falling out. After reshaping the pipe and cleaning it, I coated it in anti-sieze. It was smooth sailing after that.
The mount is a Lord 283P250.
It is in their catalog as a Plateform heavy duty vibration isolator.
Astrotex in Plano, TX carries the part. 972-424-8707. Price is $44 each x 4
The gen is mounted by four motor mounts to it's frame, the frame slides out along heavy duty rollers on it's carriage attached to the air powered ram on my "97 #458.
The four carriage mounts had all disintegrated and nothing was holding the whole assembly in it's housing but it's weight. As I extended the gen out, once it reached over center, out it came. The hard part was trying to stab the exhaust pipe back into the larger pipe that let's it telescope with the ram coming in or out. After days of trying, with a tractor, forklift, jacks, meditation, lack of anger management etc, I went inside and called Forest to tell him I was giving up and not coming to the rally. He talked me off the cliff and after a stint inside in the a/c, I figured I'd give it one more try. I then pulled the exhaust off the Kohler and found why I couldn't get the pipes to mesh. The end had bent as it was coming out of the pipe, as the gen was falling out. After reshaping the pipe and cleaning it, I coated it in anti-sieze. It was smooth sailing after that.
The mount is a Lord 283P250.
It is in their catalog as a Plateform heavy duty vibration isolator.
Astrotex in Plano, TX carries the part. 972-424-8707. Price is $44 each x 4
Steve Magown
Calhoun, LA
2001 Prevost H3 Vantare
formerly Newell #458