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| Gary Stadler (Boogiethecat) (68.7.217.217)
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Just got back from a 1500 mile trip with the Crown... quite a nice trip, but had a couple fun things happen... Glad I had my tools... (1) halfway into the day the throttle stuck wide open... it was only a couple of bushings that needed grease (Geex I KNOW I greased them a few months back...) so having a grease gun onboard was handy. (2) The second fun one necessitates me giving a bit o'warning to anyone with a Crown who bought a new windshield from WestCoast Coach... the ones they stock are about a quarter of an inch smaller in all directions from the originals, if you have an older Crown. They "say" it will work fine.... yup for 5000 miles mine worked jes' fine. But today I was driving at 75 MPH, directly into 35 MPH headwinds. At one point my wife decided to hop out of the passenger seat and lay down on the couch. At about exactly that time, a lot more air started blowing on my head, and I wrote it off to the fact that her window was slightly opened and she had just moved, so new airflows were afoot. A few minutes later I started to thinking that it was a lot noisier than I remembered, and colder too. Then as I started looking around, I saw to my surprise that MY windshield had pushed in almost an inch at the top, totally away from the gasket, and there was a hand-sized gap up there!! No surprise now, where the noise was coming from!! So I slowed down and took the next offramp, pushed the glass out and got it back in it's gasket, and screwed a couple angle brackets in so it will NOT happen again. So much for the smaller windshield "working fine".... (3)Oh yeah, the third one... I have a bulkhead installed about 1/3 of the way back to isolate my driving space from the ever-so noisy midsection of the bus (because it's mid engine...) This trip was the first trip that had a combination of a new and fancy bulkhead door, along with all my new cabinetry in the midsection. I hadn't even gotten out of my driveway, and realized that the door was gonna be a rattler, because I had been a little generous on the latch clearance. So I pulled over about a half block from my house, stopped, and opened the door to figure out how to shut it up. But it didn't open. Huh?... Oops.... I guess I forgot to latch the cabinet drawer that lives just behind the door, the drawer slid out and totally blocked the door from opening!!! Ugh... now what... standing here like an idiot, wife giggling her brains out 'cause genius hubby just did a REALLY stupid thing....  So it was the first test to see if I could crawl out my drivers' window, and fortunately I'm not too fat to do it... Got out, shut and LATCHED the drawer, fixed my door rattle and went on to a nice trip. Wife won't let me forget what a dumb design I did with the drawer... When we got to our destination I screwed a big eyebolt into the backside of the door that prohibits the drawer from ever doing that again if I forget to latch it.... duh.... fun stuff!!!! All in all a wonderful trip, no big happenstances, happy to have such a fun vehicle to drive!! Cheers Gary | ||
| Henry R. Bergman, Jr. (Henryofcj) (63.224.197.10)
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Golly Gary, you mean there are some special Crown type do-hickie grommets or something that need to be lubed on the throttle linkage of your Crown Super Coach? Oh No!!! Does this mean my throttle on my big Cam Cummins is going to stick wide open on me some time during my monthly shakedown trips? Can you possibly tell me where exactly these lube points are exactly soosssss I can get under my Crown and lube them correctly and exactly? I mean....having your throttle stick FLAT WIDE OPEN at warp factor eight (or perhaps a little bit more!) could ruin ones whole day. Yeah, having a Crown with curved front windshield glass (as compared to the other type with flat glass) can be a real pain in the rear. My front curved windshields are factory stock, but they have a few repaired pits, nicks and fogging and stuff. Wonder how $much$ it will cost.... ...to eventually have them replaced? And...now we find out that running 100 mph (75 plus 25) causes the replaced windshields to pull out of the rubber grommets? Gary, just pretend your Crown is a big race car (which it is) and reinforce the windshields with reinforcements just like you have done. As far as the kitchen cabinet door rattling and stuff, sorry, can not help you out there with free wise suggestions and such. He he he CROWNS FOREVER Henry | ||
| Gary Stadler (Boogiethecat) (68.7.217.217)
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Henry, just crawl under and follow the throttle rod from front-to-rear. Every 5 feet or so it goes thru a little mounting block, every one of which has a zerk fitting. Squirt some grease into every one and you won't have my problem... Cheers Gary |