Gigi’s Log Book Chapter – 49
As I couldn't find an available spot to do my annual inspection to get the COI, anywhere in QLD but Toowoomba, (why make it compulsory and then negate the customers the chance to apply for an inspection locally even [...]
Replacing the Air Dryer
Back in December 2017, I did a pictorial of how to service/clean the Wabco Unloader Valve.. Unfortunately it didn't take long for the now perfectly working unloader valve to show me an old hidden problem... It seems that the [...]
Wabco Unloader Valve Pictorial
Wabco make several Unloader Valve for all different sort of vehicles.. Mine did start to playing up a couple of days ago, as it wasn't holding tank pressure any more, and because I couldn't find any manual or tutorial [...]
Air Filters
It has been raining a lot in the past week and the weather has turned miserable... The sky is always dark and it makes it harder to clearly see inside the coach, so I moved outside and decided to [...]
Cylinder n 6 and the Turbo
For the past couple of weeks we have been working on stage 1 of Luigi's conversion. The engine was tested for compression and cylinder n.6 turned out to be 100 PSI lower that the rest. So it had to [...]
A/C water pump
Because I'm removing the existing huge AC system out of the Coach, I thought it would have been easy to also remove the now redundant AC water pump now that both radiators were out. The current location of the [...]
The Radiator Shroud
While both radiator and Header Tank where getting fixed and repainted, I notice a crack and a hole in the radiator shroud. It was also very dirty and been painted several times in different colours. So I wanted to [...]
Exhaust Retarder
On the trip back to base I notice that the exhaust retarder was not working. It has a switch pedal at the front and an air controlled ram at the back mounted on the exhaust. I clean and checked [...]
Idler Pulley Tension Adjuster
This morning I wanted to get the pulley tension adjuster for the fan back on. Upon removing the broken bolt I realised that the thread was no good any more as rust and possibly wrong thread bold had done [...]