Our time finally came a close here at Red Bay, Alabama. They finished up with our cap rails and the next day they were painted causing us to spend one last night before heading on down the road. They did a great job on the cap rails and the paint job was exceptional as the colors match nearly perfectly. We will miss our new friends Greg and Chris but we traded contact information while vowing to stay in touch.
The next morning we planned to leave Tiffin Motorhomes however our front A/C unit decided to quit working. We couldn't believe it as we were more than ready to hit the road.. I read about our Coleman A/C and pretty much surmised it was either the start capacitor of the blower motor and after watching a UTube video on each I figured I could handle this task. But before doing so I sauntered over to the Tiffin maintence bays and consulted with a technician who told me a few tricks to getting the motor out.
Off to the Tiffin store I first bought a start capacitor and installed it after cutting power to the A/C unit. I tried to start the A/C but got nothing but the same hum. Back on top of the roof I took out the motor and went back into the Tiffin store. where I bought a blower motor and a squirrel cage. I needed the squirrel cage since mine was cracked which I noticed after I took out the motor. After about 1.5 hours of putting all back together we were in luck and the A/C worked perfectly.
We had a good stay here in Red Bay and had some great work done by the technicians and I was able to repair lots of things on my own with the Tiffin parts store onsite . One funny story I forgot to share was when I was in a welding bay having a frame weld repaired. After repairing the weld the tech told me I was done and could pull my slides back in. As I began the retraction of the slides I head the tech yell for me to stop!I thought he left something under the bay but then I saw another tech come out from under the slide and he looked up at me and said “You about squashed me skinny!” We all shared a good laugh over that.
Once the air conditioner was working, we packed up our RV and drove over to the Tiffin wash bay since we really needed to wash the RV and towed before departing. Another hour passed and with a clean RV and car we finally left Red Bay after 10 days . We drove a whopping 35 miles northeast where we pulled into Tuscumbia, Alabama. We plan to spend three nights to explore this area ...
P.S. Of course it rained in the middle of the night after washing our vehicles but the good news is that the rain heralded a cold front which brought temperatures down from the 90's to the high 70's and that was a welcome relief!
Glad you are all fixed up for a while
ReplyDeleteI sure hope this next county is NOT another dry county!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the cold front. We're sweltering here in Tampa, waiting until we can head back up to our mountains and the cool weather.
Repairs are par for the course. If we hadn't bought the Alfa we probably would be driving a Tiffin and have our times in Red Bay too.
ReplyDeleteIf your air conditioner is going to guit, you were in a good spot for it:) Glad you were able to fix it yourself. Air conditioning is a must with the weather here. Boy, that storm really helped break the humidity. We were finally able to sit outside last night for the first time in weeks. We are presently in Memphis and heading to Atlanta tomorrow. Where are you two heading this summer? We are moving up to PA after our Atlanta stop to see our son.
ReplyDeletewe still don't have any firm plans past Juky 4th when we will be just east of Nashville, do plan on going further north and east so will keep in touch if we get near each other...
DeleteSounds like a plan! Our blog is usually up to date. We should arrive in PA around the 13th of July. We will be leaving the MH there and just taking the car to my mother's in northern NY on the St. Lawrence River We will then come back to York, PA for another couple weeks before heading back west arounf the middle of August. Hope we get a chance to connect:)
DeleteSounds like a plan! Our blog is usually up to date. We should arrive in PA around the 13th of July. We will be leaving the MH there and just taking the car to my mother's in northern NY on the St. Lawrence River We will then come back to York, PA for another couple weeks before heading back west arounf the middle of August. Hope we get a chance to connect:)
DeleteI hope the repairs left you with a few dollars in you pocket for the next brew pub!
ReplyDeletejust barely Croft, just barely...
DeleteJohn, we ALWAYS have dollars for beer. To hell with everything else!
DeleteGotta have money for beer if nothing else!
DeleteWell I'm very impressed with your AC work. That's a whole lot more complicated than our refrig burner replacement. Hope you won't see Red Bay again for a while. Very nice drop in temperatures. Seems amazing for Alabama.
ReplyDeleteMy front AC is about shot too.... And I'm sure my cap rails are gone as well.... Like a batch of cookies, they are all burned when one is burned......
ReplyDeleteYou might want ot get by red bay before 10 years is up as Wade Humphres will okay a replacement of the rails for free if you have them done here... have someone crawl up on the roof and check them out...
DeleteNice to see that all is good and working, now to some worry free travelling, enjoy !
ReplyDeleteWe always got great service there. Doing the self-guided tour of the paint shop is a real treat.
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