jleamont

tlkFMCA, Welcome to the FMCA forums! What supplemental brake system are you using on your CMAX?

Agreed! Not going to get much quicker than air power from the coach directly into the Toad. I love the system because its fully proportional and ITS SIMPLE. We have enough things that can go wrong with our coaches, just look at the "Electrical" page on the forums. The M&G system just works with no electronic computers and its cost effective! https://m-gengineering.com/

Josh2000, Welcome to the FMCA Forums! You described exactly what I had experienced and the very reasons we would never consider it. I always cherry pick my site, could be the view or it could be out of the bathhouse path so people don’t have a need or desire to cut through our site.

Our Monaco product had a problem with an outlet not working, bad outlet. The wires crimp into the back of the outlet and when you snap the back cover on it pierced the wires. It appeared that it was never seated properly and disconnected. I replaced that outlet, local RV dealer had it and it was less than $5.00

Richard, when I worked in the automobile business we used one of these to remove cigarette smoke from interiors after a good cleaning. Look locally you might locate a rental place; https://www.odorfreemachines.com/ozone-generator-rental/

Wow, that really could have been much worse! Glad it ended up being not so serious, more of a nuisance.

Herman, this is the type we have:

Smitty, thanks for the advise. We have the Roadmaster "S" series chassis, pre wax valve era Cummins ISL. I have the FASS pump and a few other modifications on it as well.

Probably. Most require donuts or screw in type hoses. I've only ever had the screw in type and I don't believe I have run across a CG that wasn't threaded. I also carry "Sewer Weights" that hang over the elbow to hold it down should it not be threaded.

Smitty, that was a very detailed and excellent response. You now struck my curiosity on the overall quality of the Road King shocks. Koni was another consideration that has crossed my mind but you are the first person to recommend Road King. Have you stumbled upon anyone recommending shocks for Roadmaster Chassis (8 air bag) or know of someone that installed a specific brand over another? Ours are the original Bilsteins, and by the feel from the last trip its about time to replace them.

1, Tires would warm up and the pressures would rise (normal). When we would stop for the day I would get 10 Pressure loss alarms over the next hour as the tires were cooling back to their cold pressure. 2, the system would turn on automatically when it sensed vibration the coach. If you walked towards the front it would come on with an obnoxious beep and the screen would illuminate. You could hear it over the AC, it would wake up the kids (they sleep up front). This would also happen every time one of the dogs would hop off of a sofa, our biggest dog is 12 lbs. 3, false alarms while driving. I would get low psi alarms, pull over thinking I had a problem only to find out there was no low pressure concern. I would have to reset the unit, on the side of the road. I spoke to their customer service and was advised My tires were cooling too fast which was the root cause of my problems. Poor guy at EEZ Tire, I grilled him over the phone and went through all of my scenarios that drove us nuts. He assured me that tires naturally increase pressure as the become hotter and they understand that process, which I already knew. He was so confident in their system he gave me his personal cell phone number. He told me if their system ever acted that ridiculous to call him no matter when and if they couldn’t fix it over the phone immediately they would refund 100% of my money including shipping. We hung up and I called him back right after they closed for the day just to make sure his number was real and he wasn’t pulling my leg. He answered the phone I thanked him and the rest was history. He thought that was funny and sent me extra batteries no charge. Thats customer service!

We run EEZ Tire. It’s my 3rd system and aside from Pressure Pro it works flawlessly. I also doesn’t need a repeater even to receive signal from the Toad. https://eezrvproducts.com/ I had Tire Minder after Pressure Pro (sold it with the last coach) and I had a terrible experience with Tire Minder. I have heard TST is another good one. After a lengthy interview with the folks at EEZ Tire I was so impressed by their designs and common sense built into the unit I splurged and bought it. I would have purchased another Pressure Pro but the batteries are not replaceable in the sensors and that was a turn off.

Now that’s a great idea!

Glad to hear all has been fixed

I sent mine in 2x got it back and it worked on 1/2 of the following trip. The more times we have used it since the worse it gets. I gave up and filed a complaint with BBB. Terrible company and worse customer service. Hopefully your experience turns out better than mine. I now use it as a digital map to see what’s ahead, it’s useless for anything else.

This shop is local to the area and I have camped with the owner, nice people. http://www.mechanicsplus.biz/ I am sure they could get you squared away.

Have you tried it in this order: 1.step on the service brake 2. release the parking brake 3. then shift into D? Does it stay on after you begin to move? My alarm sounds if I do it out of the above order, It does silence after a few seconds but it sure gets your attention.

The maintenance men here were telling me all of the horror stories of what they have pulled out of the sewers here over the years. Rolled up diapers, dog waste bags, baby wipes, my favorite was a guy without a 90 degree end on his hose, he had 12’ in the ground that blocked everyone up stream.

I never read that but was told by the selling dealer on both coaches NEVER leave them open. The only time I ever did it was when washing clothes back when we had a washer/dryer.

No but it sure put a damper on my AM coffee under the awning . I could identify the pungent odor, couldn’t, didn’t care to get up from my chair until I saw the stream running down the road behind the coach.

Keep your valves closed until you need to dump, Why? The campground sewer backed up, our valves were closed and it came up our hose and stopped! luckily I have heard of this happening before and saw a mess a few years ago when sewage filled the gray tank on a camper and went into their tub. And another situation when a snake went up someone’s hose and into their gray tank. Needless to say I only open our valves when the tanks are close to full and that practice saved me one heck of a mess! The campground unhooked my hose and put this cap on. The last photo is what came out down stream.

Craig, way to go!! Keep us posted.

Craig, it sounds like your back and gray tanks share a vent pipe. Our last Motorhome was set up this way and I had the same issue as you. I opened an access panel to fix a leak and noticed that the factory never glued my vent, they were just press fitted and one had vibrated loose. Richard posted a link above for a tool that would probably help you locate where the are connections in the wall and it sounds like you will need to do some investigating.