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Magna hooked to tow truck

Yahoo Message Number: 91635
We were driving north on Interstate 5 near Wilsonville Oregon when we passed a tan late model Magna heading north hooked to a tow truck from Salem Oregon.
Did this belong to anyone on the board? I hope it is not anything serious.

Norm

2004 Intrigue #11773

Re: Magna hooked to tow truck

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Yahoo Message Number: 91650
It wasn't us, but.......

Tuesday, October 1, at 14 miles Northeast of Madras Oregon, after an 8-mile 6% decent, the Silverleaf monitor on our coach began its over-heating alert. The radiator heat was at 230. We immediately moved over to a small pull-off barely enough room for our coach and shut down the engine.
At first Jim thought it might be the serpentine belt that had broken but when he lifted the back engine cover he could see coolant and knew it was much more serious.
Long story short, even though we were in the middle of nowhere with the R2 ranch (one of the biggest in Oregon) on both sides of the road, I actually had two bars on my cell and was able to call Coach Net, our roadside service. They called Consolidated Towing of Bend and in a couple of hours this huge orange tow truck capable of towing 54,000 pounds showed up and two guys began the towing process.
In our on-board file, we had an FMCA magazine article titled: "what questions to ask when you are about to be towed"? and proceeded to ask Russell Mahaney, Supervisor from Consolidated, and his mate Danny, these questions. They were delighted to answer them and said: "As we go through we will tell you everything we are doing. We do all those things and more"?. It was a front-end lift tow that cradled the tires. The whole hooking up process took about an hour. They charge $300 an hour and the total tow was four hours. Thank goodness our Coach Net Emergency Service covers towing!
They towed us about 40 miles to Pape Kenworth in Redmond, where we plugged into 50 amp electricity and spent the night on the West side of the building just a stone's throw from an active railroad track with at least a 1/2 dozen active trains during the night. Of course, 1/2 block away was a crossing so the train began honking a block before us and continued a block past us. All of our wonderful memories of the Junction City "Camp Country Coach"? immediately came flooding back.
We pushed out our slides and I prepared dinner as I had been cooking beef stew in my little crockpot since we had left Boardman that morning. The temperature really kept dropping. It was about 30 degrees but we were warm and toasty in the coach.
At 8 a.m., Larret O'Neal, the Pape Kenworth Service Supervisor, was at our coach and they began working on it. The diagnosis was a blown coolant line.
It could have been much worse. We had cell service, Coach Net was very accommodating and kept us informed, Consolidated Towing sent their most senior technicians, Russell Mahaney, who had been towing RVs for 20 years, Pape Kenworth offered us a waiting room like no other I have ever seen: huge TV with over 500 channels, hot showers, full-sized washer and dryer, microware and fast internet. We could have set up camp and lived there for weeks but they had us back on the road by noon.
It was an interesting experience and we lived through it thanks to a lot of good helpers. After 17 years of RVing, it probably was our turn.

Shirley O'Brien Allure 470 #31290

Re: Magna hooked to tow truck

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Yahoo Message Number: 91653
Glad it wasn't more serious than that. A few months ago, we were in the mountains of NC headed to Mama Gertie's RV Park (beautiful!). Our engine light came on but the temperature wasn't high (yet). We were 3 miles from the campground so we slowed down and limped in. Ours was a blown hose also. We lost 8 gallons of ES Compleat coolant (liquid gold! ). Lonny went to a truck repair shop and bought a new hose and put it on. We had a problem locating enough ES Compleat replacement and had to drive to another major town to get enough. This trip when we left Florida, we stopped at Cummins Coach Care in Ocala and had them replace all the other hoses.
Lonny & Diane Livingston
'04 Allure #31065

Re: Magna hooked to tow truck

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Yahoo Message Number: 91659
Hi, my name is John Sturges. I am an owner of a CC 2003 Allure 30951.
I was able to use this forum for quiet awhile, and then I stopped receiving emails.
I'm only able to receive email from: sdlivingston48@....
Can someone tell me what's going on? I've changed the setup in the yahoo Group, and still no emails. Any help out there? Thanks John Sturges

Re: Magna hooked to tow truck

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Yahoo Message Number: 91667
When you say you changed the setup what did you do? The options are individual emails, daily summary or none.
Also verify your correct email is set at Yahoo.

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sdlivingston48@... wrote:

see John's message. Can anyone assist? thanks Diane
 

Re: Magna hooked to tow truck

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Yahoo Message Number: 91670
About 40 miles out of Portland on I-5 in one of the worst rain storms that I have been in, down to 35mph heavy rain and fog my coach started to miss thinking it may be fuel filters it would not go over 1000rpm so I changed both filters but it did not change. Thinking it may be an injector or 2 I called Good Sam they sent out a tow truck, there in about 30min. Just before he got there I checked the oil and it looked good BUT out of the corner of my eye I seen the air filter indicator gauge in a full yellow. We pulled the filter cover and we got a bath, it was full of water. He called Cat, no filter in stock then he called Napa they had one so he dispatched another driver to pick it up $87.44 installed it and it ran just fine. With 2+ inch of rain on the freeway I think a semi went by and drowned the side of my coach filling the air intake that is 4'3" off the ground, I would have been OK if the intake was on the crub side. Trying to get off I-5 in a safe place sometimes is hard to do.
This is the first time I have ever had to use Good Sam in 9 years they are great in my book and B.C. Towing out of Salem, Or are great.
Floyd 2006 Inspire 51744