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Hurricane radiator repair

Yahoo Message Number: 56509
I think I have perhaps an extremely small pinhole leak in one of my Burricane radiator assemlies inside the coach since I can smell a very slight coolant odor when it is running. Can a radiator shop repair this?

Rich 2002 Magna

Re: Hurricane radiator repair

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Yahoo Message Number: 56518
I thought the same thing, and found the one in the bedroom just needed the hose clamp tightened a little. Hope it is no more difficult to fix yours.

Jack Nichols 2003 Intrigue

Re: Hurricane radiator repair

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Yahoo Message Number: 56524
Rich is the ordor near the bathroom or on the carpet opposite the bathroom wall. If so there is a junction under the bathroom sink?. Herb helped me out let me know and I will give you the details.

Jim Spivey

Re: Hurricane radiator repair

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Yahoo Message Number: 56527
Jim: The very slight odor is coming out of the blower vents in the kitchen/galley unit when it is on. There is no carpet in the kitchen or the bathroom in this coach. No smell from the bathroom Hurricane unit. Itightened the clamps already. No visible external leakage at all. It is in the warm air when it blows so I think it is in the core.

Rich 2002 Magna

Re: Hurricane radiator repair

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Yahoo Message Number: 56530
Rich, does the odor have a sweet smell,I had an 01 Magna that all the hoses were replaced, to a better Gates hose.I could not find any leaks, but the hose allowed the smell to get into the air.

Ray G

03 Magna 6267

Re: Hurricane radiator repair

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Yahoo Message Number: 56540
the hoses on our CC's emit an odor of antifreeze into the coach when the Hurricane furness runs, they used too good of hose( green hose). it can be changed for a lesser quality(black) hose that won't emit the odor . i had it done & no more odor. bob h. '02 Magna 6028

Re: Hurricane radiator repair

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Yahoo Message Number: 56564
Yes, it has that sweet antifreeze smell. I have these green hoses. They seem to be very high quality. I doubt it is the hoses on mine since those hoses are all over the place and the only odor is in that one area and it is only when that blower is running. Egads, replacing all those hoses must have been a huge job since many are buried much of the way.

Rich 2002 Magna

Rich 2002 Magna

Re: Green Hoses and Hurricane radiator repair

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Yahoo Message Number: 56575
The green hose is very problematic. It is what is called an inherent problem. We all have 100 feet of green hose throughout our coaches. Mine emits a rubber smell over 150 degrees (f). But before the fall of CC, Chris in Tech told me several owners complained of anti freeze smell.
I even get the odor through my fresh air inlet in front because they routed the hoses right underneath it.
The manufacturer of these hoses Flex Fab claims that their hoses are odorless and tastless. This is not what we are encountering.
Country Coach estimated that it would cost $5K to replace. Sounds like a big job. I am considering replacing the hydronic system as well because CC put it in the storage area under the bedroom and it keeps me up at night when it comes on.

Hurricaine recommends 2 things that CC disregarded when installing:

1. That the hydronic and engine coolant be separate
2. That the furnace be installed away from the bedroom.

FlexFab's quality assurance manager, Bob Haines tried to tell me that the Extended Life Coolant used was breaking down the hoses. Well, these hoses were purchased for this particular purpose and their engineering staff should have been aware of any problem.
I am new to this group and didn't know that maintaining a used 2000 Country Coach Magna would be full time job. I would have been better off if I had found you 2 years ago.
I would like to know how many other's have this problem; then maybe we could collective bargain and find a reasonable solution.
CC did recommend a Gates Blue stripe hose and they told me that it wouldn't outgas. I have a contact at a gates distributor that will supply us the hose at wholesale.
One of the things you might inspect is the connection to the water heater. Here, they run all the hydronic hoses hot while the coach is traveling to make us 10 cents worth of hot water. We spend several dollars cooling the unit. The pipe coming off the hot water heater is 1/2 inch and the hose is 3/4 inch. A coach owner from Baltimore alerted me to this at a Flying J in Winchester, Va. He said his was leaking and was able to put some 1/2 to 3/4 adapters on it.
I got no reply from FlexFab as to this problem so I called Mr. Haynes and he basically blew me off and said it CC's problem. I have a letter going to their CEO. They tout their products as having no odor, no taste and a life time warranty.
Will keep you posted. My email jon@... and I would like to know how many other are affected by this.
One of the things we can do is install shut off valves at the source (engine). I have checked with Caterpillar and they see no problem. But they say we must put 2 valves in. One at the output and one at the input. This will eliminate something called cavitation which is a problem in the engine.
Hurricaine or ITR has been very helpful. Their tech support staff is very good. I have repaired mine and it is very simple. But it's not fun when it is 15 degrees outside and it quits. One of the things that goes south on it is a compressor. It stops and blows a fuse. Try connecting (the compressor) up directly to a battery and see if it runs. Then reinstall it.
In the '90s hard drives used to have a similar problem, we called it stickshun. In this case the brushes probably make a small weld to to the rotor and stick the motor. A large amount of current will probably break the weld.

Jon Baum