| Somewhat perplexed, non-understanding 
					AMEN!!! Wallace Craig 
"Ralph L. Fullenwider"  wrote: Good morning everyone:
 Charolette and I are just back in from a nice 9 day camping spree on the
 Blue River trout stream, one of several in Oklahoma, but was almost totally
 out of touch as it is a cell phone and Internet dead area.
 
 I get a little confused some times with some of the threads on the Forum. I
 some times wonder why someone would take a good high line Motor Coach and
 turn it into junk. I mean it is ok with the SOB's perhaps, they are not
 going to live longer than 10 years, as a rule of thumb anyway. But to just
 change a well designed and engineered system because a little work in
 finding the parts or simply removing a
 part, clean and lube it and re
 install for another 20 year working period, I just don't get it.
 
 Yes, I do understand a part being obsolete, thus a change needing to be
 made by finding another part type that will work with the orig. system,
 thus keeping the Coach engineered integrity in tact! So many safety systems
 are by passed or removed that were designed into a system to save a Family
 from being blown up because of live steam in a hot water system or an LP
 system safety by passed as a permanent fix because a sensor goes bad on a
 board some where.
 
 The 3 way valve at the bottom of the water heater has a purpose, there was
 not a by-pass winterizing system added by the Factory because the Bird does
 not need it, that is what the built in designed air blow out system is for.
 If one follows the manual, which someone took the time at the Factory to
 put together for we owners, most of the systems in these beautiful
 Coaches
 make sense and are understandable.
 
 Then I also wonder if changes that are made are documented for the next guy
 who has the Coach because he is going to be like so many on this Forum has
 been, asking questions like "how does this or that system work?" "where do
 I get the parts or find the parts to up grand or bring it back to
 original?" Sound familiar?
 
 Yes I am venting in a way, but it is a venting from simply trying to
 understand how a professed top of the line Motor Coach, have the very
 systems that made it "Top of the Line" in the first place, simply torn out,
 by passed, do for, second best type of work done on them, can be documented
 and or professed as to being "the way to go" unless you have sat down with
 design engineers and designed the system or at the very least, taken the
 time to go through the documented diagrams, sat down to fully understand
 the system in question to the point that you can
 write a "sequence of
 operation" for that system.
 
 Come on guys if it is worth doing at all, then it is worth doing right the
 first time.
 
 Safe travels,
 
 Ralph and Charolette Fullenwider
 84FC35 "Ruff Diamond"
 Duncan, Oklahoma
 
 
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 Wallace Craig 95 WLWB 42 Azle, Texas 
				
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