<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Duner:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by JWatkins:
Duner, anything you can share that will enable me to find those bearings adn drop a little oil on them?
Joe </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Joe, I see you have a 2004 Adventurer. If you go thru the work to pull the unit, and you have a lot of hours on the a/c and heat pump, I think I would replace with the ball bearing version. If you were oiling the bearing every year, then there may not be much, if any, wear on the bearing. But with no oil added for 4 years, then the condition of the bearing could already be compromised.
I think there are two major contributing factors in my bearing going out sooner than others. #1, for 4 years we dry camp a lot at the sand dunes. Running the generator and a/c in 100+ temps puts that bearing in a very high ambient temperature, and heat kills things much faster. #2, we've been fulltiming for 10 months straight and have put many hours running the a/c last fall, heat pump all thru the winter, and some more a/c this spring.
I called RV Products yesterday and ordered a new blower motor $171, and squirrel cage $47, and $20 shipping. Keith in RVP service, who took my order, said the new plastic squirrel cage still uses the brass bearing (they call it a brass sleeve). He said the new motor is the same as the one used in 2004.
If you wait a couple of weeks, I will post instructions and pictures of the a/c unit removal, the brass bearings, the blower motor replacement, and the new plastic squirrel cage replacement. This is not a complicated job. It's just a pita messing with the output duct work the first time. Now that I have my ducting all re-taped, it will be real easy the next time I touch it. With the help of the neighbor, we slid the unit out on the campground picnic table seat. You pull about 20 screws on the lid, and everything is exposed. None of the electrical is touched so you can fire the unit up with the lid off and see/hear what's going on. It is a little tricky pulling out the blower assy because it is restricted by the cooling lines and you end up folding up some of the delicate alum fins on the condenser coils. I had to use a small screwdriver to bend each fin back in place – a little time consuming but you can't see any damage when it's all back together again.
In the 1000 Trails system of RV parks, a lot of folks are fulltimers. With the sudden heat here in the east coast, there were a lot of a/c units going out. When you do a project like this in the cg, everybody has to come over and see what's going on. Then they tell you about their a/c problem. I've heard a lot of stories by now. </div></BLOCKQUOTE> I hope you are still going to update with pic and inst
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