Today our home on wheels is getting fixed! I mentioned the Warning Light a few days ago, well on Monday the people at the local Cummins Authorized Repair Facility hooked us up to the computer to find out what the light meant. 3 hours later, they determined that the fault code 0278 - “lack of power” was an electrical problem with the Lift Pump in the fuel system. Of course, no part in stock here. A new Lift Pump was ordered from Cummins Rocky Mountain in Salt Lake City Utah. The pump came in yesterday and they are replacing it today.
Looks like it isn’t an easy job to do - we have two techs inside and one outside in the engine compartment! Only one fits under the bed at a time - looks a little cramped! Just a bit of trivia we learned the other day - the software to diagnose our ISC engine costs the facility $2000 and the little black box that is between the computer and the Coach costs them $1500 (which has to be replaced each year even if the software is current!). This repair facility - Alpine S.O.S./H&H Diesel - usually works on big trucks not motor homes, so I would guess they see maybe two or three Coaches a year. That makes the diagnosis equipment very expensive! We are hoping that we are not the “chosen” to pay for it this year!!!
The new Lift Pump (the shiny piece in the dirty engine compartment) is in place and the Warning Light is gone! They hooked the computer back up and verified that the warning was now inactive. After clearing the fault, we proceeded inside to get the anticipated shock. Not nearly as bad as we figured, but still a shock. The pump cost about $349, the freight was about $7, Misc shop supplies was about $12 and the “connection to the computer” was about $400! No charge for actual labor. All in all we are just pleased that the warning light is gone and we have a clean bill of health and can now hit the road when ever the spirit moves us! The “Cummins Guru” immediately took the old pump apart to see what the failure really was. He told us that they saw lots of stuff happening when the diesel went to the Ultra-low sulfer kind. He showed us that this pump was failing because one of the internal components was bent causing the electrical circuit to report to the ECM that there was a problem getting ready to happen. This fully electronic stuff is great! I can only imagine how much work it would have taken to discover the problem without the computers. I guess we would have to be out of commission along side the road somewhere before we would have even had a clue.
All is well now and we can proceed making our plans to head South.
1 comment:
Had you and Andy done a better job finding opals a few days before you could have paid for the repairs with your finds. We had about the same luck gold panning
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