A couple of years ago Ron Ruward found his muffler hangars shot and warned us all to check ours which I did and they were fine. I'll add another item to the exhaust list, take a screw driver and check the integrity of any stainless flexpipe that was used on your exhaust!
I pulled into the Campground here at Frisco, NC after a fairly short 60 mile drive down the Outer Banks at slow speeds and frequent stops. When I got out of the m/h (2001 National Tradewinds LTC) the air smelled like a smouldering campfire was going. The smell was the embedded wood used in molding our rear cap out of composite material. The flex pipe failed about six inches in from the attachment to the chrome cap used to extend through the motorhome body and pumped heat onto the rear shell long enough to burn away some of the wood and singe the paint on the exterior of the cap. The entire pipe was shot; in fact I am wondering if it was stainless or just galvanized flex pipe. The new is stainless and will be checked religiously!
I don't like to dwell on what might have happened if I had been on a longer pull at steady highway speeds when this happened. ???
I pulled into the Campground here at Frisco, NC after a fairly short 60 mile drive down the Outer Banks at slow speeds and frequent stops. When I got out of the m/h (2001 National Tradewinds LTC) the air smelled like a smouldering campfire was going. The smell was the embedded wood used in molding our rear cap out of composite material. The flex pipe failed about six inches in from the attachment to the chrome cap used to extend through the motorhome body and pumped heat onto the rear shell long enough to burn away some of the wood and singe the paint on the exterior of the cap. The entire pipe was shot; in fact I am wondering if it was stainless or just galvanized flex pipe. The new is stainless and will be checked religiously!
I don't like to dwell on what might have happened if I had been on a longer pull at steady highway speeds when this happened. ???