casualemt
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Hi all, I have been dealing with lots of heat an smell in the bedroom on my 2005 Journey for over a year. To recap, our first trip of 5000 miles, heat and stink, cleared up after a few minutes parked.. Prepping for our trip this year, I discovered the engine cover was on upside down, and the insulation was on the gasket for the engine cover, also discovered the tail pipe was rusted through, thought I had solved the problem..nope! 2200 mi into our trip this year, I had another problem... We parked the Journey at our destination, and I kicked on the generator to run the AC, and the transfer switch wouldn't kick on. After running the genset for about 5 minutes, the switch finally tripped, after that I had no problem with it. A few days later after getting the power hooked up, I pulled the cover on the switch to see if there was a problem with it. I immediately saw that the inside of the box looked like it had gotten very hot, and the painted sheet metal the box was mounted on was showing signs of being burned. I looked under the RV behind where the box was mounted, looked burned also. I discovered the exhaust pipe coming from the turbo where it turned 90 degrees was completely rotted out with a huge hole dumping hot exhaust right on the area behind the transfer switch, which is under the rear bed!! I ended up removing the exhaust system, I was able to find a replacement pipe at the local Freightliner shop, which was awesome. Put it all back together, and now have about 1000 miles on it, viola! No more heat, no more stink! I am thrilled!
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