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11-18-2013, 07:38 PM
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1 Rivet Member 
1990 25' Excella
Florissant
, Missouri
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 7
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Hello from St Louis MO
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11-18-2013, 07:51 PM
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Site Team
1974 31' Sovereign
Ottawa
, ON
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 11,219
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Howdy and welcome to Airforums.com! We're glad to have you, and hope you find your AS experience to be A number 1 
Love the pictures! You have a beautiful coach, and I'm sure you'll love travelling in it.
As for your furnace, a common thing that happens to them is mud dauber nests.
It's a messy thing to clean up, but that might be all you need to do to the furnace.
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11-18-2013, 07:58 PM
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Moderator
2015 25' FB Flying Cloud
2012 23' FB Flying Cloud
2005 25' Safari
Santa Rosa Beach
, Florida
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 13,230
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Greetings from the Florida Panhandle
Welcome to the Forums. We're glad to have you with us. The pictures are great and so is your Airstream.
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11-18-2013, 08:37 PM
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1 Rivet Member
1990 25' Excella
Florissant
, Missouri
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 7
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Aage
Howdy and welcome to Airforums.com! We're glad to have you, and hope you find your AS experience to be A number 1
Love the pictures! You have a beautiful coach, and I'm sure you'll love travelling in it.
As for your furnace, a common thing that happens to them is mud dauber nests.
It's a messy thing to clean up, but that might be all you need to do to the furnace. |
I do believe this to be the issue possibly as I found nests other places in the outside storage but haven't took the furnace apart to inspect. How hard is it to get to the fan portion of the unit in these?
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11-19-2013, 09:47 AM
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Site Team
1974 31' Sovereign
Ottawa
, ON
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 11,219
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I'll wait for someone that has a furnace closer to yours in age.
On mine (1974 model), I would say apart from removing the lid (which was difficult because I didn't figure out the 'trick') it was not difficult.
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11-19-2013, 10:49 AM
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Rivet Puller
2003 28' Safari S/O
Atlanta Burbs
, Georgia
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 2,064
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Unless the burner jet is corroded, a good cleaning should restore the heater to working order. FYI, that is the nicest "free" trailer I've ever seen. Hopefully, your camping days will begin quickly. Welcome aboard!
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11-19-2013, 12:04 PM
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2 Rivet Member 
1998 31' Excella 1000
Bellevue
, Nebraska
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 41
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hello from St Louis
St Louis: Congrats on the wonderful gift. We purchased a 98 Excella 31 ft last spring and experienced a few of the same issues you mentioned. AC being the one that was most frustrating, and easiest to fix. In our case it was the switch on the thermostat (on-off) that was worn out or broken. It did not have the crisp click when you switched positions. The previous owner told us about it so we were prepared to get it repaired or replaced. Found out that they were no longer available except on E-bay. We did that (ebay) and it was a Good experience. We also found out that while we were plugged into shore power at home I did not have it on an outlet that supplied enough Amps to kick all the surges or stages of the AC in. My neighbor suggested plugging into a kitchen outlet and voila everything worked. The kitchen outlet was 120 volts as compared to 105 volts in the garage. We also found that the cover of the AC on the roof was about to explode from wind the next time we pulled it down the road if we did not rebuild or substantially reinforce the fiberglass cover with rivoted metal into the inside corners of the fiberglass cover. Good luck Ron
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11-19-2013, 04:31 PM
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Rivet Master 
1987 25' Sovereign
Fort Collins
, Colorado
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 590
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Very much like the 97 Sovereign we got from my favorite father-in-law. You're in for tons of fun!
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11-19-2013, 04:31 PM
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Rivet Master
1987 25' Sovereign
Fort Collins
, Colorado
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 590
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Oops -- 87
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11-20-2013, 11:44 AM
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1 Rivet Member
1990 25' Excella
Florissant
, Missouri
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 7
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SeeMore
Unless the burner jet is corroded, a good cleaning should restore the heater to working order. FYI, that is the nicest "free" trailer I've ever seen. Hopefully, your camping days will begin quickly. Welcome aboard!
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The cleaning and fixing some loose connections fixed it. 
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Originally Posted by panora2
St Louis: Congrats on the wonderful gift.
Good luck Ron
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Originally Posted by Dan and Liz
Very much like the 97 Sovereign we got from my favorite father-in-law. You're in for tons of fun! |
Thanks everyone. Its definitely going to be fun!
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11-20-2013, 11:58 AM
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Rivet Master
2013 30' Classic
Greenwood
, Mississippi
Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 12,111
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What a nice gift!
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11-20-2013, 01:30 PM
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Rivet Master
1966 17' Caravel
Newport
, North Carolina
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 1,291
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Looks awesome and now fully functional battle stream okay too much star wars! Great looking airstream! Enjoy
Cliff
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. Long story short I've been admiring this trailer for years and through conversation it came up and they decided they would like to pass it on in the family. Thanks for the mass amounts of info I have gathered from you guys already and I'm sure more questions will come up. 
