Our coach came equipped with the original crank-up powered Sensar antenna. Although functional, it showed its age with peeling paint, bent wings in several areas, and worn coax cables and boots that needed replacement.
We had many issues to address in our starting battery compartment. The primary thing we wanted to address were the slow starting of the engine, often requiring the use of the boost switch to prevent setting the engine light due to low voltage at the ECM (set during cranking).
After fixing the remote/key fob so the bay door lock actuators trigger, a simple wiring issue at the main connector, I figured I was done only to find out the actuators triggered but most were no longer working.
What started out as a simple job of replacing the air filter and the Vacuator (a.k.a. duckbill) valve on our Donaldson ECG Konepac G11-2001 air cleaner ended up becoming “one of those” projects.
Our original fantastic fan was squeaky when running and slow to open/close, it was tied. We decided to replace it with a Maxxfan Deluxe model which provided more speed settings as well as a built-in roof cover.
Our steering wheel pad/center cap was very worn on the two sides. I don’t know if this is wear is typical or if the original owner had a nervous habit, but either way it looked terrible and was continuing to flake.
The passenger cup holder in the magazine rack was fairly basic in our 2000, so we decided to make a few improvements. We replaced the existing holder with one that can handle an insulated flask. We also added 12 USB outlets to power/change phones and tablets.
Most of the bay door handles on our 2000 have “seen better days”. On our 2003, we had replaced them with Chrome Handles.
