interesting addition to my qwest.
i talked to boyd at newell and he gave me the part number for the ridewell suspension for my tag. it is a ridewell 2840002 suspension with a dana axle.
so, great. i called ridewell and they looked it up and said it was discontinued. they didnt have any info on it. after some talking he said he would go search the records. he called me back and said that the note on the only drawings he had said that newell would supply the airsprings for it. so....back to boyd.
boyd looked it up and came up with the firestone and ridewell part number for the airspring.
The Ridewell part number is 1003589378C.
The Firestone part number is W013589378.
This is a Firestone 1T15L-2 bellows.
this matches what someone else thought they had gotten done on their coach at newell. so i am now thinking i have it solved.
so, i call all around. no one has any of these bags. you have to have them manufactured. takes 4-8 weeks. about 150 each.
they cross reference to a goodyear 1R11-202. and they also cross reference to a discontinued goodyear 1R11-080. Chuck at newell has the 1r11-080. pricey, but he has them.
in exchanging notes with barry, he had the same ridewell and firestone part numbers on the receipt he had done for work at newell not long ago. same vintage so i thought it was a go. he did say though that the mounts that he had on the coach had the bolts 90 degrees rotated on top from the bottom (north south and east west), but that newell had to adapt them because the bags he got were alignned top and bottom. that doesnt match the bags that i have the numbers for.
so i thought i would get under and actually look at mine. i was ready to order the bags and get them going. the ones that had the bolts rotated 90 degrees top and bottom.
but wait.....my coach has the bolts that are NOT rotated 90 degrees on the tag bag.
so i am back to square one.
i might just have to have one removed to see what bag it really is.
tom
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