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If you are on this page, you probably want to know about maintenance on a Harney Renegade. I am hoping that some of this information helps someone, I wish I could have read it instead of researching it, that’s why I’m posting it, to help the next poor fool that has to do this work themselves. Sorry for the lack of pictures. I didn’t take many, and I thought it was more important to get this info up rather than to get it illustrated too.
We bought this RV in September of 2017. It had 89k miles on it (barely broken in for the Detroit motor, Allison transmission, and heavy duty rear axle. We’ve had to do a few things to it, so the following is a list, and some information… FYI, unless you are mechanically minded if you purchase an old RV like this, budget a few $k / year for repairs. I see now why people pay the $$$ for a new RV (ours was over $120k new, but we paid $25k, which is a STEAL for a diesel pusher).
We took the RV on a short trip and on the way back, the RV started displaying (or making the noise of) a bad U-Joint (it turns out this wasn’t the cause of the noise, see “Air Leveler” below for more info). Which was odd because they should have been fine at this age. I dropped the drive shaft (which was a piece of cake because this power train has the air actuated parking brake drum between the transmission and the drive shaft, so it just un-bolted from the parking brake and the typical U-Shaped brackets