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Old 12-30-2006, 02:48 AM   #1
Tinka N Rick
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Cracking and Popping Sound

We have a 2005 Montana 3500 RL. When sitting stationary and all the supports in place, we are experiencing loud cracking and popping sounds. When we first heard this, we were in 100+ degree weather and thought it was expansion related. We went for some time without any problem, but it just cropped up again and with very little temperature swing. The source is somewhere in the ceiling or roof in the area of the opposing slides in the living room. There does not appear to be any roof damage, but we can't locate the source of the problem. Has anyone else had this experience? If so, what did you do about it?
 
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Old 12-30-2006, 03:10 AM   #2
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No, but is it level? Square? Are the supports equal in height? Sounds like stress caused.
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Old 12-30-2006, 03:47 AM   #3
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I had also experience that kind of noise. I went out and adjusted the rear stabilizers down about one turn each. Noise stopped.

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Old 12-30-2006, 04:15 AM   #4
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Thanks, I made sure that they were down properly, but, I'll give another turn a try.
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Old 12-30-2006, 04:54 AM   #5
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If the noise is in the AC you may have a wire arcing. If so pull the cover and tape the problem wire and check all others. This happened to us in 100+ temps last summer.
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Old 12-30-2006, 06:00 AM   #6
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Not sure if it's the same, but our skylight would pop loudly occassionally as the sun came across. Used to make me jump straight up.

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Old 12-30-2006, 07:20 AM   #7
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My unit stays in one place and I use it as my home.This thing pops and makes cracking sounds all the time.Somthing I just got used 2.
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Old 12-31-2006, 01:32 AM   #8
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I think that I may have figured this out. You're not going to believe this, and it makes me feel a little stupid. We got the popping and snapping to quit by turning off the surround sound. Apparently the transfer of the sound to all of the speakers sounded realistic.
I couldn't believe that the rig could be shifting so much, but I also couldn't believe that it was coming through the speakers.
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Old 12-31-2006, 02:09 AM   #9
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Glad you found the source of the problem. Dont feel stupid, our surround sound had us jumping a time or two!
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Old 12-31-2006, 03:45 AM   #10
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Don't feel bad about that. Surround sound is pretty cool, eh!
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Old 12-31-2006, 04:38 AM   #11
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Glad you brought this up because, if this should happen to us we will now know what it is. Don't feel stupid, because you came up with the cause before any of us did, and we all learned something. Great work!!!
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Old 01-02-2007, 07:38 AM   #12
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Oh no, don't feel bad. Glad you shared your experience.
The surround sound is really cool. Ours gets me all the time.
I'm always looking out the window before I realize that it's the movie!


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Old 01-03-2007, 10:45 AM   #13
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Ar Ar Ar.

We've had this happen a couple of times and we thought something hit us from outside. I even went up on the roof to see how big the falling branch was!

If you don't turn the DVD player off when you're done with it eventually it's going to start making noise, usually loud too. We've had the silly thing turn itself on & start playing a DVD in the middle of the night. It's POSESSED!

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Old 01-03-2007, 10:53 AM   #14
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hahahaha - muddy paws!

Our stick house system does that - wakes me straight out of bed and on a run! With these new UHF remotes from Dish, a neighbor is always turning my system on or changing channels for me. I've performed a few exorcisms on the whole system, but it keeps coming back!

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Old 01-03-2007, 12:24 PM   #15
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Like everyone else, there is no reason to feel like you do, we all have a story like that. We can all laugh about it now, but at the time it really was embarrassing. BTW welcome to our family.
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Old 01-04-2007, 02:28 AM   #16
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Our DVD player is also POSSESSED!!! For several days we kept hearing a thumping, clunking type sound, checked all around outside,on the roof, etc. etc. Even thought it might be rodents (big ones!!!) Finally realized it was the drawer on the DVD player-- it would start opening and closing ---when it was trying to open it would hit the door of the cabinet.

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