On certain motor homes built with cummins isl cm850 diesel engines, the connecting rod contains a machining defect in the wrist pin bushing of the rod that could cause a seizure of the piston pin.
Engine & cooling
Monaco Coach Dynasty Engine problems by year
2 complaints filed with NHTSA about the Monaco Coach Dynasty's engine & cooling. Stalling, loss of power, oil consumption, overheating, head gaskets, timing chains and engine failure.
Engine complaints by model year
Engine recalls
On certain motorhomes equipped with cummins engines, oil can leak into the engine compartment from a crack in the cup plug.
Vehicle description: class a motor homes produced on roadmaster chassis. As the result of incorrect crimping of hydraulic line fittings, it is possible that one or more of the hydraulic hoses on the engine-cooling unit could become detached. This could...
Latest Dynasty engine complaints
We had a horrifying experience due to a massive fuel leak on jan 12, 2018, less than three months after service had been had been completed at cummins crosspoint on oct 18, 2017. Cummins had replaced the engine harness on the isl-400 engine of our monaco motorhome as a result of an earlier fuel leak they discovered in may of 2017. Cummins crosspoint assured us, after we asked at least three times that all fuel leakage issues had been corrected. We do not know if the fuel leak on jan 12th was the result of...
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improper inspection or poor workmanship by cummins crosspoint, or if it is the result of design flaws or initial manufacturing error; however there appears to be no other explanation. As we eventually learned, the massive leak was a result of the #5 fuel line becoming totally disconnected as we drove. It appears that this leak occurred over the last mile or so as we noticed the engine was not running correctly and we exited the iinterstate a sat disabled waiting for a tow truck that arrived that evening. As we sat we said a prayer of thanks that we'd not been injured or killed by a fire that might have occurred. At no time during the incident was there a dash warning light to indicate that anything was wrong. Clearly cummins crosspoint failed on three service occasions, to properly identify and rectify the fuel leak which they knew existed, since they replaced wiring which they told us had been damaged by said fuel leak. This is a failure which never should have happened to a cummins ?Million mile? Engine. Compression connectors should be engineered so as not to fall apart by themselves. After three failures of the cummins organization to resolve the issue, we had the repair done by an independent diesel engine repair shop. Whereas the fuel leak has been repaired the original design flaw in the cummins isl400 engine remains.
In cooler broke resulted in replacing the radiator and air conditioning unit, inner cooler rupture. Engine to large for the frame, resulting in vibrating so severe that the entire vehicle shakes, causing the hose which connects the engine, radiator and inner cooler to spring a leak, resulted in replacement of the inner cooler,radiator and air conditioning unit. Brakes can easily be released
Source: U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) complaints and recalls, checked daily. Complaints are owners' own reports and are not verified. How we use the data