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RE: What did you do to your Class A MH today???
Drooled over the last few trip pics the DW sent me while I continue on my Afghanistan "Vacation" for a few more months. Can't wait to get back to do the "suggested" updates she's coming up with :)
Thanks for your continued service. http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc231/mustang652/Web%20Smileys/Salute.jpg
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Brian in Michigan
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05/21/13 01:01pm |
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RE: The upside of owning a 90s Class A
It seems all things on the older units are under the umbrella of " keep it simple " I don't have a transfer switch to screw up, I don't have a circuit board to control the refrigerator. It seems to me these are a couple of main complaints people have about the newer ones.
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Brian in Michigan
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05/20/13 04:29am |
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RE: McGyver stories
This is from one of my post's 2 years ago
A real long weekend and story.
We did 1700 miles in less than 7 days. We left Michigan on Wednesday the 25th. We Headed for Indianapolis for the evening. About 25 miles North of Indy we ran into a hail storm. The hail was about the size of a quarter. It busted holes in the bathroom vent and the refrigerator vent. The hail was coming down so much it was deafening inside the MH. I was shocked that the windshield did not break. After finding replacement parts in Indy we headed out on Friday morning for Pittsburg State University where my son was competing in a BAHA competition. We drove all day to get there for the next morning. Just North of Carthage MO. With the wife driving I start hearing a ticking noise from the engine. I jumped up to look at the oil pressure gauge and it was all over the place. We shut down the engine and pulled over on the freeway. I discovered that oil had blown all over the underbelly of the MH and all over the passenger’s side and rear of it also. I checked the dip stick and there was no oil on it. While I was waiting for the tow truck my son borrowed a car and brought a few gallons of oil. It took 6 quarts of oil to fill it back up. ( it takes 7.5 to fill it.) When I started the engine oil came blowing out of a switch assy which the oil pressure gauge is also a part of. ( a brass tee that ties into the engine oil port has this switch and pressure gauge sending unit on it) Well I thought that this was going to be an easy fix. The tow truck got me into Lamar Mo about midnight. While it was still up in the air on the tow truck I attempted to unscrew the switch. I had to use a pair of vise grips to grab it and it was tight, with a little more force and SNAP, the brass “T” that the switch was screwed into broke off flush on the engine block. After a few + words I gave up for the night. The tow truck driver was hooking up the driveshaft and he managed to break the bearing cup on the “U” joint. It was not a good night. He went into Joslin the next morning to get parts and all they had was the “U” joint. Once he got back he had brought a set of easy outs with him and proceeded to remove the broken off brass. After a few minutes he is cussing up a storm because he broke off the easy out. By now my nerves are shot and so are my wife’s. Well the easy out broke at the top and not flush like I was expecting. He tried to get out the easy out but the vise grips kept slipping. After a half an hour I gave my hand at it. I tapped on the side of the easy out while I was trying to back it out and it popped right out. So with that out he pulled the drive shaft and took it to the shop to put in the “U” joint. I attempted to pull out the brass piece with the next bigger easy out but it was not budging. I finally made the decision to thread a bolt into the brass so I could get home with it so I could fix it there. In my case of parts and pieces I found the perfect bolt and pushed it in hard while I was turning it with a ratchet. It threaded in with no problem. I backed it out, put a couple of steel washers on it and then a rubber washer, wrapped the heck out of it with Teflon tape and screwed it back in. I had the wife start the engine while I was looking and no oil leak. RELIEF! I ran the engine for 5 or so minutes and still no oil leak. SUCCESS! The driver showed up with the drive shaft installed it and by about 3:00pm Saturday afternoon we were back on the road. I had no oil pressure gauge and the switch that blew was for turning on the electric fuel pump. The mechanical pump worked fine all the way home except for the hills where the carb was a little starved for fuel. All of the way home I kept checking for an oil leak and nothing. Made it home with no more problems, What a shakedown trip for the first one of the year. Thanks to Jim Elliot and Randy/High5 for their support and advise because otherwise I would have went nuts. Brian
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Brian in Michigan
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05/19/13 04:57am |
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RE: What are these? And do they need replacing?
I have the same set up on my unit. One of mine controlled the coach lights inside. Had the lights flashing on and off one day. Traced it to one of the auto resetting breakers like you have here. I used my Dremel Tool and wired wheeled the threads and then pulled off the wires and wire wheeled the terminals and the lug of the wire. Antiseized the terminals and the lugs. That was 13 years ago and never a problem since.
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Brian in Michigan
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05/18/13 03:16pm |
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RE: What did you do to your Class A MH today???
Well installed new fan clutch and installed the coach battery, Engine battery tomorrow.
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Brian in Michigan
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05/17/13 07:11pm |
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RE: '88 Southwind carburator not getting fuel
With mine I had the electric fuel pump switch go bad. It is located on the oil pressure line. Once the oil pressure develops it turns on the pump and away you go. That being said I drove from Kansas back to Michigan just on the mechanical pump. The hills were a little iffy but it still got us home.
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Brian in Michigan
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05/17/13 06:49pm |
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RE: '88 Southwind carburator not getting fuel
Sounds like varnish build up in the fuel line, I would start with the fuel filter that would be located in the frame rail ( if it's a P-30 ) passengers side.
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Brian in Michigan
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05/15/13 06:29pm |
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RE: Opinions on Rubber Roof Condition - Pictures Included
I have a rubber roof on mine, It looked like total #2. I tried everything under the sun to clean it but nothing touched it. I finally tried Oxy-Clean. I put it on as hot as I could, and moved it around with a deck brush. I got a phone call and got back to the roof about 15 minutes later and it was really white. None of the previous products even came close to these results. One thing for sure is the roof is really slippery with this stuff on it, and it will strip the wax off the sides.
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Brian in Michigan
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05/14/13 05:28pm |
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RE: Never Park on a Drawbridge
Boy it seems to me that car was pretty stout hitting the bottom. Most new cars would have crumpled apart. It almost follows the old adage "Bumbles Bounces"
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Brian in Michigan
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05/12/13 06:09pm |
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RE: MICHIGAN RALLY July 19-21, 2013 (Important Update - page 5)
Hey your only about 40 minutes from our cabin. ( near Moran ) If it's any consolation we had some sleet here today.
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Brian in Michigan
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05/12/13 06:01pm |
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RE: ENGINE continues to accelerate after letting off
Is it a carb or fuel injected? pull the cable off of the carb or what ever you have and see if it slides back and forth smoothly. if it does check the linkage for smooth action and quick return. Is the cruise control causing the problem?
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Brian in Michigan
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05/12/13 09:05am |
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RE: MICHIGAN RALLY July 19-21, 2013 (Important Update - page 5)
Eric, anyway to call the campground and maybe find out about the sites you reserved? The reason is if how much food do you/we provide if these other sites are oblivious to the rally? Do we bring enough just for us at the 4 sites?
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Brian in Michigan
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05/10/13 03:47pm |
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RE: 1995 28ft Georgie Boy, Chevy 454, P30 chassis
I like my 90, simple and runs great.
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Brian in Michigan
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05/09/13 05:53pm |
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RE: MICHIGAN RALLY July 19-21, 2013 (Important Update - page 5)
We will be showing up on Friday whenever check in time is. Bill still needs adult supervision on that grill.:B Eric I'll have you begging for more when you taste it,but first you have to take just a couple of tiny little pills that I got from a guy with glaucoma. :W
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Brian in Michigan
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05/08/13 07:05pm |
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RE: MICHIGAN RALLY July 19-21, 2013 (Important Update - page 5)
Ok, lets keep this running. What do you plan on bringing to the ralley? I will probably be bringing dump cake for Saturday night. Are we doing a breakfast? Just thoughts.
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Brian in Michigan
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05/08/13 06:33pm |
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RE: how to safely deenergize capacitor
The way I have done it for years is to either jump the the terminals with a insulated screwdriver or a insulated pair of needle nose pliers. The bigger the capacitance the bigger the spark.
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Brian in Michigan
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05/05/13 07:18pm |
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RE: hot water
I had one of the coils open in mine. It was around 85 ohms. I bought some magnet wire from McMaster Carr and rewound it myself. Cost was around $13 with shipping for the wire. That was about 4 years ago all is still working fine.
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Brian in Michigan
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05/01/13 05:06pm |
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RE: MICHIGAN RALLY July 19-21, 2013 (Important Update - page 5)
Well I am signed up! I had to do site 207. All of the others were taken. Man I thought it was going to be a low turnout. We'll see ya'll there in July.
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Brian in Michigan
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04/29/13 04:22pm |
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RE: Grand Teton National Park to Pinedale-191
If you have some time to spend in Pinedale, you might want to travel up to Fremont lake. At the south end of town you will find a road that goes to the lake. Only a few miles. You can also take a paved road past Fremont that will take you into the mountains above Fremont. I was stationed there with the Air Force in Pinedale in the early '60s. Lots of memories and a wife!
Dennis Codella
Boy I don't know if I would want to go there.. Memories are one thing but to leave with a wife:B
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Brian in Michigan
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04/25/13 01:38pm |
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RE: Who uses GPS?
We bought a Garmin a couple of years ago. Spent around than $300 on it. I have never really trusted it but yet it has never failed me. It is great when your in a city that you have never been in, it will get you where you want to go. We did have an issue this past weekend. It did not want to take us back the same way we came in. Had to reprogram a closer city than our home address and that straighten us out. Programming isn't a big deal but I still carry paper with me just to know where I am.
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Brian in Michigan
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04/24/13 01:55pm |
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