Trish Davis wrote:
This heat exchange pipe -- am I correct in assuming it is, if it hasn't already-- is going to rust big time? A good machinist could make a stainless one.
Yeah, knowing precisely *what* to look for without tearing into an engine in another person's driveway is good. Thanks for the "hot sides" tip.
More questions:
I intend to haul a bike trailer. The rig is only 20ft and I don't want anything over 22', tops.
Fellow owns it says there's a hitch --what's the factory tonque weight?
The trailer is "yet to be determined" ... I can build one off an old Ford axle, modify the old one (small for trips), buy used... so I have neither dimensions nor weight.
79PW... where in WI?
I worked and lived (mostly worked and for very little) in New Glarus 6 yrs ago.
This heat exchange pipe -- am I correct in assuming it is, if it hasn't already-- is going to rust big time? A good machinist could make a stainless one.
Yeah, knowing precisely *what* to look for without tearing into an engine in another person's driveway is good. Thanks for the "hot sides" tip.
More questions:
I intend to haul a bike trailer. The rig is only 20ft and I don't want anything over 22', tops.
Fellow owns it says there's a hitch --what's the factory tonque weight?
The trailer is "yet to be determined" ... I can build one off an old Ford axle, modify the old one (small for trips), buy used... so I have neither dimensions nor weight.
79PW... where in WI?
I worked and lived (mostly worked and for very little) in New Glarus 6 yrs ago.
MMMMMMMM, New Glarus! That's a town that brews some mighty fine beers! I'm closer to Milwaukee, N.W. of town.
My Tioga has a ball mounted to the rear bumper, and there is NO WAY I'd tow anything with that! The frame extensions leading to the rear bumper are weak at best. If I were to tow, I'd investigate a custom hitch set-up built for the application. Right now, the frame is just a big lever if I were to put a load on it. That sucker would snap off in a few miles, I'd guess.
The heat cross-over isn't a tube in the sense you are thinking. It's actually cast into the intake manifold just like the runners. They'd be the runner that the choke stove would be on, kinda in the middle of the intake.
Eric
She ain't purdy, but at least she's slow!
Yeah, I'd figured on a new intake and carb. But if I cannot drive it home --Indianapolis to eastern Ohio-- I will not buy it. Fella says it's good to go, he bought it for an event and if it doesn't sell, he's happy to keep it.
It might be in great shape, it might not.
PW, what does your Tioga weigh? Avion has a frame-mounted hitch, rr bumpers are storage for the poop hose. The "Motorvator" weighs 3,245 dry, ACC /Cayo spec sheet says it has either a 150 lb tongue weight or 350, depending on which hitch.
A bike trailer (my Rebel, my daughter's bike, the Avon inflatable + 2 outboards, and whatever else we "need") of, say 6x10, single axle with 15's, that's approximately what I'm looking at hauling.
I hope.
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) but some documents I found in it mentioned 9800 lbs. It's registered at 12,000 lbs (which means nothing except for WI DMV). My rig is a little guy. I don't know the proper way to measure it, but the house is 12' from the rear of the Dodge cab. So I guess this thing is 20-22' in total length?I don't doubt that the little 360 has the power to tow a trailer as well as push itself down the road, I just won't tow anything because the mickey-mouse frame extensions under the rear of the house are simply bolted on! It makes for a perfect hinge if too much weight goes on the rear bumper!
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Eric
79powerwagon wrote:
Trish, my Tioga hasn't been weighed by me yet, but it's registered at 12,000 lbs. My rig is a little guy. I don't know the proper way to measure it, but the house is 12' from the rear of the Dodge cab. So I guess this thing is 20-22' in total length?
I just won't tow anything because the mickey-mouse frame extensions under the rear of the house are simply bolted on! It makes for a perfect hinge if too much weight goes on the rear bumper!
Trish, my Tioga hasn't been weighed by me yet, but it's registered at 12,000 lbs. My rig is a little guy. I don't know the proper way to measure it, but the house is 12' from the rear of the Dodge cab. So I guess this thing is 20-22' in total length?
I just won't tow anything because the mickey-mouse frame extensions under the rear of the house are simply bolted on! It makes for a perfect hinge if too much weight goes on the rear bumper!
Wow, I cannot believe the rr portion of the MH frame is bolted on!
Where is your bathroom... hope it's the center. Although any water damage (there almost always is) might've kicked off the rust.
Then, of course, there're the Wisconsin winters. You are welcome to them.
Yeah, towing is one of the reasons I will avoid a long overhang behind the rr wheels. Besides, some of the places I plan on, a lager chassis cab just won't fit.
But that is pretty heavy, still. We had an Avion trailer since the time I was born. 20ft, a '60.
My dad pulled it with the '41 Merc for 5 years and he towed it ALL OVER North America.
Literally. Took us up into teh CDN Rockies, Banff & Jasper & Lake Louise, down into the Tetons, Cascades; another trip was all Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge. Then the Canadian Maritimes... my dad had a FIT when some fellow came over attempting to unhitch the rig on the Newfoundland ferry... Poor man. Never touch another person's rig, could be dangerous. ;-)
I always remember he said the Avion was light enough, he could pull it anywhere.
He did get it buried in the black sand in Nicolet Nat'l Forest though!
I know you know what I'm talking about. Be surprised how many don't.
Black sand & bad winters.. nice to visit, I'll never live there again.
ps: Eric, from bumper-to-bumper is your length.
Trish Davis wrote:
Then, of course, there're the Wisconsin winters. You are welcome to them.
Black sand & bad winters.. nice to visit, I'll never live there again.
ps: Eric, from bumper-to-bumper is your length.
Then, of course, there're the Wisconsin winters. You are welcome to them.
Black sand & bad winters.. nice to visit, I'll never live there again.
ps: Eric, from bumper-to-bumper is your length.
LOL!!!!
And thanks for the length!
Trish Davis wrote:
Thanks, Master BD,for the spray bottle idea. I'll do that.
Yeah, I'd figured on a new intake and carb. But if I cannot drive it home --Indianapolis to eastern Ohio-- I will not buy it. Fella says it's good to go, he bought it for an event and if it doesn't sell, he's happy to keep it. It might be in great shape, it might not.
Thanks, Master BD,for the spray bottle idea. I'll do that.
Yeah, I'd figured on a new intake and carb. But if I cannot drive it home --Indianapolis to eastern Ohio-- I will not buy it. Fella says it's good to go, he bought it for an event and if it doesn't sell, he's happy to keep it. It might be in great shape, it might not.
Hi Trish .... it was LATE last night ....I should have added -- that if that exhaust heat crossover passage IS blocked ... it can cost MPG big-time.
Proper air/fuel atomization is a must for the best fuel econ .... and a cold intake manifold is one of the biggest "killers" of mpg out there.
HUGE savings !
Many pages back you mentioned putting new rubber around the doghouse to seal it. I had the impression you just picked some up from the auto parts store. However... they keep looking at me like I'm. (I am... just poeple don't usually realize it right off the bat) Any chance I could get a little more detail on what you used?
MasterBoondocker wrote:
HOW many people here have taken advantage of the "antique/classic" licence plates that some DMVs issue ?
HUGE savings !
HOW many people here have taken advantage of the "antique/classic" licence plates that some DMVs issue ?
HUGE savings !
I did - in Maryland they're Historic - HUGE savings is right.
'73 Concord 20' Class A w/Dodge 440 - see profile for photo