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Topic: How many of us are there? Owners of Dodge based RV's?

Posted By: eyeteeth on 05/26/08 05:29pm

Well... We did some more work on it this weekend. I've got 7 screws I can't get out for the love of me. Once they're out, then we can start fixing the framing and the floor... I'm pretty much at the turning point where she can start going back together.

As for my complaint delimma. I think I mentioned I checked the codes, and in my driveway, there's not a )(*& ting they can say about it. It the fact that I'm working on it, and to do so I have to "partially dismantle" it. I still ahven't been able to get a hold of anyone from the city. But for a possible quick fix, I temporarily put the windows back in and parked it in front of the house for a while to sweep off the roof. Then drove it around the neighborhood for a while, before backing it into the driveway. Previously, I had it parked headed in... if an inspector comes by again... it's obviously moved and is opperable. lol. Unfortunately I had to throw the tarp over it again as the leak repair is still in process. But at least that's on the back end that's no longer facing the street.

We'll see.


Posted By: Leeann on 05/26/08 06:39pm

Ugh, sorry about the %&$#&)$(*@#)( neighbors, eyeteeth. That really sucks. Good luck with the city...

dieselman, I'm pretty sure the bolt patterns are the same. However, I really don't think you want an A-518 (aka 46RH, the '90 - '93 version - the 46RE requires a computer, etc) on your motorhome. I've got one on my '90 B250 and it sucks. Well, the OD part sucks. I tend to think you'll blow it up in no time on a heavy RV, with or without a trailer. Trust me...


'73 Concord 20' Class A w/Dodge 440 - see profile for photo


Posted By: whiteknight001 on 05/26/08 07:58pm

Leeann wrote:



Oh, and by the way: it's paid for is our mantra [emoticon]



"THE OFFICIAL MANTRA OF THIS THREAD"

Leeann, you rock!!



Mark


1972 Mobile Traveler 20' Dodge B300 Class C
"The Kobayashi Maru" Trans- Prarie Land Craft
"Requiescat in pace et in amore..."


Posted By: Leeann on 05/26/08 08:17pm

Hey, Mark!

Hope everyone had a safe and pleasant weekend.


Posted By: eyeteeth on 05/27/08 02:06pm

Spoke with the inspector today... finally. I think I like the guy. I don't remember his exact phone questions.. but essentially... it was something like.
Do you have an RV? - Yes
Is it parked in your driveway? - Yes
Are all the tires inflated? - Yes
Does it run? - Yes
Well, I don't see much of a problem then... don't pull the motor before I formally inspect and you'll be fine. Won't be this week, but probably next week sometime.

Then we chatted on the phone for about 10 minutes trading neighborhood stories.

We'll see what happens.


Posted By: Leeann on 05/27/08 02:54pm

Sounds good so far...


Posted By: whiteknight001 on 05/27/08 04:28pm

eyeteeth wrote:

Spoke with the inspector today... finally. I think I like the guy. I don't remember his exact phone questions.. but essentially... it was something like.
Do you have an RV? - Yes
Is it parked in your driveway? - Yes
Are all the tires inflated? - Yes
Does it run? - Yes
Well, I don't see much of a problem then... don't pull the motor before I formally inspect and you'll be fine. Won't be this week, but probably next week sometime.

Then we chatted on the phone for about 10 minutes trading neighborhood stories.

We'll see what happens.


Eyeteeth,

I like the guy already. When he said "don't pull the motor" I think
that cinched it. You're good. I had double trouble living in town- from parking my RV (behind a six foot high privacy fence, mind you...) and all my antennas and towers. Everybody hates a ham radio operator in the 'hood. Almost as bad as they hate seeing the JW's going door to door. The antennas and towers are eyesores, and the reason their TV signal is messed up? Running all them radios...

If you have a neighborhood or property owners association to deal with, it's worse. Those folks get militant. And they can be quite picky about all their little bylaws and stuff. I got around all that, with a visit to the neighborhood elementary and junior high schools. In the elementary school a ham buddy and I set up to receive and talk to the International Space Station. Very brief but fun, and a lot of space folk are hams.

The junior high demo was cool- we took an excerpt from The Tonight
Show with Jay Leno that had two groups pitted against each other-
in one corner, two young men, late teens who were text-messaging champions. In the opposite corner, two ham operators set up to send and receive Morse code. Both groups had the same message. Modern technology versus 150+ year old code via carrier waves, and three guesses as to who won. And the first two guesses won't count.

We repeated the show format, selecting two students who were fast text messagers, and we set up our gear. The football coach provided the message to send and receive. With the same results. We described different aspects of community service hams perform, and I had pictures of the Kobayashi Maru looking like a large white hedgehog, bristling with antennas, with a magnetic banner on its side that read "Mobile Radio Communications Center/Amateur Radio Emergency Services. I made sure to park the Koby, washed and appropriately regaled and bristling menacingly, on the street two days before the school demos.

The result? Kids say the darndest things. Nothing further was said
about either the Koby or the antennas. Whenever the cable company would come out for "signal interference problems" they would assure the parties affected that it wasn't caused by the "crazy radio guy"
in the neighborhood. It finally reached a point that the cable company sent out a letter on the subject to their subscribers.

That was some needless stuff to endure. I guess if it doesn't say "Prevost" or "MCI" and look like something a rock star would tour
in, you're game. Probably, at the center of it all, truth be told, it's just eating a hole through their miserable little selves that you have something they wish they did, and it's paid for. Like a line
from an Alice Cooper song: "Some folks live for no reason."

Hang in there- things have an odd way of turning out for the best.
"Illegitimi non polvo de Carborundum sans tu permiso"

Mark

* This post was edited 05/27/08 04:40pm by whiteknight001 *


Posted By: whiteknight001 on 05/27/08 04:37pm

Leeann wrote:

Hey, Mark!

Hope everyone had a safe and pleasant weekend.



Like Jerry Lewis would say:


Heeeyyyyyy LADY!!


Been a few days... I hope everybody here had a great weekend too. I sinned and fell off my diet, and made up for some long needed quality time with folks I love... they forgive me...snif...(huge nose blow)..snif...

WHY CAN'T I FORGIVE MYSELF?!?

OK, I'm gonna check for leftover potato salad, and another beer...
you want something while I'm up?


Mark


Posted By: Leeann on 05/27/08 06:53pm

A beer would be fine!

We did have a vapor lock issue on the way home and we couldn't pull from the 2 rear tanks (clogged filters), but it was uneventful other than that. I don't think that's too bad considering it was about 90ยบ and we were on the PA turnpike south of Pittsburgh (pretty high elevations, pretty steep grades).


Posted By: Trish Davis on 05/28/08 06:26am

ALnCORY wrote:

with eternabond? the metal roof sealer goop?


What is "metal roof sealer goop?" Is that trademarked ...*g*....
Use the Eternabond. Clean the roof better than good --brown scotchbrite pads and acetone. Pick your pick of Eternabonds, white, grey, silver chrome (what's on my center seam), 4", 6", 2", even dbl-sided.

Seller on Ebay, mhrv, has the stuff real reasonable and NO shipping.


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