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

Posted By: Kendas on 03/04/09 08:03pm

DaChiNooK-440 wrote:

Another New "Old Dodge Motorhome" owner here.

I just bought a 78 chinook concourse M-19 model the other day and thought i,d pop in on this thread and say Hi .

Welcome DaChiNook-440. Obviously it has a 440 in it. You'll notice that there are quite a few of us that do, so if you need help on it feel free to ask. Now, how about some pictures? In and Out... If you don't know how on this site click Here to learn.

Ken

1978 21ft Tioga Dodge 440 Motor,
4.5kw Generac and 80 watts Solar
1984 Goldwing Interstate (Daily driver)
Misc Things I've done to my RV pictures

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Posted By: Kendas on 03/04/09 08:22pm

Leeann wrote:

I'm just bein' jealous 'cause we don't have chassis AC [emoticon]

We want to be cool running down the road, we have to run the genny and roof AC.

Hey, I had to drive from Vegas to Tucson in late June 1976 without A/C... Was on my way home to get married (had been driving all the night before from Great Falls MT). Was 105 when I lost the idler pulley on my 71 LTD, so I know what wanting A/C is. [emoticon]

You might try a salvage yard for an old Dodge "C" with "dealer installed" air. Would probably have a York compressor mounted at a 45 degree angle on the front... Not too hard to get it out and would be a "bolt in" on the engine and then just finding a place to put the rest of it in the cab of the "A".

Ken

* This post was edited 03/04/09 08:32pm by Kendas *

Posted By: chinook440 on 03/05/09 01:09am

Thanks for the warm welcome.

I,m new to RV ,s but not to old Dodge,s [emoticon]

Here,s a link to some pictures of my new rig.

http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff275/Fabrekator/Da%20ChiNooK-440/

Sorry You,ll have to copy & paste it , this site doesn,t seem to allow a direct link to it ???

Harry

* This post was edited 03/05/09 01:20am by an administrator/moderator *

Posted By: chinook440 on 03/05/09 01:47am

I see a few posts about No Dash A/C on the old dodge chassis.

I found this place ackits.com that sells a few different complete kits for dodge vans from the early 70,s thru mid,s 90,s. There not cheap though , but not to bad either for all the parts included.

Unfortunately they only list them for smallblocks but i,m thinking they sould work on bigblocks with the right compressor brackets and pulleys.

http://www.bouchillonperformance.com/BPE4700.asp

Once it warms up a bit I,m gonna mock up a sanden style compressor on my engine to see how it fits.

Posted By: goreds2 on 03/05/09 02:31am

DaChiNooK-440 wrote:

Thanks for the warm welcome.

I,m new to RV ,s but not to old Dodge,s [emoticon]

That is a unique C motorhome. Very Cool. It looks like it can park in a "regular" parking space?

Here is your link. You click on the upper square with the green circle in it to post.

20ChiNooK-440's RV

* This post was edited 03/05/09 02:51am by goreds2 *

See Picture In My Profile
I have a 1989 Dodge XPLORER RV Class B - Purchased 10/15/10 IN CASH
Fiance' purchased a Class C 2002 Dynamax Carri-go on 5/1/15 IN CASH
We've got the best of both worlds

Posted By: goreds2 on 03/05/09 02:44am

Leeann wrote:

I'm just bein' jealous 'cause we don't have chassis AC [emoticon]

We want to be cool running down the road, we have to run the genny and roof AC.

I also do not have the chassis AC

Leeann, do you have an external or internal generator?

Mine is an external and I have to figure out a way to fasten the cord to the generator plug in while in transit. The cord would come from the rear drivers side. I just don't want the cord to dangle.

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Posted By: Leeann on 03/05/09 06:38am

Mine's internal.

4kw Onan CCK, original to the rig.

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

Posted By: overdrive75 on 03/05/09 06:47am

Goreds 2, couldn't you just set it pu to have an internal cord from the generator to the RV body and then over to the inside where the shore power cord is now?

Leeann I am jealous of your set up. I have the compartment in the rear, that would be good for a generator, but, it currenly has the house battery in it and some of my leveling blocks. I have a 3.5k contractor grade generator that would fit with minor modifications to the coach, and obviously exhause system set up, both are not a problem. I just need to relocate the house battery, not to much of a problem. The issues arise with fueling the generator, and starting it. To start it I would have to pull over and get out open the compartment and pull the cord. I would need to set up a kill swith inside the coach as well for it. Not sure what I am going to do yet.

Posted By: Leeann on 03/05/09 07:01am

We have this inside the rig (the one on the left):

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Fortunately, no cord to pull.

The switch on the right was unknown, so we just removed it and put a 12v power outlet there for the kid's toys.

The house battery is in the front, right next to the coach battery (with the isolator in between). There's room for that on an A.We have a compartment on the other side of the rig that holds the blocks, tools, etc. - it's the same size as this one (rear U-shaped dinette). The water tank is under the back part of the dinette (makes for one heavy butt when it's full).

The pic I put previously has the original exhaust on it. We had to replace that because just about every pipe was rusted and leaking badly, so the bf made a new pipe with black pipe (gas pipe from your local big-box hardware store) and 2 flex pieces we already had, plus a motorcycle muffler we already had. He even made a new resonator essentially the same way as the factory did (the fatter piece above). Most of what you can hear when the thing is running is the air that blasts the ground.

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Posted By: goreds2 on 03/06/09 11:59am

overdrive75 wrote:

Goreds 2, couldn't you just set it up to have an internal cord from the generator to the RV body and then over to the inside where the shore power cord is now?

Hello overdrive75,

Thanks for responding but I am not sure what you meant by this.

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