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Posted By: Trish Davis on 11/20/09 03:37am

Jer&Ger wrote:

My wife and I looked at those when we were there, but worried that with the fiberglass insulation stuffed in the cavity it would make the ceiling bulge between the rafters, that and the fact that my wife didn't like the high gloss finish pretty much nixed that idea. Thanks for the suggestion though.

I used those for my Travco's bath walls and ceiling.
Absolutely agree they are "too white," and reflective.

You do know you can paint the fiberglass panels?

Use a good primer (Ace Hardware) and regular latex paint.
Bought paint & primer at Ace, they have a fine selection and are more reasonable than Lowe's.

hints:
Look for damaged fiberglass panels at 1/4 the price
Measure, cut, drill then prime and paint.
Touch up after you're all done.
...wish I'd done it that way.

Posted By: Jer&Ger on 11/20/09 04:26pm

I may have just been handed some much needed help. My neighbor saw what I have been working on and offered to let me use one of those car/truck fabric roofed/sided sheds he has that he's not using now. All I have to do is figure out how to raise it enough to get under it. I'm going to check the stores to see if I can find what I can use. I'll let you know.

Jerry & Gerry, our pets (dogs), Byron, Coco
1976 Monaco, 440 ci. Dodge Sportsman chassis

Posted By: Griff in Fairbanks on 11/20/09 04:44pm

Jer&Ger wrote:

Depending on the framing of the tent/shed, I've seen white plastic plumbing pipe used to extend the legs, raising the roof.

1970 Explorer Class A on a 1969 Dodge M300 chassis with 318 cu. in. (split year)
1972 Executive Class A on a Dodge M375 chassis with 413 cu. in.
1973 Explorer Class A on a Dodge RM350 (R4) chassis with 318 engine & tranny from 1970 Explorer Class A

Posted By: Leeann on 11/20/09 05:17pm

Griff in Fairbanks wrote:

Jer&Ger wrote:

Depending on the framing of the tent/shed, I've seen white plastic plumbing pipe used to extend the legs, raising the roof.

Same here.

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

Posted By: eyeteeth on 11/21/09 10:15pm

Hey there... thought I'd give a mini update. Nothing exciting.

Weather was good, so I did a little work on it today. I found new "baskets" for the speedometer cable to plug into the back of the speedometer. So I pulled the dash apart, AGAIN, to fix that. Unfortunately, I discovered the cable I had special made last year had once again melted, and was not functioning... so still no speedo. [emoticon]

While I had the dash apart, I finally changed a nuisance into a creature comfort. I installed a toggle switch in the dash and wired the dash radio to the house battery so I don't have to use the ignition to listen to music.

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Finally took care of the water system for the winter... now we have to bring water. (Because we're not done yet. [emoticon]

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I also snapped a few "mood" pics showing the finished curtains and valances.

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If I can ever get ahead again, It will be nice to get the sofa and chairs reupholstered. Excuse the mess, it was right after I finished working on the stuff above, and hadn't cleaned anything back up.
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Posted By: Leeann on 11/22/09 07:41am

eyeteeth wrote:

I knew you'd get around to that sooner rather than later - that was one of Sam's best mods [emoticon]

As far as the speedo cable, we haven't looked at repairing ours yet (it still works). Once we do, though, we'll crawl under there and see where it can be routed better to avoid melting in the future...though that might be difficult.

Posted By: eyeteeth on 11/22/09 08:13am

When we pulled the engine to rebuild it, we learned the drivers side had an exhaust leak right where the manifold and crossover came together. Even worse, it was pretty much directed right where the cable was run. Not to mention according to my mechanic the engine runs (happily) around 400 degrees.

If you wind up in the same bind I did, after much searching I found Southern Speedometer will make whatever you need. Save the old cable, and ship it off to 'em. Quick turn around and friendly.

Even better with the stereo... is it came with a remote control. It seemed silly, and I never used it when it was installed in my truck, but its pretty handy when I'm sitting on the sofa in the RV. [emoticon]

Posted By: Leeann on 11/22/09 08:27am

We had a leak at the 'donut' gasket, but fixed it (the gasket had totally blown out). Haven't seen evidence of further damage, so I'm guessing that's what melted it in the first place. Ours wasn't completely melted through, though.

Ooh, thanks for the link. I've been wondering where we'd get a replacement [emoticon]

Yeah, same here. It's a useful little toy for the RV - but useless in my Bravada (I don't even have it in the truck!).

Posted By: ALnCORY on 11/23/09 03:21pm

Looks good Eye,,, so when you added the switch for house power to your stereo where did you pull the power from? I like the idea of being able to run the stereo off of house power and I wired speakers to the coach but was wondering where you pulled the power from and how you wired it all up.
Nice job, it looks very comfy.
A.

I don't think anyones dying statement ever contained the words "I wish I had spent more time in the office", so lets go somewhere!

Posted By: Leeann on 11/23/09 03:27pm

Al, I don't know about the setup on your rig, but the house battery on mine sits right next to the engine battery (with an isolator between). Sam ran a heavy-gauge wire from the house battery through the firewall to a junction block under the dash - that's where all the accessories plug in. No accessory runs from the engine battery. And power to that junction block is switched off/on by a toggle switch on the dash, much like eye's setup.

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