Bedlam
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Grit, it's only running on half it's cylinders. The other four are are for backup.
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notsobigjoe
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Bedlam wrote:Grit, it's only running on half it's cylinders. The other four are are for backup.
It was a joke, read what I posted.
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Nero C-Bass
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@Grit dog, that entire post was sattire. I'm hauling this bad boy with my 1990 F350 crew cab. Ignore the fender decals, I was lazy when I built the truck.
Anyhow,got the side all buttoned up, caulked, and puttied back up. All four jacks back on and nice and stable again.
overall I think I got about 40 hours and about $900 in materials.
Now to just finish re-kaulking the roof, moving my ac over from my old camper, and a few odds and ends then she's ready to camp another day.
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Nero C-Bass
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Well, now that the side is repaired, I've been testing the other systems. Inverter is working, fan in it is a little loud, sounds like a playing card in a bycicle spoke.
Also found that the water heater is bad. It is a suburban unit, went to pull the anode plug and it snapped off. Drilled it out, ran a flush wand through it, and it kicked out a bunch of porcelain material, along with a lot of white crud, probably calcification from never being flushed out.
Lucky enough, camper was built with a water heater bypass, so turned all the valves, and put a few gallons in the fresh tank and ran the pump. Found the kitchen sink cold water fitting is cracked, and the faucet leaks at the knob.
Joy of restoring a 20+ year old unit. Gotta love it.
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notsobigjoe
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Nero C-Bass wrote:Well, now that the side is repaired, I've been testing the other systems. Inverter is working, fan in it is a little loud, sounds like a playing card in a bycicle spoke.
Also found that the water heater is bad. It is a suburban unit, went to pull the anode plug and it snapped off. Drilled it out, ran a flush wand through it, and it kicked out a bunch of porcelain material, along with a lot of white crud, probably calcification from never being flushed out.
Lucky enough, camper was built with a water heater bypass, so turned all the valves, and put a few gallons in the fresh tank and ran the pump. Found the kitchen sink cold water fitting is cracked, and the faucet leaks at the knob.
Joy of restoring a 20+ year old unit. Gotta love it.
It looks great! I've always liked that ribbed aluminum siding, it hides delamination very well. Had it on my Nomad 35 foot TT. The thing was built like a matchbook cover. You could smell the wet pine, but you couldn't![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/cool.gif "cool") see it.
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Nero C-Bass
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That's what I like about the closets in the Lance, they were lined with Fir. Always smells good to open them.
Today I pulled out the old water heater, replaced it with an upgraded Suburban unit that is same for same, except it has an optional 110v heater. I'll wire that in later.
Replaced the leaky kitchen faucet. Like a dummy I installed the hot and cold lines on backwards. I'll fix that later.
Tested the on board atwood forced air heater. Holy cow that thing gets toasty fast! Having all the ducting throuought the camper helps I'm sure.
I also found the toilet water supply was disconnected and capped off for some reason... Project for another day.
All access doors to the bed of the truck need the gasket replaced. Can definitely feel a draft.
Radio didn't work. Turns out fuse behind it was bad. Replaced it, tuner is dead. Had a cassette in it still. Good ol' Johnny Cash. Played that while sorting out the water heater.
Forecast shows warm and sunny this upcoming weekend. Hoping to finish re-kaulking everything then. Knock on wood, hoping to take 'er out camping for one last hoorah trip to the beach before the season is over.
Overall, it's been a productive past few days. Vacation time is up, back to work tomorrow, but I'll be puttering around at it throuought the week after work.
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Spent all of yesterday peeling off the old kaulking off the roof, and laid down a new fresh layer. Good to go for the next 8ish years. Today I'll be making sure all the window seams are sealed nice and good, and then go investigate why the toilet water supply was disconnected.
after that, I just need to replace the truck connector and she's ready to go!
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