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Tue, 08 May 2012 06:55  |
jhbridges
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Registered: May 2011
Location: Braselton ga
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To St Louis from North Georgia last week, in 80 - 90 degree weather with the toad clipped on four down. The engine A/C failed at startup, I haven't looked yet to see if it spit ther belt or has other problems. I get a muted click when I turn it on, so I suspect it's beltless. This weekend we will find out. The Junkerac ran with only one upset after I went over it a couple weeks ago, and the roof A/C kept the coach under 80 degrees inside. so the BWD and I were comfortable. He llounged where the reaer outlet was pointe at the floor, I had the front one aimed at my seat. The GMC pulled Monteagle each way with only a rise in temp indicated on the guage. Both ways, going down the other side cooled it back to normal. I ran it in Super, at about 40MPH going up. Cleaning the crud off the roof using bleach as someone suggested helped the inside temp consioderably. I may swap the 13.500 A/C for the 15,000 and see if tht copncludes the cool
hunt. Show site RV parking is almost always on a gravel or paved lot in teh sunshine. The 13,500 won't hold 70 degrees.
I got mileage from a bit over 8 to a bitover ten, I think deopending on the gas used. Two fillups of real gasoline in Kuttawa KY gave the best results. Also, no indication of vapor lock using it. On Atlanta gas, I went to the AUX tank once and got a bunch of sputter, returning to the main healed it. The tank was pressurinxed when I stopped to fill. After loading up on the good stuff, no more pressure. I use the infomation in Pure-gas.org for locating stations with no alcohol. All in all, 1250 miles of reasonably trouble free RVing and 40 BWDs in the same place.
--johnny
'76 23' transmode norris
'76 palm baech
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