| [GMCnet] Great Trip - Only 3 small problems [message #171399] |
Wed, 30 May 2012 14:39  |
Sharon Work
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Hi Ray,
Before you go to the trouble to drop the tanks, check to see if you are leaking gas around the filler tube. That tube goes inside the coach behind the DS side panel then out the bottom just in front of the step, then down to the tube that connects both tanks. That filler tube originally had a gasket around where it enters the inside of the coach but that may be long gone. If you belch gas when filling it all the way, if even a little gas leaks down that tube past the gasket it will smell to high heaven inside your coach for a while. I finally solved that issue on mine by using RTV to form a new gasket around the filler tube.
Jerry
Jerry Work
The Dovetail Joint
Fine furniture designed and hand crafted in the 1907 former Masonic Temple building in historic Kerby, OR
Visitors always welcome!
glwork@mac.com
http://jerrywork.com
541-592-5360
www.southernoregonguild.org
www.siskiyouguild.org
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 08:47:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ray Erspamer <78gmc-royale@att.net>
Subject: [GMCnet] Great Trip - Only 3 small problems
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Good Morning
Just got back from north of Toronto, had a great trip and put on about 1,600
miles. Coach ran like a top ! Saw 2 other GMC's along the way, a Green Palm
Beach at the border coming back into the U.S. at Port Huron and a Cream & Blue
one on I94.
3 small problems....
1. Bad gas smell in the coach when I filled the tanks completely full (I had
posted this earlier), when I only put in 20 gallons at a time, no smell. I will
drop the rear tank to see what's going on. Will drop both tanks if necessary.
Just dropped the tanks last August to check how clean they were, etc. and didn't
have any problems last fall. Kind of a pain to drop the tanks again, but oh well
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| Re: [GMCnet] Great Trip - Only 3 small problems [message #171401 is a reply to message #171399] |
Wed, 30 May 2012 15:09  |
Ray Erspamer
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Hi Jerry
That is sealed tight, I checked it when I rebuilt our interior 2 years ago and 1
year ago when we had the coach painted.
The smell is no where near the front, it's the strongest back by the bathroom
which is right above the rear tank. I dropped both tanks last August to check
for cleanliness and to put new socks on and all new lines, for the remainder of
last season all was great, no gas smell or anything. One change made this past
winter is I stored the coach in a friends building vs outside, some critters may
have gotten up there and chewed a vent line or ???
I'd like to find a bore scope to put up there to check before I drop the
tank(s), that's a pain of a job.
Ray
Ray & Lisa
78 Royale "Great Lakes Eagle"
Center Kitchen TZE368V101144
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin 53226
Email: 78GMC-Royale@att.net
414-745-3188
Web Site: http://ray-lisa.page.tl/
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From: Sharon Work <sharonwork@mac.com>
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Sent: Wed, May 30, 2012 2:52:09 PM
Subject: [GMCnet] Great Trip - Only 3 small problems
Hi Ray,
Before you go to the trouble to drop the tanks, check to see if you are leaking
gas around the filler tube. That tube goes inside the coach behind the DS side
panel then out the bottom just in front of the step, then down to the tube that
connects both tanks. That filler tube originally had a gasket around where it
enters the inside of the coach but that may be long gone. If you belch gas when
filling it all the way, if even a little gas leaks down that tube past the
gasket it will smell to high heaven inside your coach for a while. I finally
solved that issue on mine by using RTV to form a new gasket around the filler
tube.
Jerry
Jerry Work
The Dovetail Joint
Fine furniture designed and hand crafted in the 1907 former Masonic Temple
building in historic Kerby, OR
Visitors always welcome!
glwork@mac.com
http://jerrywork.com
541-592-5360
www.southernoregonguild.org
www.siskiyouguild.org
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 08:47:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ray Erspamer <78gmc-royale@att.net>
Subject: [GMCnet] Great Trip - Only 3 small problems
To: Net GMC <gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org>
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Good Morning
Just got back from north of Toronto, had a great trip and put on about 1,600
miles. Coach ran like a top ! Saw 2 other GMC's along the way, a Green Palm
Beach at the border coming back into the U.S. at Port Huron and a Cream & Blue
one on I94.
3 small problems....
1. Bad gas smell in the coach when I filled the tanks completely full (I had
posted this earlier), when I only put in 20 gallons at a time, no smell. I will
drop the rear tank to see what's going on. Will drop both tanks if necessary.
Just dropped the tanks last August to check how clean they were, etc. and didn't
have any problems last fall. Kind of a pain to drop the tanks again, but oh well
!------------------------
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