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Sun, 30 June 2013 11:20

Anonymous

Hi All,

We just took the plunge into the world of RV's, We had decided it would
be nice to have a MH to tow the Auto-x car/cars to the Auto-x's and Hill
climbs and give us a place to stay when we are there. We had been
looking at the class c fiberglass coaches just looking for something
that would be serviceable without putting to much money into it. While
searching Craigslist a GMC motorhome showed up, I remember these coaches
from when I was much younger and remember thinking they were really cool
so I started asking questions and researching the GMC's, that's when I
found this group. I spent a couple days reading the forum posts and with
the level of support both advise and parts wise we decided to go look at
the coach knowing it needed work to bring it up to a serviceable level
as she is pretty rough and has suffered from a lack of love in the past,
but we decided that this coach is worth investing time and money into
because they hold their value and are still one of the coolest coaches I
have seen. So we bought it and brought it home. There are a lot of
"Previous owner syndrome" items to work on and lot of just plain worn
out and in need of service items so my initial plan of attack is to go
through the Vehicle side of things so I can trust it to make it to and
back home from the events, then attack the living quarters side of
things to make sure everything is serviceable Then we can think of
upgrades for the old girl. I'm thinking this will be 5 year process to
bring her back to the cool old coach she should be.

I have a lot of questions I will be posting once we are able to use the
forum and post pictures, but for now I'll start with one I'm working on
now. I have the heater controls cleaned up and working, Need a new cable
for the hot air door, I think that's what the cable controls, and the
fan doesn't work on the high setting, the switch has power to the relay
but the power feed for the high setting is not hot, I have read that the
high feed comes from the alternator directly through a fusible link, The
schematic shows a 30 AMP fuse but no location for the fuse. Before I
tear the wiring harness apart trying to trace it out, does someone know
the routing of this feed and where the fuse/fusible link is located?

The coach is a 1973 26 foot, I have a service manual for it but it is
for the 75-76 models. Is this manual good for the 73 model as well or
are there lots of things that are different between the years?

I'll stop here for now and will be following the responses on the forum.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Brian
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		[GMCnet] New to GMC's and RV's in general By: Anonymous on Sun, 30 June 2013 11:20
		Re: [GMCnet] New to GMC's and RV's in general By: Tim Conway on Sun, 30 June 2013 11:40
		Re: [GMCnet] New to GMC's and RV's in general By: hnielsen2 on Sun, 30 June 2013 11:48
		Re: [GMCnet] New to GMC's and RV's in general By: Francois on Sun, 30 June 2013 11:50
		Re: [GMCnet] New to GMC's and RV's in general By: jimk on Sun, 30 June 2013 11:52
		Re: [GMCnet] New to GMC's and RV's in general By: WD0AFQ on Sun, 30 June 2013 12:04
		Re: [GMCnet] New to GMC's and RV's in general By: Matt Colie on Sun, 30 June 2013 12:04
		Re: [GMCnet] New to GMC's and RV's in general By: Richard RV on Sun, 30 June 2013 12:15
		Re: [GMCnet] New to GMC's and RV's in general By: Ken Burton on Sun, 30 June 2013 12:41
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