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Wood Ramps to borrow in SoCal anyone have ? [message #274540] Sun, 29 March 2015 12:00 Go to next message
Tony Cook is currently offline  Tony Cook   United States
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Needing to get the coach off the ground to replace my old steel brake lines and looking to borrow wood ramps i am in the South Bay of Los Angeles area and can come and pick up if someone can lend um thanks Tony. Oh and if you have rusty pitted lines or have had one or two lines go on you relace them all i had catastrophic brake failure when the main rear steel line blew in a panic stop on the freeway and unbeknownst to me the metering valve apperantly was not working so didn't have front brakes when rear line blew. So now i have ordered all new SS lines and will be going to town on the brakes. Thankfully no one was hurt and the cat like response that these motorhome's achieve saved a whole lot of devistating results. If you have doubts about your brake system get them taken care of and don't risk it was a big learning lesson for me and i will never take it for granted again most important thing is to be able to STOP ! I have done a lot of work and going through the brakes was one but didn't replace old steel lines going through out the coach . If some are on the fence about the condition of the steel lines than i would highly suggest replacing all and not patching in here and there. Appreciate any help thanks.

Tony Cook 77' Kingsley ' SuperSession 77 ' Torrance Beach,CA

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Re: [GMCnet] Wood Ramps to borrow in SoCal anyone have ? [message #274544 is a reply to message #274540] Sun, 29 March 2015 13:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Mr ERFisher is currently offline  Mr ERFisher   United States
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Use a sft copper Cone washer on
Each staiiless Joint or they will prob leak

On Sunday, March 29, 2015, Tony Cook wrote:

> Needing to get the coach off the ground to replace my old steel brake
> lines and looking to borrow wood ramps i am in the South Bay of Los Angeles
> area
> and can come and pick up if someone can lend um thanks Tony. Oh and if you
> have rusty pitted lines or have had one or two lines go on you relace them
> all i had catastrophic brake failure when the main rear steel line blew
> rub leakin a panic stop on the freeway and unbeknownst to me the metering
> valve
> apperantly was not working so didn't have front brakes when rear line
> blew. So now i have ordered all new SS lines and will be going to town on
> the
> brakes. Thankfully no one was hurt and the cat like response that these
> motorhome's achieve saved a whole lot of devistating results. If you have
> doubts about your brake system get them taken care of and don't risk it
> was a big learning lesson for me and i will never take it for granted again
> most important thing is to be able to STOP ! I have done a lot of work and
> going through the brakes was one but didn't replace old steel lines going
> through out the coach . If some are on the fence about the condition of
> the steel lines than i would highly suggest replacing all and not patching
> in
> here and there. Appreciate any help thanks.
> --
> Tony Cook
> 77' Kingsley ' SuperSession 77 '
> Torrance Beach,CA
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Re: [GMCnet] Wood Ramps to borrow in SoCal anyone have ? [message #274548 is a reply to message #274544] Sun, 29 March 2015 14:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Tony Cook is currently offline  Tony Cook   United States
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Thanks Gene are these commonly available at parts stores 3/16,1/4 " etc?

Tony Cook 77' Kingsley ' SuperSession 77 ' Torrance Beach,CA

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Re: [GMCnet] Wood Ramps to borrow in SoCal anyone have ? [message #274552 is a reply to message #274544] Sun, 29 March 2015 14:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
USAussie is currently offline  USAussie   United States
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Gene,

Depends on where he buys the SS lines.

If he buys them from Tom Hampton they will be OK if he buys them from Classic Tube he'll have problems - been there done that!

http://www.grandviewmotorhome.com/partsupgrades.html

I've never used a copper cone on an inverted flare fitting and am not sure they will fit.

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Rob M.


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Use a sft copper Cone washer on
Each staiiless Joint or they will prob leak

Gene

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Re: [GMCnet] Wood Ramps to borrow in SoCal anyone have ? [message #274555 is a reply to message #274552] Sun, 29 March 2015 15:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Classic Tube is where i ordered from off The GMC supplier's list ?

Tony Cook 77' Kingsley ' SuperSession 77 ' Torrance Beach,CA

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Re: [GMCnet] Wood Ramps to borrow in SoCal anyone have ? [message #274557 is a reply to message #274555] Sun, 29 March 2015 16:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
USAussie is currently offline  USAussie   United States
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Tony,

Hopefully Classic Tube have corrected the problems I ran into.

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Rob M.

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Classic Tube is where i ordered from off The GMC supplier's list ?
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Re: [GMCnet] Wood Ramps to borrow in SoCal anyone have ? [message #274561 is a reply to message #274557] Sun, 29 March 2015 16:37 Go to previous message
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Hmm dis dont sound good

Tony Cook 77' Kingsley ' SuperSession 77 ' Torrance Beach,CA

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