| Re: [GMCnet] a lawyer talks about buying an rv... [message #297345 is a reply to message #297341] |
Mon, 14 March 2016 16:38   |
k2gkk
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Well, I don't consider a GMC MH disposable, but I may never get to use mine
as I had intended/hoped!
Apparently my engine is pretty much toast with a bad lower end. We lost
cooling on the way home from the Shawnee rally.
I guess that's somewhere in the neighborhood of a hickey of $10,000 or more!
Then there's the added cost of having the coach hauled !,000 miles or more
to somewhere capable of doing the job right!
Onan the Barbarian is spilling its oil, but I suspect the leak is at the oil
filter bracket and I have bought the parts to fix that.
Both OEM A/Cs work and the steering isn't apparently as bad as some of the
stories I've read here!
I think that the plumbing leaks are now fixed thanks to Rob Mueller's help when
he and Helen visited us at home a couple of years back.
Fuel filter inlet on the carb is stripped, but experienced mechanic neighbor
and carb rebuilder is going to remove the filter and use JB Weld to secure the
inlet and stop the leak.
I have a new toilet to install and also an on-demand propane water heater to be
installed. Fridge seems to have problems and blows the 5 Amp fuse, but I have
an all-electric fridge/freezer removed from my boat that was totaled that should
fit in the existing space.
Tires are (were new) 16 inch BFGs on Rock Star XD alloy wheels (very handsome).
I had a Paterson Stage 2 engine ordered but hadn't found a capable installer so
okayed the shipment of that engine to Appie or Espen (can't remember which) to
get him going in Europe.
Sigh!!!
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> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:17:30 -0600
> To: gmclist@list.gmcnet.org
> From: Fungmcrv@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] a lawyer talks about buying an rv...
>
> Nancy
> Our first rally was an FMCA event.
> The coach parked next to us had the transmission lock in park and had to call for a mechanic.
> The coach two over had the genturi melt down overnight.
> And the president was late arriving because the steering in his new $750k coach went out and he arrived on the hook,
>
> It was also the first time I heard a GMC referred to as a disposable cioach. The SOB owner explained (before I took offense) that if he could buy a
> nice GMC for $25k, that was less than he would loose a year in depreciation on his big box.
>
> Dennis
>
> Nancy White wrote on Mon, 14 March 2016 13:04
>> I have no idea if there will be any interest here about this subject, but
>> this video popped up when I was watching you tube.. makes me more an more
>> happy we got a GMC, and avoided the heartbreak of new rv purchase.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP_u2JR51_Y
>>
>> --
>> Nancy White 1976 GMC Glenbrook Classic Coach
>> Westminster, Maryland > > juice.plus.nancy@gmail.com
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