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[GMCnet] Re: Exhaust bang bang bang [message #366793 is a reply to message #366791] Wed, 15 September 2021 11:32 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Have you tried switching fuels?

Sully
Bellevue wa

On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 9:20 AM wrote:

> Well after reading the above I am both encouraged and discouraged! My
> coach isn't really very high mileage at all, but it is, like the others,
> old -
> so maybe things have decomposed. I don't know. In the last 10 or 12 years
> it was only driven on three trips until I started camping this year.
>
> Trip one was from Bakersfield, California to BC then across Canada to
> Belleville Ontario. Long haul. Second was from Belleville Ontario to Scotch
> Creek BC. In the interim the coach spent 10 years indoors at a Belleville
> school bus fleet heated garage. Trip 3 was the delivery journey I made in
> March of this year, Scotch Creek to Victoria BC. Those trips added about
> 8500 miles and the odometer just turned 40,000 when I got the coach to the
> island.
>
> Engine idles and runs smoothly, roars up hills with no problem and doesn't
> diesel on shutdown. If I were to describe the engine's behavior, I'd have
> to say she "runs like a top".
>
> So ...do I start messing with things or just leave it be and put up with
> the popping exhaust on steep downgrades? :?
>
> Larry
> --
> Larry - Victoria BC -
>
> 1977 Palm Beach 40,000 miles, PO said everything working but forgot the
> word NOT. New Atwood fridge, water heater & furnace. New SS exhaust system,
> 6000w Onan, Iota Converter, R134A A/C, New fuel lines & heat exchange hoses
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Sully 77 Royale basket case. Future motorhome land speed record holder(bucket list) Seattle, Wa.

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