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Re: [GMCnet] Re: New Ownership, New member, Long road ahead. [message #371125 is a reply to message #368363]

Sat, 04 March 2023 01:22

Gurr

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Registered: May 2020
Location: Berkeley, CA

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I see I never responded to this! Sorry CJ...

To answer your question, yes. The entire coach is really kind of beat. I'm still working on it and as I kept checking things out and testing components and tearing it down more and more. It's been a lot of work, but I'm glad I have done it. I'm pretty lucky to be close to Jim K and Nick at Applied. I still haven't gotten to the front setup and I have intentions of doing so at some point, but I need to get this thing in a running state pretty soon here. Just some high level things that I've done:

- Replaced all the brake lines
- Performed hydroboost installation
- Kept the rear drums and rebuilt the whole back axle setups -- replacing bogie pins and bushings on one side and just tearing down and cleaning up the other side
- Installed quad bags in the rear
- Mostly finished with drum reaction arm system in the rear
- Howell TBI install partially finished
- One-wire swap on the alternator
- New emergency brake cables not installed
- Fuel tanks dropped, sending units installed, need to put back in when I feel like I don't need to access that spot under the coach anymore
- Entire interior removed, I would like to do new panels on the floor before building interior

Other things here and there...

The main goal for me is to have a solid base as I plan to put a pretty decent solar array on top with ability to have a rooftop deck as well. That plus the battery setup would be a possibly heavy install (even though I am removing a lot of weight by means of interior setup and possibly replacing the floor with composite material). This is why I would want to do the front one-ton swap as well...however there is debate/studies on braking power with mixing and matching these setups that I will not get into. Then again, maybe I will be fine with a rebuilt/reinforced front end (I have to check for the cracking front control arms that seem to plague the early models).

1973 GMC Motorhome. Obtained from the brink of destruction 05/15/2020 in the middle of the night. Berkeley, CA

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		New Ownership, New member, Long road ahead. By: Gurr on Sun, 17 May 2020 13:01
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