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jhbridges
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Put a Schrader valve in the air bag, pump it up, and boogie. If the bag itself leaks, replace it with a piece of threaded rod. It will get you home.
==johnny
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
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| Re: [GMCnet] Broken air suspension. Ok to drive? [message #302959 is a reply to message #302957] |
Sat, 02 July 2016 13:30 |
Carl S.
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[quote title=Tynan wrote on Sat, 02 July 2016 10:38]I'm about to buy a gmc motor home. The airbag suspension doesn't work. Will it damage the motor home to drive it broken? I want to do a 10 hour road trip before repairing it. Thanks!
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If you have air bags on the coach, isolate them and install a couple of air tank valves like Johnny suggested:
http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=20780666
I once answered a "Black List" call for a couple who had leaky air bags in a new to them coach. I took him to a nearby Ace Hardware, where he purchased some pipe, all thread, nuts, and washers. I told him how to substitute this stuff for the air bag. I got in touch with him later and he had driven the coach over a thousand miles with the rods in place of the air bags without issue. He said it didn't even ride that badly.
Carl Stouffer
'75 ex Palm Beach
Tucson, AZ.
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| Re: [GMCnet] Broken air suspension. Ok to drive? [message #302961 is a reply to message #302959] |
Sat, 02 July 2016 14:47 |
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I blew an airbag just before a planned trip from Santa Fe, NM to Denver. About a 450 mile trip. I couldn’t locate a bag in Albuquerque or Santa Fe so I went to Ace Hardware and bought a length of 3/4” threaded rod, nuts and washers. I cut the rod to the right length and put it in and drove to Denver. As you say, the ride wasn’t too bad. I was used to looking over to my wife and seeing her breasts bounce up and down but on this trip they swayed back and forth. Especially on the I-25 “S” curves through Colorado Springs.
That rod was enough to make two rods so I made a spare and gave it to a friend. I still carry one in the GMC for an emergency.
We had two new bags waiting for us in Denver and I quickly replaced them.
Emery Stora
77 Kingsley
Frederick, CO)
> On Jul 2, 2016, at 12:30 PM, Carl Stouffer wrote:
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> Tynan wrote on Sat, 02 July 2016 10:38
>> I'm about to buy a gmc motor home. The airbag suspension doesn't work. Will it damage the motor home to drive it broken? I want to do a 10 hour
>> road trip before repairing it. Thanks!
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> If it has airbags, it won't hurt a thing to isolate them and inflate them with a tank valve, as Johnny says:
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> I once answered a "Black List" call for a couple who had leaky air bags in a new to them coach. I took him to a nearby Ace Hardware, where he
> purchased some pipe, all thread, nuts, and washers. I told him how to substitute this stuff for the air bag. I got in touch with him later and he
> had driven the coach over a thousand miles with the rods in place of the air bags without issue. He said it didn't even ride that badly.
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