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Electro-Level II [message #304121]

Sun, 24 July 2016 11:58

G?Rs66

Messages: 56
Registered: May 2016
Location: Wautoma, Wi.

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Good Morning to all
We are new to the GMC Motorhome world and would like to take a little of your time to introduce us to the community.
We are Eugene & Veronica Knueppel{Gene&Ronny} we live in Wautoma, Wi. We purchased a 1978 Transmode in April of this year.Something I never thought I would do. Ronny has been bugging me for years to do something other then our pop-up camper. She is tired of the work of setting it up & down. So I agreed to start looking for something different. I did not want a travel trailer and I did not want to drive a big box around. I came across a couple of GMCs in Portage, Wi and stopped to take a look at them. I took some pics. and got a phone number. Showed them to Ronny and she was very interested. So I called the phone number and no answer. In the mean time I did allot of research on the GMC Motorhome and I was so overwhelmed by the drivetrane and the suspension that I started looking at more and more sites Including this one. I found GMCMI and others like it. Started looking at what was for sale and pricing. Once i found out what I was looking at I gave that phone number another try and got a hold of the owner and talked with him and what the coaches where and how much he wanted for them. Well needless to say I found alot better coaches for alot less money. One morning I was sitting in Chicago waiting to unload{I'm one of those crazy truck drivers} and this 1978 motorhome had just been listed on GMCMIs web site. It looked really strange with no windows. So before I knew what I was doing I called the owner again no answer but I left my name & number he called me back a short time later within 2 hrs. He told me he just didn't have the time to keep going with this. he said it had no interior and was used as a mobile office along time ago and he bought it from the guys who used it very seldom. So we made plans to go up and see it the next weekend and check it out. It had been sitting in a warehouse for the last 10 years. He owned for about 4 yrs. after that and only put 1400 miles on it. Odometer read 23894 miles I was thinking more like 123894 but beaning a mechanic all my life I could tell the miles on the odd. were on the money. so we made a deal and was going to pick it up in Sept. On another matter with the bank I had mentioned the coach to my banker she was very impressed with the idea and after the other matter was taking care of we would talk about it. The other matter went away and she agreed to lone me the money to buy the coach. so 3 weeks after I found it, it was sitting in my driveway. the trip to bring it home was 170 miles. My wife was following me and in contact with each other we did the speed check and the coach was off buy a few mhp so I,m going to say maby 30000 miles on the coach. It needs a major tune-up. It came with 2 onen 6kw gens. installed from the factory. the one on the driver side had gas in the oil and not going to mess with it. It will be puled and set aside for now. the one on the pass. side had been set up to run off of a 6gal. boat tank. I put gas in and WALA it started and ran good. I Tried the roof ACs and both worked. I have been watching this forum since May and been waiting to Introduce our self's to the community and the time to wright this{hope it's not to long}
Ok back to the topic at hand my leveling system when it is in auto only the right side goes up and not the left. In hold or travel I can raise or lower both sides with the switches. I have downloaded all the manuals but don't really give a trouble shoot for this problem. If any body has had this problem what is the solution? before I start to make upgrades to the coach I want to go completely stock from the factory then make my discussion and what we are going to do. Well I am going to close for now and quit taking up your time. Thank You and Have A great Day.

1978 Transmode 1966 GTO{frame off restor} Wautoma, Wi (About 35 miles west of Oshkosh, Wi) Gene Don't Do Facebook but Ronny does