| Re: [GMCnet] Everybody's has to mess up once. [message #111259] |
Fri, 07 January 2011 16:38 |
Gerald Wheeler
Messages: 152
Registered: February 2004
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Roger Black writes, among other things:
Now, if I can just find the keys.
This reminds me of something that just happened to me. As I have reported
on the net several times over the past year, I am working on my deceased
friend's 77 Birchaven as well as selling off most of his GMC stuff for his
wife. His coach has been in my garage since he acquired it in September,
2007 (I'm pretty sure it was 2007, because we sat in my pickup and listened
to App State beat Michigan in football). When I got back to NC this fall
after my 3 month vacation on the Oregon coast, I went back to work on his
Birchaven. I had searched his workshop in May for a compression gauge, as
I wanted to roll the engine so I could report to any potential buyer the
compression figures for each cylinder. I could never find his compression
gauge, so I flew back from Oregon with my own; which, by the way, I made a
mistake of packing it on the bottom of my carry on luggage. I had to
completely empty my carry on bag during the inspection, holding up everyone
at the North Bend, Oregon, airport (I was first in line and there were
about 20 passengers waiting to board the plane, only one check in line at a
small airport, this being 6am in the morning). Anyway, getting on to the
rest of the story. So I start looking for the keys to the Birchaven in
October. Can't find them anywhere, his wife doesn't have them. I search
the Birchaven, my shop, his shop, his house, everywhere he could have laid
them or hid them. After looking for a month, I communicated with Joe Ekl,
a GMCer and locksmith from PA. He said to get the cylinder codes to him
and he could make some keys for me. I remove the door lock and then work
on the steering wheel assembly to get that lock out. Had to buy a $17 tool
to compress a part in the steering column to eventually get to the
cylinder. Finally get it off, but no code on the door lock, so send both
cylinders to Joe. He was just leaving for a week in AZ, so I wait a week
and send them just before Christmas and he returns the cylinders with keys
just before New Year's. I wait several days, finally go to the shop and
install the door lock and the ignition lock. Both work. Great. Can't
remember how an interior spring (not a coiled spring) and another part fit
in the steering column, so I go sit down in front of my work bench and
watch some TV. I'm about 6 feet from the coach. I see something under
the front bumper laying on the floor; can't figure out what it is; I had
just cleaned that area the prior week. So I pick it up and it is a
magnetic rusted key case with two keys in it. They fit the locks. Now go
figure; that magnetic case lock fell off the front bumper or somewhere else
up front all by itself. I figure my friend Cecil dropped it to say "dumb
shit, you didn't look hard enough". Now if I can just get the steering
column back together.
JR Wheeler NC/OR
> [Original Message]
> From: Roger Black <r1black@comcast.net>
> To: <gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org>
> Date: 1/7/2011 2:55:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Everybody's has to mess up once.
>
> Stick,
> Looks like you're forcing my hand at going on and removing it so I can
> test patch that area. <G> Don't forget, I'm colder than you are
> outside.
>
> Now, if I can just find the keys.
>
> One note I learned and eliminated. The vent/overflow hose that spits
> back at you when filled needs to be a straight line to the fill vent.
> Mine had a drooping loop before it went up and it was totally black
> inside the the loop. Be careful how you route the vent/overflow line
> to avoid this.
>
> Might as well send me your address, too.
>
> Roger Black
> 77 Birchaven
> Burns, Tn
>
>
>
>
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