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[GMCnet] GMCs, Mountains, Fuel Injection, Electric Blowers, Gears [message #180085] Sun, 12 August 2012 23:07 Go to previous message
Gerald Work is currently offline  Gerald Work   United States
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Two more things....

We use our Onan a lot. I would not want to guess how many hours it has run on this trip alone. It has been very hot and we dry camp much of the time. Four six volt batteries and a 2300 watt inverter make that easy to do. Go to the GMC page on my web site to see how ours is set up. The presentation is called, "Living large in your GMC".

As one example of how we use our Onan, while in Kelowna we loaded 12 people on board and went wine tasting. The Onan and roof air ran continuously for about four hours as we toured around to keep everyone cool. The rear lounge design of our coach (a 78 only Royale floor plan) makes it easy to transport lots of folks in comfort.

My suggestion is to follow D. Simmons instructions to get your gen set working properly and use it often to keep it working properly. It really makes a big difference if you use your coach as much as we use this one. In hot weather, it and the roof air run every time we make a stop at a store or farmers market plus whenever we stop to fix lunch. Really nice to have an already cool coach for the next leg of our trip. Based both on our experience full timing in a rolling condo and our ten years with this GMC I am convinced most gen set issues are because they are used so infrequently. One good piece of advice we received early in our full timing days was the best way to make sure the gen will work when you need it is to run it today whether you need it or not. Certainly has worked well for us.

Second, we do not have fender liners on our coach. I took them out ten years ago and the coach runs much cooler as a result. All the fears some originally expressed about getting the engine all dirty or drowning the distributor or the air intake have proved to be non issues. Our engine stays nice and clean and we have driven in some really hard rains - we do live in southern Oregon after all - grin!

Jerry

Jerry Work
The Dovetail Joint
Fine furniture designed & hand crafted
in the 1907 former Masonic Temple building
in historic Kerby, OR
Http://jerrywork.com
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