| [GMCnet] trip report [message #238728] |
Tue, 04 February 2014 09:06  |
jhbridges
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Registered: May 2011
Location: Braselton ga
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A short trip - four day weekend at the Atlanta Expo Center for our Club's dog show along with three others. We had to weather cancel the Thursday shows, I got there Thursday afternoon after watching the traffic cameras all day. When the off ramp I use finally melted, we went down there without problems. I took the remaining BWD, he saw me loading the GMC and demanded to come along. He's past his show career and long been promoted to lap service, but he still braced up and walked through the venue like he owned the place.
The GMC performed flawlessly. I had an electric heater along since I haven;t put the furnace back yet. Below about 40 degrees the heat pump shuts down on its own, the electric heater keeps us comfortable. I close off the throne room in back so it doesn't have so much area to warm. I managed to kill the toad battery by leaving the lights on, but it jumped off the GMC chassis battery without any trouble and a twenty minute trip brought it up to full charge.
When I purged the hot water line before leaving, the pump pushed the air out easily and in about a minute water flowed through the faucets. I do this so I'll have hot water when I arrive from the engine heat. When I tried the cold, the pump didn't purge. A look under the sink cabinet revealed a split filter cannister on the Culligan single faucet filter fitted there. It was in pieces. Fortunately there's a Homer the Despot across the street from the show site, so I picked up a 3/8ths double female and bypassed the filter.. the water system then worked flawlessly. For those of you who have these filters - and I'm told Norris/Midas fitted many RVs with them - be aware, draining the lines won't drain the filter cannister. Blowing air through the lines might, I have never tried it. Removing it and pouring the water out of it is the way to preserve it.
--johnny
'76 23' transmode norris
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Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
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