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Zen, Karma, and my GMC [message #250002] Sun, 18 May 2014 07:26 Go to previous message
LNelson is currently offline  LNelson   United States
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Registered: December 2008
Location: Springfield, MO
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I am closing in on my working life and anticipating using my coach A LOT in the upcoming years. This is my second coach and this one has 103,000 miles on it and my previous one had 110,000 when I lost my head and bought my bus. The only trouble I ever had was on the first coach, lost my torque converter at the Crazy Horse monument but still got home to Lower MO. Got a Danny Dunn tranny and all was good.

Anyway, while driving on this last trip, I got to thinking about making a PROACTIVE effort to remove most pucker factor from the operation of my coach so I am reaching out. I read every post on this forum each night while watching Everybody Loves Raymond between my feet. I could probably boil down these questions on my own from past posts, BUT, I thought it might be fun to take on this discussion.

At my age, I fully realize I am driving a coach that is 37 years old, with an engine and tranny with over 100k on them. There is a hilly section of Hwy 63 on the way to Memphis, just south of Mammoth Springs AR all the way to Hardy. Hilly, lots of curves, no shoulders to turn off on. A breakdown there.....not good. Now, on the other hand, I routinely fly me, my family, my dog, etc, in a 1950 Cessna 195 with a Jacobs 330 HP engine designed and built in the late thirties, early 40's. Many new parts on that engine, however, but the "Jacobs Burp" is always an exciting event.

So, to curb my advancing paranoia, while I can still invest a little money in my coach, here goes:

1. Engine (from whom)? Not interested in an experimental task, just a "new" engine. If you don't want to show favorites, please email or PM me.
2. Tranny (from whom)? Same deal.
3. I have looked at the 1 ton, but I am capable and equipped to pull my hubs apart and service my bearings. But still......????
4. Breaking number one down further: headers? FI?

I know there were more issues running thru my mind on this last, troublefree trip, but can't think of any. You can see I am concentrating on "moving parts", but I am surely interested in opinions here. I have recently read of more than one "new" engine going bad, so that is a big deal for me. My engine shows a bit of lead in it's last two Blackstone reports, but "nothing to worry about" at this time. I would get in the coach now and drive it to California, if I wanted to go there, so I have no issues other than my throttle return which I will look into soon (thanks for all the advice on that).

So pretend you are on one of those hot rod "build" TV shows. Money is an issue but pretend it isn't. Thanks.

Larry

Larry Nelson Springfield, MO Ex GMC'er, then GM Busnut now '77 Eleganza ARS WB0JOT

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