| Successful Short Trip [message #258868] |
Fri, 15 August 2014 00:27  |
George Beckman
Messages: 1085
Registered: October 2008
Location: Colfax, CA
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This is for those getting discouraged with their GMC...
We just took a couple nights to get away. Top elevation was 6900 feet. Coach ran fine. Folks ogled the coach and were surprised it was a 1974. A fellow asked if it had a V-10 in it. All the parts of the road that were not going down were going up. Furnace worked. Fuel injection worked. Onan worked. Inverter worked. On demand hot water heater worked. Constant heat shower valve worked. (This makes me a hero with my wife every trip.) Brakes were fine. Steers like a car. The Van WInkle water pump buttons (another one that makes my wife happy) kept us from having to go "somewhere else" to turn water on or off. Transmission was perfect. No vapor lock. Engine didn't get hot. Emergency brake assist (Branscombe) worked every time. Refrigerator was perfect. Sully type bags leveled and held fine while camping. Got home and the macerator worked perfectly. Backed it in the barn with almost no retries.
I did not get between 9 and 10 mpg (8.5 on the computer) and we were not towing. Had to dump in a quart of oil because this engine is a "oil burner".
Have hope. When I brought this coach home the neighbor boy asked, "Papa, why did George get such an ugly motor home?" (We had a "cute" little 23' called "Baby" at the time and Ruth still misses it.) We have driven well over 40K miles and been on a flatbed once. (Transmission, which I knew was giving trouble but went up a almost 5000' to a church family camp, anyway.)
'74 Eleganza, SE, Howell + EBL
Best Wishes,
George
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