| [GMCnet] Trani install follow up [message #302549] |
Wed, 22 June 2016 22:35  |
Burt and Faye curtis
Messages: 256
Registered: June 2012
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First I would like to thank everyone that gave me encouragement last fall
when my trani didn't work and a neighbor and I decided to install one Bert
and I had purchased a few years earlier in hopes that I would still make
the three rallies - 49ers, Western States and GMCMI. Unfortunately, that
trani got me about 20 miles from home before seriously overheating and
turning the front of my coach a yellow oily mess. Still don't know if it
was the trani or if the rear brakes were sticking and caused the trani to
overwork while climbing a grade, but that is next up.
Well, this last weekend, a couple of GMC friends, my nephew and i removed
and replaced the dead trani with one that Manny had rebuilt. The removal
went very well and the installation had only a few hicups. Now that I have
seen the R and R from both the top side and the bottom side, it should go
much easier, if I ever need to do it again - hopefully never on my coach!
The upshot to all of this is it now works perfectly and I am hoping to be
back out on the road in Tumbleweed again in the near future. Just a bit of
clean up and some other interior work to do, but there should be nothing
serious to keep me from rolling.
Thank you everyone again and especially Manny for passing on his knowledge
for R and R ing it.
And I would encourage anyone that is even slightly mechanically incline to
take the plunge and do it themselves if the need to remove a trani happens.
Oh, must have done the job right as have only one extra bolt left over :)
Fay Curtis
'76 Glenbrook aka Tumbleweed
Kneeland, CA
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