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Tue, 12 November 2019 08:20  |
LNelson
Messages: 335
Registered: December 2008
Location: Springfield, MO
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I need to start thinking about my retirement (even though I am only 72) and getting my coach to a mechanical condition where I can motor on down the road with some confidence. I am a worrier by nature so I am always thinking about "what is going to happen" next. This is our second GMC. We drove our last one from Lower MO to Spokane, pretty much non-stop, back in 2000, with two families and a dog, heading to a womens NCAA Regional B-Ball game (beat Duke, and then Washington on our way to the Final Four). We left it running for fueling/Big Mac's/and dog walking duty. No problems. (Then I bought a GM bus.....another story).
My engine has about 112,000 miles on it, I assume the same for the tranny. Right now, except for my soon-to-be replaced tires, I would drive this coach to California or Florida. My oil analysis is tracking a strong engine. But....I am pricing my options. In my earlier years, I would pull the heads, have them done, maybe drop the pistons and re-ring/hone the cylinders, etc. A gasket set + machine shop + some of my labor = a stronger engine. I have no interest in re-inventing the wheel. I have priced the S and J engine, on the other hand. I think I have a shop that would do the swap (they jack the front up and drop the engine out the bottom. I don't think I have it in me to do that, and I don't WANT to do it unless I have to (replace with MY labor). I have even looked at selling the coach and trying something else (the CAsita trailers look very interesting to me).....
I am considering ordering the engine, and ordering a tranny, and put them in my hangar for future transplant. Don't know what the shelf life is on a tranny. Is Manny still building them?
Love our GMC. Wife loves it, too. Nothing wrong as I write this. Just dreaming......
Larry
Larry Nelson Springfield, MO
Ex GMC'er, then GM Busnut
now '77 Eleganza ARS WB0JOT
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