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How is everyone doing?
My V10 project is on hold, still looking for some truck specific parts for the van engine. My price range is cheap to free or I would already have them. V10 truck seem extremely rare in the salvage yards around here.
My V10 project is on hold, still looking for some truck specific parts for the van engine. My price range is cheap to free or I would already have them. V10 truck seem extremely rare in the salvage yards around here.
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From: Fouke, Arkansas
I'm doing great today just sitting in my chair relaxing. It turned off fairly cold today around here, feels like 25* outside so I think I'll enjoy the TV watching me today.
I know what you mean about rare V10 trucks. I talked to the owner of a fairly good size salvage yard about 2 or 3 weeks ago about them and he told me they just send the V10s on down the road, wherever that is. I ask him why and he told me because nobody wants them. He also told me they never get a V10 they can just pull and sell. He said they all need major work before they can be used again.
We only have 2 good size salvage yards and the same guy owns both of them. Even though we have a few smaller ones the choice is limited.
I know what you mean about rare V10 trucks. I talked to the owner of a fairly good size salvage yard about 2 or 3 weeks ago about them and he told me they just send the V10s on down the road, wherever that is. I ask him why and he told me because nobody wants them. He also told me they never get a V10 they can just pull and sell. He said they all need major work before they can be used again.
We only have 2 good size salvage yards and the same guy owns both of them. Even though we have a few smaller ones the choice is limited.
Laughing Gas
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Well, I get to see if my V-10 still runs today.
Don't know if you guys know, but I closed my shop a couple of years ago and then we sold everything except our house and moved into our motor home. We've been spending the last couple of summers camp hosting at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
Anyway, we ended up having to come back to Arkansas and spend the winter due to doctor and house issues(we've been renting it out).
Well, several weeks ago when the temps dropped into the single digits, I had an electric heater in the lower compartments of the coach to keep the pipes from freezing. The morning after the worst of those nights(9* in Shirley)I woke to find that the heater had quit sometime in the night and all the pipes had frozen. As the temps climbed and things began to melt, it became obvious that I had major damage to the plumbinng of my 18 year old motor home.
Long story short, the insurance paid for over $9000 worth of plumbing work on the coach and for the last 3 weeks Lynn and I have been living at her brother's house.
Well, today we get to pick up our baby and move back in. I am totally ready to be in our own place, parked where we want to be(not right in downtown North Little Rock!).
Don't know if you guys know, but I closed my shop a couple of years ago and then we sold everything except our house and moved into our motor home. We've been spending the last couple of summers camp hosting at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
Anyway, we ended up having to come back to Arkansas and spend the winter due to doctor and house issues(we've been renting it out).
Well, several weeks ago when the temps dropped into the single digits, I had an electric heater in the lower compartments of the coach to keep the pipes from freezing. The morning after the worst of those nights(9* in Shirley)I woke to find that the heater had quit sometime in the night and all the pipes had frozen. As the temps climbed and things began to melt, it became obvious that I had major damage to the plumbinng of my 18 year old motor home.
Long story short, the insurance paid for over $9000 worth of plumbing work on the coach and for the last 3 weeks Lynn and I have been living at her brother's house.
Well, today we get to pick up our baby and move back in. I am totally ready to be in our own place, parked where we want to be(not right in downtown North Little Rock!).
Tuned
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From: Fouke, Arkansas
I hope your V10 still runs good for you Old Crow. Sorry to hear about your plumbing issue. I've never tried to fix the plumbing in a motorhome, heck I can't even fix the plumbing in a house. Luckily my son is an Arkansas master plumber so I don't have to mess with plumbing. Sound like a lot of fun camp hosting at the Grand Canyon.
I still have the flathead I bought from you back in '13 I think it was LOL. Still haven't torn it down yet since it's not a top priority for me but I hope to have time to do it this summer. God blessed my wife and me with a new shop/house last summer so we've been busy settling in.
I hope everything is ok with you and your wife and you can get back to doing what y'all love to do.
I still have the flathead I bought from you back in '13 I think it was LOL. Still haven't torn it down yet since it's not a top priority for me but I hope to have time to do it this summer. God blessed my wife and me with a new shop/house last summer so we've been busy settling in.
I hope everything is ok with you and your wife and you can get back to doing what y'all love to do.
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Well, I get to see if my V-10 still runs today.
Don't know if you guys know, but I closed my shop a couple of years ago and then we sold everything except our house and moved into our motor home. We've been spending the last couple of summers camp hosting at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
Anyway, we ended up having to come back to Arkansas and spend the winter due to doctor and house issues(we've been renting it out).
Well, several weeks ago when the temps dropped into the single digits, I had an electric heater in the lower compartments of the coach to keep the pipes from freezing. The morning after the worst of those nights(9* in Shirley)I woke to find that the heater had quit sometime in the night and all the pipes had frozen. As the temps climbed and things began to melt, it became obvious that I had major damage to the plumbinng of my 18 year old motor home.
Long story short, the insurance paid for over $9000 worth of plumbing work on the coach and for the last 3 weeks Lynn and I have been living at her brother's house.
Well, today we get to pick up our baby and move back in. I am totally ready to be in our own place, parked where we want to be(not right in downtown North Little Rock!).
Don't know if you guys know, but I closed my shop a couple of years ago and then we sold everything except our house and moved into our motor home. We've been spending the last couple of summers camp hosting at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
Anyway, we ended up having to come back to Arkansas and spend the winter due to doctor and house issues(we've been renting it out).
Well, several weeks ago when the temps dropped into the single digits, I had an electric heater in the lower compartments of the coach to keep the pipes from freezing. The morning after the worst of those nights(9* in Shirley)I woke to find that the heater had quit sometime in the night and all the pipes had frozen. As the temps climbed and things began to melt, it became obvious that I had major damage to the plumbinng of my 18 year old motor home.
Long story short, the insurance paid for over $9000 worth of plumbing work on the coach and for the last 3 weeks Lynn and I have been living at her brother's house.
Well, today we get to pick up our baby and move back in. I am totally ready to be in our own place, parked where we want to be(not right in downtown North Little Rock!).
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Well, slight teething problems, but overall, everything is good now. Nice to just hang out in my own place for a while.
Sam, if you(or hogtrapper, for that matter)need a good, used V-10, try Colaw RV Salvage in Carthage, MO. In October, I walked by like 4 of them sitting complete on the floor, still hooked to transmissions. A lot of motor homes are salvaged for reasons not at all related to the motor.
Sam, if you(or hogtrapper, for that matter)need a good, used V-10, try Colaw RV Salvage in Carthage, MO. In October, I walked by like 4 of them sitting complete on the floor, still hooked to transmissions. A lot of motor homes are salvaged for reasons not at all related to the motor.
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Thanks Old Crow I appreciate that information. I'm about ready to take a sledgehammer to the one in my truck. I was hoping I had it fixed this time but as of today number 5 is back to misfiring and I have no idea what to do to really fix the problem. How's your V10 running after sitting for a while? Those V10s you saw in Carthage, what kind of tranny were they hooked to, automatic or manual? Do you happen to know anything about the year model of them? Thanks again for the information.
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Laughing Gas
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Actually, we moved down to Maumelle Park in Little Rock last Monday. I noticed a bit of a miss at idle while I was setting up after we got here, but it's not throwing any lights and seems to go away off idle.
As far as the motors up in MO, I have no idea of the years but I can tell you they were all hooked to automatic trannies. Could be 4, 5, or 6 speeds depending on the year of the motor homes they came out of. Didn't pay that much attention as I was looking for furniture and a cabinet door.
As far as the motors up in MO, I have no idea of the years but I can tell you they were all hooked to automatic trannies. Could be 4, 5, or 6 speeds depending on the year of the motor homes they came out of. Didn't pay that much attention as I was looking for furniture and a cabinet door.
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Thank you for the information Old Crow I appreciate it. I am going to give them a call one day soon and ask them if they have an engine that'll fit my truck. I've been fighting and throwing money at this dog for about a year and a half now. Number 5 COP keeps going bad on me and I have no idea why or how to fix it.
Anyway again thank you for the information, and I hope you found the furniture and cabinet door you were looking for.
Anyway again thank you for the information, and I hope you found the furniture and cabinet door you were looking for.
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The cabinet door is kind of a crap shoot. It only came on coaches that were built with a smaller, 8 cu. ft. fridge. I didn't get to go through all the coaches at Colaw(my boss was getting restless), but all the ones I did check out seem to have been ordered with the larger side by side unit. I'll hit 'em again the next time I'm in the area.
The furniture they had that we liked(not used, but new, last year's models stuff)was priced too high for what we wanted to spend(still less than other places like Camping World, though). I ended up ordering online a different brand. Got a dual recliner love seat with a center console and a swivel recliner for what we would have paid for the love seat alone. No power recline or lighted cup holders like the stuff Colaw had, though.
I did end up with an inside grab rail for the entry door that's better than what came with this coach and a couple of other small items that I couldn't find anywhere else, so it wasn't a total bust.
The furniture they had that we liked(not used, but new, last year's models stuff)was priced too high for what we wanted to spend(still less than other places like Camping World, though). I ended up ordering online a different brand. Got a dual recliner love seat with a center console and a swivel recliner for what we would have paid for the love seat alone. No power recline or lighted cup holders like the stuff Colaw had, though.
I did end up with an inside grab rail for the entry door that's better than what came with this coach and a couple of other small items that I couldn't find anywhere else, so it wasn't a total bust.
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I understand what you are saying about the price of RV items. It's odd to me that they built things smaller for an RV yet the price is higher.
There is one guy down here with basically a monopoly on RV refrigerator repair......and he's a cantankerous old fart LOL. All the RV places around here take their refrigeration repair to him if the fridge needs charging. I actually think he's the only guy around that is equipped to do this for about a 100 miles and he knows it. If he doesn't like you he won't fix your fridge. My dad got along with him, the best I could do is tolerate him when I helped my dad take his RV fridge in for him to repair. I use a small 110 volt fridge in my horse trailer so I don't have to mess with kind of stuff LOL. If it goes out I chunk it and find another one for about a hundred and fifty dollars.
There is one guy down here with basically a monopoly on RV refrigerator repair......and he's a cantankerous old fart LOL. All the RV places around here take their refrigeration repair to him if the fridge needs charging. I actually think he's the only guy around that is equipped to do this for about a 100 miles and he knows it. If he doesn't like you he won't fix your fridge. My dad got along with him, the best I could do is tolerate him when I helped my dad take his RV fridge in for him to repair. I use a small 110 volt fridge in my horse trailer so I don't have to mess with kind of stuff LOL. If it goes out I chunk it and find another one for about a hundred and fifty dollars.
Laughing Gas
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A lot of RVers get rid of the gas/electric fridge and install residential units. But, then you get to deal with bigger battery banks and inverters if you want to camp anywhere besides an RV park with power. This coach had just had to fridge replaced when we bought it. If it ever fails(and doesn't burn the coach down doing so), I'll install what is called an Amish cooling unit. It uses helium instead of hydrogen in the cooling unit and is less prone to catching fire.
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That sounds interesting, Amish cooling unit, I've never heard of one. We nearly always stay in horse camps with hook ups. A couple of times we stayed where there were no hook ups but had a generator with us so all was good. The generator wasn't so loud we couldn't sleep but it did run out of fuel about 5 in the morning, it was cold outside and we were using electric heat LOL.
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