I'm really starting to share the love/hate relationship concept with this motorhome, but I am making progress. Ultimately I just want to use it for a few years before I do any serious restoration but I just keep finding stuff to repair.
1st was to walk the roof. I quickly discovered both vents to be trash and the antenna hanging on by the silicone that remained. Tossed in 2 MaxAir fans and repaired some of the wiring the the PO moved around. Who knows why, probably not him but a ship he used.
Next was the lights. This is ongoing but they are all LED now. The old lights being NLA and not working ment I needed to get crafty. This was also a 4 hour ordeal as the shop who painted this rig totally botched the wiring for a hitch install. Ultimately it's working great now.
The previous owners installed a residential style fridge and it was tossed in rather haphazardly. I figured I wanted to install and RV fridge to restore dry camping capabilities. After the sticker shock of gas/ electric fridges I ended up purchasing 300ah batteries, 12V fridge and 400 watts of Solar for less. A few test runs have proven this will work for my needs.
They also bent over the old gas line so I completely deleted the line and capped off the black pipe.
Since I was in the process of fixing leaks the radiator popped a leak on me. I ordered the only replacement I could find to avoid dealing with a local shop only to be disappointed in the quality. Don't get me wrong, I still installed it, but only after doing some cleaning up in the overflow of weld and cleaning up messed up threads.
Also added a new transmission cooler during the process. Removed the condenser as it was the old R12 and the PO removed everything for the AC. That's a project for another day.
To keep it safe on the road I had a set of tires installed. When I got home I inspected the work to find all the wheel weights installed and no caps on the valve stems. I was rather upset with the shop as I was quoted road force balancing and they actually didn't have the capability to do that and tossed in bags. All without calling me to make sure I was good with the process. Since that happened I just removed the weights and installed caps. Also adjusted all the pressures since they clearly couldn't handle the job.
The list seems to be never ending from dash fans, wiper blades, entry handle shattering and needing to completely remove the water plumbing and add new PEX. I'll keep going at it and hopefully be able to use the rig this summer. Unfortunately I am not going to risk safety and won't take it out until I have all new brake lines (rubber parts) and know it's road ready.
Lastly I was able to score some new mattress on a Black Friday sales. The original mattress wasn't gonna fly with my wife, so I tossed in something new. Curtains were made from some scraps my wife had laying around.
