You might be in trouble if.....
Your busted down RV is being repaired by a guy with a yard like this.... On my supposed 10 day photo/fishin safari...a number of thngs went sideways. One of them being.....
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Sounds similar to a friend's RV repair in Smithers, BC, in 2012. The transmission on his early 1970's GMC motorhome went kaput when he was returning home from Alaska on the Cassiar Highway. After a 100-mile RV tow and toad drive to Smithers, the GMC reached the nearest RV repair shop.
If you aren't familiar with those futuristic motorhomes, they use the Oldsmobile Toronado front-wheel drive 455 CI engine and transmission (no drive shaft) to ensure a low, flat floor in the living area and a low-drag, more streamlined profile on the road. So where do you find an early '70's GMC FWD transmission in a place the size of Smithers?
Well, you drive 10 miles out into the forest to a tarp-covered trailer. When you remove the tarp and search for a bit through all the used transmissions, you find just what you knew was there--an early '70's Cadillac Eldorado transmission that the tag says has only 36,000 miles on it. And you know that the FWD Eldorado from those years used the same transmission as the Toronado/GMC even though Cadillac had its own 500 CI engine.
Problem solved--transmission replaced the following day and back on the road the day after that. And three nights in a motel after two months on the road to Alaska in a small motorhome may actually have been a nice change for the couple. Not a cheap stay in Smithers by any means, but that transmission is still in the motorhome, which has been to Maine, California, Mexico, and everywhere in-between since 2012!
Sometimes these rustic, out-of-the-way places have just what you need!
If you aren't familiar with those futuristic motorhomes, they use the Oldsmobile Toronado front-wheel drive 455 CI engine and transmission (no drive shaft) to ensure a low, flat floor in the living area and a low-drag, more streamlined profile on the road. So where do you find an early '70's GMC FWD transmission in a place the size of Smithers?
Well, you drive 10 miles out into the forest to a tarp-covered trailer. When you remove the tarp and search for a bit through all the used transmissions, you find just what you knew was there--an early '70's Cadillac Eldorado transmission that the tag says has only 36,000 miles on it. And you know that the FWD Eldorado from those years used the same transmission as the Toronado/GMC even though Cadillac had its own 500 CI engine.
Problem solved--transmission replaced the following day and back on the road the day after that. And three nights in a motel after two months on the road to Alaska in a small motorhome may actually have been a nice change for the couple. Not a cheap stay in Smithers by any means, but that transmission is still in the motorhome, which has been to Maine, California, Mexico, and everywhere in-between since 2012!
Sometimes these rustic, out-of-the-way places have just what you need!
