1984 Fleetwood Jamboree E350 - fuel pump / filter?

toyotaspeed90 wrote:
I pulled the tank early Friday afternoon so I could get it down to the radiator shop on Friday. The tank didn't actually look as bad internally as I was hoping... but I still wanted to pay the relatively low price to have it boiled out as cheap insurance.

However - I did find a small amount of corrosion on the fuel pump connector and the fuel pump sock was completely black and mostly hardened over. Most likely being the culprit.
Glad you found something and did not drop the tank for nothing.

I still haven't received the gasket for the carb yet so nowhere with that. I think I've decided to use an old 86 MR2 muffler for the generator. This muffler is about 6" diameter, has a 90* bend in it, about 3ft wide (yes, longer than the regular generator muffler) and is meant to quiet a 1.6 that has a short exhaust (MR2's are mid engine cars, so there isn't much length in the exhaust to quiet it down).
The last time I changed my Carb gaskets NAPA had them in stock. The muffler on my 4.0 Onan that was on it when I got it is only 4 1/2 inches in diameter and 18" long. My local muffler guy says he stocks them.

I swapped the radio out... and I've never had a stereo be such a PITA before. I've done them in tons of cars, trucks, boats, etc.... Many of which take as little as 15 minutes to do a clean/fresh swap or install. As simple as stereos are - it still took me about 3 hours just to wire.
Doing ANY work under or inside the dash of our rigs is indescribably difficult, no room and no access.

The wiring in the RV is less than optimistic. The radio that came out only had 2 channels so all 4 speakers ran to left & right.... However in trying to find which went where I couldn't easily determine (partially due to how it was built, partially due to how the PO wired it). There was no switched 12V (and realized that's so that occupants can listen to the stereo sans keys - my resolution to this was an added switch above the radio). The tricky part, however was the speakers... I ended up having to remove the rear speakers, cut the wires off the old stereo, make a 10' test cable, and check for continuity between each wire. Somehow there were only 4 wires for all 4 speakers connected to the old tape deck and I could only see unions for 2 of the 8 wires (meaning positive left front and rear I could see but not negative). This left me stumped and is why I resorted to cutting and testing.

Way way back some of the first old stereos for cars that had four speakers only had four wires, all positive, one for each speaker. The idea was that you were supposed to ground each speaker to the frame to complete the connection. This only lasted a few years due to all the interference and bad contacts as you can imagine. I was lucky, mine had eight wires, I would not want to try to fish wires from the radio to the rear, lots of work.

It was also wired with what looks to be house THHN cable - completely unnecessary for speakers. If I remember.... right speakers are yellow (+) and white (-) and left speakers are orange (+) and white (-). The only distinction you have between front and rear from above the doghouse is that the rear speaker wires are in a loom and the front speakers just go to the sides. Part of me thinks it couldn't be stock... until I realized all the wire is the same...

I also fabbed a bracket to hold the stereo in place - it cradles under the radio, bolts into the radio, and is bent and bolts up to the upper right vent.


I also picked up some square tubing to build a receiver hitch. I'm going a bit overload here.... the square tubing will sit inside the frame rails (2 pieces running parallel), will bolt to the frame rails, will be welded to the frame rails, and will be bolted to one another. I will probably pick up a univeral receiver plate and bolt & weld it to the square tubing. Hoping that is in and done effective Saturday.