Appliance help chevy southwind 87
Hello hello this is my first post it's nice to meet you. My husband and I recently became the joyful owners of a lightly-used 87 Chevy Southwind by Fleetwood. We live in Los Angeles and this RV is goi...
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Well Tangles,
For starters what you have is -- an 87 Fleetwood Southwind Chevy. Very early on you need to find out what the chassis actually is. I would suspect that it is a P30, but you should confirm that.
I can't even begin to help you with where you can dump and load potable water. What I know that might be a help is that if you look up the websites for the owners groups of older hardware, you may be able to download the manuals for the installed appliances. One I know of, but might be too old is the GMC Motorhomes group at Manuals and scroll way down. Other owner's groups have similar.
Start a notebook, that has as the first page, a list of the installed things with the manufacturer, model number or type and if possible a serial number. When you can, print, punch and file all then manuals you can glomn onto and build a notebook so you have them when you need them. You will need them. Parts for many older things can be hard to come by, but there are many on-line vendors that have these parts or can tell you how to substitute a replacement.
A note of caution. Your coach is way newer than ours, but yours is at the age where the rubber parts will be going bad. Be ready. Not just tires - They are a given - but hoses, fuel, coolant, power steering and brake lines too.
I hope it works out for you.
Matt
For starters what you have is -- an 87 Fleetwood Southwind Chevy. Very early on you need to find out what the chassis actually is. I would suspect that it is a P30, but you should confirm that.
I can't even begin to help you with where you can dump and load potable water. What I know that might be a help is that if you look up the websites for the owners groups of older hardware, you may be able to download the manuals for the installed appliances. One I know of, but might be too old is the GMC Motorhomes group at Manuals and scroll way down. Other owner's groups have similar.
Start a notebook, that has as the first page, a list of the installed things with the manufacturer, model number or type and if possible a serial number. When you can, print, punch and file all then manuals you can glomn onto and build a notebook so you have them when you need them. You will need them. Parts for many older things can be hard to come by, but there are many on-line vendors that have these parts or can tell you how to substitute a replacement.
A note of caution. Your coach is way newer than ours, but yours is at the age where the rubber parts will be going bad. Be ready. Not just tires - They are a given - but hoses, fuel, coolant, power steering and brake lines too.
I hope it works out for you.
Matt
