GAS PUSHER
Good evening. I would like your opinion on a 2008 39ft Forest river Gas pusher. I don't know much about gas pushers and being 39ft will it be under power with the chevy workhorse? 3 slides w/d combo...
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The over heating that keeps being mentioned was an Oshkosh chassis with a Ford 460 mounted in the rear. The cooling fan direction was not changed and sucking air on a rear engine coach don't work well.
When WorkHorse built their rear engine, 8.1L coach, they did change the fan air flow direction. But that imposed an inverse load on the water pump bearing and there was water pump failure.
Work Horse said the problem was an over active fan clutch and patched the problem with a less active fan clutch. DUH.....
There also was Bosch brake caliper issues on WorkHorse chassis. Took 7 or 8 years before WorkHorse admitted to the brake problem and issued a recall.
Their unique front sway bar was not made of strong enough material and there was a recall for that too.
Even with those failures, I would not hesitate to buy a WorkHores 8.1L chassis. Once those minor failures are fixed, it's a good driving, powerful chassis.
Richard
When WorkHorse built their rear engine, 8.1L coach, they did change the fan air flow direction. But that imposed an inverse load on the water pump bearing and there was water pump failure.
Work Horse said the problem was an over active fan clutch and patched the problem with a less active fan clutch. DUH.....
There also was Bosch brake caliper issues on WorkHorse chassis. Took 7 or 8 years before WorkHorse admitted to the brake problem and issued a recall.
Their unique front sway bar was not made of strong enough material and there was a recall for that too.
Even with those failures, I would not hesitate to buy a WorkHores 8.1L chassis. Once those minor failures are fixed, it's a good driving, powerful chassis.
Richard
