Help me find a motorhome?
I am also willing to pay you for your time helping me find a motorhome. I recently got the itch to try mobile living full time. I posted about a week ago a similar post but talking about a specific ...
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$15K is not going to get you a 2000 model year or newer diesel pusher with slideouts. $30-35K maybe, for something that was small (32-38') and at the low end of the price range when new. $15-20K puts you more into the late 1990s for small diesel pushers, mostly entry-price model lines before slideouts became common at all price ranges. That's just where the market is today.
At the age and size dictated by your price range, what you will find in diesel will be 5.9 Cummins rated in the 150 - 230 HP range, or Caterpillar C-7 at 250-275, 300 HP at the highest. Higher output small diesels did not show up until later, when the Cummins was boosted for the pickup truck horsepower race. For any significant towing, you might be looking for a larger motorhome, with Cummins C or L series engines, or the 9 liter Caterpillar, which would bring horsepower ratings to the 300-350 range. But that's in the $50-$90K price range for late 1990s to early 2000s.
Front-engine diesels maybe? In the early to middle 1990s Safari was optionally putting a small GM or Isuzu diesel in the 24-28 foot Trek, built on a GM chassis and normally powered by the 454 gasoline engine. They are a rare find, and sometimes you will find that one that had been diesel re-engined with the 454.
At the age and size dictated by your price range, what you will find in diesel will be 5.9 Cummins rated in the 150 - 230 HP range, or Caterpillar C-7 at 250-275, 300 HP at the highest. Higher output small diesels did not show up until later, when the Cummins was boosted for the pickup truck horsepower race. For any significant towing, you might be looking for a larger motorhome, with Cummins C or L series engines, or the 9 liter Caterpillar, which would bring horsepower ratings to the 300-350 range. But that's in the $50-$90K price range for late 1990s to early 2000s.
Front-engine diesels maybe? In the early to middle 1990s Safari was optionally putting a small GM or Isuzu diesel in the 24-28 foot Trek, built on a GM chassis and normally powered by the 454 gasoline engine. They are a rare find, and sometimes you will find that one that had been diesel re-engined with the 454.
