bingbill wrote:
Thanks for the info. I think it's a 'c' it says it had a 360, but it's been replaced with a 440. says something about a MBH-300. as you can see I don't know a lot about this stuff. it's 10,000 lbs loaded. 23ft long. 6 wheel xpoler 260. I have found a lot of info on other xplorers, but nobody seams to know about the 260. I think it's just the short brother of the 300's. what can I tell you that would say 'a' or 'c'? and again, thanks for your help.
Yes, it's a Class C.
The Dodge Class A chassis are MXXX or RMXXX. The M chassis had all drum brakkes and the RM chassis (sometimes called a R3, R4, or R5 chassis) had disc front brakes.
The original motorhomes (Travcos and their essentially-the-same predecessor) were on P300 delivery truck chassis, with slant six engines. (People had trouble believing their fancy motorhome was on the same chassis as their local dairy/laundry/bread service trucks so Dodge came up with the M300 designation ever though the M300 chassis was identical to the P300 chassis.)
The Dodge BXXX trucks were/are the vans. The Class C chassis is MB300, with the M standing for motorhome. (To the best of my knowledge, all Class C's are 1-ton MB300 chassis.) As in your case, you will sometimes find additional letters thrown in there (Mother Mopar got weird at times) but the 300 and the MB are the important parts.
Because the MB300 is a cut-away version of the B300, most of the non-coach parts are the same ... which is why I tell people to tell the counter folks to look for B300 parts.
