The sins of the previous owners...
...are visited upon the subsequent owners. The awning on our Itasca is fastened to brackets that stand it off from the side about an inch at the narrowest, an inch and a half at the widest, and abo...
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You lucky folks have no idea what can happen...
Between working on other peoples old boats and being the owner of a GMC motorhome, I have see enough to make a Farmers Insurance commercial look lame.
In the boat world we often say that on launching any temporary repairs become permanent. I am not going to start a list here and now, but I maybe should for my memoirs.
In the GMC part of things, you have to start by realizing that the newest is 40 years old. Most have had numerous owners and some of those have not been very skilled at maintenance, but you can't push all the blame off on the owners. We have also seen some amazing repairs done by shops that were supposed to know what they were doing. Some were even downright dangerous.
The wire on a nut was a clever rig in my book. And yes, a lot of hitch kits come with nuts that have a long sheet metal handle so you can get them where they need to be.
Oh, a "Long Reach Thing Grabber" has been a part of my standard kit for years.
Some time, if we meet and you are willing to buy the beer, I can go on a while longer about scary repairs.
Matt
Between working on other peoples old boats and being the owner of a GMC motorhome, I have see enough to make a Farmers Insurance commercial look lame.
In the boat world we often say that on launching any temporary repairs become permanent. I am not going to start a list here and now, but I maybe should for my memoirs.
In the GMC part of things, you have to start by realizing that the newest is 40 years old. Most have had numerous owners and some of those have not been very skilled at maintenance, but you can't push all the blame off on the owners. We have also seen some amazing repairs done by shops that were supposed to know what they were doing. Some were even downright dangerous.
The wire on a nut was a clever rig in my book. And yes, a lot of hitch kits come with nuts that have a long sheet metal handle so you can get them where they need to be.
Oh, a "Long Reach Thing Grabber" has been a part of my standard kit for years.
Some time, if we meet and you are willing to buy the beer, I can go on a while longer about scary repairs.
Matt
