What did you do to your Class C MH today???

new upper and lower ball joints today and alignment what a difference,about two months ago ordered a new trimark lock and now the deadbolt won't let me get the key in wwhat a piece of junk that company should be ashamed of the product they put out.

I cleaned the old girl out today, Maybe now I can get some work done so we can go camping this fall,,,,.....????Maybe:h Also I finished the motor up Now off to finish the rest.

I met my new (vintage) Class C up close and personal today! The nice guy that we are purchasing the RV from spent the afternoon showing us all the gadgets and gizmo's, what hooks up to what, etc. We pulled into an empty campsite and hooked everything up, and then unhooked and stowed everything to hit the road. We had a blast!

Can't wait until we get to bring it home next week!

Nice work on the door, Makes me think I might need to check mine, I would hate to have a all new RV with a bad door.

Nice job!

We love Seward, what a beautiful place :)

Very NICE job Alaskan!! I'm proud of ya'. Make sure you don't have any leaking around the frame of in the roof line....trust me, you never know what you will find when you start removing the outer skin from a MH. Keep us posted and "keep on truckin"! R.W. Bowers (A.K.A.--"Buffalo Bob")

Well our door was becoming difficult to open and close after 33 years of bouncing along the road, so we took the door apart. and found all we had was a pile of wet sawdust and cardboard sandwiched between to door skins.



So a trip to home depot and $30.00 in lumber we rebuilt the frame.



After some screws and some liquid nails we had a frame.



Then we glued it to the skin and installed the insulation panels in the void spaces.



Then we installed the window.



ANd then the new door lock and installed it on the RV. It was 1 am on thursday when we finished but I did go camping this weekend in Seward with the family.



THe old door was so rotted it rattled and was very loud, I was amazed at how much noise went away once the door was once again solid. Now we have to fix the door frame, there is more rot at the bottom of the frame...

THe total cost was just under $200.00 including wood, screws, glue, insulation, and new window surrounds and a modern lock (we had to modify the door frame to install this since it has a deadbolt. the deadbolt isn't functional on our rv) $94.00 of the cost was the new lock... It took 4 evening and about 24 hours of time to dismantle, clean the skins, figure out how to rebuild it, rebuild it, and assemble and rehang, and go on a test drive. Having a co-owner is nice since there are more hands and brainpower behind fixing stuff.

Washed and rinsed with dish soap--only had to move the new platform ladder twice on each side, twice for the back, and twice for the front. Got a good reach from the ladder to the cabover too. It was cloudy so I went ahead and did the car. Used the Bar Keepers Friend on the car and Protect-All for wax for the first time. I like it that I could just spray on the plastic trim too and wipe it off. Both vehicles look pretty good.

thebeach300 wrote:
put 4 new tires on and steel valve stems was going to get front end alignment bur i need upper and lower ball joints thanks ford for no grease fittings new to rving but this is turning into a money pit.

When I had mine replaced, the new ones had grease fittings in them.

Cleaned the Engine and repainted it with new plugs and wires.