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restoring 1987 holaday Rambler

femailyetti
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I have purchased a 1987 Motor home and am fixing it up as money is available. I have replaced the passenger side brake line and caliper and now have three wheels that lock up when you stomp on the breaks. This is much better then the one or two that were working on the harrowing drive home after the purchase.
The air pumps are being removed at this time as the driver side one is locked up. The passenger side one seems to be working, but there is a hole in the part mounted on the header that is causing a little ticking sound. The header parts will be welded up at a later date when I can bribe my people with a appropriate reward.
I have changed the passenger side spark plugs, the old ones had a gap of around 80 to 85 thousand when I took them out. They did have a nice tan color. The driver side plugs will be replaced next, along with the cap and rotor.
The front air bags are holding pressure, and the front suspension has been greased with new grease. It has some sort of stabilizer made from mounting two large springs on the front and rear of the lower control arm.
I will be asking some ???? when I get to the parts I don't under stand.
717 REPLIES 717

femailyetti
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Apply a good deal of self leveling where you are going to install the mount.

femailyetti
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Then you can take the mounts, and set them down so you can use a sharoe to show where you need to bolt them. You remove the self leveling with a razor knife so it sits level, and slightly bend the bracket so its sits correctly. This get every thing aligned so you can drill the holes for the bolts.

femailyetti
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The next step is to drill the holes to mount the pieces together, and install some bolts. Then you have mounts that screw in the vent and not the roof.

femailyetti
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Back to mounting the bathroom vent cover. I painted all the pieces white. OOO shiny.

femailyetti
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This is the box with the temp control on it. Notice a aluminum tube with a rubber grommet at the end covering something, and I am guessing a green temp sensing wire running out the back.

femailyetti
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the plate on the fan switch.
disconnect power supply before removing cover

femailyetti
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The back part of the box with the van speed switch in it.

femailyetti
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The other part of the sticker.

femailyetti
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On the very back of the plate is the electrical wiring diagram. It took two pictures to get a readable version of this sticker.

femailyetti
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There is a yellowed notice behind the white tag. You can read it if you try.

femailyetti
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On the front of this plate is a white tag. It seems to have some numbers, and writing on it. If you blow up the picture on my phone I can barely read some of them.
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B6 13??

femailyetti
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If you look closer, it seems the bottom is held to the top by three long bolts. I don't see any water intrusion at this time around the unit. Along the sides you can see some fiberglass insulation about 3/8 thick, between the intake and the exhaust area of this assembly. The large square pipe is the cold air return for the AC unit.

femailyetti
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I want to remove the rear AC unit, so I can redo the tape correctly, need to get under the ac to do the seams correctly. If I take of two screws to the large plastic vents on the inside of the RV it gets me this. The green parts are a filter for the intake vents. The two boxes on the side house the fan speed, and temp adjustment switchs.

femailyetti
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And lets give the cover a little love.

femailyetti
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I put some self leveling around the edges of the oven vent and the tape seams for good measure.