would you drive a "new" used MH 2,000 miles?
My son recently joined the MI National Guard and he is doing basic training at fort sill Oklahoma. We have been looking at getting in to camping again, but the timing is not good financially to get th...
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Many years ago my dad bought a 20 year old 1970's Minnie Winnie 22'Class C on a Dodge chassis. He, his brother and another mutual friend and been planning a trip of several weeks duration which entailed driving across the USA to California, up the west coast to deep in Alaska, across Alaska crossing back into the US @ Detroit and then back home.
The coach components including a 2.7kw generator were all operational but I spent a few hours prepping the Chrysler portion which included overhauling the carb., (it needed it) replacing plugs, plug wires, cap and rotor and ballast resistor, alternator brushes (5 minute external job on those, and changed all belts and hoses with new coolant (the water pump looked and felt fine). He had 2 new front tires installed due to age and the headed out. Total of probably $500 back then for everything (brakes and transmission had been serviced recently).
They were gone for several weeks and covered many thousands of miles, including desert and mountains, during August and September, and the only mechanical defect they incurred was a wiper blade coming apart on the Al-Can highway.
Of course you will get many opinions but, being the adventurous sort, I would do it in heartbeat at whatever level I could afford.
The coach components including a 2.7kw generator were all operational but I spent a few hours prepping the Chrysler portion which included overhauling the carb., (it needed it) replacing plugs, plug wires, cap and rotor and ballast resistor, alternator brushes (5 minute external job on those, and changed all belts and hoses with new coolant (the water pump looked and felt fine). He had 2 new front tires installed due to age and the headed out. Total of probably $500 back then for everything (brakes and transmission had been serviced recently).
They were gone for several weeks and covered many thousands of miles, including desert and mountains, during August and September, and the only mechanical defect they incurred was a wiper blade coming apart on the Al-Can highway.
Of course you will get many opinions but, being the adventurous sort, I would do it in heartbeat at whatever level I could afford.
