A new Bluebird owner's tale of the first shakedown trip

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My first Bird, a 83 FC35 broke down on the maiden voyage home from CA
to TX (I lived in TX then). I did a bunch of preventitive
maintainance and never broke down again. The fellow who bought it
from me has never broken down.

My new bird, a 94 BB BMC broke down on the maiden trip home from TX
to NM. Again, I did I a bunch of preventitive maintainance and never
broke down again.

If you have a good set of receipts in your blue box, and a full set
of documentation in your Blue Box, you can determine what
maintainance you should do before the next trip. If those front
tires are over 6-7 years old, I would take no further trips before
replacing them. Double check what ply tires you need, there should
be some tire links in the files or links section of the this site.
If not, we can provide them.

You may also consider a road side assistance plan from Good Sam or
others for at least the first year.

Welcome to the Bird Family. You will have a great time traveling in
your coach.
Dan
94 BB BMC 37' NM



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> Hi! Introducing ourselves, once again, this time as owners..
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> This will be a somewhat long post, so you have been warned. And
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> So we decided to take a shakedown cruise to Arizona to see some
friends, do some business, and determine what we would need to do to
the bus to make it ours ......

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> Greg Young
> '86 PT-40
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