Need some air ride seats

[Cris Wiedaman]

Hi Gregory,
Thanks for this advice. I will have to use it. I had an unfortunate
experience with trying to buy the old bluebird. The Used car sales
man at Big Bobs RV said some repairs are needed. Well this was the
understatement. It was a trash heap with a good engine. I will go
into more details in a later posting. Even the sales man admitted
they put it up for auction because those bidding on it could not tell
the real problem. It was like a cabin in the woods that someone left
the windows open for the last 15 years.

I will still get an RV but this time I will be more cautious :-)
Hope you have a Wonderful day,
Chris

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Gregory OConnor"
wrote:
>
> Chris, on many bigrigs the seat is a seat. the pedistal is
> stationary or airride. used airride pedistals are about $50. at Big
> truck wrecking yards. You will notice that Bigrig airride seats or
> pedistals have a forward and back float (adjustable)to hold the
> driver stationary when the rig jerks through the gears. You then
> need to find air to run the seat. The cat compressor builds air
for
> front brakes, rearbrakes and auxillary purpose. the three are
> isolated so failure with one will not render the other useless. be
> shure to hookup to the correct port. Remember that when the air
> bleeds down the seat loses height and bounce. There are some
> spring loaded pedistals out there with adjustable spring tensioners
> on juice brake (hydrolic) trucks that may work well to make her
> comfortable.
>
> There is more to repowering (replacing the engine with faster) then
> you think. I look at the $ variable first when making a upgrade
> decision. A good used diesel engine worthy to pull a FC cost about
> $10,000.00 then you need a new trans and driveline. The guy you
> bought the bus from just completed the most cost effective first
> step in making the bus go faster. Save the sign.
>
> GregoryO'Connor
> 94ptRomolandCa
>
>
> --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Cris Wiedaman"
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > My wife is ill with a muscular/nerve dissorder and 6 hurniated
> disks.
> > We want to ba able to go on vacation with our dog and 2 year old.
> So, I
> > found an RV that I could afford which happens to be a '78
> Bluebird. I
> > do not know the shape of everything in it but am convinced that I
> can
> > make it work for us.
> >
> > I am looking for atleast 2 AirRide seats to replace the ones in
> the
> > front and possibly 2 additional ones in back where there is a
> bench at
> > this time. I'm located in Cincinnati OH and I believe there to be
> a
> > junk yard somewhere north of me that would have such seats but
> have no
> > clue how to contact them. Does anyone have any ideas?
> > Thanks and have a grate day,
> > Chris Wiedamann
> > '78 Bluebird
> >
> > PS. Any other suggestions for me would be most apriciated
> >
>