Thanks to Ernie/Spare stuff to carry

[Scott Forman]

Shane,

How did you manage to ruin a ruber hinge? More importantly, how did
you get the old one off? I have one the is ripped, have the new
rubber for it, but cannot separate the hinge from the bus to switch
it out.

Scott Forman
86 PT38
Memphis

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "sfedeli3" <sfedeli3@...>
wrote:
>
> We're just wrapping up our 5K mile trip from Hershey out to Glacier
> NP, Ernie's Camp-o-rama at the Livingston Fairgrounds and Teton NP.
As
> many of you know, last weekend, Ernie re-carpeted our PT with some
> Mohawk designer grade stuff that we bought at Lowe's. Over the past
> few days, we've really come to enjoy having nice carpet in the coach
> and are very grateful to him for doing such a fantastic job. If you
> are giving flooring installation a thought, he is quite the expert
and
> proved it to Kelly and I with his fine workmanship. I made a pretty
> good try at restoring his exterior paint by using a mechanical
buffer,
> 3M rubbing compound and Paint Guard Plus wax. The brown paint looks
> almost new, but the cream is so thin that little could be done to
> restore any shine to it. Given the great job that he did on our
coach,
> I really wish that I could have done better.
>
> So far, we've traveled 4,746 miles. the ol' 6V92 has been running
> great, averaging 5.88 MPG over the whole trip (mountains and all).
We
> used 7.5 qts of oil so far and have been running around 65-70 MPH.
> We're on the Ohio turnpike tonight spending the evening at one of
> their very nice travel plazas. 6 of them have hookups for $15, but
we
> opted for the boon docking corral since we DO have a Bluebird and
all.
> So far, we've had a need for the following items- Throttle return
> spring (happens to match the one on an '85 Caprice 4 BBL
carburetor);
> A thrown belt on the alternator (I guess the wife's microwave-reheat
> of the quesadilla's with the inverter on in Nebraska was just too
much
> for the brand spanking new Leece-Neville's Green Stripe belts to
> handle); A rubber door hinge (only the mid-80's folks have to worry
> about these- and they are still available from the school bus side
of
> bluebird). I'm glad that I had a mounted spare tire and my X-12
wrench
> in Montana- there were places in there that had surely never seen a
> bus, let alone changed a tire on one. If you don't leave the cities
or
> populated areas too much, then both are sort of overkill. My 220V
fan
> died on the Perkins Genset before we left, so I temporarily
installed
> a Hayden 12V fan on the outside of the radiator and it did just fine
> at cooling the genset on our trip. I'll replace the old motor, but
> having one of the Hayden fans in the roof pod is a thought!
>