Thanks to Ernie/Spare stuff to carry

[Curt Sprenger]

Scott,
I'm not Shane, but I have removed many rubber hinged doors. We R&Rd one on Dick Hayden's '87 PT at Q 2008 . Took only a few minutes. Open the bay door, have two people support the door, disconnect the supports, sit with your back to the bus and under the hinge and remove all the screws that hold the hinge to the bus body. Place the bay door on a table...pull the two hinge sections apart (takes some pulling)...clean out ALL the dirt in both sections...use soap or similar and slide the new rubber in...let the assemble rest for about 15 minutes...cut off the rubber overhang...reinstall the bay door. The hing and body are threaded so the hinge must be pressed to the body (use a couple clamps) before replacing the screws.

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Scott Forman <"scottforman75@gmail.com"> wrote:

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



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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!

>

--
Curt Sprenger
1987 PT38 8V92 "MacAttack Racing"
Anaheim Hills, CA