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Readying for the KW

DMiller

DMiller

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Just got pics loaded, Awls in pre-punched holes, was close enough. Have a pattern for both sides to set the in mat spacers when get to setting seats. Pedals reinstalled, shift boot affixed, pretty well cleaning as go. Either need to replace or eliminate Cross Bunk front belt halves. Back halves not been used much and were buried beneath mattress.

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DMiller

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Boot gets completed, can set seats and seat belt tethers to floor, finish up with sh!t in my way on the floor and the loose KW parts on my bench. Back to engine then, and will not have a issue with stuff in the cab falling apart when comes time to start the engine.
 
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Have to pull sleeper heater box apart, see if can mangle fabricobble a repair to the box itself or try to find one in a yard. Sat way too long, base around cores is crumbling.
 
Willie B

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DMiller said:
Have to pull sleeper heater box apart, see if can mangle fabricobble a repair to the box itself or try to find one in a yard. Sat way too long, base around cores is crumbling.
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Arthur's Auto Rutland VT, None better. Gary's son runs the show since Covid, the "boy" is in his sixties. I sure hope he outlasts me. I'm an electrician, but wouldn't dream of doing a starter, generator, alternator, or radiator.

I was buying a Central Tractor starter for an IH tractor about every two years. Took one to Roy 24 years ago, still working fine. I can't easily count the radiators he rebuilt for me. Never had a leak.
 
DMiller

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Well going to end up replacing entire Sleeper heat/cool package, entire base is just Gone, tubes to A coil rusted off as well and not trusting heat core as to corrosion visible. Found when taking hoses and lines loose to pull it was already slopping around in sleeper floor. Bergstrom unit, they no longer offer the part number(740088) but have a updated unit similar dimensions, do have a part search n at Vanderhaags as a used source, maybe. Another of the pieces to close up cooling system for engine is why went there.
 
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DMiller said:
Well going to end up replacing entire Sleeper heat/cool package, entire base is just Gone, tubes to A coil rusted off as well and not trusting heat core as to corrosion visible. Found when taking hoses and lines loose to pull it was already slopping around in sleeper floor. Bergstrom unit, they no longer offer the part number(740088) but have a updated unit similar dimensions, do have a part search n at Vanderhaags as a used source, maybe. Another of the pieces to close up cooling system for engine is why went there.
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You could install a diesel heater from Planar. I have a Chinese knock off that kept this camper warm when the winds were whipping at 50 below zero in 32 below temperatures and it's a 5KW one. Drinks about 5 gallons on worse conditions in 3 days.
 
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