Well We Did Get New Wheels

[FLBentRider]

Make sure you have spare fuses. Trust me on this one.


The "truck" and the "house" may take different styles. Mine does.

[Sam3]

Congrats on your new ride. It's beautiful.

[Bavind]

Congrats nice way to travel

[TedEbear]

Looks nice. 

I'm curious as to what mpg the dealer said it would get or what others with the same model are getting.  Surely you've looked into this by now.  What are the numbers?

I asked one guy with a monstrosity at an RV park what his gets and he said about 6 mpg.

[Sailor]

Rick, I am so happy for you!  Very nice rig for sure.

[Smokin Soon]

Looks nice. 

I'm curious as to what mpg the dealer said it would get or what others with the same model are getting.  Surely you've looked into this by now.  What are the numbers?

I asked one guy with a monstrosity at an RV park what his gets and he said about 6 mpg.

I'm a Ford guy and deal with many applications, and you are spot on with the 6 mpg figure. It just gets worse when towing or mountain driving. That engine will perform well for many many miles
with proper maint. That engine is very sensitive to the proper oil, so pay attention to specs. Most folks with RV's neglect to follow a maint. schedule on the miles vs time. If your recommended interval is 5k, that means 5 months even if you only put 2k on it. Some RV folks will only do an oil change once a year due to limited use. For some of them it is a costly mistake.

Same thing goes for Transmission service, those are just pickup truck units, so look at how much harder they have to work. If your coach is almost 3 years old but only has 12000 miles, service the transmission. Miles or time, what ever  comes first.

This engine is not one that likes sit for extended periods due to the minute oil passages that feed the cam chain tensioners. If it gets starved for oil in the first few seconds of run time, damage can happen. If you store that baby more than 30 days, go take a joyride and all will be well. It's not like the the old school engines that were happy to be just started and brought up to temp.
A 20 mile joy ride with combined city and highway will do wonders for getting rid of any excess moisture and avoid carbon build up.

I dream of one of those coaches with a pullout pellet grill from one of the storage compartments and a big honker like a Meadow Creek strapped to the back. Also in stock would be my Big Easy and a quick sear camping grill.

Just dreams, but good ones!

[SamuelG]

That's truly a work of art, but I wonder how many " TOOLS " you'll be able to take with you? :)

[KyNola]

I'm a Ford guy and deal with many applications, and you are spot on with the 6 mpg figure. It just gets worse when towing or mountain driving. That engine will perform well for many many miles
with proper maint. That engine is very sensitive to the proper oil, so pay attention to specs. Most folks with RV's neglect to follow a maint. schedule on the miles vs time. If your recommended interval is 5k, that means 5 months even if you only put 2k on it. Some RV folks will only do an oil change once a year due to limited use. For some of them it is a costly mistake.
Same thing goes for Transmission service, those are just pickup truck units, so look at how much harder they have to work. If your coach is almost 3 years old but only has 12000 miles, service the transmission. Miles or time, what ever  comes first.
This engine is not one that likes sit for extended periods due to the minute oil passages that feed the cam chain tensioners. If it gets starved for oil in the first few seconds of run time, damage can happen. If you store that baby more than 30 days, go take a joyride and all will be well. It's not like the the old school engines that were happy to be just started and brought up to temp.
A 20 mile joy ride with combined city and highway will do wonders for getting rid of any excess moisture and avoid carbon build up.

"But other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?" :o

[Smokin Soon]

Ky, I did not mean anything negatve there, sorry if it looked that way.

[NePaSmoKer]

This is our home on wheels. My wife is going to work for 2more years b4 we do any full time travels. We are staying full time in a local RV park which is very nice. I have plenty of space for my stuffer, 6 rack and the owner of the park said he has no issues with any of my smokers or grills. The space we will be at is located is behind the office/store and free wifi. Sounds like there are 6 full time RV folks who work at GulfStream.


We drove the coach up and down I 85 and i found to get MPG at just a tad over 10. We were hoping to pick this up today but the dealer is still doing deliver prep work on it. I like that when the generator is running you can hardly hear it  ;D

[Sailor]

Rick, did I read your post correctly?  You say you are staying at a local RV park full time.  Does this mean you are moving out of your house and into the RV or just that you are parking the RV at the park instead of a storage lot?   Either way you will be living the dream of so many folks.  I for one dream of having one of those rigs one hopefully sooner than later.

Those puppies going to be able to get up into the coach or you gonna have ta build them a ramp?

[NePaSmoKer]

Rick, did I read your post correctly?  You say you are staying at a local RV park full time.  Does this mean you are moving out of your house and into the RV or just that you are parking the RV at the park instead of a storage lot?   Either way you will be living the dream of so many folks.  I for one dream of having one of those rigs one hopefully sooner than later.

Those puppies going to be able to get up into the coach or you gonna have ta build them a ramp?

Yeah you read right  ;D

We did lots of thinking and why should we pay someone else's mortgage. There is a large self store place just down the road so im going to set up all my metal shelving there to keep my smoker parts and stuff in so when or if i need anything its there. I will be having my Bradley. stuffer. MAK, Meadow Creek with us there at the park, So i aint out of the game  ;D

My wife did lots of number figuring and we are going to save right around $467 month compaired to living in the rental house. The house up in PA we are undecided if we want to sell it or try to have our daughter assume the mortgage.

[Keymaster]

I think I would have to Opt-in on the windshield insurance by the looks of the size of those bad boys. I am so happy for you Rick, your doin exactly what I want to do :) :) :)

[iceman]

Way to go Rick. Sounds like you guys are in for some fun times. Kind of nice, if you don't like your back yard you just move for a few days.  :)

[KyNola]

Ky, I did not mean anything negatve there, sorry if it looked that way.

Nah, I was just messing with ya. ;)