Restomodding a 1978 GMC RV Ep.27 - Rear Suspension + Alignment
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2021
- Is it strange that the first vehicle I have ever aligned is a 12,000lb behemoth, that is as old as I am, and came with the very first IFS front end that ever went into production in Detroit? At any rate I got the job done and also rebuilt the rear suspension while I was at it. It now drives straight down the road with all new suspension front and back. Hopefully this gets me 2200 miles across the country without any issues.
Awesome, I am just now completing a full rear suspension rebuild with new bogies and the works, so this is a video I will use when the coach is rolling again
I’m loving these videos.
I'm rebuilding my front end. Like what you have done
Also, it is great you're including your son in the project.
The beautiful design of this was way ahead of its time. It still looks gorgeous and has a rakish stance. Happy motoring!
So cool to see you working with your son. Kids learn so much by watching us! My hubby always talks about how his dad never taught him anything or spent any time with him. He was military and hunted & fished and wasn't home a lot. His dad could fix anything, make anything or grow anything he put his mind to. My hubby can do nothing! He makes good coffee. LOL That's his limit. His dad took him fishing once, told him to sit on a log and not say a word. He would scare the fish away. That was the most boring day of his life and he speaks of it often!!! HUGS~Donna
Just in case we don't see another video before you move, I wish you and your wife many safe and fun motoring miles as you move across the country 👍
Thank you! Yeah, you probably won't see me for a 2 or 3 weeks.
@@IndustriousPursuits be safe
You are doing a great job. Enjoy your two dinners!
I learn a lot from your videos. It is good to see you training a new generation of mechanics.
I love this series! Keep going and keep updating!
Happy and safe travels!!
Love the content and frequency! Good luck to you and the family on the relocation!
I’m glad you’re still enthusiastic about the restoration and are sticking with it. I can’t believe those airbags were that expensive!
Thanks for the comment. I love your videos! How's your updated interior coming along? I think it's really cool that you are sticking with the vintage theme. Sometimes I wish I had gone down that path because as ahead of their time as these were, they are still 45 years old. No matter how much I modernize, this will never be a Tesla. :) Yours is more true to its roots.
LOL Scenes with Jr are great!
You must've been hungry! You picked up dinner twice! lol
18:04 is the start of the best part. My son at 2 was helping me do tires and work on the cars. Best was he was using my flex head 1/2" drive with 17mm deep removing too bolts. As for the 19:23 haven't ran in to that problem yet lol. Poor head took a licking with that battery
Enjoy the videos and hearing you think through each challenge is very interesting, also really like seeing your son helping you out, great stuff.
I think when considering pricing there are a few other things to keep in mind. These companies do all the homework to source parts and inventory on items that are often no longer available from the original OEM, like your airbags as one example.
For those either unwilling, lack the time or talent to search it from themselves, then they are paying a convenance fee for a “one stop” environment. Using a company’s website with pricing to shame them is overstepping in my mind because you are not required to purchase anything from them.
Looking forward to your next video and good luck with your move.
Very exciting! Glad you’re making good progress. (Our passenger seat has a similar annoying squeak when nobody’s sitting in it.)
Honestly, that 1-ton swap seems like a gigantic pita. Safe travels to MO.
Great video. I aligned today...best I could. Still ridding a bit high vs. spec in the front and those tensioner adjusters are stuck. Even without torsional load, worried about breaking them off.
thats the wrong procedure to center the steering box. It's well documented on the forums. This is a well supported RV you are doing things the hard way
Also….. keep in mind as you travel across the country that the crown in the road might be different enough along the way such that the coach might pull. I suspect Portland might have higher crowns relative to other areas since it normally gets more rain. Just a thought 😉. Safe travels
Skip ahead to 3:00 to avoid commercial for Chinese laser level
@4:00 "strut ,strut, strut". NO thats a SHOCK
@7:00..Instead of removing wheel and tweaking your back, just jack up enough so rear wheels are off the ground-grab either wheel at 6 and 12 o'clock and feel for play in the bogey pins/bushings-then try at 3 and 9 o'clock. If you can feel play, the bushings are worn-thats a $2,000 - $3,000 repair.
I just bought Keith's Microlevel system for mine, I can set my travel height in about 10 minutes with the fob. And for camping it auto levels for camping. With that system installed I changed out my air bag cones for aluminum 15 minutes per side as I was able to stand by the wheels and raise and lower the individual sides. Easiest air bags I've ever changed
I did not realize that this kit existed. Thanks for the heads up! I love the 3D printed buttons.
@@IndustriousPursuits They're ok.. but they could be a little smoother so that they don't hold the dirt. actually lighted and transparent would be better.
I love them pity they werent for sale in Australia
Nice progress. FYI - @23:20 …… although there maybe some parallax going on here but it doesn’t look like there will be sufficient radial clearance to screw your new pneumatic save-the-day fitting into the airbag. The t-adapter appears to likely clash with the bracket. Hope that helps
There is a flat spot in the steering box that holds the motor home straight? There is one guy I know that has put a grease fitting in the rear wheel bearing. It can be done? Good job on your alignment.
July 21 2023 did you drive through South Bend Indiana saw one just like yours
$15.34!!! That's nuts! I'll see myself out...
19:23 I've done that too many times in my life!
I'm curious as to why you didn't have the steering wheel held to a level crossbar position as this is, usually, where it guarantees that the pitman arm/steering gearbox, is centered so that you have even turning in both directions. It also keeps your turn signal canceling properly. There's also a mark on the steering shaft under the horn button assembly that should be aligned to a true vertical orientation when doing an alignment. People have been known to remove the steering wheel and reposition it to "correct" for an improper alignment. Most steering will self-center after a turn. The only exception to this is that older vehicles were aligned to barely pull to the right in even of driver removing hands from the steering wheel in the event of a health condition(unconscious)so the the vehicle would exit the roadway rather than cross the center line and causing multiple Injuries/fatalities. Other than that, your video was excellent and very informative, and you did a great job for it having been your first alignment.
That is why you pay a professional to do certain jobs and spend your time doing something else that needs to be done that you are capable of doing right. A professional would have probably taken 2-3 hours to do it. The video makes it look like it took 2-3 days to get it done. Something else if you take to an alignment shop and they don't get it right or it goes out they get to fix it, do it yourself, and it's on you.
What about using centromatic wheel balancer. They use them on Semi and other vehicles
Lol, you must have been hungry. Two dinners. 🍜
Oops didn't catch that in the edit. :)
@@IndustriousPursuits great video, it’s a lot to do. One other thing watching you rebuild the GMC is making me nervous to purchase a GMC. You are so intelligent and dig deep into the repairs.
Years ago had a 23’ Canyon Lands and 26’ Royale by coachman.
What eas your rating in the Navy. I was a TM.
These motorhomes are so cool...I've been fascinated with them from when I was a teenager (they were in production then; they stopped production the year before I graduated from high school) until the present (but you rarely see them anymore). One question I have is when you were driving in this video there is a red indicator light that illuminates intermittently (it's located to the right of the fuel/temp/oil press cluster). What is that for or what does it indicate?
That's the door open Light. The switche is intermittently faulting out and giving a false blinking reading.
It's a great opportunity for your son to spend some time at Grandma school. You should thank her, like, a lot! When each of our 3 boys turned thirteen, they spent a month during the summer with Granny and Grandpa building stuff, a 14' wooden sailboat, 12' wooden kayak and going to concerts, museums and cultural stuff. For alignment pads, I used 2 pieces of linoleum floor tiles with grease in between. Nice fix with the 3d printed dog-bone. Are your steel wheels pressed together with a beaded joint or are they welded to the spider. Jim Bounds opines that radial tires shouldn't be used with non-welded steel wheels. Good luck on the project!
They are radial specific rims. Not widow makers means for Bias Ply Tires.
It’ll be interesting to see what the final cost will be when your done. Might have been cheaper to buy a new or slightly used rig. But that be boring right?
You can build this for yourself better in some ways than anything you can buy, that's the appeal
If you buy one ready to go with everything done already your probably looking at easily $50k.
What tires did you use and what size and brand are they?
I will cover this in the next episode.
Whats the light on the dash?
The door open switch is faulty.
MPG. What do you think? 7-9?
Sounds about right. Maybe as high as 11. It might be running a little rich. It is sometimes Dieseling on shut down. If so that will hurt the MPG.
'Sup, Palm Beach fans!
You said you got the air bags from cinnabar? phone number? I'm having trouble finding these air bags..
Call them. They are old fashioned. No online catalogue.
Front looks higher than the rear
It is. I purposefully adjusted it high in anticipation of the extra weight from the move.
Is youtube your full time job?
I guess you could call it that. I spend more time making videos than anything else. Hence the priority on getting a workspace for me. I don't feel like I can call it a job until it starts to pays the bills.
@@IndustriousPursuits thats what I was wondering. Between the 2 channels you have a lot of subscribers and probably views. I'm wondering at what point could youtube be a full time job and pay the bills.
I'm stubborn and tend to make the videos I find interesting, thinking other people will find it interesting too. If you want to actually make a living doing this you need to know your audience and only make the content they want to see. In the current environment I've watched my add revenue plummet. I would say it's about 50% of what it used to be. YT is having to compete with TikTok and it shows. All the money is in the vapid inane short form content these days AKA: Shorts. It's still the same game though: Get and keep people viewing your videos. That means hypnotizing them with empty meaningless stuff that is just interesting enough to keep them engaged but not make them think too hard or challenge their beliefs/wordview. If you make videos you are an entertainer. You get paid for what you did for the audience. Video making isn't for you. It's for them. That's the way successful channels do it.
@@IndustriousPursuits i agree with what you're saying. Seems that the people that are making the most are metaphorically making videos of kicking each other in the nuts. Sad but thats what people want to see i guess. I'll stick to making videos i want to make. Hopefully people will watch and stick around. Good luck with your move.
Thanks Keith. Keep up the good work. I'll keep watching your videos. :)
GMC. mh is how come you are paying thru the nose, those valve's are not for GMC mh only,find who makes them and deal with them.
Absolutely agree with this comment, somebody else's equipment will be using those same valves at a much more reasonable price.
In the UK we call this "scene tax" if you have anything VW camper or Beetle or even Mk1 & 2 Ford Escort's you'll pay an absolute premium on pricing because they are so popular and in such crazily high demand.. this is the scene tax or the price you pay to be part of that classic vehicle scene
So what I get from you is if it's American made we're getting ripped off?
That's an over simplification. You should check out my other channel: th-cam.com/video/6moNRCXCZpc/w-d-xo.html>>>>
So, you hate export manufacturing to China, but you dont lke paying the prices that would have kept that manufacturing here....
No. There is unreasonably expensive and then there is unreasonably cheap. I don't see the reasonable price option anywhere. Where were those airbags made? Probably China, yet I paid like 4 to 8 times the price of other airbags on the market. This is oligopoly price gouging.
@@IndustriousPursuits and then put yourself in canada, add customs clearing and taxes. Increase those prices by a third.having said that I really appreciate the company's that support our gmcs because my fear going forward is that they survive because without them certain parts will render the rv useless if we can't get them
You whine an awful lot about money for someone who is attempting a restoration on a 43 year old motorhome
False equivalency. Enjoying rebuilding a stylish old motor home is not the same thing as enjoying having your money taken from you.
@@IndustriousPursuits when I tried to buy front wheel bearings locally , the crossed the number to a Mercedes part which was something like $600 each, so it's not so much that the parts for the gmc are expensive, they are not, it's that the gmc motorhome needs so many parts
@@TrentGustus call sirum gmc they can get you the bearings for then then $600.