When you get a good Coachman up fitted Royale or Birchaven, they are the
top of the heap. But, some of them suffered from monday/Friday quality
control. The guys that sprayed in the foam must have been stoners. But, the
cabinets are first quality, along with the upholstery. Pretty much fit and
finish is much better than the 73/75 Era coaches. I prefer the 403 equipped
coaches but I admit that it a personal preference. I have no data to
support that claim, except for experience with several coaches with them,
my own included. I have over 130000 miles on mine, and it has never been
open. Several others that I service have similar mileages. They are not
perfect, just much more evolved.
Jim Hupy
There were those that thought my method of improving the insulation, and
wrapping the heat ducts wasn't going to help much. I continued my method.
As I saw it. Anything was more then I had to start with. One thing that I
was extremely surprised about. Was the number of openings for the outside
air to come in. And these openings were factory. Not from a PO. I must
confess that building another GMC from almost scratch. Just like we always
wanted to do to our first one. BUT DIDN'T. Was, for me, fun to do. It's
for all of us here. A HOBBY. RIGHT? In reality. Adding insulation was
always something that I wanted to do to that first one. Now I had that
chance. Plus I always thought that a lot of issues were from air
infiltration from the outside. That proved way more true then I ever
thought. This 78 Royale is more comfortable as to temps. And much more
quiet on the road, or parked. The money, and effort is paying off. BIG
TIME.
Bob Dunahugh
The 78 Royale Mouse House
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From: Bob Dunahugh
Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2017 1:07 PM
To: gmclist
Subject: RE: Anyone know a source for the large LP Gas tank
Needed to leave the GMC outside one night, and day last week. Left the
furnace on the entire time. As I never drain the water out. I keep it my
heated shop. I spent a few hours in it out there to do some things. It was
in the upper teen's outside that night. High of 24 that day. While I was
out there. The furnace ran very little. I think twice during my time in it.
I was paying attention to that run time. As I had added insulation. And
well wrapped the heat ducts so that the heat from the furnace got into the
living area. RV furnaces are sized to 1000 BTU's per liner foot for units
like ours.
Bob Dunahugh 78 Royale
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