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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tmsnyder" data-source="post: 15907" data-attributes="member: 65">Great float plane pics!I took my dad, two brothers, his brother and friend out to OshKosh last year in a SOB.  We stayed in the 24 hour generator field.  It was too much for them, too hot, too far to walk for 3 80 year olds, one with heart problems.  We have a fall trip up into Maine planned this year instead. Do you have a wet-bath?   Do you love it as much as I do????    It's literally my favorite thing to do while camping, there's nothing like a Navy shower imo.  So refreshing and it only uses a gallon of water or so.  I love it. Unless the PO put in a bigger tank, your fresh water tank should not be able to overflow your black water tank, they are both 40 gallons.   If you have a functional fresh water gauge, the black water level is just the inverse of the fresh water level.   Check out the SeeLevel, I installed one and documented it in my build thread.   It's great.  Easy to install. Reads out to 1% .  It would be a good idea to drop your tanks and replace everything with ethanol resistant fuel lines.  Rebuild the carb with ethanol resistant part, change the fuel pump, .. then you can burn E10 gas.   Cheaper and more available than E0.  If you aren't completely plugging your tiny on-carb filter frequently, then you can probably just install an inline big spin on filter from TSC and not bother to boil out or line your fuel tanks, they are probably fine as is and the spin-on filter will catch any rust from the fill tube.  3000 rpm was the normal, driving down the road in 3rd gear, rpm for all automobiles of that era.  That won't hurt the motor at all, it doesn't lug the motor, fluids will be circulating well and the oil pressure will be good and high.   In fact, that's right where they run best and the tranny will be happiest there too if you leave it in S (2nd gear) in the hills especially .  One quart of oil burned / leaked in 500-600 miles seems fine to me.  If you're leaking it, that can be fixed and the remaining amount of oil being burned would be at a perfectly normal level. The engine is doing work, it's supposed to burn a little oil doing it. 8.8mpg is what I get too, with the cheapest stuff they sell, typically 87 octane and 10% ethanol.Great trip report!</blockquote>

Verification: What supports the GMC Motorhome's rear suspension: Coil spring, airbag, torsion bar, or leaf spring?

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