Re: Looking at 1986 3600 OREG Reply #50 – April 01, 2017, 08:32:41 pm Update: I went and looked at it and bought it. The electrical system is a mess, so I haven't driven it yet, any more than seeing that the brakes and drivetrains worked. The seller took another 500 bucks off for the electrical issues, so seemed like a good deal to me. 3500 dollars for a 1986 grand villa. We will be in Carlsbad, NM for all of April fixing things, if anyone is out this way. Thanks to all you with the presales advice. Quote Selected 1 Likes
Re: Looking at 1986 3600 OREG Reply #51 – April 01, 2017, 09:22:52 pm Quote from: Flopsie – April 01, 2017, 08:32:41 pm Update: I went and looked at it and bought it. You dun good, that's about the right price for a good looking coach that YOU KNOW will need some attention. Stay in touch. Quote Selected
Re: Looking at 1986 3600 OREG Reply #52 – April 01, 2017, 10:23:01 pm Flopsie I wanted to buy that coach for spare parts but I was overruled, now you have bought it that will save it, which is more important.We will be in Roswell around the middle of next month so I'll check with you and maybe a side trip down to see you and the 'Saved GV' Best of luck with your project Quote Selected 1 Likes
Re: Looking at 1986 3600 OREG Reply #53 – April 04, 2017, 12:43:41 pm Quote from: Olde English – April 01, 2017, 10:23:01 pm Flopsie I wanted to buy that coach for spare parts but I was overruled, now you have bought it that will save it, which is more important.We will be in Roswell around the middle of next month so I'll check with you and maybe a side trip down to see you and the 'Saved GV' Best of luck with your projectIt would have been a shame to break it up. The interior is all Rosewood, and nothing really major is wrong with it. We will be here all of April, If you want to check it out. As a brand new RVer, I would love any advice on keeping these old girls running. Quote Selected 3 Likes
Re: Looking at 1986 3600 OREG Reply #54 – April 04, 2017, 01:04:39 pm Quote from: Flopsie – April 04, 2017, 12:43:41 pm The interior is all Rosewood Take a pic once you get settled down, I always thought FT only did walnut or oak. No matter what wood, very pretty! Get some dry silicon for the tambour door slides and Zep "Wood Doctor" for the rest. Quote Selected 1 Likes
Re: Looking at 1986 3600 OREG Reply #55 – April 08, 2017, 12:53:47 pm Quote from: mike leary – April 04, 2017, 01:04:39 pmTake a pic once you get settled down, I always thought FT only did walnut or oak. No matter what wood, very pretty! Get some dry silicon for the tambour door slides and Zep "Wood Doctor" for the rest. I saw the sales listing from when it was last sold as a used vehicle and they said rosewood. the mans son, who sold it to me said cherry. I know its definitely not oak. So unless they did a custom wood, maybe its maple? Quote Selected
Re: Looking at 1986 3600 OREG Reply #56 – April 08, 2017, 04:40:05 pm I had a 93 done in pecan. It was really nice. Quote Selected
Re: Looking at 1986 3600 OREG Reply #57 – April 17, 2017, 03:34:26 pm According to some of the old paper work, its rosewood, and also mentioned is that Foretravel didn't offer rosewood after 1987. and Rosewood is illegal to import. SO, if this is what that wood is, that's sumthin. Quote Selected 1 Likes
Re: Looking at 1986 3600 OREG Reply #58 – April 17, 2017, 07:00:47 pm Tell us how the work is going? How close are you to hitting the road?What obstacles have you run into? I showed your posts to a friend, that is a mechanic and he is thinking about putting a 7.3 PS in a FT with a 460.He made an interesting observation. You have to divide an RV into two categories. The coach and interior. The other the mechanical and address each as a separate item. It has to be able to run and drive to get it home, therethe interior can be addressed.Good luck,Carter- Quote Selected
Re: Looking at 1986 3600 OREG Reply #59 – April 17, 2017, 08:16:40 pm Quote from: Texas Guy – April 17, 2017, 07:00:47 pm I showed your posts to a friend, that is a mechanic and he is thinking about putting a 7.3 PS in a FT with a 460.I would have to think way more than twice to put a 7.3 PS into the coach. The 7.3 IDI or in my case the 7.3 IDIT, could go in in a day or so without much wiring and can run on most any diesel fuel, bio, petro, ultra low sulfur, etc. Injectors are also super cheap with a set of 8 costing the same as one common rail injector. No ECU, no nothing!!!Just the thought of how many hours it would take to do the ECU wiring, etc. would break most banks. Ours still runs like a clock and is FAST, much faster than the U300 but much lighter and manual trans. Good article on the 7.3 IDI at: Ford 6.9L and 7.3L IDI Diesel Engines - Diesel Power MagazinePierce Quote Selected
Re: Looking at 1986 3600 OREG Reply #60 – April 17, 2017, 09:51:37 pm Quote from: Texas Guy – April 17, 2017, 07:00:47 pmTell us how the work is going? How close are you to hitting the road?That's really good advice.Well, the original plan was to spend s few days fixing the things i knew about and then limp it home to do more extensive work. So the guy who was selling it for his friend, came out and showed it, and helped me make sure the breaks worked and that it ran. Then we were preparing to drive it somewhere more convenient to do the rest. Then we saw under the dash. It wa a MESS. No exterior lights worked at all, and not much of anything else. I think at that point, any sane person would have had it towed. Not me. Not enough money or sense for that route. So I have spent a good deal of time working on making the thing livable. So up till now, I've been getting the appliances and water and the batteries in shape, and taking a crash course in RV 101. Next up is the electrical, and making sense of that mess. And finally we need to do a few things to the engine, the worst of which is 2 broken bolts on the turbo housing, which makes a nice exhaust leak. So at least a few more weeks. I'm not fast at these things, and doing it all low budget slows things up even more. But at the end of it all, I will know a good deal about this baby, and I'll have a nicer Rv thank I could ever have afforded. I'll say this though, the more I dig around in the guts of this thing, the more i know i made the right choice in getting a Foretravel. We are about 5 miles north of Carlsbad NM if anyone is out this way, and wants to take a look, or point and laugh. Quote Selected 5 Likes
Re: Looking at 1986 3600 OREG Reply #61 – April 18, 2017, 09:17:06 am Quote from: Pierce & Gaylie Stewart – April 17, 2017, 08:16:40 pmGood article on the 7.3 IDI at: Ford 6.9L and 7.3L IDI Diesel Engines - Diesel Power MagazinePierceThats a great article. I didn't realise either that that the IDI was a good biodiesel engine. Having the exhaust smell like french fries is a plus in my book. Quote Selected
Re: Looking at 1986 3600 OREG Reply #62 – April 18, 2017, 12:09:14 pm Diesels in general have been getting a really bad name in the last couple of years from manufacturers cheating on emission controls to the dangers of breathing all the compounds the diesel exhaust creates. In countries like France, diesels represent about 80 percent of the light duty vehicles but changes may be coming. As I see it, bio-diesel is not a threat but a chance for both the light and heavy duty diesel manufactures to buy some time with the lower emissions inherent with the bio-fuel until the battery/electric vehicles mature and dominate our day to day transportation. With this year's new battery advances, that time is not that many years off.Not that many years ago, the goal was to bring solar panels down to a dollar a watt. Now, we see panels advertised for as low as $0.27/watt and lithium may be on it's way out as a material used in battery construction. Am I crazy? Who would have thought that Tesla would be worth more than General Motors? Shocking! Perhaps I will wait a while before changing the turbo boost sensor resistor.Good article on diesels at: Diesel: How it changed Europe and how Europe might change back | Ars Technica Pierce Quote Selected 1 Likes
Re: Looking at 1986 3600 OREG Reply #63 – April 18, 2017, 04:29:47 pm Pierce, I misspoke, he was wanting a turbo charged non electronic engine and not a power stroke. He said they used to be everywhere but are hard to findnow due to their age.Carter- Quote Selected
Re: Looking at 1986 3600 OREG Reply #64 – May 21, 2017, 10:57:57 pm We took this sucker for its first test drive today. There's still a lot of work to do before we can drive it any distance, but this is the first time its left the storage lot in at least 2 years. I think we have graduated from rv basket case to an rv in need of serious TLC. Quote Selected 3 Likes
Re: Looking at 1986 3600 OREG Reply #65 – May 22, 2017, 09:46:08 pm How did 7.3 work in that rig? Quote Selected
Re: Looking at 1986 3600 OREG Reply #66 – May 23, 2017, 11:00:41 am Quote from: its toby – May 22, 2017, 09:46:08 pmHow did 7.3 work in that rig?I can't say a lot yet. we only went a few miles. It will get a more proper test drive when we get the charging system working properly. The 7.3 seems to be doing well though. I just don't have any experience with diesels or big rvs, so I can't really compare it to anything. I was just thrilled it moved. Quote Selected
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