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Re: New engine

Reply #25 –
Lynn and Linda, I am glad to see this is coming to a close and you will be back on the road. It should be a celebration of coach life returning to normal not bashing the source of the repairs.  It is your choice where to get work done.    I see smiles in your front window.
Roger Engdahl and Susan Green
2001 U320 3610 #5879 (Home2) - 2014 Jeep Cherokee or 2018 F150
Hastings, MN

Re: New engine

Reply #26 –
If you have ever seen a site where heavy equipment is working with bulldozers, scrapers etc. the transmissions and engines are done on site in the dirt. At least they were when I was in the operating engineers as a heavy duty repairman. I rebuilt transmission, engines and final drives in the field. It isn't where you work it is how well you do the job. Had to use air and solvent sprayer near the end of each job to clean parts during assembly. Pictures are of a 977 cat 3206 engine I rebuilt in the yard in 2001 the loader is still going strong to the person I sold it to.
1999 40 ft. U-320 wtfe build 5563 Chuck & Lynda's "Rollin' Inn"  2030 watts solar
prev. mh's 71 GMC 5 yrs. 73 Pace Setter 1 yr. 78 Vogue 5 yrs 81 FTX 40ft all electric 18 yrs. 1996 Monaco Signature 3 yrs.
2014 Grand Cherokee Overland
Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today.  James Dean

Re: New engine

Reply #27 –
Been to a couple very clean Cummins repair places.. Had the valves adjusted and they totally missed the leaking harness right next to the valves... Clean shop doesnt mean anything for the most part... what matters is the end result..

I have nothing for or against this place.. Glad Pugmom was able to get everything back and like I said ..... Einstein looked a mess but he did fairly well..

From what I have read .. his work is good.. Cant beat that.. I guess you could with a clean shop and shotty work?

If Pugmom is happy thats all that should matter to any of us.

Added a pic of his place with the other coach on google maps..

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Reply #28 –
Similar to above,from what I have observed here,Bernd himself is a engine mechanic who happens to own an RV repair shop,like
in bsaeball the best batters don't make the best batting coaches,the best mechanic may not be the best teacher.
96 U270 BUILD 4810
85 380SL
Drummonds TN.

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Reply #29 –
Along the lines of John44's comment, I've always said that quality control is the biggest problem.  If you have ever watched "FantomWorks" (http://fantomworks.com/) on the Motortrend channel, the owner, Dan Short, is always inspecting the work done by others and raising hell when it isn't up to his standards.  That is what is missing in addition to basic training and supervision.  Too bad since the potential is there.

George
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George Hatfield

  Never ever use World Line Motors of Nacogdoches for service!

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Reply #30 –
Quote from: craneman –
If you have ever seen a site where heavy equipment is working with bulldozers, scrapers etc. the transmissions and engines are done on site in the dirt.

That's a fact, my buddy who worked for BD Holt cat for many years mentioned that often the first tool to start a rebuild on a track dozer was not a wrench but a shovel.  To dig a hole for access and to drop the oil pan into. 
"Not so  long ago we were a nation of risk takers, riding five million pounds of  thrust straight into space."  Joe Gresh
Chuck Pearson
1996 U295
2018 Can Am X3 TurboRS

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Reply #31 –
I still have my "track shovel" it's a great tool in my flower beds and strangely I don't miss the D9 it came with.
88 Grand Villa 36' ORED 3208 (throwaway)Cat.
 Build # 3150
Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

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Reply #32 –
Quote from: Olde English –
I still have my "track shovel" it's a great tool in my flower beds and strangely I don't miss the D9 it came with.
Pony motor or electric start.
1999 40 ft. U-320 wtfe build 5563 Chuck & Lynda's "Rollin' Inn"  2030 watts solar
prev. mh's 71 GMC 5 yrs. 73 Pace Setter 1 yr. 78 Vogue 5 yrs 81 FTX 40ft all electric 18 yrs. 1996 Monaco Signature 3 yrs.
2014 Grand Cherokee Overland
Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today.  James Dean
 

Re: New engine

Reply #33 –
Over the years both of them, last pony motor was an old D something or other that I was roped into operating in Wyoming 40 years ago. I was squirting in T poles and stringing fence for the state around state parks.
88 Grand Villa 36' ORED 3208 (throwaway)Cat.
 Build # 3150
Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.