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Re: 1990 Grand Villa 6V92

Reply #20 –
What I meant was it would have been nice if you put it on the forum classifieds ,all these members are trying to help you and the least you could have done is left it there for a couple of days to give a member a chane to buy it.

Re: 1990 Grand Villa 6V92

Reply #21 –
This is an example of the cost of even a free coach. If you do find one like this, you MUST be a DIYer or pay through the nose. The $7200 may be true but the DDEC II module used is quite inexpensive on ebay and not that much new/reconditioned as they made hundreds of thousands of them. They are usually bullet proof and the shop may or may not have replaced it. I worked for a shop (for a short time) as a kid that "overhauled" Jaguar automatic transmissions by steam cleaning them, tightening the fasteners and then charging for a complete overhaul.

So, get up to speed on that model/engine and try and get a member who has one to help you, either long distance on a smart phone or in person.

Today, cars, PUs or coaches are very complex with RVs hard to work on so expect most shops to charge an arm and leg to do any kind of work on them. Even the hours they charge may not be accurate. Hey, that's reality today. What ever happened to carrying a replacement fan belt and an extra set of points?

Pierce

Re: 1990 Grand Villa 6V92

Reply #22 –
Quote from: Pierce & Gaylie Stewart –
This is an example of the cost of even a free coach. If you do find one like this, you MUST be a DIYer or pay through the nose. The $7200 may be true but the DDEC II module used is quite inexpensive on ebay and not that much new/reconditioned as they made hundreds of thousands of them. They are usually bullet proof and the shop may or may not have replaced it. I worked for a shop (for a short time) as a kid that "overhauled" Jaguar automatic transmissions by steam cleaning them, tightening the fasteners and then charging for a complete overhaul.

So, get up to speed on that model/engine and try and get a member who has one to help you, either long distance on a smart phone or in person.

Today, cars, PUs or coaches are very complex with RVs hard to work on so expect most shops to charge an arm and leg to do any kind of work on them. Even the hours they charge may not be accurate. Hey, that's reality today. What ever happened to carrying a replacement fan belt and an extra set of points?

Pierce
I would have never been able to afford to restore my 1990 villa, if i had to pay someone to do it, I've spent several years sourcing parts, looking at the workshop manual, and most of all, with the help of alot of forum  members I've nearly finished it, i mutch appreciate all their help, thankyou

Re: 1990 Grand Villa 6V92

Reply #23 –
Quote from: John Haygarth –
Nice to see you posting Kev.
Yeah thanks John I've got the dirtiest of jobs to do on it, get underneath from front to back clean any crap off and then get the black hammerite wax oil sprayed all over it, brilliant stuff for protecting the underneath,, I've left the boat go at the moment, the engine is out of that at the moment, but there's no rush to rebuild that yet as I haven't really missed any good weather cause we have had a really bad summer over here this year, gotta be the worst one ever, we're actually in the middle of a storm right now as I type, over 60mph winds today, i hope everyone survived that hurricane that you had over there the other day,