Just saying hi, new member here but long time Rver, since about 1976.
Cody,
Welcome to our madness! Jack
Thanks Jack, looking forward to the madness, hopefully I can contribute some insanity to the mix.
WELCOME CODY.
You are among the Old the Young and the bus- nuts.I also been RVing since 76.
Pete & Jean
Fantasy :)
Cody, Looks like a nice Eagle tell us about it, and where are you located. Andy in Indiana
The bus is our part time home, it's an 1981 model 10, we're based out of the Upper Penninsula of Michigan. It's an ongoing project as I suspect most of the conversions are lol, it evolves continually, hopefully, for the better but we enjoy it. My wife and I are retired and still relatively young, I'm 55 and she's not going to let me tell lol. We enjoy seeing whats over the next hill, bluegrass music and spend a lot of time visiting with friends we meet along the way, when we're home we do some more work on the bus and get the conversion a litltle further along, after having a few factory coaches we decided that the only way we were going to get exactly what we wanted would be to build it ourselves, let the madness continue lol.
Cody, I come to the U.P. every couple years to snowmobile, If you are coming though Indiana in your bus somtime we live on sugar creek with a great view,Your welcome to boondock it would be nice to meet you and your young wife LOL Andy
Hi Cody, Where ya at in the UP? i get up there occasionally, I go to Marquette, and all along lake Michigan. welcome to the club and hope to meet along the way. maybe at Uncle Dave Macon days in murfreesboro, Tn. a big bluegrass festival.
Captain Ron
Ya came to the right place for all the info you'll ever need. Good group here. Post often! 8)
Welcome to the secret board of the NUTS (busnuts that is! LOL!)
BK ;D
Welcome to our world,
Now just TRY to escape.
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Cody,
If you ever get to any of the buegrass festivals in Florida during the winter season, be sure to look us up. Just look for the MC-8 with "Orange Blossom Special" written across the front and back of it. Jack
Just when we were thinking the cruising season is starting up again we got nailed with 18 inches of snow. I was really hoping for an early summer like we had last year up here, last year it started on a tuesday and lasted almost till the weekend, lol. One bluegrass fest that we always hit is in Columbus Ohio, they open the gates around the 23rd of July and it runs thru the next weekend, great time. It's the MACC fest and a lot of fun. I'm getting anxious to be somewhere other than snowbound. Summersville WVA in june is a great fest too but we can't hit that one this year.
Run, Run, Run,,,,,Run as fast as you can, before you are hooked.
Welcome,,,,
Way over my head, but I can swim......
Bill
What's the secret to enable one to retire at 55? I need to know because I still have time to make that happen if I can figure it out.
I hope you enjoy this group as much as I do.
Welcome aboard.
Laryn
get rich
don't eat
Too late to run now, already hooked, I'm finding lots of good information here and enjoying the different topics, it's nice to see a forum thats mainly devoted to the bus conversions, often it's hard to find good information about a specific problem. I will have one question to see if anyone has any thoughts on it but very limited information on it yet, I'm getting ready to redo a panel directly to the left of the drivers seat and see that theres a large rotary knob behind it that somebody covered up in the past, will be exposing it soon to see what it's all about but most likely will look for input in what it is later, meanwhile the secret to retiring early is the willingness to starve.
That rotary switch would be the old master control. It was probably replaced with a keyed switch for starting/running the engine and a separate headlights/marker lights switch.
Welcome to the GROUP!
Nice to see another Eagle among us.
Good Luck and Happy Trails,
Paul
Dreamscape
Thanks Paul, yep, another eagle lol. We were gone for a couple of days, can't seem to stay home, especially with a few nice days here, I guess I don't need that much of a reason to burn up some fuel lol.
Back again, had hit the road for a few days. I've got to get some sort of computer for the bus so I can keep track of whats going on. The past two weeks we hit Wisconsin, Illinios, Indianna, Ohio and then thru Canada back home, had to shake off the cabin fever a bit. One question for the crew here, we just bought a 97 Dodge Ram1500, it's got an automatic tranny and is four wheel drive with the transfer lever on the floor, the dealer said we could tow it 4 down by putting the transfer case in neutral and the book seems to agree with him but when I went to get the tow brackets put on they said I'd need to disconnect the drive shaft to tow it and they wouldn't put the brackets on. We tow a jeep grand cherokee now and the procedure seems to be the same according to the book, any thoughts? The reason I opted for the truck is to be able to put a golf cart in the back.
You don't need to use a drive-line disconnect ... just pull the transfer-case in neutral and the auto shifter in PARK. Then turn the ignition one notch .. so your steering isn't locked, but there's no power to dash... and gooooooooo
Ron
Cody
Welcome you will enjoy this board!!!
If you get south In. ,give us a shout!
Dwayne & Peg.
Mc8 TIN TENT