Building Records

[robertglines1]

As has been pointed out in the previous MCI 5 build post. Take pictures and identify everything you can.  Part  #s on anything you can find is a good future reference also note color scheme for your bus wiring and air system.  While disc and computers are great storage devices. I choose to back up with hard copies in individual note books labled accordingly.  Attaching pictures of any mods I make to system.  Maybe old school and can also be misplaced lost and borrowed. They are easy to make notes on.   For what it,s it worth.   Bob.

[Seangie]

Bob,

Smart thinking...especially for insurance purposes. (and of course this ups the resale value of your coach...by at least a buck or two )

-Sean

[Cary and Don]

This one is my job.

For the electrical,  I followed the method that GM used.  The manuals for our 4107 were easy to follow even for someone that knew nothing. 

I made a page for each panel with a diagram labeling each connection.  Then there is a page with the connections listed and what each one does and where it goes.  These pages are in plastic slips in a binder.  Each time we have it out while we are working on something it is easy to add notes.  Since the first change isn't usually the final change the plastic slip helps.  Just write the change on a piece of masking tape and attach it over the old use.  Once it's all finished,  just print the revised page and start all over again.  We also came across little zip ties with label spots on them.  Every wire we come across gets one.

Cary
1973 05 Eagle
GM 4107
Neoplan AN340

[Uglydog56]

I know one of the reasons I bought the bus I did, was that it came with a log of every modification made to the bus.  Unfortunately the guy was a bit of a right-brain type, so it's in journal form.  He dated and put funny quips on everything inside the bus that he installed (out of sight) so the best way to find something is to take it apart, read the quip, then start reading the journal somewhere around that date and see if you can find how he did what he did.

Being an engineering type, I started a new journal, but mine is in a 3-ring binder separated by system, and doesn't involve as many philosophical reflections.

Cary, do you have a link to those zip ties?

[Cary and Don]

The E place item 190686965996  HCT-100 Marker Ties.

Don and Cary
1973 05 Eagle
GM 4107
Neoplan AN340

[robertglines1]

Thanks! just getting ready to run 49 control circuit wires and would be nice to mark them in several locations.. pin to pin is fine but when severed or chewed threw--- more is better.   Bob

[chev49]

thanks also.