Well this happened. It's a 2010.
The kids are excited.
It got 9.5 pulling the Elantra GT on the way home. Now I need to find how to get chassis parts. It's a 2008 14,800 GVWR Chevy chassis. It looks like parts are listed under a Express 3500 with the GVWR as a modifier. Looks like this is considered medium duty. Anyone have a good online source? Amazon has some stuff listed.
Congrats on the purchase!!
For parts, I've been getting parts for my Ford F53 chassis on Amazon and Rockauto.
That thing looks sweet. Find one of those floorplan pics and post it because we're lazy.
This is the layout. Most of the 2010 23B are on Ford chassis with the 5.4l. This is on a Chevy 6.0L chassis.
In reply to nocones :
Very nice!
In reply to nocones :
Very nice! I can't imagine how toothless that thing would feel with the 5.4, though.
For my older Chevy P30 chassis I've had plenty of luck with rockauto and even the nearby FLAPS. For camper-specific parts, I like PPL.
Congratulations on the new motorhome. It’s a great way to spend time with family and create memories for you, wife and kids. One bit of advise is when you get it loaded with full tank of gas and say third tank of water and everything else go to a truck stop and have it weighted. It very easy to exceed even 14,800 gross vehicle weigh. Overloaded RV’s are dangerous and subject to tire failures. There are many guides to proper tire inflation and tires should be checked before you leave on every trip. I have had a blowout and believe me it was not fun. Have fun!
nocones said:
This is the layout. Most of the 2010 23B are on Ford chassis with the 5.4l. This is on a Chevy 6.0L chassis.
Man, that looks like.. EXACTLY what you wanted! Score!
Nocones, congrats on the new rig! Excited to hear how it works out for your family.
This thread is very relevant to my interests as well. I've been researching similar sized Class C's in a similar price range but for a slightly different use scenario. Now that I'm working from home, and because my wife has summers off, I now have the freedom to spend some extended time at our family cabin in the Pocono mountains. This would normally just be done with a road trip in one of our cars except for the fact that we have 5 cats. Leaving the cats at home is not an option due to the fact that 4 of them are older and three of them have early kidney issues and receive subcutaneous fluids twice a week. One of these guys also gets blood pressure pills daily and an inhaler for asthma. Basically, we are dealing with a kitty ALF situation.
We could get a van and shuck them all into a hotel room at night, plus litter boxes, food, etc., but that seems like a PITA. Hence the RV discussion. With an RV we can do the 24 trip in 3 days, keep the cats happy (hopefully) and contained, and enjoy some time away from the FL summer heat. Rental doesn't work as we would be there for at least a month and I don't want to risk a cat damaging a rental. The driveway at the cabin has a bit of a kick up at the base so a longer chassis would most likely drag/hit. I'm thinking 27' or less and a V10 would work and be in the mid $20K range I've budgeted. I really don't want a project and want something that is mechanically sound and no carpet. Cruise America sells off their 23' & 26' fleets around this price range, and although they have higher miles, they are well maintained if someone "basic" in interior accouterments.
Whatever we buy will also get some use during the year, possibly for Daytona 24 or Sebring 12 or the occasional Chump race and maybe some FL campground weekend exploring, where we can have a pet sitter at home. I have room to store it on my property so that isn't an issue.
I'm open to any input, especially anyone who has RV'd with cats.
Also, please tell me that THIS plus about $5-8K investment would be a bad idea (on top of all the aforementioned points).
In reply to hobiercr :
Well, right out of the gate, you're probably in to it for $1500-$2000 for tires and another $750ish for batteries just to find out what else is wrong. I'd be prepared to replace an A/C unit or two for another $600 each and the dash air probably needs some work - there's a lot of refrigerant line to leak there. Awning is probably sun-damaged, but may still be servicable. Appliances can be touch-and-go. Generators don't like to sit, but a good used one will be under a grand usually. If you bought that for 3 and put 8 into it, you'd have a pretty nice rig, assuming there's nothing terribly wrong with the engine. If that's the turbo Cat engine, it'll be durable and enough power to get you along, but I don't know those engines enough to be able to tell from that picture. Putting it in perspective, $11k for a diesel pusher is hard to find for something that doesn't have a lot wrong with it and I think for $8k and some elbow grease, you'd be able to make that into something pretty decent.
Also, I've seen setups that install what are basically casters on the trailer hitch to keep the tail from dragging or getting stuck when you have some of those steep approach angles. No personal experience, but I have been told that they work pretty well.
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