Somewhat perplexed, non-understanding

[Chet Geist]

Ralph,

"Amen" and don't forget you can't find many parts for a Bluebird at Wal-Mart, Radio Shack, Pep Boysor Sams you need to go to a truck type parts store.

Chet Geist

Almost all original 1981 FC33, Austin, Texas

-----Original Message-----
From: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Ralph L. Fullenwider
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:44 AM
To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Somewhat perplexed, non-understanding

Good morning everyone:

Charolette and I are just back in from a nice 9 day camping spree on the
Blue River trout stream, one of several in Oklahoma, but was almost totally
out of touch as it is a cell phone and Internet dead area.

I get a little confused some times with some of the threads on the Forum. I
some times wonder why someone would take a good high line Motor Coach and
turn it into junk. I mean it is ok with the SOB's perhaps, they are not
going to live longer than 10 years, as a rule of thumb anyway. But to just
change a well designed and engineered system because a little work in
finding the parts or simply removing a part, clean and lube it and re
install for another 20 year working period, I just don't get it.

Yes, I do understand a part being obsolete, thus a change needing to be
made by finding another part type that will work with the orig. system,
thus keeping the Coach engineered integrity in tact! So many safety systems
are by passed or removed that were designed into a system to save a Family
from being blown up because of live steam in a hot water system or an LP
system safety by passed as a permanent fix because a sensor goes bad on a
board some where.

The 3 way valve at the bottom of the water heater has a purpose, there was
not a by-pass winterizing system added by the Factory because the Bird does
not need it, that is what the built in designed air blow out system is for.
If one follows the manual, which someone took the time at the Factory to
put together for we owners, most of the systems in these beautiful Coaches
make sense and are understandable.

Then I also wonder if changes that are made are documented for the next guy
who has the Coach because he is going to be like so many on this Forum has
been, asking questions like "how does this or that system work?" "where do
I get the parts or find the parts to up grand or bring it back to
original?" Sound familiar?

Yes I am venting in a way, but it is a venting from simply trying to
understand how a professed top of the line Motor Coach, have the very
systems that made it "Top of the Line" in the first place, simply torn out,
by passed, do for, second best type of work done on them, can be documented
and or professed as to being "the way to go" unless you have sat down with
design engineers and designed the system or at the very least, taken the
time to go through the documented diagrams, sat down to fully understand
the system in question to the point that you can write a "sequence of
operation" for that system.

Come on guys if it is worth doing at all, then it is worth doing right the
first time.

Safe travels,

Ralph and Charolette Fullenwider
84FC35 "Ruff Diamond"
Duncan, Oklahoma