Anyone ever notice that no matter how well you level your coach, bus, RV, camper, tent, cardboard box, it always ends up with something being not quite level?
I had a 1984 Winnie Chief that I bought in 1986 with less than 25,000 miles. That poor old S&S was worn out from the day I got it.. not the drive train, jeez, that was like new. Other than having a itty bitty fuel tank and a 4-8 mpg average, it was great.... except...
One day while traveling through Nebraska or Eastern Wyoming, I was watching in the mirrors and noticed that the upper part of the body was wobbling back and forth about 8". This didn't concern me too much since I figured it was getting tired, after all, I'd put another 25K miles in less than a year.
I stopped at a campground for the night and thought I would check out what was going on... I peeled back part of the galvanized roof to see what was what and found that the rafters were attached to the side of the wall studs with 2 staples each... one leg of each staple was in the end of the rafter and one end was sunk into the upper plate. Whee!
I closed it up quickly and sold it shortly thereafter when I found a convenient rube ummm, I mean highly motivated buyer.
I saw this same Winnie on eBay about 2 years ago, in Ga. and it went for the same price I sold it for, and, coincidentally the same price I bought it for.
The biggest thing I remember about that RV was that it wasn't nearly as much fun to drive as my 1935 ACF-Brill had been, but it sure was a lot warmer and slept a lot better... even if it did lean to the left rear, no matter where I jacked up the frame.
Now, let's hear some stories of Bus conversions, SOB's and tent's if you will.
Dallas