Grumman - Load bearing walls or support needed? - Good Old RVs2024-03-29T14:49:55Zhttps://goodoldrvs.ning.com/forum/topics/grumman-load-bearing-walls-or-support-needed?groupUrl=international-harvester-chassis-rv-s&commentId=2093474%3AComment%3A425222&xg_source=activity&groupId=2093474%3AGroup%3A286971&feed=yes&xn_auth=noHey Kirk,
I hope you had a go…tag:goodoldrvs.ning.com,2022-01-18:2093474:Comment:4275042022-01-18T02:39:33.002ZPaulhttps://goodoldrvs.ning.com/profile/Paul
<p>Hey Kirk,</p>
<p>I hope you had a good Christmas, and the New Year is treating you well!</p>
<p>Hey Kirk,</p>
<p>I hope you had a good Christmas, and the New Year is treating you well!</p> Hi Paul,
Haven't done m…tag:goodoldrvs.ning.com,2021-10-27:2093474:Comment:4264112021-10-27T12:46:39.522ZKirk C Hoffmanhttps://goodoldrvs.ning.com/profile/KirkCHoffman
<p>Hi Paul,</p>
<p> Haven't done much with the old Krager, I've been working on putting together a big air compressor to run my blasting cabinet. I got a piece of 12" channel iron and had to mount the compressor head and motor on it, so some hole drilling and slots to slide the motor for belt adjustment. the slots were interesting, this piece is bigger than the bed on my milling machine so figuring out how to anchor it to the bed was a bit of a challenge. Once I got that done I mounted…</p>
<p>Hi Paul,</p>
<p> Haven't done much with the old Krager, I've been working on putting together a big air compressor to run my blasting cabinet. I got a piece of 12" channel iron and had to mount the compressor head and motor on it, so some hole drilling and slots to slide the motor for belt adjustment. the slots were interesting, this piece is bigger than the bed on my milling machine so figuring out how to anchor it to the bed was a bit of a challenge. Once I got that done I mounted that piece on some wheels and a swivel caster so I can move it around. This thing must be about 600 LBS with the head and 5 HP motor, so rolling it will be a lot easier than dragging it!</p>
<p> That Sunbeam will be a nice ride once its finished! British cars are interesting to work on! I almost got into a project a few years back that would have made any mechanic pull his hair out. A pair of '60 Jaguar 120's that were both in boxes. the owner had taken them apart and started to restore them. I didn't think I wanted to try to figure all that out! I wouldn't have known what went where with which car! All the terminology is different with those cars. That Alpine will be a great learning experience! </p>
<p> I had the electric clutch on my Airens GT-19 go out, so had to tear into that. The starter was acting strange too, and I found out the bendix is slipping, I'm not sure how it ever started it. So, in the Ariens the engine has to come out to get to the starter, and since I had to get that far into it, I thought it would be a good idea to dig all the dirt and grass out of the cooling fins. Now I see why that one always seemed to run hot! I have never seen a more plugged up dirty motor than that was! I put a new bearing in the clutch and re-assembled it, only to discover the pulley on the clutch is bent! I don't know if it was like that before or if I bent it pressing the bearing out, so, Now I get to fix that too! I was just going to install a different pulley, only to discover the shaft on the19 is 1 1/4 instead of 1 1/8 so that didn't work. Always something. </p>
<p> Are you going to put a sealing liner in the tank? I wish I had done mine when I had it washed out! That would have prevented the rust that's in there now! Let me know how that goes! Talk to you soon, take care. Kirk</p> Hi Kirk.
It's been a crazy co…tag:goodoldrvs.ning.com,2021-10-27:2093474:Comment:4265222021-10-27T01:39:41.785ZPaulhttps://goodoldrvs.ning.com/profile/Paul
Hi Kirk.<br />
It's been a crazy couple of weeks.<br />
Did you manage to get the Krager all stripped down yet?<br />
I decided to buy an old 1967 Sunbeam Alpine. It was an ebay classified. Sat at a coparts in PA. Long story but very frustrating from beginning to end. If all goes well ( knock on wood ) I'll get the tag and title on Thursday. I paid for the car 3 weeks ago.<br />
I need to order a new intake manifold , carbs and linkages to get it to run and seatbelts and new tires to make it safe and legal. Of course…
Hi Kirk.<br />
It's been a crazy couple of weeks.<br />
Did you manage to get the Krager all stripped down yet?<br />
I decided to buy an old 1967 Sunbeam Alpine. It was an ebay classified. Sat at a coparts in PA. Long story but very frustrating from beginning to end. If all goes well ( knock on wood ) I'll get the tag and title on Thursday. I paid for the car 3 weeks ago.<br />
I need to order a new intake manifold , carbs and linkages to get it to run and seatbelts and new tires to make it safe and legal. Of course non of this was mentioned in the listing. Ugh! It was described as good running condition.<br />
It's a good car other than needing carbs and tires and seat belts.<br />
So while I'm waiting on that stuff I'll get a chance to drop that tank on the Grumman and also take the carb to a carb shop to have them go over it cause I guess my rebuild wasnt the best. Lol.<br />
Tomorrow I need sleep. Thursday we are due rain for the first time in ages so maybe I'll get working on it this coming weekend. Hey Kirk.
No. Life got in the…tag:goodoldrvs.ning.com,2021-10-08:2093474:Comment:4252222021-10-08T20:41:17.329ZPaulhttps://goodoldrvs.ning.com/profile/Paul
Hey Kirk.<br />
No. Life got in the way. I'm already to drop it but need to make the time.<br />
Hopefully in the next two weeks it'll get done and I'll post an update!<br />
Take care
Hey Kirk.<br />
No. Life got in the way. I'm already to drop it but need to make the time.<br />
Hopefully in the next two weeks it'll get done and I'll post an update!<br />
Take care Hi Paul,
Any luck on you…tag:goodoldrvs.ning.com,2021-10-07:2093474:Comment:4252092021-10-07T16:25:16.935ZKirk C Hoffmanhttps://goodoldrvs.ning.com/profile/KirkCHoffman
<p>Hi Paul,</p>
<p> Any luck on your gas tank problem? Haven't been on here much the past couple weeks, busy trying to get ready for Winter! I started taking the old Krager RV apart yesterday. Need to get it gone! That thing has a wooden structure covered with fiberglass sheeting. Needless to say the wood is all rotten. Every time I touched the sides more wood fell out the bottom! Not very sturdy anymore, LOL.</p>
<p> It must be our Monsoon season today and tomorrow, raining like mad out…</p>
<p>Hi Paul,</p>
<p> Any luck on your gas tank problem? Haven't been on here much the past couple weeks, busy trying to get ready for Winter! I started taking the old Krager RV apart yesterday. Need to get it gone! That thing has a wooden structure covered with fiberglass sheeting. Needless to say the wood is all rotten. Every time I touched the sides more wood fell out the bottom! Not very sturdy anymore, LOL.</p>
<p> It must be our Monsoon season today and tomorrow, raining like mad out there right now. So, I think I'll get out in the shed and sort out junk to get rid of! I need to make room to park my other 3 Ariens tractors in there! </p>
<p> I hope all is well with you, and the weather is co-operating. Have a good one, Kirk</p> Hi Paul,
It would be nic…tag:goodoldrvs.ning.com,2021-09-22:2093474:Comment:4247322021-09-22T12:11:36.848ZKirk C Hoffmanhttps://goodoldrvs.ning.com/profile/KirkCHoffman
<p>Hi Paul,</p>
<p> It would be nice if these so called "parts sellers" would post dimensions of the stuff they sell! But that would make life too easy! My tank just has a steel pipe welded to the top corner of the tank. It's about 4 inches long and the cap screws right on to it! Someone must have either changed my tank or yours, Makes me wonder. My entire tank is built from heavy steel, not the thin tin standard gas tank stuff they make car tanks from. More like a big truck tank. I wonder…</p>
<p>Hi Paul,</p>
<p> It would be nice if these so called "parts sellers" would post dimensions of the stuff they sell! But that would make life too easy! My tank just has a steel pipe welded to the top corner of the tank. It's about 4 inches long and the cap screws right on to it! Someone must have either changed my tank or yours, Makes me wonder. My entire tank is built from heavy steel, not the thin tin standard gas tank stuff they make car tanks from. More like a big truck tank. I wonder if it has been swapped out? No way to know I guess! I do know that when that thing is full of water when I was doing the electrolysis thing I couldn't even move it! I guess it was around 500 LBS between the liquid and the tank weight itself!</p>
<p> Can you get me a pic of your filler neck? Maybe I can recognize it. See what you can find online and maybe you'll get lucky! Good luck, talk to you soon, Kirk</p> Hey Kirk.
So I have a filler…tag:goodoldrvs.ning.com,2021-09-22:2093474:Comment:4244272021-09-22T00:09:42.283ZPaulhttps://goodoldrvs.ning.com/profile/Paul
Hey Kirk.<br />
<br />
So I have a filler neck without a thread. The cap I did buy a while back has the tabs that twist onto the neck. I dont know if the steel filler neck was also changed at some point before I got it.<br />
<br />
The amazon search did show a bunch of caps with that exact search term.<br />
"Stant Saddle Tank Fuel cap black"<br />
Mostly they were big brass caps with internal threads and unvented. Not sure which one you meant because there were so many ( and non of them black even though it was in the title)…
Hey Kirk.<br />
<br />
So I have a filler neck without a thread. The cap I did buy a while back has the tabs that twist onto the neck. I dont know if the steel filler neck was also changed at some point before I got it.<br />
<br />
The amazon search did show a bunch of caps with that exact search term.<br />
"Stant Saddle Tank Fuel cap black"<br />
Mostly they were big brass caps with internal threads and unvented. Not sure which one you meant because there were so many ( and non of them black even though it was in the title) lol.<br />
<br />
Then I went to Shop Eddies. It wouldnt let me search for the number you gave me.<br />
( no results) So I went thru the 16 pages of gas caps and none of them was made by Ontario Inc. according to the website.<br />
But then I'm doing this on my phone.<br />
I'll hop on the PC at work tomorrow and search again.<br />
<br />
I think the Vintage RV Gods just dont like me! Lol<br />
<br />
Paul Hi Paul,
I dug through my b…tag:goodoldrvs.ning.com,2021-09-21:2093474:Comment:4245932021-09-21T23:12:40.092ZKirk C Hoffmanhttps://goodoldrvs.ning.com/profile/KirkCHoffman
<p> Hi Paul,</p>
<p>I dug through my bucket of gas caps and the only one I found had the threads on the outside of the cap, so it would screw into a filler neck instead of over it. The Amazon one is called a Stant Saddle Tank Fuel cap black, it says there are only 2 left! Walmart shows one too, Under Shop Eddies, it says the number is 2335997 made by Ontario Inc. I hope one of these will work for you! Good luck with the hunt! Kirk</p>
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<p> Hi Paul,</p>
<p>I dug through my bucket of gas caps and the only one I found had the threads on the outside of the cap, so it would screw into a filler neck instead of over it. The Amazon one is called a Stant Saddle Tank Fuel cap black, it says there are only 2 left! Walmart shows one too, Under Shop Eddies, it says the number is 2335997 made by Ontario Inc. I hope one of these will work for you! Good luck with the hunt! Kirk</p>
<p></p> Hi Kirk
If you can find that…tag:goodoldrvs.ning.com,2021-09-21:2093474:Comment:4245162021-09-21T13:42:33.261ZPaulhttps://goodoldrvs.ning.com/profile/Paul
Hi Kirk<br />
If you can find that cap on amazon again and can tell me what the description said I'm sure I'll be able to find it. No need to copy the link. Just the main title - like brand and basic description should do it.<br />
Dont go digging thru stuff!<br />
Rain here solid for this coming week. So no rush to get it finished.<br />
Thanks!<br />
Paul
Hi Kirk<br />
If you can find that cap on amazon again and can tell me what the description said I'm sure I'll be able to find it. No need to copy the link. Just the main title - like brand and basic description should do it.<br />
Dont go digging thru stuff!<br />
Rain here solid for this coming week. So no rush to get it finished.<br />
Thanks!<br />
Paul Hi Paul,
I just looke…tag:goodoldrvs.ning.com,2021-09-21:2093474:Comment:4244242021-09-21T12:58:46.378ZKirk C Hoffmanhttps://goodoldrvs.ning.com/profile/KirkCHoffman
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9590585299?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9590585299?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img> Hi Paul, </a></p>
<p> I just looked online for a replacement cap, I found one on Amazon tried to add it to this post but it didn't recognize the format. It was $23 dollars and some cents. I'll have to dig through my stuff and see if I can find one that survived going to the scrap yard. I should have one. </p>
<p> I take it that is the top of your tank?…</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9590585299?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9590585299?profile=RESIZE_710x"/>Hi Paul, </a></p>
<p> I just looked online for a replacement cap, I found one on Amazon tried to add it to this post but it didn't recognize the format. It was $23 dollars and some cents. I'll have to dig through my stuff and see if I can find one that survived going to the scrap yard. I should have one. </p>
<p> I take it that is the top of your tank? Looks to have the same angle fitting as mine does. I removed the steel line fitting and put in a brass hose barb on mine, then just ran rubber lines where they had to go. I'll check on the cap I might have this morning and let you know. Kirk</p>