With our personal sun shining above a vibrant rainbow that cast shimmering confetti onto us, we worked to complete our cooling system work, which also signified a larger victory: We were about to complete our last mechanical job.
Category: Mechanical
When our Clark Cortez motorhome greeted us, it did not run and did not brake. That was just the beginning, too, which is why Andy and I started our RV restoration with mechanical repairs.
After a mishap followed by the most serious mishap and yet another mishap, it’s no wonder we admittedly put off this dreaded most intricate mechanical job: changing our V8 engine valve stem seals.
Of all people, we get it—You want to buy a Clark Cortez motorhome. However, consider this your warning before you do. Here’s your must-read post!
Our fifty-six-year-old antique RV becomes a safe haven for a second snake before it turns into a modified rally car and shoots flames from its exhaust. Here’s this crazy story . . .
We must be mechanical gods because we take on another ball joint replacement, which is a job known by all mechanics to be the hardest out there.
This job is known by all mechanics to be the hardest one out there: replacing a ball joint. Here’s how we fared against the challenge …
Our 1965 Clark Cortez motorhome’s speedometer needle was bouncing so much that a spring could have been attached to it. Accuracy was not its strong point.
Two for one with this job: It’s our dirtiest RV mechanical work, and we uncover a problem that could have lead to disastrous engine issues.
Our auxiliary belts were brittle and cracked, which means out with the old and in with the new!
We tackle the constant squeaking, creaking, groaning, and banging noises heard when our Cortez is moving by upgrading our suspension.
It’s true — We don’t have mice problems because we found a snake inside our RV! How we wrangled a snake from our motorhome ourselves after spark plug work!
Since L and I have had our 1965 Clark Cortez motorhome, we’ve had a problem getting our RV to reliably start. It’s finally time to test if our engine is healthy …
Our steel beast sounded like a cartoon raging bull who was held back but also taunted with a waving red flag — The desire to run was more than present but something somewhere was keeping our beast at bay.
One would believe if a vehicle runs before taking a fuel tank out, once the tank was reinstalled, the vehicle would run again. However, we learned this is not the case after our tank restoration.
Our welder and friend returns to save us and our Cortez — His job is to weld two threaded bungs to our fuel tank which will nearly finish off this tank restoration.