Dragracer

I’ve had it 6 months. It was like that when I got it.

What caused this?

I’m currently building a 38 Chevy gasser.

Thank you for the windshield information. I would like to talk to you sometime about my slides. I have a few questions. You are the highly recommended person for adjusting the slides. If I were closer I would make a appointment & come see you but I'm in Texas. If I message you my phone number could you call me some time?

I made a reply about this on a different windshield related post & no one replied. Also did a search & nothing came up. When I drive through a drive approach or something similar that twists the body you can see the windshield’s moving up & down in the rubber. The roof is not moving so it must be the bottom where they sit on the dash. Anyone else’s windshields moving? Don’t know if this is anything to worry about.

While driving over unlevel surfaces like drive approaches in our 2001 Diplomat the front windshields will move up & down from the bottom. The top part of the coach doesn’t move but they are moving with the dash. You can see them sliding up & down when you look up at the tops of them. Hasn’t caused any problems that I’m aware of. Are they supposed to do this?

I'm a new Diplomat owner & this is my first Class A. I got our 2001 Diplomat with 57,000 miles. To me I think our is real clean & in good condition for it's age. Previous owners all took good care of it & must have kept it under cover. So far the most major things I've done is residential refrigerator replacement & replaced all 8 shocks. Also changed all fluids & filters generator, engine & transmission & used factory OEM filters. Also greased the chassis & checked diff fluid. Had to repair a kitchen sink leak by removing the back out of one of the kitchen cabinets to get to a 1 1/2" flex hose that Home Depot had, $15 repair but I did it myself. Had to adjust the entry door linkage to make entry easier. Luckily I have done everything myself which has saved me a lot of money. So far we have used it quite a lot camping & pulling our 28ft enclosed race car to the dragstrip. With the colder weather I'm going to have to replace some of the gas charged cylinders that hold the storage doors open. Currently in the market for those. We love it. We also had a 45x24 RV port built to keep it under. I prefer older diesels instead of the newer ones with DPF & DEF. So far my decision to buy a older one has really paid off. In the future I will be resealing the roof, probably replacing the eternabond tape, getting new tires & replacing the radiator & air bags.

Ray Davis. Yes I will be racing against some of the Street Outlaws that are on TV. I entered in the unlimited big tire class. The street outlaws that are TV run it a race that is a invitational meaning you have to be invited to run in it. There will be some of the street outlaws that didn't make the invitational running in the class that I entered.

Many thanks to everyone for all the good replies. Lots of useful information in all of yalls posts. Looks like keeping our Diplomat will be a good decision. We really like it! I have upgraded the refrigerator to a Frigidaire residential unit. Also installed new Bilstein shocks. I performed a full service on the coach when we got it, generator new Onan filters, transmission new Allison filters & Transend oil, greased every fitting on the chassis including the driveshaft & checked the differential fluid. We are planning on camping at a local lake this weekend. Next weekend it will pull our enclosed trailer with the drag car so I can race some of the street outlaws. After 43 years of drag racing I'm retiring. Looking forward to going full time RV'ing.

My wife & I are planning on going full time when we retire in a couple years. We have spent a few years as over the road as owner operator truckers. We kept our house but would stay gone for up to 2 months sometimes. Back then we used a PO box at the post office & would pay our bills online. We are planning on selling our house & staying in RV parks all over the USA. First question is how do you get your mail? We have been all over the USA when we were trucking. We never stayed in a motel, took showers at truck stops & slept in our truck every night. We had a power inverter in our truck & had a refrigerator & a electric burner we got from Walmart to cook on. If we hauled a load to somewhere that we wanted to stay & check out for a few days, we had a commercial rental car account with Hertz. We would park the truck at a truck stop & run around in the rental car. We have already bought & currently use a tow dolly when we go camping to take a car for transportation. Second question, We want to purchase a new car when the time comes & what kind of vehicle is recommended for towing behind a RV full time? We have a 2001 Monaco Diplomat with 57k. By the time we go full timing it will have a few more miles. I've been a mechanic all my life. I rebuilt the Detroit 12.7 in one of our semi's myself at my shop. I have done all the maintenance & repaired a few things wrong with the Diplomat. With that being said I can do any repairs on the Diplomat while I still have my shop but once my shop is gone, I will be limited on what I can repair on it. My biggest concern is the radiator. It still has the original radiator in it. It's in fairly good shape but does have some rust around the petcock. Apparently, it has metal (not brass, copper or aluminum) tanks. Before we go I would get a new radiator & while it's out replace the water pump, belt & all the hoses. The charge air cooler looks ok but may need replacing too. By this time, I will need new tires. I estimate by buying tires, radiator, water pump, thermostat, coolant, belts & hoses I'm going to have to spend 10k or more depending on what I find when I tear into it. Third & last question, should we look into buying a new or newer RV or keep what we got. Anyone know how good the new ones hold up compared to the older ones? When it comes to semis the new ones are junk compared to the old ones, especially compared to the ones made before 2003 that don't have a EGR or any emission controls like our Diplomat.

I didn't take the caps off mine. I don't know what would happen if you did.

No apology needed. The awnings I'm referring to are my slide out awnings. They both were barely hanging to the roof. The middle of them came un sewed & just a little on each end was all that was holding them to the roof.

Steve. What I meant was that I turned the rollers that the awning was rolled up on by hand to un roll them in order to get the awnings off the rollers. I didn't have to purchase new material. I cut 3 inches off where it attaches to the roof & resewed it. The material on both my awnings was in real good shape except where it attaches to the roof.

Mine was still partially attached to the motorhome roof so my awning rollers didn't come un wound. I unrolled them by hand & used some 1/4" drill bits in both ends of the rollers to hold them in place while we made the repairs to the awnings. There was holes in the end of my rollers & thats where I locked them with drill bits. In order to remove the awning from the slots in the rollers I googled & found a trick to take a 1/4" drill bit & drill & elongate the slot about a inch on 1 end so you can get the canvas out of the roller. It went back together pretty easy. I attached the canvas back to the roof by sliding it back into the track with the Tv coax cable inside the canvas before I put it in the roller.To me the whole job was very easy to do. The first one took be about a hour to get off but after I figured it all out the other one came off in about 20 minutes. I used 2 ladders & had my wife help me put them back on. I removed them by myself. It took us about 10 minutes each to put them back on. If your rollers have come un wound you will need to find out how many turns to wind them back up. I bet someone on this site will know or you can find the infformation on google if you need it.

What I found was in bulk. Just buy what you need.