Converting early gas MH to Duramax? Possible?

[BigRabbitMan]

I have just learned that the site where I have the pictures posted (Webshots) is reinventing itself and so the current links to pictures will probably stop functioning some time in November. After they have done their reconfiguration I will go back and attemt to replace the links with new ones that will work.

Sorry for the complication.

[BigRabbitMan]

I have just learned that the site where I have the pictures posted (Webshots) is reinventing itself and so the current links to pictures will probably stop functioning some time in November. After they have done their reconfiguration I will go back and attemt to replace the links with new ones that will work.

Sorry for the complication.

Ok, I need to bring everyone up to date. The FMC Owners Club site now allows nonregistered visitors to view the photo albums and the postings in the forums. This allows me to link you to that album so that you can continue to follow my project.

A lot has been done and there are about 5 more pages of photos with commentary since my last posting on this site. The entire project did get slowed with nothing happening for several months this spring and summer due to my moving from Dixon, CA to Cottage Grove, OR. The coach remains in Gilroy, CA so, once my OR move is complete, I will be living part time in the coach until it is done.

Here is the link where the last dead link above left off.

http://www.fmcowners.com/mbbs22/phot...7&photoid=2068

Your comments and suggestion are always welcome.

[More Power]

Thanks for keeping us up to date. Looks like quite a project! Jim

[BigRabbitMan]

I am back to working on this conversion project as my move to Oregon is complete. I am now splitting my time between being in Oregon and working on the coach in Gilroy, CA. In addition to doing some interior upgrades, I have progressed with the conversion project. You can select my handle on the FMC website to see other albums that detail other things I have been doing in parallel with the drive train conversion.

Here is a link to the last items I have worked on. You can go back to earlier pages if you have not been following this project.
http://tinyurl.com/jw6u55j

Take care,

[GordonMarks]

Cool Stephen!
I remember doing all of that tagging, fitting, refitting, figuring(figgerin down here) & refiguring over & over. I think that I could just about flip to the service manual page I needed in either the 99 or the 2001 book. Used about 15 pads of yellow stickies in the process. It takes A LOT of digging AND weeding out the Lawyer BS that makes up most of the manuals.

Stick with it & keep posting!
Gordon

[BigRabbitMan]

Work continues! Here is a link to the most recent page of pictures of the project. This is page 15.

http://www.fmcowners.com/mbbs22/phot...15&sortdir=asc

[BigRabbitMan]

Some more steps completed. There is just so many step to complete!!

Here is a link to a photo of the engine essentially "in position". This is a test fitting to ensure everything fits and to position the engine so that the motor/transmission mounting brackets can be designed and located.
http://www.fmcowners.com/mbbs22/phot...7&photoid=2871

The engine will then be removed and the mounting brackets welded into place, final things done to the engine and then the engine will go back in permanetly. The rear frame cross member will also need to revised.

To see how the dash cluster was installed go to the previous page of pictures.

While work continues, I will be gone for the next couple of weeks.