<VV> Goodbye Dolly (R. Loving) Not really Corvair

[Taruffi57 at aol.com]

Well, Rick, that brought to mind a little failure I experienced in  2004.  
Mary & I were meandering back from the Napa wineries area toward  Florida in 
my new 35 ft. Jayco Ford V-10 Class A, and crossing the central part  of 
New Mexico.       I remember seeing black lava  flow rock on the sides of the 
2 lane hwy.  For sure, There was nothing out  there.  Came upon a long 
downhill straight run and decided it was a good  place to see what the wandering 
Jayco's top speed was.  :-)  
 
I could see where the terrain dipped and flattened out, way up ahead.   Got 
to the bottom of the run and that dip was more pronounced that I had  
anticipated.   W H A M !!!!!!!  The front end of the  directionally unstable RV 
had bottomed out.  I got out and checked for  damage.  On one of the front 
power jacks, the coil-over spring was  partially off the shaft and twisted 
like a pretzel.  Now I already  knew that the front end of the coach was 
somewhat lower than the  rear.  Layed a tape on the front and got approx 7"  of 
bottom-of-jack to road clearance.  The rears were something  like 11 inches.  
I called Jayco and they sent me to the jack manufacturer -  who sent me a 
free, new spring.
 
When I asked Jayco why they built the coach with such minimal front end  
clearance, they just shrugged their shoulders (on the phone), and said they 
were  all like that.  Well thank you.........
 
Reminds me of a boss of mine back in the sixties who had a new Corvair  
which had a carb. "stumbling" problem.  He said he took it to the Chevy  
dealership and they said it was alright.  "Just drive it and it will go  away."
 
Joe Dunlap
Sauna, Florida