Category Archives: RV Rebuild

Our RV finally has a name … It is fitting that ‘she’ should be named after the place she was built in the United States of America

Today we tackled the job of installing the new Firestone EPDM rubber membrane roof on the classic 1986 American Ford E350 Coachmen RV. But, disaster struck! Have we destroyed the roof membrane, and have we thrown away more than £200 on materials? Watch our video –> https://youtu.be/-H4_UKdPi7Y <– and find out.

We took this Onan GenSet 4KW generator out of our RV project yesterday. We are not sure whether to spend time getting it running or not, right now we have a big enough project as it is What values would you estimate for this on resale, working and not working? Shall we just put itContinue reading “Onan GenSet 4KW RV Generator”

We have begun the task of removing the old interior from the RV, and while not an easy task, it is very rewarding to see a blank canvas coming together for our rebuild. The roof timbers were very rotten. When removing these it became very obvious to us how heavy the air-conditioning unit actually wasContinue reading “Removing the old interior”

On 9th July 2021 we bought the RV. We had seen the RV for sale on eBay the week before, for about £2,700. On logging onto eBay on 9th July, the price had dropped to £1.695. Having had our breakfast, we jumped in the car and drove about 25 miles to see the RV. TheContinue reading “First Day”