Spent today working on this beast. First, an interior tour for those who were wondering- the cockpit:
Kitchen and living room:
Bedroom:
The plan for the bedroom is to build a platform which will fit a queen mattress sideways with two dog beds aft of it- we'll see how that goes in a future installment.
Today was basic tune-up time. Plugs, wires, distributor cap, rotor, ignition coil, fuel filter, and air filter. Time to access the engine:
Great access to the TBI business, which all looks pretty good and has a build date of '97 embossed on it so it has been replaced at least once. Accessing anything else can be done provided you have N+1 wobble extensions, where N is equal to the number of wobble extensions you currently own. The air intake had what I believe is one of those silly '90s fuel saver vortexifiers in it:
Nearly all of the spark plug wires were crumbling, and a number of the spark plugs really didn't want to break free, but I got them out. It's slightly easier to do spark plugs on this thing than, say, a 4th gen F-body, although it would have been much easier if one of my arms had two elbows. The distributor is slightly tucked under the lip of the floor so getting the cap off is more difficult than it needs to be, but it's got all new ignition bits now:
I checked the brake fluid while I was in there- the master cylinder is under the driver's feet and nearly inaccessible. Luckily, the fluid was clean and the level was good! This is the best picture I could get, it's the black rectangle in the middle of the frame:
New air filter:
And then, fuel filter:
I know, I know. "Isn't there snow on the ground? And it's 20F outside? And fuel evaporates immediately making you way colder when you lay under the filter you're taking off like a dumbass?"
Of course not, all of this displaced snow is just from some sort of large mammal burrowing under the RV to hibernate. Or change the fuel filter.
Ended the session by hooking up one of the four batteries to a charger and going inside before hypothermia set in: