Fridge Removal and Repair in Progress

[BrianE]

The good news is windshield removal and replacement is a snap in an XL. Dale has the right tool for the job. Too bad you can't do it in Houston where one guy can do it for the price of two.

[truk4u]

Brian - I have the tool, purchased from the windshield guru himself (Dale). I'm fortunate that the windshield has not be glued or caulked and should be easy.
Bill Miller has my tool and said he found a better way with a screen tool. I'll call him for more 411 when I get home.

Jamie - I'll be glad to take the couch back and place it in the den, Nancy would be REALLY happy!

Jimmy C - Yep, out the window buddy...

[lewpopp]

Truk man,

Google "Easy Appliance Parts". They had everything I needed for my 20 year old Amana. You might be surprised.

[garyde]

Hi Tom. I have had good luck at Sears . Here, they have a huge variety of shapes and sizes to choose. Also, I did find a refer there which was counter depth.

[hhoppe]

Truk: I hope I'm not too late with this; I had to chg. the refrigerator in my Royale and determined it would not fit thru the windshield opening and over the dash. We removed a side window and had plenty of room for the replacement. The side window was an easy removal and replacement. I set up a scaffold outside the window and we man handled it from there.
Good luck.

[truk4u]

Thanks Harry...

[truk4u]

Gary - You were right, Sears came through with the best price.

I found out with help from Dan, the magic word for replacement fridges is Cabinet Depth. The depth is the issue on probably many of the older buses and you have to work with 35 3/4 X 69 X 23 box dimensions without the doors. On my Liberty, anything longer than 23 would get way to close to the A/C evaporator.

And for all you macho do it yourselfers who said the fridge was easy to remove, you must be on crack! It took a hell of a lot of work removing the passenger seat that must weight 100 lbs, dinette table, windshield, fridge doors, wipers, defrost vents and 300 lbs of fridge. Lucky for me I have a son and son-in-laws with good backs and a Kubota with forks.

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One dead Amana on it's way out...

[garyde]

Hi Tom. Good news. Let's see some photos of the new installation.

[Joe Cannarozzi]

If you have a bus with OTR a/c you have that duct going all the way around at the floor and it is 3 or 4 inches you loose down there when you have that.

So do you have it all back together? What other things did you uncover while doing this project, anything?

[JIM CHALOUPKA]

Tom, I like those lift truck forks on your loader bucket.
Could you please take a better picture of them sometime. I have never seen anything like that at the farm supply stores. Can they be added and removed easily?
Is that a generic item, or made by Kubota. Do you think they would fit a model 1920 Ford tractor.

JIM