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Our goal is to provide technical information...GMCMI is very fortunate to have many sources of information right here in our membership, and they are always willing to share their knowledge. Along with our vendors these sources of information, supplies and innovation, are continuely being discovered to maintain and improveour 40-year-old vehicles. A sampling of technical sessions held so far this year is listed below.• Air Bags | Jeff Sirum• Aligning and Adjusting the GMC’s Steering Column | Alex Ferrara• Best Technical Thing You Ever Did to Your GMC | Kerry Pinkerton• Brakes | Dave Lenzi• Camshafts for GMCs | Dick Paterson• Custom Handicap Accessible GMC Motorhome | Bob Dunahugh• Fiberglass Repair | Dale Ropp• Finding Water Leaks in Your GMC Motorhome | Rick Preston• Fire and Life Safety | Mac McCoy and Scott Cowden• Front Suspension and the Diesel Engine | Jim Bounds• Getting to Know Your GMC, Part I & II | Ken Frey• GMC Interior and Renovations | Jim Bounds• GMC Gas Tank Venting and Problems With It | Paul Doane• GMC Motorhome Mentor Program | Ken Henderson• GMC Motorhome Open Forum – Hodge Podge | Ken Frey• GMC Motorhome Technical Q&A• Grounding Your GMC | Ken Burton• How to Remove Your Steering Wheel at Will | Ken Henderson• Hydro-Boost Power Brake System | Bob Stone• Introducing the GMC XF-15 | Josh Gifford• Making Life Easier in My GMC Motorhome | Rick & Tammy Drummond• Modern Engine Oils and Our Classic GMCs | John Richardson• Myths of the GMC Motorhome | Jim Kanomata• Olds/GMC: The Ins and Outs of Its Oiling | Dick Paterson• Rear Air Suspension | John Sharpe• Servicing the Distributor | Dick Paterson• What Can Your Oil Tell You? | John Richardson (see article on page 14)• “What’s Up” with Electronic Fuel Injection | Randy VanWinkle• Weighing Your GMC Motorhome | Ken Burton• 3D Printing | Walt Halley• PLUS...the great line up that will be presented at the GMCMI Fall ConventionAttendeeCommentHandouts were great! Presenters were fantastic!member three years second conventionWORK RALLY, ANYONE?The GMCMI Convention is not promoted as a “work rally”, but with the nature of a 40-year-old vehicle it sometimes becomes inevitable. During each convention several coaches are worked on, but during the first “Great Summer Get-together” in Branson, it was “the rule”.Here is a sampling of some of the items that Alex Ferrara and his crew worked on... • Replace driver’s side broken lower balljoint (broke in four pieces)• Repaired nail in tire• Repaired dash air conditioning• Replaced two steering relay levers• Replaced adjustable drag link• Fixed overheating mascerator wires• Installed two new roof air conditioners • Checked multiple steering gearalignments and replaced parts as needed (Alex donated steering boots to six first-timers)• Tore upper portion of engine apart and replaced driver side cyclinder head due to a crack in the cyclinder head between #3 and #5.SUMMER 2016GMC MOTORHOMES INTERNATIONAL 5