E-350 Ford 'Born Free' Motorcoach
5 Days
1393
43
$10,500.00
Ray
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VIN: 1FDWE30S9WHB45302
Born Free Model 24 RSB. 25 ft long bumper to bumper. This Class C Motorhome can be parked just about anywhere. The Ford E350 chassis is a 1998 model. The factory fiberglass Born Free Motorcoach body was installed on the chassis in 1999.
She's a solid fiberglass bodied coach. No roof caulking, roof tape or membrane concerns. She was a top-of-the-line Motorcoach for her day, constructed with two integrated real roll bars. See them when looking at the inside AC unit & MaxxFan unit.
She has the 6.8L Triton V10 engine, highly regarded for its longevity and towing power, often lasting well over 300,000 miles when properly maintained. Ford used the Triton V10 for 24 years in all their heavy duty E Series, Super Duty trucks & SUV's as their gasoline alternative to diesel for heavy duty towing. The Triton V10 in this Born Free is a well maintained sweet runner. While mileage is higher, though not for a truck of this year, we wouldn't have invested our time and money in her if we weren't confident concerning the engine.
Long before we assumed ownership a newly widowed lady bought this motorcoach new and, with a friend, set out to travel every highway and byway they could. There isn't much of the USA and Canada this motorcoach (as Born Free calls her) hasn't seen. This motorcoach didn't sit unused month after month, year after year. It's been driven and worked as intended.
Eventually the original Lady owner gave up ownership of her Born Free. We know of two other owners. The fella we bought her from down Manti, UT way took her fishing all the time.
After purchasing her we had all the Coach systems checked. We upgraded the bathroom fixtures, the water pump, fridge and furnace.
We gave the Triton V10 a comprehensive tune-up with upgraded increased thread count iridium spark plugs properly torqued. We upgraded the truck steering linkage system and had a commercial front and rear axle alignment.
We upgraded to a custom $900+ Wilderness Hybrid innerspring 12" thick mattress, then and set out on our first journey. We headed to Montana from our home in Utah with the wind just a-howling. We didn't enjoy the drive in those heavy crosswinds.
We upgraded the rear leaf springs and front coil springs to E-450. We upgraded the complete air bag system, including an on-board air compressor with dash mounted air gauge and incorporated individual air bag finger-tip pressure controls.
The drivability difference: Miraculous! No matter how stiff or from which direction winds hit us we can adjust the air bag pressure side-to-side to compensate.
We upgraded the truck engine cooling thermocouple fan, cooling temperature sensor and water pump.
In the Coach we upgraded to a lithium compatible power converter. We then upgraded the Coach with four each Lion Energy Lithium 105 ah batteries and a pure sine wave 3000 watt Victron Inverter, The microwave and other 110 outlets can now be powered up off-grid without running the onboard generator. 420 ah of Lithium battery power takes a long time to run down if used wisely.
We upgraded the coach ceiling exhaust fan to a MaxxFan Deluxe 7500K smoke cover motorized remote controlled 10 speed fan, reversible for exhaust or intake air.
The original gasoline on-board 1800 rpm Onan genset is fueled by the truck fuel tank. It runs well, providing power & charging as designed should you need it. Other than genset occasional usage for battery bank recharging. the AC is the only unit that needs the genset to operate if there's no available shore power.
All lights and fans run on battery power as well as shore power. The furnace and fridge are propane powered from the on-board 30 gallon propane tank. Their fans run off the battery bank when not connected to shore power. The water heater is propane only.
We can no longer use our Born Free. You can see by how we were giving her modern upgrades, our plans were to use her extensively. Life dictates that we are full time stay-at-home caregivers now.
I exercise the generator, truck engine and keep the coach and engine batteries charged. We've kept up with servicing.
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E-350 Ford 'Born Free' Motorcoach
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43
$10,500.00
Ray
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Description
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Payment Types Accepted
VIN: 1FDWE30S9WHB45302
Born Free Model 24 RSB. 25 ft long bumper to bumper. This Class C Motorhome can be parked just about anywhere. The Ford E350 chassis is a 1998 model. The factory fiberglass Born Free Motorcoach body was installed on the chassis in 1999.
She's a solid fiberglass bodied coach. No roof caulking, roof tape or membrane concerns. She was a top-of-the-line Motorcoach for her day, constructed with two integrated real roll bars. See them when looking at the inside AC unit & MaxxFan unit.
She has the 6.8L Triton V10 engine, highly regarded for its longevity and towing power, often lasting well over 300,000 miles when properly maintained. Ford used the Triton V10 for 24 years in all their heavy duty E Series, Super Duty trucks & SUV's as their gasoline alternative to diesel for heavy duty towing. The Triton V10 in this Born Free is a well maintained sweet runner. While mileage is higher, though not for a truck of this year, we wouldn't have invested our time and money in her if we weren't confident concerning the engine.
Long before we assumed ownership a newly widowed lady bought this motorcoach new and, with a friend, set out to travel every highway and byway they could. There isn't much of the USA and Canada this motorcoach (as Born Free calls her) hasn't seen. This motorcoach didn't sit unused month after month, year after year. It's been driven and worked as intended.
Eventually the original Lady owner gave up ownership of her Born Free. We know of two other owners. The fella we bought her from down Manti, UT way took her fishing all the time.
After purchasing her we had all the Coach systems checked. We upgraded the bathroom fixtures, the water pump, fridge and furnace.
We gave the Triton V10 a comprehensive tune-up with upgraded increased thread count iridium spark plugs properly torqued. We upgraded the truck steering linkage system and had a commercial front and rear axle alignment.
We upgraded to a custom $900+ Wilderness Hybrid innerspring 12" thick mattress, then and set out on our first journey. We headed to Montana from our home in Utah with the wind just a-howling. We didn't enjoy the drive in those heavy crosswinds.
We upgraded the rear leaf springs and front coil springs to E-450. We upgraded the complete air bag system, including an on-board air compressor with dash mounted air gauge and incorporated individual air bag finger-tip pressure controls.
The drivability difference: Miraculous! No matter how stiff or from which direction winds hit us we can adjust the air bag pressure side-to-side to compensate.
We upgraded the truck engine cooling thermocouple fan, cooling temperature sensor and water pump.
In the Coach we upgraded to a lithium compatible power converter. We then upgraded the Coach with four each Lion Energy Lithium 105 ah batteries and a pure sine wave 3000 watt Victron Inverter, The microwave and other 110 outlets can now be powered up off-grid without running the onboard generator. 420 ah of Lithium battery power takes a long time to run down if used wisely.
We upgraded the coach ceiling exhaust fan to a MaxxFan Deluxe 7500K smoke cover motorized remote controlled 10 speed fan, reversible for exhaust or intake air.
The original gasoline on-board 1800 rpm Onan genset is fueled by the truck fuel tank. It runs well, providing power & charging as designed should you need it. Other than genset occasional usage for battery bank recharging. the AC is the only unit that needs the genset to operate if there's no available shore power.
All lights and fans run on battery power as well as shore power. The furnace and fridge are propane powered from the on-board 30 gallon propane tank. Their fans run off the battery bank when not connected to shore power. The water heater is propane only.
We can no longer use our Born Free. You can see by how we were giving her modern upgrades, our plans were to use her extensively. Life dictates that we are full time stay-at-home caregivers now.
I exercise the generator, truck engine and keep the coach and engine batteries charged. We've kept up with servicing.
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