ok, I am finally back. Sorry for the wait. Last week was quite a ride.
Let me just start at the beginning.
So after my last post, I was Down in the barn and I decided to work on bleeding the system, figuring it still had air in it. After jacking up the bus, I went around and pushed on the tire and was astonished to find that the tire would move both ways about 2-3 inches. Crawling underneath I found the problem, and took a short video of it here.
https://youtu.be/GnCo9N9KGYcI took it from the curb side, in the foreground you can see the hydraulic assist cylinder, what is moving is the 90 degree arm used to transfer longitudinal motion to side to side motion. Please take time to look at the 3 sec vid, it will answer many questions.
So basically we were 1 rusty 1/2" bolt from being in the ditch... :-[
Well that was a shock to find.
MY Hypothesis: There are 4 bolts holding this bracket on, I am sure 3 were completely rusted through and the whole assembly was being held on by one bolt and some rust. As we were maneuvering out of our driveway the additional pressure from the hydraulic assist went ahead and broke the rust so it was hanging from 1 bolt. As you recall, the hydraulic assist was not working with the 8v71.
Which leads to the crazy steering problem we had.
This was Wednesday morning. So i tore into that and around 5 pm had it all back together with new bolts, new spacers, and a lot of reinforcement above the spacers.
Took it for a test drive that evening, everything worked great, but the steering wheel still had 2 inch slop either way in it, but it was solid so drivable.
On thursday we fabricated bunks, back bed platform, counter top, some kind of seating, and fridge mounts and we left around 3 for a 'relaxing vacation'
But we got it on the road!

but now i can start going to bed at a regular time again lol
and my phone stopped working so no pictures till I get that backed up.