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It doesn’t get any better than….
Saturday morning
in your bus barn
drinking a cup of coffee
sitting by your Microphor
you changed the flapper gasket on Friday
just listening for a drop of water in the bucket
cause you already took up all 3 (plus some) rounds on the yoke adjustment
Ain’t this a great hobby. It can’t get any better.
Just saying.
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Know what you mean Joe. Changed just the flapper gasket in the coach 2 weeks ago and went checked before dark. Still holding water. 12 buck fix for me and in the coach. Sorry to hear about you having to pull it and bench fix it.
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Mine had to come out. The bracket holding the motor and cam to the hopper were loose, the pin was loose on the cog and water poured thru it even after the gasket change. I also replaced the two o-rings on the solenoid inlet and outlet.
$120 gasket $80 shipping, $12 o-rings from my local NAPA store.
The ambiance of drinking coffee with my head practically under the toilet – priceless.
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Let’s be honest here.
Whenever anyone sees us motoring down the highway in our coaches the first thing they think about is is we must be rich. We are snooty people. We are the upper class, maybe even 1%ers.
And then Joe goes and destroys that image by talking about an activity a lot of us have engaged in.
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Made me smile Joe, did the same thing a few years ago, made a nice platform using 2 saw horses and some boards and rebuilt the toilet as you did. The big day was when there was no water dripping after many flush cycles. I would have to get someone younger today to do the lifting though.
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You are right Jon, I think rebuilding the toilet is a right of passage for all Prevost owners.Tom, no fancy test rig for me, I just balanced it on a 5 gal Homer bucket. I’m sure it looked like I was at the alter. One hand on the coffee cup one hand on the throne.
It it really was a epiphany moment.
Wax ring? Oh yeah add $2.50 to the bill. Still the cheapest fix on this beast. And the most enlightenment, even if not the most fun.
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Have not had to rebuild my electric microphor, but I know the sweet satisfaction of changing the gasket two weeks ago and to come home to a full bowl after a night on the town!
What else can one say?
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It gets better, Sunday evening,
dump the black
dump the gray
close gray valve
close black valve, OH NO, it won’t close.
This shows the issue, take a guess what the problem was….
Sure ruined Happy Hour!!!
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I rotated the picture Andre, if it’s not correct just let me know.
Did the open valve pull off?
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No. That is after I took it all apart. Look close at white item in the middle. Any Guesses?
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If I had to take a wild guess that looks like a piece of plastic tubing that may have been laying on the bottom of the holding tank all these years finally moved into the gate valve preventing it from closing.
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Interesting. Is that piece of plastic tubing part of tank level monitoring system? Maybe someone took apart whatever is on top of the tank and something dropped down inside.
I think the photo needs to be turned 180 degrees so that the latching bushings for the bay door is at the bottom.
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but Andre at least you can just get new seals and put it back together.
i didn’t take a lot of pics of the job because I was in a rush to get done but I found water on the barn floor this winter. Had never noticed a leak. All the tanks, fresh, gray, blank, the water heater all had to come out and the floor get replaced in that bay. I now have marine grade ply floor coated in marine epoxy, all sides all edges . All the rubber grommets on the black and gray got replaced. Talk about a s—- mess to handle. New valves, new piping, I no longer have the tetford connector but rebuilt with a camco.
when I was leak checking the rebuild was when I realized I had a wax seal leak and decided to just deal with the flapper as well.
I hope im done with plumbing for a while.
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Jon was the closest guess. It is a plastic pipe. It is the internal part of the “tank flush” system. It came off of the fitting inside the tank. Fell to the bottom and came part way out during my last dump. The only way to get it out was to take apart the dump valves.
And before anyone ask, I am not going to fix the tank flush anytime soon. Will probably have to tear apart a good bit of the water bay to do that and just can not have the bus out of commision right now.
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Hi ,were going to be in knoxville for the street rod nat in may6-9 ,looking for a nice camp ground.Any one neer ch[llhowee park.thanks charles
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Having replaced the wax ring and the vent valves on the coach… I am familiar with the experience…
But further to the things snooty Prevost owners do….
Try the NARA Nationals…
Just get your grand son and go set up behind a “sling shot dragster”in the pits being rebuilt…
have your ear muffs on… when they crank it up…. the ground shakes, your teeth rattle, your ears hurt from the sound and your face shake from the concussion … the nitrous fills the air and your eyes water…
It doesn’t get any better than that…
Pres
1999 XLV X-6872, liberty #440
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