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Antifreeze leak inside and outside Coach
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should have a electric pump that is connected by rubber hose –Helps flow to drivers heat defrost. Also a coolant filter. Surely one of the gate valves are not broke(in engine compartment) or leaking thru? Maybe open and close again in case something keeping them from closing tight. righty tight left loose(open)
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Will, my CC is an 02 with a Hurricane system instead of Webasto so it my not be the same, but my plumbing schematic shows two 3/4 ” gate valves in bay 5 drivers side for a 45′ coach. I would also call Country Coach/Winnebago. They still have some CC Prevost techs. Good luck.
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Will: Being six hours away from you, I don’t have a clear understanding of your situation. But given what you’ve said so far, the last thing I would do is tow the coach. It appears you have a coach conversion related plumbing problem; not a mechanical problem with the chassis, engine, or transmission. Once you find the right valves, you should be good to go. Towing the coach is likely a huge undertaking … expensive, time consuming, and a potential for damage if not done right. I realize there is a limitation as to how long you can stay in the rest stop (we overnight in the Indiana rest stops often, and I think we’ve stayed in the one you’re at). Unless you’ve been given clear direction to “move out” by a LEO, I would stay put, continue to look for the valves, and have help come to you if needed. But if you can have the coach towed to a service facility and get instant help, that of course is a different situation. If I was closer, I’d be there helping you fix the problem.
I’d think there should be someone on the Forum who has a similar coach who knows the plumbing or someone from the original converter who can give you the exact locaions to look in (unless someone replumbed the coach since).
Stick with it. This too will pass!
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Bob, yes I should have gone against the wishes and been enjoying fruit fritters right now.
George had not thought about CC/Winne. I’ll give them a call after they wake up in Oregon.Thanks for all your thoughts!
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Will, I scanned the 1990 Country Coach Prevost XL manual from my former bus. If you allow emails via your profile or give me your email address I can send it to you if you need it. I believe that closing the two big gate valves at the front of the engine compartment (accessed through the radiator door) will shut off all coolant outside the engine loop and should be all you need. On my bus the valves were frozen in the open position, so you may have to do some plumbing and replace the valves.
Let me know if you need the manual.
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Will my coach is a 98 so don’t know if it might be the same set up.
At each heat exchanger there is a manual valve to close off the water line. Just an inline valve.
These valves look like the old cable operated valves used in older autos and pickups.
I have one under the kitchen sink cabinet. To gain access, removed a wood panel that was screwed in place.
The other was in the bedroom under the bed.
The one in the dash is the same way.
They were old cable operated valves just without the cable.
The engine loop and webasto valves for my hot water heaters are electric.
I hope this helps you out. I may be a little late since I read your last post.
Good luck.
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First, thanks to everyone for their information given me.I do appreciate it very much.
OK, so we went back this morning hoping to find the coach ready to roll. Not so lucky. In fact, coolant was back under the cabinets as it was when we were towed to the shop. I was not happy since Carole and I had used who knows how many rolls of Bounty paper towels to pick up the first flood. Bounty is the quicker picker upper. right? Well I told the shop supervisor it was time for a pow-wow with the tech doing the work. We spoke and the tech is cleaning under the remaining cabinets at no charge. Long story short, the shop supervisor called us to say they had found the source of the flooding coolant. Under the kitchen floor panel is a “Y” fitting that has one incoming line from the engine bay and splits into two paths. The “Y” fitting had split and thus it was the source of the problem. We left Indy in the Dodge Ram and went to Erin Hills Wisconsin. Vacation plans afterward now have to start witha return to Indy.
Again, Thanks
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OK guys, Just opened an email from the repair shop with a pic of the failed fitting, bad fitting! If this works, yes I am pic upload challenged lie sme of you all.
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Where the heck was that thing located??
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Will,
Is that part of your house system? Or is it Prevost Original?
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Will,
That Y has to be for either the heater core up front or the Webasto loop. The big question is why you couldn’t find the shut off that’s installed exactly for that purpose. I would bet the shut offs you did close in the engine compartment is the heater core loop. So CC had to have installed a cutoff for that exact purpose somewhere in the Webasto loop. As I mentioned in my e-mail, my 2000 CC had the cutoffs in the Webasto area.
Glad you got it sorted out, what a mess..
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Glens,
It was under the kitchen sink bottom floor beneath the cabinetry. The only access panel I did not pull attempting to find the leak. Yep, got to tired and sore from mopping up the floor.
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Joe, it is part of the OTR road heating system using engine coolant to supply the heat. I’m just happy the heat was gone before it reached my feet!
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Tom,
I checked every line into or out of the webasto from engine connection to webasto to rear wall of the engine bay. Did not find any gate valves.
I will likely begin a more detaild search when we get back to NC.
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One thing all owners should do is spend a rainy Saturday in their coach opening up all the hidden access panels. Each converter has their own way of shutting off coolant flow, hot and cold water, and even air lines in some cases. But with the number of floor plans and changes of conversions from year to year it is not likely someone with the same conversion, and maybe even the same model year is going to know where to find some shutoffs, some electrical panels, etc.
I’ve done it on my conversions, but because of this thread and my lousy memory I have to do it again with the intent to either create a diagram of where things are located, or to put tags on panels so I can deal with an emergency like Will and Carol just went through.
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