[George]

The tubes are under the floor.

To access them from the Front, drop the front bumper and look up and aft. You will see air lines and other things going up towards where the PVC pipes are.

In the rear, you have to be under the bus and look at the bulkhead in from of the drive axle. The tubes will be up high, just under the floor.

I pushed a fish tape from the rear to the front, tied on a pull cord to the fish tape, then pulled the cables from the rear.

All warnings about not get under the bus without proper supports applies.

[Todd]

First I have an Angola, orphan, not a Royal orphan but they are similar vintage with simple roots.

i could not determine the routing for may rear camera cables and ran new ones instead. It is unlikely the existing cables are in the aforementioned conduits and I would not run them that way. Save those for chassis stuff as intended by Prevost.

many of my cables run in a chase along the floor. If you have over the road ac, the converter likely built an oversized box to cover the metal Prevost air duct on both sides. Cables are often run on top of duct under the cover.

I have been able to run new cables from front to rear using this chase. It is a long and winding path. New cameras required 65 ft of cable. You may need to route from the console up the door post, over the door, down to the duct, to the rear, and then back up to the camera inside cover. In my case the duct cover stops for the refer cabinet and so it has to come out to run new cables.

You will need to find access points and be creative to make this happen. Good luck

[Archived]

From prior explorations, I knew that I have 4 wire chases in the ceiling of our bus and when I decided to run new wires for new rearview cameras, I had to remove ceiling panels in the front and take down the ceiling inside the rear closet. Part of this drill was to confirm that the single wire that ran to the back of the bus was indeed the original camera wire and the other reason was to confirm that I could actually “push/pull” the new wire through the chase. During the process, I was unable to pull out the original wire. I found out, that they had used tons of spray foam insulation at the end of the chase which held the wire in place. Only when I removed the ceiling panels in the rear closet, did I find this and after scrapping it all out, I was good to go. I have since pulled 3 new wires and am considering pulling a 4th since I want cameras on the back of the bus as well as our stacker trailer. Why do I need 4 cameras? I want 2 on the back of the bus. Rearview and trailer hitch view. I also want 2 on the back of the trailer. This may be overkill.

If you do pull wires, be aware of this being a time consuming job and it will help to have 2 extra hands to help doing this. Running the wires is the most time consuming part of this job. Everything else is “a piece of cake”.

Of course, you need to figure out where you bring the wires down to the dash area. In my case, I removed the center pillar separating the windshield and finding that it was mostly a solid piece of wood, I routed out a deep channel to allow me to insert all of the wires which exit now into the area behind the dash.

This is a fun project! … 🙂

Cheers,

Ronald

[Joe]

Like Ronald, I also when with 2 rear cameras. A hitch view and one over the top of the toad. And 2 side view cameras. What a difference from my old single rear black and white set up.