Andre
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I unfortunately agree with Ronald. The antimosity amongst folks in any large group is and can be restrictive. I gave been in this group for a long period of time. I have learned a lot from a lot of members. I have picked up a lot of opinions and I am thankful for everyone of those opinions. The informative positive members will absolutely go out of there way to help with anything.
The question is, is it even remotely possible to get PREVOST behind something like this. With the increase demand again in the coach marketplace maybe it would be.
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Will you be driving in or backing in?
I recently built a new race shop and adjacent concrete pad for parking the Prevost. My concrete guy saws the expansion joints versus troweling them in. I prefer the saw cuts because then stuff doesn’t get stuck in the troweled grooves like snow shovel, snow blower, creeper wheels, tool boxes, etc.
After the job was all done, I realized that with a little planning I could have had him place the saw cuts in locations where I could have used them for identifying if the bus is in its exact parking place (and lined up square) or the race trailer or the race cars are in the middle of the doorways (and lined up square).
I have a floor drain in each of the three stalls and he ran a saw cut the length of the stall that went adjacent to the drain. Hindsight being 20/20 I would have preferred he cut right down the middle of the stall, stopping and starting on either side of the drain which would have given me a nice center line in the stall.
One of the stalls I have a straight shot to when I back the trailer up so getting the trailer centered and square to the shop isn’t too bad. But with the second stall the trailer comes at it from an angle, so saw cuts an inch or so outside of where the trailer tires need to be would be very helpful in getting the trailer aligned better.
Same goes for the bus which I park next to the shop. So far the three or four times I’ve backed it in since finishing the project I’ve done a pretty good in getting where I want it and square, but properly placed saw cuts just outside of where I want the tires would make the job much easier.
In your project, consider saw cuts in the garage and on the approach that you can use to line up the bus. With the narrow door, you don’t want to get it sideways.
Good luck with your project!
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I have no need to use the mirrors to determine where I am within the lane. My wife does an outstanding job of that from the co-pilots seat. She is quicker than the speed of light of light and more accurate than a laser to let me know when I’m too far over to the right (whether I actually am or not).
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Joe,
Keep in mind they are Prevost part numbers. If they will not sell individual parts I will still try to find the Norgren part numbers.
If I remember.
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Have they registered on Prevost Community yet?
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Welcome aboard Dan & Judy…
You need a sense of humour to make some of this crowd out !! Glad to hear you have one !!
Look forward to meeting you both,
Cheers, Diane
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Huh … I’ve never thought of using a Porsche 911 as a “yard spotter”.
We see Corvettes with hidden trailer hitches at the race track for track days and high speed autocross. They pull little two wheel trailers with the racing tires, tools, jack, and air compressor.
I paddocked next to a guy a couple of years ago who was able to haul four racing tires on wheels, a Craftsman aluminum racing jack, small set of tools, two jack stands, and some wood (paddocking on grass) all in a Corvette! I watched him unload in the morning and then again load up at the end of the day. He had everything organized just right!
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The aux compressor is controlled by the circuit breaker in the electric panel, and assuming that breaker is passing power to the compressor the only other switching device is the pressure switch which on mine looks like a water well pump switch in the steer comparment.
My guess is the pressure switch, which if bad is an easy replacement. Relatively cheap at Lowes or Home Depot.
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Is everyone’s heater core leaking antifreeze mist?
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I had the auto tensioner on my old coach and never had a problem , 45,000 miles on the belts no problems I would update if I was you
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An LLC is a limited liability corporation. It is a business. Tax evaders may not treat it like a business, but it is. If a business owns a Prevost it is hardly a stretch to assume that Prevost has a business use. The IRS makes it pretty clear that if a business I owned owned a plane (or a bus or a yacht) and I used the plane for personal use I had to treat that use as income, or show how I compensated the business for my personal use of the business asset.
All of that to my non qualified brain suggests to me that an LLC owned Prevost is not only not personally owned or private, but is a huge potential liability if an owner becomes a target of a tax agency.
Does the LLC have to file a federal tax return? Does it pay state franchise tax fees?, if so I would think a person wishing to evade taxes might want to consider getting a personal mailing address in MT, with all mail being forwarded to where ever home is. Follow that up with a driver license from MT, then register the toad in MT. At that point the Prevost owner is probably bullet proof unless someone wants to really dig deep.
An apartment owner in MT that is willing to allow the use of his address, and provides a mail forwarding service is abetting tax evaders, but if they do it right by getting MT plates for the toad and an MT driver license an out of state LEO would have a hard time proving that was not your legitimate primary or second home.
My point is going the LLC route may offer some benefits at the exposure of a small risk, but there might be a cleaner and more advantageous way, still with risk, probably just as illegal, but less obvious in a traffic stop.
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Either one single axles can have diff lock wear you can lock the diff or have a Detriot locker
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After several weeks of trying to buy Centramatics I gave up and boght Balance Masters. $650 installed on three axels. I’m completely satisfied. Far less vibration in the first 1,000 miles. Centramatics may have a good product, but for some weird reason, they don’t really want to sell them. After literally a dozen emails and phone calls and a 250 mile wild goose chase to get non-existent balancers installed, I finally gave up and bought wheel balancers from a company that actually wants to sell them and is willing to disclose its distributors so I could choose one.
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65′ is the limit in some states. I have almost 350K miles towing all over the country. One ticket @ 69′, one warning at 73′; both in California.
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Tom I would change the bearings,the thrust bearings wears you will not see a oil pressure drop, the 92 is a strange duck all the journals are drilled for oil passage with the expection of the rear main and when they get to much ware it will spend the rear bearing then it will cost you big time to line bore the engine.The rear main on a 92 series is the weak link on the engine I could never understand why DD increased the hp and more cubic inches and used the same bearing as the smaller 8V71.
It’s a 1 day job just remove the pan, the oil pump pickup tube,remove the block supports from the mains and start removing the caps all the bearing are easy to replace except the rear main that one you have to roll the engine over to remove the bearing .The fun part is the 250 ft of torque laying on your back be sure you have a good 12 point 15/16 socket a 6 point is worthless good luck