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Jerry:
Checked the settings, they are all correct. I do have the magnum chargers
Threegreens. Will monitor your suggestion.
Chuck
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Thanks Chuck, I am taking my time, especially witht he exhaust manifolds. I have been soaking the nuts with penetrating oil for a week or so. I have a couple pretty bad exhaust leaks, the gasket is completely missing in some areas.
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Mine is a 97 40 ft also and like Don said 160 plus aux tank is 90, If you have aux tank, In front bay mounted up against back wall. My last trip to Oregon my fuel gauge was at a bit under 1/2 tank took 100 gallons
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Congrats! Definitely check out Motorcoach Resort at Port St. Lucie. We own there and love it.
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Had to cut off anchor strap as no amount of air hammer etc could get it off. Findit parts were able to get Federal abex recommended MC4592ad-s44 linings.
called tech support line to have engineer find that part number. Not sure what the s44 stands for. Findit had to make several calls back to federal to drop ship. Mohawk and findit had straps, cones, brass screws, oil seals, brake chamber.
as the flat head screws were corroded so I could not remove with socket and screwdriver, I chiseled the material off, leaving just screws. Then took vice grips to now exposed top of screw and easily removed the nuts.
The spring on the shoes is depicted in various manuals facing opposite directions- some show curve outward, some inward. I believe the curve is to clear s-cam but looks odd as the curve may appear to go around axle housing.
Dirtiest job I have ever encountered.
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I tried the single belt on a couple of my buses and took them off, the shaking and vibration at idle was too much for me.
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Call Prevost parts with you VIN. They are very helpful.
Chuck
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My gosh, I would rather hear the sound of a freight train in my bus than go down the road sweating my nuts off.
For years we’ve been saying CA’s are getting obsolete and with recent people getting out of the market that time is approaching fast.
There are 2 guys on here maybe 3 that have the know how to take care of their own the rest of you are in trouble. Someone is going to figure out a way to convert coaches to roof airs that people can afford. The whole problem is anyone trying to keep a 20 year old coach going is probably going to have to deal with this because when 95% of these buses were converted as cruise airs was the ticket.
So there’s an understanding of what’s needed you will have more problem with the electric side than the performance side of a roof ac. You can mount it on the roof easily and cut a hole and have what is called direct drop. There’s a bus converter doing that now in their new coaches. The noise is muffled by the routing of the air ductwork thru the ceiling, that would be hard to do but even with direct drop you would be cool.
Later
bv
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I have on all three. When I had service done last week the technician said i was pulling only 8 amps on compressor start up.
Was glad I had when i was at a campground supplying only 113 volts. Hot record temp and everyone’s AC’s putting demand on power. I just got Hughes transformer to combat that problem in the future.
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Hi Jon,
That’s exactly what we did…took the immediate next Exit, parked overnight to ensure it cooled off; also checked axle hub oil levels on both front steers – which were full. Next morning, we backtracked @35 miles to Baton Rouge Diesel – where they thoroughly inspected every aspect of the tire, brakes/disc, calipers and axle. Cost us a couple hours of labor (they actually spent closer to three hours…and, they took us in immediately on a Monday morning!). Also, ensured all tires were at proper inflation.
I checked the TPMS monitor every few minutes between Baton Rouge and Naples – without incident. And, it has continued to operate without incident these past months and several thousand miles.
Have also added an infrared temperature gun to our tools for future safety checks.
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Like Don said. Roadmaster 10K. Very heavy duty. Rigged it up on our FX F250 Supercrew.
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When my 87 started showing cracks in the lining visible by looking at them from under the bus I decided to replace the shoes. At the time no shoes were available from Prevost or anywhere else I could find. I did manage to get the linings based on a trade description such as 14 X 10 plus some other information. I cleaned up the shoes, mounted the linings and used the bus for another 100,000 miles before selling it. The work was time consuming with a lot of brass flat head screws and nuts, but I never experienced any cracking or issues again.
Prevost buses use a very odd size shoe and lining.
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Broke down while on a trip and had similar problem with my
other coach (2001 Marathon/2000 chassis) a few years ago.
Had one injector crap out. Had to have engine pulled to get to it
(engine had Jakes).
Replaced injector and all of the adjusters.
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up to about 2001 the engines were pre egr. Big changes occured in the 60 serries at that time. I prefer the pre egr engines myself. Still no smoke of any color???
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Completed front brakes, shocks and sway bar link bushing replacement this past weekend. A few before and after pics below. Also left side was not braking at all due to excess grease and also found it was missing outer spring (wow)! A lot of work but well worth it! Oh almost forgot about new anchor pins also!