Bill
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You cannot safely drive at higher speeds than the normal ride height.
The geometry of alignment changes but for clearance issues, above or below driving at low or walking speeds is OK until you can go back to the normal height.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
I’m with Jon, but I’m not sure why. Used to rotate used steers to tag until a 4 year old michelin that had gone from steer to tag blew causing over $13,000 damage.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
Thumbs up on posting this.
I topped off my tank, or should I say I had a mobile fuel delivery service top off my tank, on 6/9/21, with 71.4 gallons at a cost of $214.91 plus a State of SC surcharge of $50. Price per gallon was 3.01. I thought that was reasonable.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
I watched a few “sun bum” videos. What a character. He sure seemed to love his bus.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
It’s certainly a case of different strokes for different folks. One of the biggest reasons we bought this coach was the stacked washer/dryer! We full time so a W/D in the coach vs. using laundry rooms where ever we travel makes owning a W/D a no-brainer for us.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
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2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
Check ATS automatic transfer switch pull cover off and with a meter see if shore power is making to coach, Do you have a surge protector? if so check power going through, If batteries are dead your inverters would be dead also
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
I guess a previous owner had this problem and fix too, because our genny VR is located next to the buddy plug in the inverter/converter electrical bay where you put yours. Our PT gen has almost 14,000 hrs.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
Hi Dorel,
Have you tried calling Jeff – RV Mobile Medic who is also an owner at Pelican Lake (941) 538-8256.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
Just out of curiosity why do we need the ability dump the tanks from a button inside? My Bus has no such button, and if it did I would disable it due to possible electrical malfunction.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
Thanks for all the suggestions on how to deal with my local zoning road block.
Having spent my working career in the real estate, building, development, and mortgage business I’m pretty sure working on a variance is going to be futile. I ran into a similar problem with the municipality where we used to live in had a limit of 600sf foot for a detached accessory building (one acre parcel). I worked with the town board to change that to 1,000sf (I asked for 1500sf, then 1200sf) and I built our race shop. I know the process and feel it will take too long … even if it “works”.
Dave Brewer makes a good point. While a 20’x60′ bus barn and a three car garage would be perfect for us, when it comes to selling the house its likely going limit the market. We saw that with the house we just sold. We had prospects who loved the house, but weren’t willing to pay for the race shop. We had prospects who loved the shop and RV pad, but the house (1800sf) was too small.
So … I think we’ll take the existing 2+ car garage to 1200sf garage/shop with an adjacent coach pad with FHU’s and a second 50amp for invited guests.
A developer has ten 30x40x16 heated rental units in a single building that are fully rented and has a second ten unit building under construction and all are rented to a single tenant. So I see the market and might build something similar (30×55 or 60).
Thanks again for the input and help.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
Hi Dick. Yes, I have the fuses at the monitor but agree with your rant.
The reason I believe the battery change impacted it, is that two of the three fuses in the charger lines were blown which is why they were not being charged. According to the Guest charger manual, if the fuses blow, the charger will still show a ready light (green) but will not charge. I never look in the compartment to see if the red charge light is on so when I looked in I saw the green light and assumed all was good. I suppose them blowing could have occurred anytime, but given my years of no problems and the changing of the batteries being the beginning of seeing the balance light occasionally I think that was probably the timing when the charger fuses went and it stopped charging. Lesson learned for me on that front.
I agree that I likely do not have a large draw on the batteries, but again it sat once for 3 months and again for 2 months with only regular starts and not enough time for a recharge. When I checked the batteries this week 3 of the 4 were down below 12 volts – ie. discharged. Once I figured out the fuse issue, I replaced them, charged over one night and all of the batteries are at 13.17 volts and well balanced.
Will keep an eye on it going forward, but hope I have it solved until I have a fuse problem with limited drive time in the future.
One thing I strangely enjoy with my bus is the fun of tracking something down and solving it which is what makes this group so great!
Now off to my speedometer problem….
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
Excellent Bob!
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
OMG… Saddest news ever…We had no idea Buddy was ill…Larry talked to him several times after he moved home… he never mentioned not being well…You will be greatly missed Buddy…always a gentleman !!
RIP Buddy Brown
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years.