Bill
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There are some questions we as owners can answer (and will happily do that)…..other questions like will this fit here or will that fit there are really out of our realm. Most of us on this (and other forums) are not doing wholesale updating or build-out of a coach. Honestly, we’re paying others to handle the details. Those are best left to a converter or someone with the experience of building coaches for a living.
Honestly, I scratched my head the other day after reading the original question. I opened my bedroom closet (the one in my slide) and saw the space at the bottom of that closet. It had a cover on it with 4 screws. I laughed and wondered why you wouldn’t just unscrew the 4 screws and see what’s there!!!?????
Then again, I laugh when I read (on other forums) questions about where the best salvage yard for RV’s is. I don’t know, nor do I care, but it seems to keep coming up. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
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Thanks Al. I should have spoken up sooner. They probably would have been able to get the proper parts in one shot. I thought i was taking the easy path! Wrong again.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
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I forgot to mention, when the exhaust guy looked at the old pipes he said that they were not aluminized. Something about inside out or outside in corrosion. He suggested that aluminized would be a huge improvement in longevity and that stainless may not be worth the additional cost and effort. I read a very old post on another forum by Jon stating 10 years on the 8v pipes. Are the Detroit or Prevost pipe assemblies aluminized? Im guessing no from findings.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
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In Medford, OR is a company that specializes in making mud flaps. Don’t remember the name but a search will find it. They do first rate work and will even install if you are there. Had them make and install new front front flaps while we waited. Highly recommended.
jerry
2005 XL Thompson Coach
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Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
I will take 2
2005 XL Thompson Coach
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Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
I believe that is the alarm indicator light. With it connected lock the bus with the fob. If it comes on that is what it is.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
Elliot, I have a similar photograph from my first day (and about 150th mile) of ownership. Blown hose to the transmission cooler, resulting in loss of all transmission oil at highway speed. If there were any warning signs, I wasn’t savvy enough to see them. First indication was a reduction in power, and I was fiddling with the cruise control, so I didn’t notice it right away. I was unable to move in gear by the time I came to a stop at the top of the next off ramp. Maybe two miles from the first indication. Mine resulted in a rebuilt Allison, so if you and I ever cross paths, I’d like you to bless my bus, or give it a good rub, or whatever might transfer some of your good fortune to me.
Funny thing is, I was just getting ready to start a thread about replacing old, dry hoses. I’m working on fuel hoses today after springing a leak. I should really check the rest of those other critical hoses too.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
Usually when the clerk has more metal in their face than I carry spare parts. Never goes as planned:(
2005 XL Thompson Coach
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You have two unrelated topics relative to storage. The response is based on a 20 amp circuit. It should be stated up front a Liberty and maybe all conversions will trip a 20 amp GFI circuit so make sure the available 20 amp circuit is not a GFCI receptacle.
Issue number one is charging current to maintain the batteries. Unless you plan to run anything inside the coach, like a refrigerator you do not need to provide power to maintain the house batteries. But if you do plan to run anything such as the refrigerator you have to reset the inverters for a minimum current draw. I have set my inverters as low as 5 amps so the remaining available power will be available for very limited 120V use. The incoming shore power to inverters is going to be seen at the inverters as current for battery charging, plus any pass through power such as for the refrigerator, plus any other loads such as phantom loads. A Liberty has a number of phantom loads which if memory serves me right may be as high as and amp or more.
You have to decide if it is important enough to use the available shore power to keep things like the refrigerator alive. If that is your choice you likely will give up all possibility of dealing with freeze protection.
If the coach can be kept under cover meaning indoors, you still may need freeze protection. The need is lessened because just keeping the wind off the coach is important because wind blowing across the coach literally sucks the heat from uninsulated surfaces such as single pane glass surfaces.
As stated in the previous coach a 120V, 20 amp circuit is better than a poke in the eye, but it is inadequate as temps get colder. I was able to keep my first coach protected against freezing in a barn in temps as low as -20F. I used a 500 watt cube heater aimed at a full water tank and that bay never dropped below 45F. Inside the coach I used a 500, 1000, 1500 watt heater with an oscillating fan sitting on the kitchen counter top. If the low temps were going to get down to 20F outside I used the 500 watt setting. Below that down to 0F I used the 1000 watt setting. Below 0F I used the 1500 watt setting. The barn had plenty of openings between the boards but it eliminated the winds against the coach and that was a huge benefit. The coach was 40 feet so a bigger coach may require more heat.
I think it is safe to say if you have no more than 20 amps available (actually 16 amps reliably) you get to choose battery charging and maybe some small loads, or freeze protection but not both.
You need to monitor your coach, 24/7 because with either scenario if you lose power you have a big problem.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years. -
I have bought so many GPS units over the years, Why not I am in too.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
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Finaly a Lady called very knowledgeable got flapper rubber on way thanks Dan
2005 XL Thompson Coach
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Colt,
As Marathon owners, we can take pride in not having exposed plumbing on our coaches! Well engineered with systems out of sight and out of mind…..plus our sewer hoses blast in and out of storage as needed with just a touch of a button.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
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Yes great info. Thank you for the contribution:)
Bill III
2005 XL Thompson Coach
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Joe thank you for that information, your work looks great.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
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New tail lites project.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
Rarely tow anything behind us.
Sold: 1993 Liberty that we loved for 12 years.