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Not sure I can get the seller to drive 5 hours down there for a PPI

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My ole 96 Liberty uses aux air for:engine belt tensioners/airbags
2) air suspension and leveling
3) main cabin door lock
4) bathroom pocket door(s)
5) stair well sliding cover
6) front shutters/louvers
7) genny airbags
8) some folks have an air toilet

9) drivers seat

10) air horns & train horns

I keep the the cut-in/cut-out pressures set at 30psi/50psi.

When the Detroit is not running those pressures are plenty for our needs. Our airbags don’t leak/lean.

If the engine driven compressor were to fail I can turn up the aux compressor pressure to get us down the road for repair.

[Bill]

What I have found is that the HWH system will get you level and then if you leave it on, all it does is let air out of the bags to get you level again. As time goes by you will have empty bags all around and you have to air ip the bus (and bags) and start all over again. I found that using the HWH to get level and then turn it off works best for me.

[Bill]

Very nice Joe! Can you please share the make / model of the shut off valves? I would like to do the same.

Color codes in attached photo. And, real leak detectors like what you used are incredibly effective at finding even the smallest of leaks.

[Bill]

I have starlink v2 square dish mounted on my roof and it works great. It’s connected to a peplink router also with Verizon 4g lte-a both connected as dual wan. Peplink also allows campground wifi as wan. This all connects to 4 wifi APs 1 inside and 3 on the roof pointed different directions.

The problem i have is when parked at CGs there’s usually a tree in the way but usually the CG wifi or the Verizon is good.

Starlink is surprisingly amazing while driving. The dish rotates while driving which is cool. Their service is continuously getting better

Right now Starlink is growing faster than they can get satellites up and they’re going to have V2 online soon which will be even better. I have a feeling it’s going to continue to revolutionize the internet and even better once Amazon launches their satellite service. Amazon Aws runs like 56% of the worlds internet so could really be a game changer.

I’m betting soon we’ll be seeing starlink with 5g backup

[Bill]

To be accurate in Colorado, its the front range counties that the soot opacity test from Ft Collins to south of Denver. El Paso county and south have opted out. Out on the western slope, there is Grand county with-that being the city of Grand Junction

these testing center,and some are regular commercial bus and truck shops like Colorado Kenworth and Stewart Stevenson are allowed to charge up to one hour of their labor rate. They place your bus on a dyno, plug into diagnostics and run your coach in gear on the rollers, with a probe up your exhaust tail pipe

If you coach is older than 2004, testing is annual before re-registering. And yes, we have had damage to one of our past busses, by an an inexperienced tester, repair was on our nickel..4 Grand$$$

[Bill]

where was it mounted. not sure i have seen that in my 1999 marathon.

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Ours is setup with a relay to turn it on and it uses the water level indicators to turn the relay off. As soon as it reads full it shuts down. It will not fill again until I hit the “fill” button again. I still won’t leave the coach while it’s filling as it has failed to turn itself off a couple of times.

[Bill]

I think any of the truck 3 wire flashers will work as long as it is 12 Volts.

https://www.raneystruckparts.com/ultra-flash-2-heavy-duty-solid-state-aluminum-flasher-module/

[Bill]

2 1/2″ socket for Steer and tag

4″ socket for drive

[Bill]

Update

All 4 units are now working. 3 units worked, we replaced broken valves and installed dryers. One unit took a new compressor, new capacitor, new valves, new dryer, and cutting out of the reversing valve.

[Bill]

I should know better, Wednesday we left Reston VA for CT. I simply punch Hamburg PA in the Garmin GPS as that is my usual overnight stop. All good.

Then we set Madison CT as next end point and ended up taking I95 through NYC and George Washington Bridge. Huge crater potholes, redonkulous bumps that shook the entire coach for 45 minutes.

Better idea is to set Mario Cuomo (Tappan Zee for older ggeneration) Bridge as an end point.

[Bill]

I just use Waze like I do everything I drive my cars/bikes. Wish it had a height setting but I just watch for bridges.

Although I still slam on my brakes in the bus when the police ahead warning pops up… then laugh because the bus is the only time I’m not speeding.

[Bill]

Thanks Jeff. And I thought I found the cheapest price on Ebay @ 1,263 with free shipping!

[Bill]

Google Maps on my phone or tablet. Works great. You can just add stops along the route to force the route you prefer.

Google Earth also has a great option that will also show you all the elevation changes along a particular route which is great is you have travel plans into the mountains.