[Bill]

Footnfan1, yes, zeroing out to me means replacing items like air bags, brake canisters, brake lines, brake shoes (pads), Tires, Shocks, coolant, oil, radiator rodding, window/door seals, Hub oil/Bearings, etc. My Bus is a 92 and was a severely neglected, i knew that, and i was looking for a project. This is my first bus, 4th RV and I always do all my own work chassis and converter, and recommend to folks that have the ability to do so, to do your own work. You will be more confident taking an older bus out on the road when you understand how all the systems work. Even if you can’t physically do the work, studying and learning how your bus works will pay dividends in the end.

[Bill]

I use CoPilot GPS. It’s a app that is $45 per year. You can spend a lot of annual fees without reaching the cost of a GPS device.

CoPilot updates all roads/construction/detours as needed (daily, weekly, monthly) when you open it up, so you always have new road/mapping info.

Vehicle profiles can be set up and it can be used without cellular service if you’re phone/tablet supports GPS. If not you can connect to a external GPS source via Bluetooth.
It’s simple, dependable, and less expensive than a in dash unit

Chuck

[Bill]

The new refrigerator will not like the power from those Xratrex Heart inverters they are Modified sine wave inverters. When I replaced my old Whirlpool refer I also replaced the Modified sine wave inverters with Magnum 2812 Pure sine wave inverters, I was always told the old electronics were ok with Modified but new electronics does not like them. That’s what I was told!

[Bill]

I run from Corrosion, thank you very much. I will bring a creeper!

[Bill]

^^^^^^^This^^^^^^^

Unless, of course, it already needs tires (7 years max from date on tires), air bags, Norgren valves, all fan belts, aux air compressor, bushings, brake pads, generator work and on and on.

[Bill]

It depends on its starting point?

And who’s gonna do the labor? You or

[Bill]

Most shop compressors have a pressure switch/valve that “Sneeze” pressure off when they open the circuit. I’m not certain either of my 120vac valve/switch does that? Under the gray cover I can adjust the psi up and/or down. I’ve turned mine down to close the electrical circuit at 35 psi and open at 55 psi. There’s nothing that needs more than that when parked on my bus. Compressor will last longer too. Leak rate is less at lower pressure too so it doesn’t run as often.

[Bill]

As long as your loads do not exceed 50 amps on the #6 wire power cords there is no issue.

[Bill]

Larry, I can not find a picture of the monitor in the coach.Could you post a picture of the monitor and where they mounted it…

Thank you

Dave

[Bill]

Updates on my situation

2 units work.

1. unit worked, and appears the brazed in valve popped a leak or the schrader valve failed and leaked out all the r22. That unit is now sitting at 126psi with nitrogen in it to see if it will hold pressure.

2. Took off the covers of the cruise air that wont work. Pressure is staying the same on high and low. Turned on and all the wiring is showing the correct voltage and amps. Turned on the heat to see if it was maybe a valve stuck, and it was not. I will be buying a 12000 compressor and have that installed this weekend I think. No real way around this, the bus just doesnt stay cold enough with 3 units.

[Bill]

I moved a couple of breakers around a few years I tried to balance power out a little better, Leg # 1 has the front AC and the rear AC and the electric side of Aqua Hot 12 amp’s. The AC’s the 2 electric toe kick heaters, Micro wave are some of my high draws, None of them go through the inverter’s. I moved the Aqua hot electric to leg #2, I tried to think about it toe kick heaters not used much leg #2. warm weather Is where we go to more so AC’s are used more then heaters. When we 1st bought bus I bought a Dyson electric heater and I wired in to Leg #2 to main fuse box a 20 amp breaker-romex-receptacle just for heater. When I was doing RV repair I sent in quite a few inverters for repairs on the contactors. The tech from a Zantrex repair shop told me is electric heaters plugged in to a plug that goes through the inverter kills the contacts in the inverter, Is repairable but a pain and costly. I put a Receptacle in bath for my wife’s hair dryer also.

[Bill]

Coach doesn’t like gas

[Bill]

Thanks Mike for the contact info.

[Bill]

Keep us updated! When I get time I plan on doing a lot of automation using home-assistant or ervin/firefly customization. Starting with lighting first using pixelblaze devices that are in my mailbox.

Instead of Shelly you might want to look at other 12v relay boards and arduino, you can get a 8 or 12 channel controller pretty cheap.

[Bill]

Darn that looks good.

How much trans fluid did you lose replacing the trans lines?

Chuck