Bruce
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First of all – thank you thank you thank you to everyone who replied to this thread. I have learned so much about my coach.
As Glenn references above, we are all fixed up and ready to go – many thanks to Glenn for delivering a spare bag so we did not have to wait for one to be shipped in. Glenn – you rock, and it was great to meet you and your wife.
You were all correct – the culprit was the tag bag. The reason we could
not see or hear leaking was because of the severity of the damage. The air was flowing straight in and straight out the bottom of the bag. Now some backstory – A year ago we took the bus to Prevost Houston, and among other things, we had all of the air bags replaced. Prevost Houston did not put the nuts on the bolts of the bag, so the bag has been incorrectly attached for a year without us knowing anything about it. It finally broke, and air flowed out the bottom.
Just as I was at the shop, and we were about to start taking apart the norgren valves, one of the guys at McWhorters Truck Service in Lubbock – who I highly recommend, by the way – wanted to get all the way under the caliper and look up at the bag. He noticed the problem immediately. So basically, I also learned that you can’t rule out a hole in the airbag just because you don’t hear or see it leaking out. The hole could be so big that there is no resistance to the air flow at all.
Major lessons for us:
Never use the tag unless you’re desperate.
Carry some spares with you at all times.
Never take your bus to prevost houston. (Did I mention that I had to have the fire department meet me on the road after I left Prevost Houston the first time? And that they quoted me one price and then tried to bill me for $10,000 more – after keeping the bus six weeks longer than they said? I guess those are stories for another time.)
And finally, the Prevost Community is awesome! With the quick and thoughtful responses, the existing resources on the forum, and the hand delivery of exactly the part we needed, we’re back on the road.
Thank you!
Hope to see y’all out there.
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Thanks Gerald. I made to East Tennessee custom coach. Jeff evaluated and turns out I have one bad Trace inverter. Waiting for a replacement to be delivered.
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I disagree I am not talking about trucks with trailers , I am talking about single axle deck trucks not tandem wheels the deck trucks are light and will do that when empty coming up to a light that everybody has spun there tires to get going and is very icy
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They probably changed it in the later years, my vintage and Tom’s is manual.
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Gerald,
Could you post pictures and build details on your ramps, please?
Davy
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All my Pete’s had them you can lock them in by pushing button on dash but it will kick out at about 40 miles a hour or so if you go to fast it does not like that , they also come with a Detriot locker witch will lock in at speed then unlock they are in alot of trucks no button to push then but makes some noise when turning