Bryan
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Charles, you have two accumulators and each is going to have a different impact on this issue.
The whole house accumulator, if the coach is equipped with one, stores water under pressure from an air charged rubber bladder. That way when you draw water from a fully pressurized system the pump will not instantly turn on. To tell if you have one with the proper air pressure charge behind the bladder turn off the water pump and open a faucet. If you have one and it is functioning as intended your water will run and you will get a fairly large amount of water to flow even though the pump is off.
The RO accumulater provides the same function, but it is intended to level the water flow through the RO system. An RO system makes RO water very slowly, so the function of the accumulater is to store a smaller volume of water, but to allow a relatively fast flow of smaller volumes, such as to make a batch of ice or a pot of coffee. If that accumulater bladder is not pressurized the actual flow rate will be the very small flow rate of the system.
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Bryan- Thanks for the heads up on the low cost of the hub cap. Duh on me for thinking it was gonna be outrageous.
On the bed size, I know it’s not a very long space but it could sleep a youngster or petite female so even limited use is suitable. There’s a convertible couch that swings up into bunk beds that’s has marvelous action and the dimensions are RV friendly but it’s supposed to be $6k from am EU supplier. Found a similar Greek made one but no reply on the price from my email to the manufacturers yet. Guess what ever gets fashioned for this dinette area is going to look more “camperish” than elegant but I’m willing to sacrifice for the function.
Here’s an article on this awesome bunk bed with more links and a video. 2 of these would allow 4 singles to sleep in the salon if the interior curvature of the bus wall was not inhibative. Maybe it could be made to slide out a couple inches to work. Anyway, I can’t afford this now.
http://www.doityourselfrv.com/convertible-rv-bunk-bed-transformer/
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Odd or a planned design to not have company 🙂
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Per, love your last comment….I honestly doubt I would fit in with most Prevost people….but then again that is stereotyping and I try my best not to do that.I am a shorts and flipflops kinda a$$hole most of the time..lol just an old country boy with no money, a great wife, and a pasion to live life. I’ll take a friendly campfire and a state park and am not interested in a five star motor coach resort with wine sipping promptly at 5..lol
Sorry if I offended anyone on here, the ones that talk on here seem pretty cool..lol
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Diane: Which iPhone 7 did you get? I can’t decide between the regular and plus for the extra screen size…
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We ended up staying there this late spring. Nice place.
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Oh Peter … I’m SO envious!!!!! Is that a 379 or 389? Extended hood? CAT? With all those lights I’ll bet it shows nicely at night. I was looking for one of those as a truck conversion to 45′ motorhome, but ended up with the Liberty Prevost instead. I think we made the right choice, I know we made the right choice. But every 3×9 Pete I see still turns my head.
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Looks like the same failure that we caught a bit earlier leaving PC rally in OKC. There was a thread at that time. We think rotation from steer might be the problem. Geo.
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Wow, actually very surprised no one on here knows anything about that bus. Oh well…lol
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Jon,
We have been trying to arrange an inspection, the local places call it a Maryland State Inspection. Most places
are quoting 4 to 5 hours for certified inspection. Problem is they do not make appointments, all first come first
served. Except if there are inspections from previous day or days that did not get done, then they are ahead of you in line.
Tried to explain that I am not interested in the certification part, and would pay hourly to have coach put on the lift
and have systems inspected, but no one will do inspection that way. It is really difficult to arrange getting the
current owner to agree to bring the coach to a garage and leave for a day or two, while we will be in a hotel, out
of work waiting for an inspection. Wish the coach was closer to ETLC.
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Dick,
Thanks for the reply. As with every coach we have looked at, it has been “maintained perfectly”.
I have a call out to Middleton and Meads as another place to try to get an inspection.
We will keep you posted.
Time to put our ETLC education to the test.
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Thought I’d give you an update. The SMX panel is powered from the hot lead on the front unit. Since we were able to run the CruiseAir by running power directly to the unit, Raymond ran a new hot lead from the circuit breaker in the panel in the kitchen directly to the CruiseAir in the tire compartment, and now it works fine.
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Ya awl need to uze what Tommy Duhon uzes on hiz stanelezz steal. Dere waz not won wasser spot on hiz coach at Green Bay. But he haz a Liberty and thay seem to clean up a little better than da udders.
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yes I did. It was done well.
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Based on the comments above, here are some thoughts on this subject.
The wide range of price despency has alot to do with access to the valve cover. For starters, every coach is built with small variances from each of the major conversion companies. So this generally will have a impact on the price.
For instance, Peter came in for his valve adjustment, there was no need to remove his floor, or slide the engine out to gain access to the cover. And 6 hours later, Peter was back on the road the same day for around $8000.
Now lets say Peter’s bus didn’t have the room to access the cover, the only options from there are as follows. 1) Peter removes any and all flooring or closest materials to allow for access to the top of the engine, thus avoiding the cost associated with A.F. doing this work. By doing this portion yourself, you reduce the cost by 8-10 hours.
2) Now, for those that do not wish to tackle that much work, and depending on the configuration of your bedroom and the complexities of not wanting to damage any of the cabinets during the removal and installation of furniture, we would figure 8-10 hours total, just for that portion of the job. And for the record, A.F. does want to put a “greasy” “tool wheeling” bus mechanic inside a beautiful bus and then take on the liability of not scratching,denting, or bringing flith and/or gease into a bus that will then be left up to the parties involved to figure out what “said” damage is worth. And on top of that, a customer leaves with a not so warm and fuzzy feeeling about American Fleet.
So…. in cases like this, we would rather slide the engine out (which takes us the same time that is figured to access the engine from inside a coach) and complete the job that way. Plus this allows everyone to take a sneak peak of the front side of your engine which is rarly seen. And if there is something found, it can be addressed.
So for this scenario you are looking at the following
R&R of engine 8-10 hours
Valve Adjustment (no Jakes) 4-6 hours with Jakes 6-8 hours
Danny probably quoted a little more than what is stated above due to his history of knowing that once you get started on a job, you will sometimes find other issues. So its better to communicate to a client a price range versus a price that might be to low and then having to explain why it is increasing.
So looking at the big picture and weighing the cost vs. reward when it comes to sending a mehanic inside a bus to remove floor panels, it just makes sense to us to pull the engine and not deal with any of that when and if the job calls for it.