Chris
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I will post, Jon, what I find. My grand daughter visited this past weekend and will be here next weekend. She gets all of our attention when she is here. I will try to get to the filters off during the week before she arrives this Friday.
As you recommended I am going to check coolant level, clamps, etc. We really want to get a trip in soon.
So far, I have no response from fueltecsystems.
Ron
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Congratulations to you & Tom. Quite an accomplishment – and the most informative, most helpful gathering of great, friendly folks on the net (JMO)!!
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Great video Ed, Thanks
Merry Christmas
Your neighbors, Don & Lisa
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Chad,
I like the idea of repairing the switch. If that cannot be done you may want to consider upgrading to an auto transfer switch. For the $380 price tag you could certainly buy a good ATS.
jeff
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The isolator in our 1999 Liberty failed about two/three years ago; 18 or so years of life. I suspect they don’t last forever. I’d think about where and when I travel with the coach. Do you foresee getting yourself into a situation where you DON’T want to replace it? I bought the replacement from Liberty in Stuart and installed it myself in West Palm Beach at the All-Prevost show. Liberty had the best price. Not sure if mine is the same as your’s.
What kind of maintainer do you use to keep the batteries up? A smart, multi-stage charger?
What’s your Liberty build number? You must have an early one.
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Thanks, I will check that out.
Bill
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Jon do you Take bus out for short stints each month to exercise it when between trips?
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its a black cube, mounted right beside the door hinges, near the wiper motor. Has a 6 or 8 pin plug if I recall correctly.
it controls the washer pump and the intermittent wiper. When mine failed the wipers still worked on slow or high speed. The pump would not work via the turn signal stalk but would if you applied 24 volts directly to the pump.
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Chip, who is stocking Prevost parts in Augusta?
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As a private coach we have no requirement to go through an inspection station. Here in TN my coach plates are the same as those issued for a car and the cost is the same and I follow the same requirements as if I were driving my car.
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I spoke to EVERY permanent TN commercial weight and inspection station, plus the TNHP office in Nashville after Peter Campbell was hassled in TN after being pulled over by TN highway patrol cops who thought he was operating a commercial enterprise using his bus. He was and we all knew it, except his bus and horse trailer were registered to him privately.
He explained he was going riding with friends around the country and apparently the cop didn’t know the difference between his Wyoming plates and those of Montana. He was pissed, but glad he didn’t get dinged for being a commercial operation.
There was a general agreement among all the commercial inspection station Lieutenants or Sergeants I spoke to that they are looking for buses being operated for commercial purposes, but that are privately registered to avoid the laws relating to commercial operations, specifically licensing, inspections and related stuff like log books and duty hours. Their focus was on entertainers. There are some who lease coaches privately registered to entertainers and provide drivers who have a non-commercial driver license. We had one on here or on P-Stuff who we all agreed had a dangerous bus but as one licensed as a private coach he kept ducking under the radar.
Every single officer was clear that almost all Montana plates were solely for tax evasion. Their dislike of owners of very expensive coaches who weren’t willing to pay their share came through loud and clear and while they had better things to do than hassle someone for avoiding taxes they made it clear those coaches had a target on their back. All it seemed to take was for a coach with Montana plates to tailgate, speed, make a lot of lane changes, etc. and at that point they were all over it.
If the owner had a lease with him showing he was leasing the coach from his Montana LLC there was nothing they could do, but if he had a Montana plate, the toad had a different plate and his driver license was from the toad’s state depending on how the cop felt that day and the attitude the driver gave him they could make things uncomfortable for the driver. If they had any indication the driver (coach owner) was using the coach to conduct business if they wanted to they could ticket the driver for driving out of class unless he had a valid Class B, they could make him park the bus until if got commercial plates or they could cut him some slack.
None of the cops were shy about saying their real target was the entertainers trying to beat the system, but they all had no problem admitting their personal feelings about what they mostly called tax cheats (their words) and the opportunity they had to pick on them. That was totally consistent with Peter’s description of his encounter with the cop that pulled him over. While it ended OK for Peter both he and I agreed after I spoke to all the inspection stations there is a risk with Montana plates.
Avoid it completely by having a lease between the driver and the LLC and it becomes nothing more complex than having a rental car from Hertz.
FWIW the Cookeville TN Highway Patrol officers make it their business to hassle coaches, probably because of their proximity to Nashville. I was in Rob Russells office one afternoon when and entertainer leasing company called him to get a pair of coaches and the trailers they were towing to the eastern TN state line because the Cookeville Highway Patrol cops was holding them because the drivers were not licensed to drive commercially or tow a trailer.
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Where do I make my reservation
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pro fan may give you something for the core worth a call
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Prevost provides a warranty on repairs and if a repair has failed they will stand behind it.
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If insurance is going to be $10k a year on a 15 year old bus, and maintenance easily another $5-10k a year then I think a lot of people will be turned off unless they are full timing or using the coach for work ( as I was ) etc.