Chuck
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Merry Christmas and a happy New Year ! Be safe out there and spend as much time with your friends and families as possible!
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I believe Yahoo have some experience in this area. 🙂
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Got the part from WM. The bevel works great with the old cam (which is fine, since it was the bevel that failed on me). However the new bevel with the new cam doesn’t work. Looking at the new cam VS the old cam, you can tell the new cam is much cheaper (cheaper metal and less materials in some areas).
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Peter, 1990 Chasis.
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It has ignition protection in it
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Pres,
We are headed to Breckenridge, Co and have resevations at Tiger Run. There will be snow there for sure. About 1,000 miles for you.
Bill
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It’s an XLV so it will have drum brakes on the drive axle. We did not drive the coach, just talked to the salesman about it. Once we realized it did not have a sleeper couch, we were no longer interested.
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Know nothing about the XLs but you probably have drains on the window side of your slides like we do on the H… they can very easily get stopped up with dirt and debris.. if you look underneath the slide you can see the drain holes… take a water hose and check if they are draining properly… good to flush them out anyway. Easy fix if that’s the problem.
Cheers, Diane
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We full time. We are curretly in NC, but will be returning to Lake Conroe mid December for a month.
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Tom,
Thanks for starting this post. It explains the cold front that came through last week, about the same day Jon’s Pressure Pro was delivered. I do believe that Hell had a few snow flurries, but I do not believe it has frozen over since Nancy has not received the new bus with slides. Now, THAT is when Hell will freeze over!
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I don’t believe batteries get all the attention or credit they deserve in our coaches. We tend to take them for granted. Our coaches are as capable and enjoyable because of batteries. Without them, or with aged batteries our option to enjoy the coach would be to always run the generator or engine.
Some coaches are set up so if one of the sets of batteries is weak the chassis and the house can be merged. Doing something like that is a huge assist in by-passing an issue, but as soon as that is done the first time, the immediate concern should be about getting replacements.
In Al’s case, with a new coach he has not yet had the opportunity to get to know his coach. So what may have been a signal he had an issue was not apparent. Had he been a long time owner of that coach his first clue would have been a house set of batteries that would lose their charge quickly when dry camping. Then the fact it would not go out of bulk would be the second signal. But more likely Al would have never gotten to see those clues because he would have changed batteries to a schedule.
The odds of a bad set doing damage to your wallet is fairly high. Over the years a lot of posts have described some off the wall problems that ultimately turned out to be a bad set or a bad battery. Just diagnosing those problems gets expensive so as has been pointed, out old batteries should not be in a bus.
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I don’t think that ADAS is the reason people don’t pay attention. I think people have just developed short attention spans due to the instant gratification afforded by all kinds of other technology. People are now entertained constantly, and driving a vehicle is (most of the time) a comparatively mundane task. There’s always a concern that driver assists will make people complacent, but you could argue the same for ABS and ESC.
I admit that I struggle with the same concerns though. New cars, with Electronic Power Assist Steering (EPAS) have all kinds of capabilities that were not possible with hydraulic power steering. They can compensate for a crown in the road, nibble from tires, etc. My concern with that is I want to know if there is a problem such as a bad alignment after hitting a pothole, an out of balance tire, or a tire losing air. All of these would be apparent as torque feedback in the steering wheel but the EPAS can compensate for this and negate the pull. The bottom line is that OEM’s are in the business of selling cars and the more comfortable they can make a car, the better it sells. My concerns about wanting torque feedback are probably shared with less than 1% of the market, so active steer compensation it is.
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Jon, SilverLeaf is telling me my coach was at the tail end of production that the DDEC did not report the info and was not available untill later coaches. SilverLeaf is telling me the 99 chases do report gear selection.
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Andrew and Patty’s original post had “Future Prevost Owner” as the signature. I think my comment goaded him into changing his signature. 😉