Corey
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no heat at all driving or sitting still. It is a regular coach bus not a motorhome or rv. it has coolant lines that run to the front and has a heater core but for some reason no heat.
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Don, Lisa, & Lex
We happen to live over in Boerne. For what it’s worth (2 cents, maybe), I would not purchase a coach without OTR. Not for south, central, or west Texas, or points west. Roof airs or Cruise-Airs while parked, but not for traveling in the summer. If you must forego OTR, then at least four roof airs, in my opinion, and as Jon says. We have a 35′ Bluebird FC as well, and the 3 roof airs are just adequate when the temperature rises above 94 or so. If you are traveling west and get into Death Valley type areas or near the Mexican border, or anywhere near Indio or Joshua Tree NP, you will be glad you have OTR and no lingering doubts or regrets. This was, for us, one of the reasons for going to the ‘ultimate class’.
Running the generator would no longer be necessary unless you stop for long periods, and want to shut the engine off. If you return to a coach that has been closed up for hours w/o the A/Cs on, and the inside temp is enough to bake bread, the OTR will easily cool the coach down in short order. You will rarely, if ever, have to use max OTR cooling. Others may argue about the number of roof-airs for this region of the country, but if you have Cruise-Airs, get the max: four. In my/our view, OTR for this region of the country is essentially mandatory.
Another reason for OTR, for me, is traveling in really cold northern USA conditions, and/or at altitude; I-40 near Flagstaff, for instance. Heat strips in roof-airs, for me, don’t do it. If you would like to see what a Prevost OTR looks like, inside, outside, and underneath, and how it performs, you can contact me and take a look at ours. If you find that you are unconvinced, I will refund your two cents.
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Jon…..this is Nancy.
Be careful what you assume 🙂
I have pictures of me pulling the motor out of my 41 Chevy pickup!
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The Jenn Air grilles on my 97 and my 06 both will leave a film of cooking grease on the bay door which is above it. In fact the smoke from grilling is actually a mist of grease and depending on the direction of the breeze it will put a film on the stainless either to the front or rear of the coach, mostly on the top of the stainless steel ribs as gravity makes it settle.
The truth is I doubt if anyone notices it but me. However when I clean the coach after a trip I need to use an emulsifier such as Simple Green or 409 to clean the film from the coach. I don’t worry about removing wax from the stainless because it is not ever waxed. Despite the extra work cleaning because of the grille is worth it to be able to sip a cool one while cooking steaks or hot dogs.
Having a remote grille would help with that problem, but the film I get on the coach is as far as 20 feet from the grille so depending on the breeze even a grille on a picnic table has to be quite a distance from the coach so it doesn’t require extra cleaning. The amount of film is totally dependent upon what is being grilled. Almost no film from hot dogs, but rib eye steaks with a lot of marbling will likely get a lot of airborne grease on the coach.
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The 287.962 12 volt control unit was $496.28 at Prevost. That is the cheapest new one I have found. DKO
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This coming from a used car guy!!!
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Strange, this is the first bus I’ve had that only has the Davco, no secondary filter. Mine isn’t the turbo type like Dales, it has the glass on top and a piece of cake to change.
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Top photo is Karl, The second is Tom, in the group photo there is Tom and Karl, John Klopp with the beard, Jon with the hand raised, and in the front is Natalie and Di. Di has a little gray in her hair.
The coach on the left in the group photo is Al’s Marathon and on the right, Jon’s Liberty.
Kind of a loud group with a lot of laughing.
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I bought a 98 that had a rear fire that was one of 3 that was converted for a charter service. Entertainer coach. That apears to be just like it. At the time I purchased it 2 of the three had burned from the same reason. I have posted pictures on this board in the past of it. Was a electrical 24 volt problem. All three conversions were by same converter. Would be intresting to know if this was the last remaining one of the three. This info is as I understand the history of the coach I purchased. Paint and model match. Bob
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DKO,
I have towed 3 stick shift vehicles and none of them ever went into gear. Having said that I need to point out all were 4WD and I always towed with the transfer case in neutral so I actually had double safety.
The only thing I would suggest is you check the owner’s manual to see how they advise you tow it wheels down. I cannot imagine any series of events that would cause a towed vehicle to slip into gear.
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That’s what I meant when referring to a possible neutral problem, not high voltage. I’m like you, 125 volts would be happy time.