Craig
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Phil:
If you are seriously looking and willing to travel to Florida we have just decided to sell our 2006 Marathon XLII. It’s in excellent condition with all maintenance receipts and lots of upgrades. e-mail me if you’re interested.
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I’m loving this. Instead of getting dues money, I want everyone to give me 25% of the savings every time they fuel up.
What a deal.
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It’s easy for someone to get themselves in trouble out west with the long 7% downgrades than can go on for many miles.
This year leaving the Eisenhower Tunnel west bound on 70 heading to Breckinridge there was a Entegra towing a Suburban that past me just out of the tunnel. I was down to 3rd gear at high rpm getting all I could out of the jake at 2200/2300 and needed occasional braking to keep rpm’s from getting too high. I was full of fuel and and water, so likely right at gross 54,000. No way the jake would hold it, had to use occasional braking.
So about half way down I’m starting to catch the Entegra and the guy finally figured out he was about to be in trouble, I could smell his brakes and he was really trying his best to slow down and hold what he had. It was a smelly trip to the bottom following him, but he probably learned a big lesson that day. You sure as hell don’t want to end up in the runaway ramp. He left the tunnel like he was in a car.
i didn’t see any smoke, but you can bet his pads and rotors where extremely hot.
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Right click and copy email address.
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The Gadget Guru did an extensive set of lists that are (were) specific to his Marathon. They seem like a great starting point to customize to ones coach.
All credit to Andy
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Gordon
It doesn’t work that way at Marathon, they would of pushed you to an engineer in Coburg.
Marathon doesn’t thrive on bus air, volta 58 or lithium batteries because they don’t want to. Sure they can do it if wanted but casual conversation on a telephone and you don’t have a name and you form an opinion and dismiss them as unwilling, that’s bullshit.
Marathon has their own logic to the way they build a bus. If you agree with that or not is up to you to choose. I have seen your comments other places and realize your gathering info on a bus but have zero knowledge of how or why a coach is built a certain way so comments are easy from your position.
I have told you in earlier comments I would help you if needed and we could compare both builds side by side and you would be much more informed than just following internet banter.
As far as the heating issues there are only a few guys that post with new enough buses on here with lithium and I don’t know if they will blast on here what they have told me in private.
I would ask Frank.
Later
bv
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Finditparts.com sells the Dorman Handles, #s 760-5201, & 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, for no more than $41ea if we can figure out which pt# fits the XL door.
Maybe one of these will work? When you click on them a picture of the backside is available. -
Don’t resist Mark. Gail is going to get her coach with slides and you can be viewed by her as a hero for making that happen, or you can be viewed as a wart on the ass of progress.
You only have to look at Tom and Nancy to see how futile resistance is.
BTW, you might as well get at least 2 slides right from the git-go, something Tom is fighting, but will eventually end up with. (He doesn’t learn does he?)
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For the right price, I bet a converter will direct your generator exhaust out the roof.
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Does adaptive cruise control apply the brakes? Or just reduce the vehicle speed by easing up or even closing the throttle?
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Michelin and BF Goodrich are both produced by Michelin in the same plant on the same production line.
My assumptions were related to possible impacts of EPA and other environmental standards that impacted all tire manufacturers and users until such time as technology in part solved the cracking issues.
You confirm my suspicion you want to run your tires for a long time and that is not a criticism but a statement that might be related to the problem. Michelin (and other recappers) typically will not recap a 7 year old casing.
None of us likes to throw away 5 year old ties with almost new tread, but we have ample evidence from these forums that as tires age, and even if they look free of cracks, the chance of a blowout ramps up quite a bit but we cannot say to what extent.
Why is Prevost involved in suggesting you replace your tires?
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Whatever you do, don’t get under it, or stick body parts anywhere past the outside of the bus unless you fully know the chassis is fully supported. And a lot of the parts that hang from the chassis are heavy enough to cut off parts of the body or kill you. Be careful.
This article has some details.
https://www.prevostcommunity.com/article-details.asp?ID=8
Also see this post
/threaddetails.asp?Category=General%20Discussions&ThreadID=2470
You can jack on (the back part of) or right next to the metal plate with the big hole in it pictured below.
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Nice clothes line..
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The topic of tire runout is fairly broad and often is masked by uninformed tire people by balancing. If the miles on the tires are not extensive simply mounting and checking for runout as I described above is all that is needed.
But if not corrected the bottom line is there might not be much you can do to salvage the tire. Shaving is a short term solution, but guess what happens when you shave material off of one side of the tire to make it round? It ends up weighing more where you didn’t shave it.
Michelin has a commercial tire handbook that is almost 300 pages and if I have time I’ll find and post a link here. But do a search and find the book on line and study the section about this topic so some ill informed tire changer doesn’t cop an attitude with you and lead you down the wrong path. These tires are very technical and if mounted properly are going to perform very well.
BTW, the eccentricity you experience is a result often cased by tire changers leaving the wheel on the vehicle (in a vertical position) and mounting the new tire which gravity pulls down on one side when inflating.