Dan
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Tom…definitely wood floorboards.
Jon….be nice. You never know who’s reading your posts.
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Well don Dick and thanks for the play by play and the pictures. Really terrific stuff!
Harry
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Picture of what you’re looking for?
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Todd, If your bus is the same one and you would like info or history, call me
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Prevost book on the differential is 48 months 200.000 miles.
Alot of guys do 100.000
Later
bv
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Did you buy on a Friday?
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Oh, and that 3 speed transmission is a ‘mpg’ killer…… A guy I know that was in my previous RV club says he is lucky to get 6 miles per gallon.
Mark
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Joel, nice example but combine that with the real cost of ownership.
On average a brand new coach depreciates at about $1,000 per day for the first three years or so. Everything else relating to ownership is chump change.
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I am not familiar with Marathon’s (Tom’s the guy) but just a couple of questions.
First, as I look at that it suggests you are running 2 A/Cs on the same leg. Not a good practice, especially if you have other items on the same leg such as a water heater, water pump, aux compressor, etc.
Second, I assume you are on shore power, and if so I doubt if your A/C is any more than a pass through. So any imbalance is likely because you are loading only one leg of that shore power.
If my interpretation of what I am seeing is correct I don’t think the batteries are an issue now, however as batteries age, and especially if there is a problem with them the inverters are going to draw a lot of power trying to charge or maintain a charge in addition to all the other loads.
Power management is something you have to be doing and it starts with knowing what devices are on which leg and inverter, the loads each device imposes, the current draw the inverters are set for charging, etc.
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Mike,
Are you saying the brake lights go off and on with the jake switch when bus parked and not touching the throttle? If so it sounds like a bad 0 throttle switch also known as a buffer switch.
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To say nothing of the complete inconsistancy of owning a 50,000 pound bus and trying to treat it like an economy car.
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When I was at Prevost Goodlettsville in March to have my level 3 done, I had them change the wiper blades.
-Wiper blade assy 22″ part #800284 $26.89 each
-0.6 hours of labor at $1270 per hour = $76.20
Total $129.98 (not including tax)
Mark
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Oh ok… I thought when you said “Well Rounded” you were talking about Tom. He has put some weight on lately!
Harry
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I send the same message to the moderators a few days ago. Something has gone wonky with the site.
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Mark, I know this is too late to help, but I urge everyone to open up the door panel and connect something, whether it is a wire or in my case a long nylon wire tie, a piece of twine or a steel rod to the very end of the door release mechanism.
As soon as Granville sent out an SOS for help because he was locked in I made sure I had something that extended up and was reachable from outside or inside to pull to release the door mechanism. If you open up the door panel you can see there are multiple points where the entire mechanism can come apart doing exactly what it did to you.
If you don’t have something your mechanism will fail. If you add some means of opening the door in an emergency it will never fail.