Dave
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Some old buses will be listed soon
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I have never ever seen a post or heard a conversation about a low mileage coach that spent most of its life sitting in an RV resort used primarily as a second home with the house portion extensively used.
All an uninformed buyer knows or cares about is mileage.
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Good Morning DT – just an fyi, no capacitor was included with the purchase of the compressor. And what happens if use wrong size run capacitor – it can cause premature failure (per google)
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Thank you all for the feedback, we will take Port Huron/Sarnia entry into Canada!
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Agreeing with Chuck on the Walmart life.
For on highway engines sitting is worse than using. 200k wouldn’t bother me at all, even for a working tractor. The lowest mileage we’ve ever lost an engine is 741k and that’s in extreme heavy haul use (225k # loads regularly).
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Great advice. That is why I am trying to buy it right, or walk away.
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DD = Detroit diesel
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Generation 2 on my bus was 4 8-D AGMs and dual inverters. Just did a conversion to a single 320ah Lithionics and a 3000w inverter.
I chose lithionics because it has a metal case, UL certification, built-in heater, and built in Bluetooth with a helpful app.
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Be sure you have no disallowed weapons on board. Since we have TX tags and everyone knows that everyone in TX owns a gun the guards were quite suspicious when we headed into Canada. He came inside and gave short speech about what would happen if they found a weapon, he gave us one final warning but I guess he was looking for our reaction. Since we really had no weapon we really had nothing to fear. He let us go without further delay. The folks as we returned to the US were much more rude but did a quick search of our full loaded work van and sent us on our way. Now we also have our “Real ID’s” and valid passports so I can’t imagine a crossing being an issue.
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Broken water filter is off. Now I need to fill the cooling system with water and let it run and then do my final fill.
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Alex,
Although your issue may of been an actual low charge, another possible cause of LO PS is a loose low pressure switch connection or faulty switch.
It’s easy to check and/or bypass. Adding refrigerant should only be done after checking the pressures first to find out if it’s actually low. Otherwise you could add r22 for no reason and possibly over charge.
I mistakenly added refrigerant to a system that was getting LO PS when it was not the issue. My issue came down to a loose spade connector from the low pressure switch to the control board. Although it was connected, it was not tight. The result was random LO PS faults.
It’s best to just check the charge to determine LO PS or HI PS faults and do the easy troubleshooting steps on the pressure switches to identify if it’s one or the other.
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See attached picture in RED.
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Art:
Did not replace the Parking brake valve, I have done the tank drain on the Aux and the other two tanks stayed up.
Chuck
Just find it weird that all tanks go down to 90 PSI overnight then all tanks stay at 90 Psi for an extended period of time
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Took the 3-Port apart, looks just fine and spring inside is quite strong. One correction, I am not sure I got all of the aux to 0 psi. When I disconnected this valve to inspect it, pulling port 1 resulted in the tag axle going up. So I guess I have the “old” tag axle control. I am at a total loss why this norgren controls the tag and can dump the front suspension, but I need to study the air diagram some more