Davy
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This is an issue for which there may be no correct solution.
My first coach used 120/22.5 tires which were rare because trucks used 110/22.5 and were going to 295 tires. So I carried a spare mounted on an aluminum rim, polished on both sides. No matter what position tire got a flat, I carried not only my spare, but the jack and torque multiplier so I could change the tire.
The only problem was I never used the spare and while it probably would have been OK in a pinch, it was way past 10 years old when I sold the coach with it still sitting in the bay/
So here I am along with a lot of others faced with a problem. First, even if i wanted to carry a spare, I would have to carry two of them. I don’t have the room. Keeping one somewhere to ship to me is not the answer because as time ticks away, so does the remaining life of the tire(s). I think the answer lies with Prevost or a company that has take-offs or some tire distributor that is willing to hold and ship 365 or 315 tires.
Then we are faced with the time to get the tires. If the tires are not at each Prevost location for example, but just at one location, we would be looking at days before we get delivery. Who has a solution?
No matter how well we care for tires, they are the one part of our coaches that are always subject to failure for a variety of reasons such as debris on the road.
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Tim, that bus has been for sale for about 3 months now and is currently on ebay with no reserve
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Sounds good. I will book mark that site for the eventual day when I WILL need one or four. Mine are six years old. Three work flawlessly and tirelessly but one has been tempermental from day one. I do like heat strips rather than the heat pump. The heat strips will produce heat no matter how cold it is outside even though I know it is against the law to be north during winter!
12voltstore.com is dead but my12voltstore.com will get you there.
Davy
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T&B,
So no issues with your new GC picking up rocks from the coach damaging the paint/windshield?
Also, what braking system & tow bar did you go with? I assume the base plate is specific to the GC.
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There’s nothing romantic about that picture. It’s plain and simple, just take another look, Al stole my cookie and I was pissed.
And the two that are responsible for that picture left a bag of dog poop in front of BA’s bus. I got it on video.
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Per,
Remind me again what year that Featherlite was that you looked at that wasn’t sufficiently ducted?
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Our gen has 2 petcocks on each side of the thermostat to purge air out.
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Call Prevost they should have one
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Trina has hit a hot button with every one of us and she is correct.
The reality is we all are drving a coach whose value is a moving target. To add to the difficulty we face when we want to insure the coach for agreed value is our perception of value is absolutely meaningless to the insurance company that might have to write a check for a total loss. To the insurance company, the appraiser, or the market place some things we spend money for on a coach don’t add a penny of market value. If you don’t like carpeting and spend $20,000 to put in a new floor covering such as wood or tile, its impact on the selling price is a fraction of the cost. If you don’t like the color of the paint on your coach and decide to do a $30,000 paint job on it the selling price is likely to be unaffected compared to sales of similar coaches. If your engine blows up and you just spent $25,000 to replace it you coach has not increased in value. But if you did not fix the engine, you can be assured it will be appraised at significantly less than the value of comparable coaches.
To use Trina’s example of money Peter spent on his coach, keep in mind most of that was to replace parts that he wanted to be new because he needs the reliability. He was fixing what wasn’t broke. Some of us do that because we have little tolerance for surprises so we throw away a lot of good parts to get the peace of mind that comes with knowing we have new parts. That will bump the market value a little, but nowhere near what it cost to put a coach in that near new condition.
So an appraisal tends to be a cold, calculated best guess as to what the coach is worth. It is not necessarily going to reflect what an owner thinks the value is, but what the appraiser thinks the market thinks the value is.
We have learned that something we have stated for years has an impact on value. A coach with a well documented maintenance history is going to have more value than one that does not. We have also learned that despite our feelings to the contrary, a coach wholse mileage reflects steady use over the years such as a 200,000 mile 20 year old coach is viewed as less valuable as one that has 60,000 miles over its 20 year life. We have to see if there is some middle ground on that issue.
But we are comforted to know the companyt we are dealing with actually understands how OTR, slides, and different converters all come into play at determining value. We are also pleased to know the fluctuation in depreciation due to market conditions is correctly taken into consideration.
When Tom and I are completely comfortable making a recomendation we will.
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We’ve had our coach just over a year. We were very set on a single couch. The coach we bought had two couches that pull out into beds. I intended to replace one of the couches with a desk and easy chair. That still hasn’t happened and may never happen. The couches are both very comfortable and we spent much of the summer spoiling Grand-kids and the second couch was a blessing.
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I will Amen that!
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Hmm…so that’s what a air-bladder looks like.
I should have taken a pic of the Feathelite friction system since they use the Prevost slide, but install their own rubber seal. I think the bladder is certainly more air tight, just more expensive to replace. I think they also said something about you didn’t have to worry about the “pins” lining-up with their seal.
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Steve, that blower is important because it evacuates and fumes that might collect in the generator box.
I cannot address the issue with access for removal and replacement except to say I have not yet encountered anything on any of the Liberty coaches I have owned that could not be removed and replaced without first doing some serious disassembly. That is not to say it can’t happen, such as access to the batteries is a challenge to say the least.
The insulation in the generator box has been known to disintegrate, but there are some good replacements on the market. It is a multi layer designed for sound suppression. You may be able to limit damage or when you get into the project you may just decide to replace it all. I believe there have been some posts relating to that.
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Jon,
Can you add to this the details of the shut off valves you are using?
Links to suppliers/parts would be appreciated 🙂
I wanted to add a couple in some place, but wasn’t really sure which shut off valve would be the best fit for this application?
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Thanks Per & Ron,
Yep … guess the search will go on, but thanks for the information since we couldn’t get out there till October anyway.