Davy
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Just kicking this up on the forum to remind everyone if you want a Blue Beacon discount card send me a SASE to the address above.
Also, if you have the card and have had an opportunity to use it please let us know about your experience.
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Davy,
You can use the switch you have that provides power to the yellow side OR the white side, but you will change the wiring.
It should be wired now where the power (+) comes into the switch at the center terminal with the white bulbs on one outside terminal and the yellow bulbs on the other outside terminal. You can see that it allows the electricity to flow to one or the other, but not both.
You need to change the wiring so that the single wire to the LED lights is placed on the center terminal, the coach powered wire you removed from the center will now be placed on one of the outside terminals and then you will run a new(fused) wire from a hot (+) feed from the house to the other outside terminal.
This will allow power to come from one side or the other to the center (lights), but not from both sides. What you have is a single pole double throw switch SPDT. You had Single pole (power) Double Throw (white on one side yellow on the other side), but all you have done is flow the electricity the opposite direction. Single pole (Lights) Double Throw ( positive power from coach on one side and power from the house on the other side)
If this explanation is confusing, let me know as my email is open and I will draw you a diagram of the wiring, photograph it and attach it.
Hope this helps.
Fred
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I had to add 8 – 10, 5-gallon fills. It took forever and the worst of it was the truckers staring me down. In the end they helped me get the bus re-started and in a fuel bay. Turned out to be a great learning experience and changed my view of the trucking community for the better.
Now, I view my fuel gauge in a whole new light. Keep it as full as possible at all times.
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Remember that Prevost has a facility in the DFW area. Can’t go wrong with a DMI pre-purchase at Prevost. Worth the $600-$800 charge if you are serious about buying the coach.
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Nice job Davy…
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Joel, that means your mental file cabinet is full, so as you add new information to your brain, it dumps some to make room.
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Brady, Trish, Tommy & Cli….
That sounds like a deal…We are often in your neck of the woods…. we love Louisiana and the folks here !!
We go to Rayne to the Cruisin Cajuns Rallies at least twice a year… they are a fun group of folks… in fact we will be there for the Crawfish Rally 23rd-26th of April.
I think we will coming back through on next Monday but not sure yet, but we have to get back to Lufkin to get ready to come back to Rayne on Thursday.
You can click on my name and email me and I will send you our phone numbers… it would be fun to hook up. Shame you can’t make the Oysterfest… going to be fun !! Looking forward to meeting up with you.
Cheers, Diane
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Tim, coaches come both with and without hard wired units. My CC came with a unit installed but I still use the Progressive unit at the power source. There are some security devices available but I have not used one.
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Dick what are you saying my mind is going ,, I dont think so !!!!! I said its some where in that year .. I have replaced tanks in 1999 prevost 2000 liberty’s that had those aluminum tanks !!!!!!!! I have had coaches with both and I liked both types , fits in the same bay but gen is not in the same bay as the tanks like the Libertys , some of the coaches I have had , had two water tanks and black tank and grey water tank, one water tank and grey and black in same bay and in other bay next to it had another water tank , gen in another bay that coach had no over the road air but did have more room in all the bays for storage than the liberty I have now but it has over the road air takes up two bays!!!!
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I didn’t remember Jeff being that bald. Or maybe he was and I couldn’t tell with his hat on! Or I know – its your pretty daughter that makes Jeff look that way.
At any rate I agree that you are in good hands at Jeff’s place!!!
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On our XLV (and I presume many if not most Previosts), the air chamber for the tag life pushes on a bar (lever) that pivots and lifts the chains which raise the tag. On one side, the pivot is frozen (probably corroded) and hence when the air chamber tries to lift the tag the bar doesn’t move and one side of the tag won’t go up. So I have project this spring to try to free up the pivot point which is a bushing on a shaft. You should be able to look between the drive wheels and the tag wheels to see this mechanism and see this working. The air chamber rod that is supposed to actuate the tag lifting bar is bent as a result of trying to push on the frozen tag lifting bar.
There is a zerk fitting on the bar so that the bushing at the pivot point can be lubricated. Apparently this is a lube point often overlooked by “truck shops” when servicing a Prevost. Our Prevost was apparently serviced quite often by a big truck shop in northern Indiana (the service manager told me “we had the nice bus in here regularlly for service).
Check to see that the bar (lever) is moving freely. If it doesn’t, you have a problem.
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I used Blue Beacon for the first time yesterday in Amarillo. I had them wash the coach and the Jeep toad for $49. They do not do many of them at this location since they did not even know how much to charge at first. The wash was pretty good, I have not seen any brush marks yet but will check for that, but they did not do a good job of rinsing. The windows are streaked and the Jeep was only a fair job.
Tom Hamrick
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I have kind of become hooked on suite rooms on Crystal Cruises, yes, my age is showing!
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Put us down for a late June through August time frame Mini Rally.
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Larry, are you here at MCC? I thought i saw a Marathon H in the park here tonight. If so I’m in space 196. Please come by and say hi. Maybe even Big Al will make an appearance!! Plus if you need tech support Big Al works cheap!!!