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Received in mail today was a side note included about the Prevost Prouds rally Nashville May 12-16 2015.
A idea has been kicked around for sometime to merge Texas Prevost club with Prevost Prouds club.
A vote will be taken during the Prevost Proud rally to disband Texas Prevost club then falling under the umbrella of Prevost Prouds.
The letter states Texas Prevost has a nice cash balance and discussion needs to take place in an open forum on how to spend TP’s money. Options are sponsoring PP’s events or give to charity,
Hats off to club officers at Prevost Prouds in handling merging clubs along with open discussion on cash at Texas Prevost.
We are members of both clubs.
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Jon,
No consolation:)
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Rudy Legett….
As smart as you are with these systems I can’t help but wonder if you have any interest in learning about our Webasto systems??
We sure could use a good knowledgable guy in this area… there are a lot of us out there !!
Cheers, Diane
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Andy Thanks. Looked up and found stores that accept. Closest store Austin Tx. 70 miles west of me.
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Agreed on the looking for a chance to run, Jon. At the current diesel prices makes it even more better. Seems we get our old coach out every 2 to 3 weeks even during winter (which we haven’t had down here in my part of Texas) for short 300 to 500 mile round trips up and down Gulf Coast of Texas. Seems like we have less trouble a running more frequent. Now if I can get that one Cruise Air from leaking be good to go this summer.
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Diane is correct. I am not familiar with the burner in the heat exchanger in her coach.
I am familiar with the 50,000 BTU Webasto heat exchanger that I have seen in a number of Prevost coaches. This is the burner used in all Aqua Hot diesel heaters. I carry parts for those burners but not the one in Diane’s coach.
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Got the same message/offer.
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I’ve got a Liberty, so here is what I’d do.
How much water is the fresh and black/grey tanks?
If you have electricity in the garage, put heat guns, small heaters, hair dryers in the water bay and in the cabinets under the sinks and by the toilet.
Is the water pump hard wired or does it plug in? Is the water pump plumbed to the fresh water tank with a flex line and hose clamps or is it hard plumbed and soldered?
Have you drained the water heater? Can you by pass it?
If plumbed with soft line, unhook line between water tank and water pump at the tank. Get 15 gallons of RV antifreeze, a 5 gallon pail, and enough extra hose to get from the bottom of the 5 gal pail to the water pump (I spliced my soft line into the water pump with a long piece to go into the pail, used 5 feet). Plug the water pump into shore power or a generator. Fill the 5 gal pail with anti-freeze (if the antifreeze is warm or hot, this might help at this point). Close all the faucets. Start the pump. Have someone ready to pour more antifreeze in. Open each faucet until you get the pink RV antifreeze to come out for a few seconds. Then close the faucet. Do each faucet. Run the water in the refrig door until you see pink. If you can get power to the refrig, make ice until you get pink ice. Clothes washer, if you can get power to it run it run a partial rinse cycle which will put antifreeze in the washer and then pump it out.
Once you have pink coming out and into the drains fresh water lines should be protected and the traps will be protected.
The Liberty has a spigot for cleaning the dump hose. I made a hose (three or four feet) to go between that spigot (driver side) and the fresh water inlet in the same bay. The water pump pushed antifreeze into the fresh water inlet to protect that plumbing and antifreeze went into the freesh water tank.
I used clear plastic hoses so I could see what was going on.
I had power when I did this, so I didn’t have to jury rig wiring for the water pump. You’ll have to figure out how to get electricity to your water pump.
Have questions, 262-365-9088. Up 11:30pm or so CST. I winterized mine twice this year. First time I wasn’t as thorough as above and froze up the Headhunter 5 water pump and a water filter that didn’t work. $1,250 plus labor to replace. This is what I did the second time after getting my hands on the Liberty manual and talking to Jeff Rowe.
Good luck!
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Ken and Rick, This is indeed good news with the expertise you both have in your respective fields, you should have great success, Ken this gives you the opportunity you have always talked about! Congrats to you and Rick and family, Gary
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Tom is workking on the registration form which he has to do on the admin side of this site.
When he posts the link to the registration there will be no doubt where to find it and what it is called.
And just so nobody misses the opportunity it appears from the responses the demand is going to exceed a workable class size so we are already working on additional opportunities.
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Bill,
Since your in SE Florida, Donnie Myers would be your go to guy for Vantare.
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The problem is in hand rail just inside the door. Overtime the wires going to the lights inside the handle have frayed shorting out as they enter from behind the dash . The red light you mention is telling you fuse is out and or the circuit is open.
I had to remove the handle to locate the frayed wires.
Wires to light inside handle lower right hand corner of picture.
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Busnut,
You likely should get the axle you did not repair up on the ramps and leave it there for an hour or so after you have checked or filled the differential. To get lube oil into the hubs it has to pass through the bearings and the space between rollers is small so it takes time for it to flow into the hub. This applies to the steer and tag hubs also and after servicing them you can see how slow the oil drains from the cap through the bearings.
I do the same thing Jeff does and raise the opposite side to get the oil to flow into the hub, but just in case I fail to get a sufficient amount I do as Peter mentions and hand pack the bearings with high temp bearing grease. I always inspect them carefully.
Also, after installing the hub seal, before starting to slide everything together I make sure the inner portion of the seal rotates freely within the outer portion just to assure myself I did not do anything that would have pinched the two parts together. If that happened I would be soon replacing the seal again.
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Thanks for the heads up! what i did is this , I drove the coach up on 6 inch ramp on the side that i replaced the axle seal on; so the oil would run to the other side. Replaced the seal , filled the axle up to edge of the housing/hub put the axle back. What do you guys think? Thanks for all the advise!