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I’ve heard Jon had the long range tanks but I always thought it was a reference to fuel.
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okay yes it’s cruise air in bottom…use to be able to turn on and off on dash, now just runs all the time in the salon..fan or blower does…spoke with Brandon and said might be cylnoid but you can not it ..
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its a blower or fan that keeps blowing. Have heat and air shut off.. But cannot get this blower off unless unplug from shoreline..
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it’s really hard for me to understand why a converter would turn out a product they know is above the weight rating by Prevost. The liability exsposer for them would be off the chart. I know it’s done but it is really hard to grasp.
Anyone involved in an accident as the result of braking ability could really have a field day.
A lawyer’s dream.
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Tom, I did not feel or see a road hazard, not to say that I could have driven over something that casused the problem. There was nothing left of the tire that I could tell for sure why it failed, I think a side wall blow out. There was no warning, 0 to 100 instantly!!
Jon, I will tell you that the tire was inspected and air PSI checked before I left the shop, then I thump with a hammer every 4 hours as I do my walk around. My walk around also includes a flash light that I use to look across to the insides of evry tire-rim checking for wheel seal leaks, done on my knees. I have done this on every trip and every mile I have put on both my buses, I need to go to the boys room and make another coffee anyway so it’s the perfect time to stretch and look.
Oh well, I did get very lucky that the only damage was the foam insulation and some scratches on the wheel. I used Steve Bennett to help me out with tires and they had 2 new XZA 2 Energy’s at the local Michelin truck dealer about 40 miles back so he scratched the other rim installing the other new tire. I will take a little scratch on the rim to get rolling again, total time lossed was only 3 hours, not so bad! No way was I going to trust the other 6 year old tire, stupid but not crazy!!!
Got home, pulled both new tires off, sanded the bead area on the run flat rim and then off to my favorite wheel polish folks, better than new!!
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Our ’99 Marathon 45′ XLV coach weight seems to be on target even with granite floors and the usual solid surface countertops and trim.
Prevost Max Load Spec
MGW: 48,900; Front: 16,500; Drive: 20,400; Tag: 12,000
Loaded travel weight with 1/2 water
Total: 45,040; Front: 14,100; Drive:19,140; Tag: 11,800
If anything our weight seems biased towards the rear. Probably because on this coach, Marathon moved the house batteries to the rear just ahead of the engine compartment.
With those axle weights Prevost recommends tire inflation of Front (100), Drive (80), Tag (80) which seem a bit low to me. I now use 105/90/90. Before I weighed the coach I used 115/105/105 just to be safe. It made for a very harsh ride.
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Yes that makes some sense, moisture in the line to the rear fill wouldn’t move until you filled from the rear. I figured if there was some moisture it would pass on through the canister anyway, but as you pointed out, why put more moisture to the filter if you don’t have to. Going forward, I’ll purge some air from my quick coupler before filling from the rear.
Good info….. We could have accomplished this with 1 beer in person!:)
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Hmmm,..
Andre, what do you think you would regret in buying an H over your XL, other than the obvious, money??? I really don’t think you would go wrong. When we traded CC 60449, for the Marathon XLII we did only because we werent sure if an H would fit in the garage, we were wanting an H. While we had the XLII I put 10 inches of styrofoam on the XLII’s roof edge to mimic a Girard to see how much clearance we had and the H was a few inches taller so with a compressed suspension we got an H to fit with only an inch clearance between coach’s rear roof and the ceiling. So to fit in the garage we will have to do another H without Girards.
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Clifford,
As the current owner if you provide proof such as a copy of the title to Prevost they will provide you with any service history regarding work they did. If they did not work on it they have no information for you.
As to looking for the PO, add the letter or digit which precedes the first “1”. That is the model year code and it might trigger someone’s memory.
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Bill,
My wife doesn’t read the forum on this site so I can say the following with little fear of punishment.
We haul too much. All of us. Every coach drags around hundreds, if not thousands of pounds of stuff we never use. I’m guilty. My wife is guilty. So is every other owner. This advice is worth every cent you pay for it: Pack the minimum amount. Don’t take anything you don’t know for sure you absolutely need. Consider only taking what you would pack if you were traveling by car or plane.
My wife does not understand that no matter where we go we can get anything we need at a Walmart or a grocery store so it is not necessary for us to pack enough to stock the average K-Mart. The opinion is if there is space it needs to be filled. Not true. We can buy food almost anywhere. If we didn’t bring a certain type of clothing (like a wedding gown or tuxedo) we don’t have to worry because we could probably buy one or rent one.
It is not necessary to bring a coffee maker, and then a second one in case the first one breaks. We have dragged around one hundred DVDs for years, yet in all of our travels I think we watched 2. I’m equally guilty although I am getting better. I used to bring enough parts to rebuild the whole coach. Now we don’t even carry a spare. I still carry some replacement parts (like the valve for the holding tank actuator) but even my list of spares has dimished.
So in short, limit what you load to 35 pounds per person. I’m kind of kidding but not quite. Tell your family the weight limit is XXX per person. You will thank me. Nobody will disagree with me because all the older owners agree.
Throw away the totes. They just play into the family’s desire to pack everything you own.
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The point was that in very hot weather the cruise airs in a brand new multi-slide coach may not be the best system.
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Fix them or replace them with the same thing. You are in a Liberty. Act like it.
And besides, it’s only money and there is no sense having any left when you go to the big RV park in the sky.
But I understand perfectly how nice it is to have day/night shades. We had manual day/night shades in our 87, manual operation. Lower the bottom section and you had the day shades, lower the top section and you had the solid night shades that were so opaque no light came through. We liked them because we were running often in the winter with the 87 coach and spent quite a bit of time in sub zero temps. The night shades functioned as barriers against the cold that spilled off the windows.
The 97 coach shades were similar to the electric ones we now have but were manually operated. depending on how much you lowered them they were like jalousie windows in that they were day shades or became night shades by pulling the cord a little in one direction. The only drawback was that type was a pain to deal with bugs that seemed to get caught. The ones in the 87 which were two separate sets with the lower set day, and the upper set night worked well and we didn’t have to look at bugs trapped in the slat.
We bought some cell type shades from Lowe’s for our house. Good quality and for the last 13 years have been trouble free. Except for having to change the mounting from what you have I don’t know why something like those would not work if you are insistent upon converting your Liberty into a Winnebago.
Besides, I want someone to do all the research on the best and cheapest way to repair or replace the electric shades with more electric shades so when mine puke I just have to ask you how to deal with that. I like pushing a button to move the shades up or down.
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Car guy….if my records are correct the two most significant things you can do will be to drop your speed down 10 MPH and reduce the weight you are pulling as much as possible.
Aviators used to say they could go as fast as you wanted. Just let them know how much you wanted to spend. Same thing is true with our buses.
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Rick
I find it very interesting that our leaks seem so similar, and that we both have ’06 model year chassis coaches. Keep us posted with what you find out from Prevost.
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I’m using the Garmin Nuvi 465 trucker GPS. Works well like most Garmin products and has the truckstop data base.