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I normally clean mine on the concrete driveway. If you clean it off right away it will not stain. I have also learned that if you get oil drips on concrete you can clean it with oil dry and a 6 inch length of a 2×4. Just spread out the oil dry and scrub it with the 2×4 block until the oil dry granuals turn to a powder. Sweep it up and the stain is gone! Bad stains may take a couple of scubbings but it will come clean.
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If you dont hit a rush hour the 95 extention will zip you to homestead and than the keys i dont use the turnpike ,, When in Homestead you need to check out coral garden it amazing built by one little man
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John,
My first thought is make sure you have exhausted all other possibilites before you attempt to add another hole in your bus’s exterior, i.e. in a bay and out the bottom, like water in/water out.
If you end up thinking that the only way is a new hole in the side of the bus, I would try using an angle grinder. I have a Bosch varible speed that with smaller cut off wheels, I can grind circles with. Notes; Start by tapping off a area at least twice the size needed with a good masking tape. Don’t spend two much time in one area or you will get burning, if you keep moving around in the circle you get through. Another note; I have pollishing equipment if I would ever burn the stainless.
It is very hard to drill or cut that pretty stainless. 🙂
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The bottom line, in my opinion, is that we should do what we can that likely will result in longer battery life and aid us in troubleshooting and battery isolation. The first illustration is indeed common and ill advised. It will work the first battery harder (chaging and discharging). On another site a there’s a great termal image of multiple batteies in a bank being charged. Although I don’t believe the author stated the batteries were wired like the first illustration, I suspect they were.
Having spend some time out on the water, the last thing a yachtsmen wants is to be dead in the water with no help or land in site. Some of that mentality has carried over to the bus. I’ll suck up the few extra bucks the buss bars and additional battery cable cost me and know I’ve made a major improvement in the effective use of ALL the batteries in the bank and provided a great troubleshooting and battery isolation aid.
The only thing about my set-up is that the charge curve of my two Freedom 25s will not support lifeline batteries if the temperature compensation circuits are used. Once the batteries reach 90 degrees, which is common in Florida and when the batteries are being charged, the float voltage drops just below Lifelines 13.1 volt minimum float voltage. Because of this the charges toggle between float and absorbtion modes. If the chargers can maintain the batteries and support the house load a battery bank should not come out of float charge once it enters float. So, I had to turn off temperature sensor support. With the temperature curve manually set to 70 degrees the bank stays in float, as it should, with a constant 13.3 volts being supplied by the charger.
Gil
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Glen,
Two Vanner chargers in the engine bay? Could you elaborate a little more on that?
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Saw a guy in a camp ground making an extended project out of this.
Not sure but I think he eventually found that 3M has a product for the removal.
JIM
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We’re in………I said that without permission. Lady Di is still abed.
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Ken,
Tell me more about the decision to upgrade. I would of loved to be around to watch to process. What did the costs run and were there modifications to the framework above the engine? Did you put in a new transmission also?
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Tom, I haven’t investigated past the air dryer. I may be allowing my fears to get the best of me, but it seems like the parking brake got easier to move. I haven’t checked all Norgren exhausts for evidence of oil either… too cold to work outside right now. Is any level of oil contamination of the air dryer acceptable? Air pressure is normal, not sluggish in returning to 120 PSI. What’s the criteria for condemning the compressor?
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I would like some of Rick’s safe money and a north/south bed instead of east/west.
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Tom, Jon very pleased to see you guys get this community off the ground.
We will all benefit from all your hard work and pleased to contribute where and when I can.Thanks guys
Darrell
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What is this of which you speak? Little sister to Liberty perhaps? Cousin?
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I sure would have done the same as you Denny if I could have found a 400 seal, that’s the way to go.