Fred
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Thanks for that idea Jack. It reminds me that 30 or 40 years ago when my cars leaked freon, I would put those 12 oz. cans in a hot water bath to speed up the flow. Thanks for the reminder.
Been calling around a bit for someone to vacuum the system. Called a friend who owns an independent appliance store (since 1959), and he does not want to do it, but will loan me his larger vacuum pump so I can do it. But first I’m ordering today from Prevost Parts a new filter/dryer to install.
If anyone has vacuumed before, any tips will help.
After thinking about yesterday’s procedure to charge the system, I may have caused the problem. I forgot to purge the line from the tank to the compressor with freon before I started the charge.
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Gil,
I can see you’re looking for trouble today.
Did you sign up at the CG in Maine?
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Glad
the Canadian Caravan had a chance to stop at Tiger Run, it was great
to see Roger, Micki, Dan, Jo, Pete, EJ, Ed and Sandy. Hope you find
lower altitudes Roger, it’s tough for us east coast folks. -
Al no bus…….
You can get a sense of pricing by going to every internet site that lists coaches for sale. That helps you develop an understanding of the ASKING prices for coaches for sale. There are many sites where you can find Prevost coaches for sale.
Patterns will become apparent. You will get a sense of how prices relate from conversion to conversion. You can understand how slides impact the price. You will see the relative values of 40 foot coaches compared to 45s or the 8V92 compared to the Series 60 for example.
But that is only the beginning. The internet photos don’t show wear and tear. Every coach looks good in photos but in person you can see the details that do not show up in the photos. You cannot smell mold and mildew on photos. You cannot see dog hair. You cannot see how pristine a coach is, or how abused it is or know if it smells of cigar smoke. You have to physically set foot in the coach. And you have to do this often enough to mentally keep track of how asking prices relate to the coach.
Clifford’s example of a dirt cheap coach is so far off the charts it has to be considered unlikely to be repeated anytime soon. Conversely someone out there probably has bought a coach for a similar amount above market value. The problem is everyone lies about actual sale prices. The sellers never admit to selling a coach well below the market and a buyer never wants to admit to paying too much. So to expect to get accurate information is folly.
Very few have the balls to buy auction coaches. But a repo that is run through an auction is likely to be an opportunity and only luck will decide if the purchase was a good one or a bad one. At the price cited a buyer can afford to fix a broken motor or transmission or to repair a lot of hidden damage. But not everyone is prepared for the risk so the real selling prices are what a seller will accept and what a buyer will pay and it is always going to be lower than the asking prices. It’s just that nobody really knows how much lower.
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Five weeks til Lobster bake. Anyone getting hungery! If you don’t have plans, fuel up the bus and join us for a great time!! Rick
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I never ever change power sources, inverters, gen or shore power without unloading the A/C’s and allowing them to shut down. I can run all 4 cruisairs on good shore power, but I have to shut down just about everything else. So far, 3 do the trick, but I have tried 4 just to see how the load is handled. If the shore power is iffy, forget it.
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Tom, as you know I don’ t have enough experience to offer specific bearing advice but I have run synthetics for many years in cars, pickups and motorcycle motors. All have run significantly cooler. Based on my experience with the air cooled motorcycles which seems the closest comparison, 20 to 25 degrees hotter without synthetic is very possible.
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I’ve always wondered about what went down at POG regarding
Jon and Tom. I think they got censored for something but not sure what. Maybe
they can clear that mystery up here or maybe it’s just to far in the past to
really matter? But I knew immediately when PC started up that it was going to
be (and is) a way better site then POG ever was, hands down. There’s no reason
for POG to censor unless of course, they are afraid of their members turning on
them.Fred
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I have 5 equalizers on my house system and it is all 12volts. I have never checked the amperage, they may be 50 amp ones and that is why I have so many.
Greg
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No Joke, I know three guys that worked at the Prevost conversion facility in Oklahoma. I can not recall the converter but it was later ran by Featherlite. They declare up and down that there was a very short man that worked there and did a lot of work in the bays.
DKO
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Susan,
Here’s DoT approved check valves. Although not really required on your Aux air system, there no reason not to use them.
http://www.alkoncorp.com/catalog/2010-transdot-catalog-web.pdf
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It is too bad we get experience just after we need it.
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Susan,
First I assume the aux compressor that appears to be in the photo is accessible without getting beneath the coach. But I am not clear if you can access both ends of the hose that needs replacing. For this discussion I assume you can without getting under the bus.
In most cases if you disconnect hoses from the aux compressor a check valve will prevent the loss of aux system air, at least at the compressor side of things. It is probable if you disconnect the other end of the hose that you say goes to the aux tank you will lose aux air and some brake system air as it bleeds down to the protection valve pressure. But if you key is off and you have the suspension system logic in which the bus still sits up even with aux air at zero the bus should not move. But if you are not under it anyway if it does drop, let it. There will be no harm because the air bags have internal bump stops. I suspect your coach is a late enough model to have the logic that allows a zero aux system pressure without losing suspension system pressure. I can’t say for sure because your age is close and your chassis might be using the old logic.
I admit to never seeing a hose of that nature feeding a bus system (the aux air system). All “hoses” should be DOT plastic (nylon) tubing. The only flexible rubber hoses I would expect to see are those that flex as they go to the brake chambers.
So when you get that hose off, discard it and use tubing of the right size and compression fittings that are DOT approved.
I would also replace the tube with the nick in it, but if that is not possible remove a short section where the nick is and use a compression fitting connector suitalble for the hose size. As to what you call “brass parts” the fittings are generally threaded where they go into something like the compressor or a valve, but are “compression” at the tube side. When you remove the nut on the tube side there will be a ferrule or a small brass part that slides over the tube. Once it is on there it is not removeable, but the tube will pull from the other part of the fitting. Once you get a wrench on the fittings you will see what I mean. Those fittings are readily availble from NAPA or other supply houses. Just don’t get them at Lowes or Home depot.
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The one in galley could be behind a louvers panel opposite the refrigerator, or below a cabinet in the kitchen. If your frig is elevated, if so, the filter could be there behind an access panel, Like was stated above, if you have a private potty, there could be acces behind the mirror over your toilet, either a small cupboard, or just a panel held on with velcro. Do any of your kitchen cabinet doors have louvers, if so the filter maybe accessed from inside a lower cabinet. Our Beaver XL is lilke that. My 2 cents.
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On ours (45xlv) you get to the stateroom filter by opening an access panel in the floor of the rotating hanging closet in the rear (driver’s side). The galley filter is accessed through an access door in the bathroom. Should be similar on a 40′.