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Back in the frozen north in my trucking days we used to add dry gas through the trailer glad hand when things got froze up. Of course there were no air dryers than and moisture was always a problem and the only cure was lots of air tank draining daily.
I would bet those buses getting froze up like Peter is talking about could probably be mostly eliminated with PM, but like he said, getting the driver to do it is another whole story.
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One of My company rescues many prevost in winter that have frozen air systems , air dryers , brakes , they won’t build air on and on… Mostly tour coaches…..My brother runs this company .. Two or three buses a day all winter long frozen up air systems!!!!!!
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Actually you can lift the coach to a greater height.. Fully inflate the air bags so the coach is at the maximum height. Using your air over hydraulic jacks lift the whole coach under the axles. That leaves the support points totally unobstructed so you can slide stands under the coach.
It is going to get scary because you have just doubled the components that can fail. Air bags plus the hydraulic jack. Very slim chance of that happening, but still a potential.
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Jon
Thanks I don’t think I will need them any time soon but they will go out one day. I just want to be ready for it when and if.
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Rob,
When I did the fridge in my 94, I searched for a cabinet debth fridge that had dimensions as close to the Amana that I could find. I then found some laminate that was so close to the original that you could hardly tell the difference. If you want some photo’s of the installation, just let me know and I’ll e-mail to you.
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Jon,
The graph below shows the weight in Kilo’s per WH for various batteries. Although the iron phosphate may be the very best available regarding safety in lithium, to produce the amount of power required by our coaches they are still going to be very big and heavy. Assuming that each 8d is somewhere around 1400 watts and that iron phosphate batteries are still very expensive………….
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What makes a real man out of you is trying to wash a dirty bus in the hot sun with hard water and alternating between washing a section and then grabbing a ladder and a bunch of towels to try to get it dried before those dreaded white hard water spots appear. At the end of cleaning the bus you are worn out.
You might think of teaching Elsie to get up on that ladder with the towels while you sit in the lawn chair spraying the dirt off.
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Thanks Jon was just wondering…..
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Robert Hitt emailed me and feels there was a communication breakdown between he and Bill and Nashville. I suggest you might contact Robert (1-800-827-7386)
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The accepted practices for slack adjusters is apparently to tighten the adjuster, and then back off around 1/4 to 1/3 of a turn.
However, Bendix considers brakes to be properly adjusted if the push rod on the brake chamber travel is within specified limits. The travel limits vary based on brake chamber size with less travel on smaller diameter brake chambers and greater travel on larger diameter brake chambers. Regardless of brake chamber size the red ring, if visible indicates the push rod travel is excessive.
A number of sites say to adjust the brakes if the push rod travel is 1″ or more. Other sites specify two travel limits, one for the mechanic to manually apply the brake at the slack adjuster, that being a smaller value, and the other method is to measure based on someone applying the brakes, with that amount of travel being greater. The allowable travel the DOT specifies is found on the link below.
As to if the brake drags a little, I would think they are a little too tight if that is the case. If properly adjusted there should be no drag.
http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/administration/fmcsr/fmcsrruletext.aspx?reg=393.47
http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/cvse/references_publications/booklets1-6/pdf/PI221.pdf
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They’re
weather checked and cracked, but no different than others I’ve done
including yours Peter. When I did yours, I cut open one of the bags
and it looked like brand new inside and yours were 15 years old. I’ve
had a case of the leans to port side when it’s cold, very small, but
enough to drive me nuts, so one of the 3 bags is leaking. I can’t
find the leak with the electric stethoscope and soapy water, but it’s
probably up under the fold in the bottom that you can’t get at even
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No way I would tackle that job!
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I do see the edit at the bottom of the page next to the reply when I click on edit it tells me the post does not belong to me in certain words I have never been able to edit a post here and this Dell with windows 8 is a pain one never knows what it is going to do
good luck
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Peter,
At least you have the satisfaction of knowing your bus is generating revenue, where most of us are just experiencing the pleasure of throwing money at our toy!:)
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I have had my 99 CC for 7 years and over a 100,000 miles. No problem with the ECC and the mother board or daughter boards. There is a guy from Oregon that also has a shop in Dallas that knows everything there is to know about that systyem.
He has helped me a couple of times, once with the OTR A/C board. Just a bad solder joint. He even has the screens to manufacture the boards.
Also Myles Cirio has purchased a lot of the CC parts when they had the bankrupcy auction.
CC with the digital dashes can be a problem such as mine. The computer system that runs dash and the navigation system (if it was so equiped) ran on Microsoft Windows 3.1. Completely out of date and non serviceable.
The fix for me was the SilverLeaf glass dash. Looked just like the CC digital dash but completely up to date and all self contained. $10,0000.