[gary]

If I can past this seal issue I may be a candidate.

A long time ago a company offered valve stem caps that showed a green band when the priessures in the tire were OK, but if they dropped the band was red. For any tire pressure monitoring system to work it has to release air pressure from the tire Schrader valve into the sensor. That means if the sensors do not seal perfectly the sensors become a leak source. On my very first trip with those sensors two leaked. Ever since I have been gun shy.

I have run with the fill thru valve stem caps for years now and those caps are literally a double seal. The Schrader valve is the primary seal as intended, but the cap also seals. I am struggling to accept the fact I would be putting a sensor on a wheel that has to have a perfect seal or it becomes the source of lost tire pressure.

Peter, how did the three leaks occur? Were the sensors cross threaded? Did the rubber seal fail?

Has anyone else had issues with leaks at the sensors?

[gary]

Jon,

I read the TX DOT manual, and i read it as anything over 26,000lbs, you need a non-commercial CDL. Which i did get. Easy, written test with 24 questions, multiple guess no less. Then a driving test. Left turn, right turn, stop, turn signals. Piece of cake.

The big twist is if you get a traffic ticket while in your car and try to get it thrown out by taking defensive driving, you have to be very clear that you do not have a CDL, you have a non-commercial CDL. CDL is excluded from defensive driving. Dont ask why i know this!

I asked our bus insurance folks and they favor having this type of license.

I say if you are licensed in TX, go get a non-commercial CDL. Its not that big if a deal.

[gary]

My coach has the Jake and no retarder. It does have the intercooler obviously. Spoke with the people at S&S where the work is being done, and they stated the is no way t oprevent the problem. One of the mysteries is that the failure occurred with antifreeze contaminating the Transynd, and and no evidence of contamination of the antifreeze with Transynd. They do not understand this since the pressure on the transmission side is much higher than on the antifreeze side. To be sure they drained all of the antifreeze to take a good look, and it is clean. I had the complete cooling system flushed and cleaned in October as preventitive care. We are going to completely flush again today.

The intercooler is on its way, not in stock. The transmission is going in today. Need to be on road again ASAP.

[gary]

Here’s links to my posts related to the Silverleaf.

prevostcommunity.com/forum/threaddetails.asp?Category=General%20Discussions&ThreadID=2951

prevostcommunity.com/forum/threaddetails.asp?Category=General%20Discussions&ThreadID=4023

[gary]

Karen & I would also like to add our thanks to Jon, Di, Tom, Nancy and the participating PC sponsors for a really great weekend. It was our first “No Rally Rally”, but certainly will not be our last. We enjoyed meeting new folks, putting faces with some of the “screen names” we recognized, and leave with at least some of our Prevost operating questions answered (the ones that i remembered to ask!!). We’re looking forward to seeing some familiar faces when we get together again at Jeff’s in July.

Thanks again, and safe travels to All.

[gary]

getting a new holding tank installed today. the white spots had grown in size and number since last fall. figure would be best to do that now, rather then wait and have ot fail while we are on the road this spring//summer/fall.

josh and dan were wishing peter was still here to help them out 🙂

[gary]

Larry & Diane, wish we knew you were going to be in our neck of the swamp. Cli and I along with Brady & Trich would have tried to hook up with you for dinner. We can’t make Foley but if you come back west on I-10 and have time to do lunch or dinner in Lafayette let us know. There is always room for more Cajun food.

[gary]

HUH ????

[gary]

Gary we put in Auto Motion shades and have been very pleased with them. We had the visor strip put on the day shade and they work great as a sun visor.We have the double roller shades that have both day and night.

Tom

[gary]

Every Aquahot has a Webasto as its diesel fueled heat source. But instead of heating engine coolant the Aquahot is heating its own liquid which then circulates that heated liquid through the coach for heat, or uses it circulating through the heat exchanger to heat water or engine coolant to warm the engine.

Basically an Aquahot is a heat exchanger.

A Webasto is the furnace.

[gary]

Just for the record so that even an Iggle owner doesn’t have to hand wash his coach Blue Beacon has what they call an RV wash.

This wash uses nothing more than soap and water. No chemicals and they do hand wash. The use of a power washer is part of it.

[gary]

T&C, Colt brought up some interesting observations. I talked to him on the phone a couple of times while they were looking for their bus and hope that I was some help to them. He ended up with a very nice bus. We had a non-slide XLV that we were very happy with and would still have it to this day if our present bus had not fallen into our laps. It was very liveable for a non-slide even when parked, but it was a true side aisle. we now have a single slide H and I don’t think we could go back. We travel alot and appreciate the slide even being stopped briefly. We were looking for a 2 slide, but could not find the right bus in our price range (the right bus far outweighed the bed slide) which we helped by installing a wall hugging retractable bed. The XLII vs H is a personal decision only you can make by looking at a number of different busses. The XLII chassis is a driveability improvement over the XLV and remember a late 99 shell year H has the XLII chassis. Hope this helps and hope to see you at Bella Terra. Geo.

[gary]

I did not change the Headhunter monitoring system.

I do know from experience (my experience likely differs from what others have reported) that there are two likely porblems. First, on the holding tank the tube going into the tank can get plugged so I remove it and flush it clean. That usually cures a problem. The second issue is the connection from the tube to the rear of the black box can leak. If it does the readings are not accurate so just make sure those are air tight.

If you need to recalibrate the units the instructions call for filling the tank(s). That uses a lot of water, but more importantly it takes a lot of time waiting for them to fill. All the Headhunter unit is doing is measuring head pressure of the water column so I now use a small diameter tube (a 4″ plastic pipe will do) sealed at the bottom and the height of the holding tank to simulate the tank. Put the sensor tube in that and then fill it as instructed.. Then when the unit is recalibrated just return the tube to the holding tank.

[gary]

If you hit the video switch by mistake it cancels the tech link display..

[gary]

The idea of a “No Rally Rally” at Hearthside would be awesome! A mid June time frame would be best. I checked with the office today and we are already pretty full by the end of June. Please let me know how I can help.