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Wash my own also but if I could find somebody out here 125 bucks sounds cheap to me for a wash job. When I pull bus out it’s go time until we get back. No time to stop and wash on my short 3 day trips. Had a friend with a High Dollar Aluminum trailer and they had that thing washed out side of an San Antone a few years back and they sprayed something on before wash and messed that puppy up big time. Don’t use pressure wash on mine.
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Dean,
As Joel said, check your voltage. Remember, you have (2) 12 volt batteries wired series/parallel for 24 volts. if your charge board is working, you should see 26 + volts according to Zip Dee. You’re correct in the switches, one is open/close awning should your remote take a crap, motor only is just that, opens and closes the awning, we used that in FL to drain the water from your arms. The bottom switch PLC cuts all power from the control box.
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Sheesh, you guys are scaring me and I don’t keep anything longer than 2 years. The question is what’s normal. For me, I get it all sorted out, tires, batteries, etc. and then normal becomes an annual service and odds and ends over the year. I doubt my cost after the first go around to get things right would exceed 5K annually for parts and/or repairs. I keep a detailed log of every penny spend, from purchase to sale.
I doubt it’s a whole lot more than any high end plastic and maybe less. But, I do everything I can myself, so my experience will be way different from someone who has to pay to have a bulb changed.
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OK all you sissies (aka Fred) you can come out from under the bed now. alls right with the world after all.
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Batteries, what batteries Red?:)
I managed to explain to Lifeline the absolute importance of getting this guy with the funny accent batteries in a big hurry in order to reduce his time at the Casino. Patti is very worried that a prolonged stay could have an adverse effect on their piggy bank. So Lifeline snagged the batteries from another order and will ship today.
Anything for Patti……. Red who?
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It may not have happened yet, but from experience I can tell you that stools and chairs need to be secured because they will slide or tip or both.
If you are forced to take an emergency turn like a lane change or if you have to do a panic stop the stools and chairs are going to move or tip and the risk is when that happens they can damage something. On our previous coach a tipping chair damaged the vitricor and a panel had to be replaced. But if the worst should happen and the coach hit something or started to roll the loose furniture becomes a flying missle. Protect yourself and your interior by creating some method to inhibit the free movement of the chairs or stools. We used straps that secured stuff while we were driving. They were put away in a drawer when we stopped.
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Gman, where does your roof units dump water when cooling. thinking about adding 1 unit in kitchen where Fantastic fan is now. Have 3 cruiseairs under foot but it would be nice to have a least a roof backup. They say they are noisey but I can’t hear anyway.
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Bumping this up ….anyone have a link to the parts or service manual, Charles did you ever find anything?
02 Marathon with 20k Kohler, Yanmar engine.
One coolant hose has a tear and started weeping fair amount of coolant last night after running two hours, never got hot and only lost a few ounces but want to replace both due to age.
Hose is BRP BellowFlex, can you find an equivilant at Napa? I am not home yet but my local Napa shop is really good so will try there.
Would love to do some general Gen enclosure cleaning and zero’ing out things on the gen…any link or option to buy a manual would be great!
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We live in NJ and have had our coach the entire lenght of the GSP, no problem HOWEVER when north of the NJ Tpk do NOT be in the extreme left or right lanes as overpasses are arched and if you are too far right or left it could be ugly.
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Okay, where’s the 12 step program for H owners. “Yes, my name is David Brady, and I am an H3-aholic”, LOL! 🙂
(SpongeBob at Prevost (Richmond, BC)). Nice of them to clean off the driveway for me! Do they do that for you XL guys too? 🙂
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The Prevost fuel gauge and low fuel indicator are set to the high side. In other words, when you think you are out of fuel you still have enough to get you a ways down the road.
But the pickup for the generator is way off the bottom of the tank purposely because running the generator out of fuel is an inconvenience, but running the bus out of fuel can be a serious problem that might affect your safety which is why things are set up that way.
If you know your plans for driving and generator use you can plan ahead to avoid problems.
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That’s the way Marathon sets them up. We’ve tried to change them in our past coaches, with bad results- insufficient battery charge results.
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Another option is do concrete over the culverts. If you span the concrete beyond the culvert you are effectively building a bridge. Pour 6″+ of 4000 psi concrete and place rebar in the direction of travel such that it is placed near and under the path of your tires.
I too have heard the gravel should start big and not round to smaller gravel near the top. The final coat of gravel could be mix that includes cement and limestone. I forget what its called.
FWIW, this is not an area of expertise for me. I didn’t stay at thge Holiday Inn Express, but I have seen this done on a few occassions.
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I suspect that I am the only one Jon knows who has changed out the whole valve. It wasn’t by choice. First trip of consequence in the bus and ripped out the old valve on a concrete curb in Louisiana.
That repair had a small leak, so I did it again at a rally in Myrtle Beach. That had still another small leak. I eventually squeezed a tube of silicone between the 90 inside and the floor of the bay so that the dripping stopped. Not my most brilliant work, but effective.
The other thing I did, besides switch to a Valterra end so that I can use my RhinoFlex hose (best EVER!) is that I dispatched with the exterior 45 that Liberty had installed and just use a straight drop from as close to the bus as I could make it. I don’t intend to do that job again.
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This is a very good thread to read because within the thread is the Prevost position regarding hitches and towing. You may have to cut and paste the link below.