Gerald
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Maybe Buddy and Jeff could pour some curbing around that area so that everything has to run into the drain. That way even if there is another Dump Truk accident, it would not require the EPA people to get involved. There may even be some EPA grant money that would cover some or most of the cost…….
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Those numbers are from a something I read from trogan about the newer batteries and the way they should be charged, My generator battery does not charge,only when gen is running and it sounded slugash when I did fire it up so I put a 5 amp trik-L-Start box on now it sounds healthy when I do start it. Problem with the way Royale did the starter charger is it is in mid bay with 1 cable to rear to starter batts and the 110 v plug , plugs into a receptial in the same compartment that has a switch marked 24 volt charger, and I can’t find any 110 volt in engine compartment, so It would be easer to get a 24 volt smart charger when needed.
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In addition to what Chuck has posted, be aware that getting the Boston gearbox out of the engine compartment is quite a task. Butch Williams helped me remove and replace mine. I then helped Chuck remove and replace his. We had to get the fan off of the output shaft and the pully off of the drive shaft on the pillow block, and then remove the pillow block and Morflex coupling along with the gearbox as a single unit because we could not get the bolts out of the coupling. The gearbox and pillow block went back in separately and then the new coupling was installed. Even with the flexible coupling, the alignment of these components is fairly critical. The gearbox was shimmed and we had to use those shims when reinstalling it.
I suspect that when Prevost built the bus they installed all of this stuff from the driver side of the coach before they installed the radiator. If you are willing to drain and remove the radiator, the gearbox work would be a bit easier, but that did not seem like a fair tradeoff to us. It would make it a lot easier to clean that side of the engine compartment, however, and if your gearbox has been leaking as badly as ours were, that side of the engine and the the floor (just above the muffler) will be pretty messy.
I have an article in the upcomging July 2017 issue of Bus Conversion Magazine on how Butch repaired the T-drive and blower housings in his MCI MC-9. That article is supposed to be followed by a 2-part article (in August and September) on all of the work that was done on my bus and on Chuck’s bus. See Chuck’s post for Butch’s contact information and feel free to contact me if you have additional questions and do not want to post them as a reply in this thread.
~Bruce
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Excellent Davie!
God has certainly blessed you with family & friends …
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I can’t take credit for the photo as it was the one at the destinaton of Jon’s link.
HJ, you’re looking for that code. The first two digits are the week and the second two are the year. Hence, the third week of 2004.
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I just called Clarke and they don’t know anymore today than they did when I was there Monday and Tuesday. I’ve been told I should never have left because I’ll immediately go to the end of the line and I think that may be very true! Now I’m sitting here with a rent-a-car with no end in sight!
Trying to be reasonably balanced, Clarke told me they only have one 8V92 specialist and he’s also the guy who handles service calls. So he wasn’t working on my coach because he’s on a service call. OK, I get that, it doesn’t make me feel any better, but I get it. However, my first scheduled appointment with Clarke which I had to cancel because of other issue which have been documented. This 8V92 specialist was on vacation but they didn’t think he was needed because it sounded like a computer issue. So don’t they have another guy there who can read a computer? Jon said he thought it was most likely a result of a bad ground, sensor, or electrical connection! So again I ask, doesn’t Clarke have anyone else who can read a computer?
One thing I’ve decided is I’m going to carry something with me from now on, I’m not sure what, but something so when someone says “its an older coach” I can smack em with it! And I don’t want to hear from any of you with a 2018 latest and greatest saying “yah Harry, you’ve got and old one there” because I will hunt you down!
My plan is this! I live in an area of “good old boys” who’s name and reputation is everything to them! I contacted the mechanic who got me going with my other issues because I thought I remembered him saying he knows a mechanic with the computer and electrical background who could maybe figure this out. He’s checking with him as we speak and if he says he can do it, I’ll pick up my coach from Clarke tomorrow and bring her back home!
I have the opportunity for enclosed housing for my coach, yippee, and the front opening is 13 feet. Does anyone know the height of a 1991 “yah 1991 so get over it” Beaver Coach Le Mirage XL with an in motion satellite?
If I’ve offended anyones delicate sensibilities tuff! Jon and Tom have both told me they’ve always found me to be offensive!
Harry
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Tim T….
If you have a particular coach in mind you might want to share the coach details on here as there’s a lot of folks here familiar with so many coaches… You might get some answers…Happy shopping… it’s a lot of fun.
Cheers, Diane
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Bernie and JD”
Thanks found the sliver box under the cup holder, so easy but never thought to look there,was searching the cabinets. Now to investigate the coax line and make sure its compatible.
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Brett,
Sorry to hear that. Our search took 3 years to find the exact bus we wanted. We didn’t have the issues you describe but were limited by coaches that had bunks for the kids. As soon as we decided to remodel our existing coach, a dealer called with the perfect coach so we took the plunge.
Best of luck to you.
Bill
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Tim,
What Tom said because his is a Marathon like yours.
Regardless of conversion however the chassis accessory air could go to zero and the primary and secondary brake systems remain at whatever pressure they were when the engine was turned off. If they do not, but track the accessory system down there are issues with protection or check valves.
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Harry,
I don’t want to dump on you any more than I have already, but if the mechanic actually said inverter and not alternator keep him away from your coach.
Further, if you do choose to allow him to install your batteries (do you even know the existing ones are bad?) do not allow him or anyone to remove a battery cable from the old ones without marking it so it goes back on in the exact same way it came off. Mis-wiring the chassis batteries is the number one or close to number one cause of coaches not starting. Don’t add to your issue by hooking the new ones up wrong. Take pictures, draw diagrams, look at the wiring diagram that should be on the battery side door, and mark the cable ends with the location it goes to. Also to eliminate the excitment of the sparks those cables can create wrap them with electrical or duct tape so they don’t hit a ground or another cable or battery post. When one of those suckers starts sparking you can’t buy excitment like that.
Back to the alternator or inverter comment. I’ll pretend he meant alternator. Yours is gear driven off the back of the engine so if there is a real concern about it putting out more voltage than it should just disconnect the field wire from the base of the voltage regulator. That will disable the alternator so that after you get the engine running you can deal with that as a separate issue. If it did put out more voltage than it was supposed to you would have gotten a big red light on the dash, and the problem would not be the alternator but the regulator. It is likely a black Delco regulator like this.
I really doubt you have an issue with the regulator or alternator and as mentioned above there is no way your inverters have anything to do with what is going on.
Be really careful you don’t let this “mechanic” keep leading you astray.
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Congratulations. I truly doubt that I would be a Prevost owner if it wasn’t for this site. The information and especially Jon’s articles regarding our obsession with these buses has been beyond helpful!
I look forward to more of the same!
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I am sure if you ever showed your solution to a licensed plumber he would go crazy. What you have is a potential for cross contamination which is an industry term and there is not a plumbing jurisdiction in the entire country that would allow that product. I know the risk is slight, but products like that and products you connect to a holding tank to flush it are health hazards, not necessarily to you, but those using the water supply you connect to.
If you connected to your fresh water system you would be at risk, but when you connect to any other water system you put those other users at risk.
Maybe the plumbers on her would want to chime in.
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Do you have the dryer with the two floating balls? The tech at Prevost told me both balls should be floating. If the bottom one is not floating, the system is low on freon, which is what it sounds like. We had to replace the suction valve mounted on the compressor a couple of months ago. A qualified tech should be able to pinpoint the leak.
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While Jon is pretty much correct … in essence we have what we have because that is what the converters provided us … its still frustrating dealing with some of these issues. When my five month old battery failed, I was trying to diagnosing it on the phone with Jeff Rowe. That very last thing we thought the problem could be was a bad, five month old battery! If the coach had the switch box I outlined above, we would have determined the problem in less than an hour rather than screwing around with other stuff for a few days before removing all the batteries and schlepping them to Interstate and waiting for them to individually charge and load test all the batteries.
Jon wrote: “As a parallel you are more likely to have other failures like a refrigerator, or an alternator or even a bad tire yet nobody seems to carry spares for them or have one on standby.”
So I’ve had the bad chassis battery, my Vanner monitor burned up, the Vanner equalizer failed, and the original Amana refrigerator quit. All of these things happened at home and NOT on the road or on a trip (although two weekend trips were canceled) and we didn’t lose any food. Because those things happened at home, do they “count”? Do I have to experience them again on the road for them to “count”? I realize I should expect for the alternator to fail and have a bad tire. I wonder if those will be discovered at home or on the road.
In spite of those and other experiences with the coach we’re very happy with our decision to buy the coach and we really enjoy it. There are two things that make a HUGE contribution to our enjoyment of the coach:
1. Jeff Rowe and his crew at East Tennessee Luxury Coach in Vonore, TN.
2. The Prevost Community Forum and all the contributors.