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Hi Jon, The only time I pump the brakes is during the DOT brake check. When I got back and parked the bus I left it running and walked around to see if I could hear an air leak and didn’t. I turned the engine off and walked around again and if there’s a leak it isn’t audible?
I can’t explain the light and thought maybe it has something to do with having to use the Level Lo system while underway?
Glen, there was no change to the pressure gauge.
Harry
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It is not an emergency, however it is a repair that should not be delayed. Continued leaking will ruin the brakes and if enough has leaked the axle bearings can seize.
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I just did this in June at Jeff’s, bye bye Microphor, the Tecma Science 2 Plus is the only way to go. Mine was rear discharge so all work out well. They make so many different types, surely a direct drop is available that will be close to your foot print. Jeff can likely solve your problem. I’m sure you’ve searched the various models, but here’s the selection: Tecma
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Gmjdw,
Back in 2014 when we were looking to purchase our first Prevost, I found this site and a couple of others to learn about them.
In comparing the top three current converters (Liberty, Marathon and Millennium), it was obvious that they put things in different places.
I was at Prevost Goodlettsville in summer of 2017 for service and met a guy with a new 2016 Marathon (3 slide with bunks). This was his first Prevost too.
At the time that we were looking, Liberty put their generator radiator in a separate bay mid-way back on the driver’s side, Marathon put theirs in the front behind the grill and Millennium put theirs on the roof. Liberty has now switched to an Onan that has the radiator built-in the unit.
Comparing our Liberty to that fella’s Marathon, his Webasto heater was in the engine bay on the passenger side, ours is located above the rear wheels on the driver’s side. We have four inverters he has two. We have 3 lithium house batteries, the Marathons have multiple AGM batteries.
We have a manual sewer hose, he has an automatic ‘pop-out’ hose. Liberty’s have ONE holding tank for black and grey with a grey water bypass valve. All the others have separate black and grey tanks.
Some converters use/used Aqua-Hot for heating water and coach heat.
Like Jon said, they all accomplish the same goal, just differently.
Safe travels,
Mark
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They all do the same thing. Every conversion provides living space with lighting, running water, heat and A/C. They have TVs, sound systems, refrigerators, microwaves, toilets, holding tanks, cook tops, and sinks.
The differences are slight. Some have more batteries for the house or converter portion. Some use Cruiseairs, some use roof airs. Some have Prevost over the road A/C, some use a converter installed over the road A/C.
Some have interiors finished in laminates, some in wood, some in a combination of both.
Some coaches have one slide, some two or more, some none. Some have a bath and a half, some only a single bath.
What specifically are you looking for in an answer? Everything mentioned above and more are differences to be found in conversions, and yet as different as they all can be, at the end of the day they all accomplish the same thing. As coaches get newer technology changes, the style and colors are different, but we as customers still end up with more or less the same thing.
The same can be said for the Prevost chassis. They all have wheels and an engine and a transmission. But over the years they grew to 45 feet, added slides, changed engines and transmissions, etc. but the chassis still accomplished the same thing regardless of if it was a 1990 or a 2020.
If you want a coach with OTR buy a Liberty. If you want roof airs instead of Cruiseairs, buy a Royale. If you want a super paint finish and design, buy a CC. If you prefer a lot of house batteries, consider a Vantare. If you want a Joey Bed that goes in and out with the press of a button, consider a Marathon.
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Still trying to get opinions to the differences of the converters
of Prevost, New owner of two weeks and still in shop getting routine maintenance updated.
I have looked at numerous ads for coaches and am wishing to get some conservation on the differences.
This is not an attempt to discredit one converter to the other but trying to understand what one does the other doesn’t. I hope my new ownership makes me want to continue and do another purchase so please give me info not criticism.
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Another reason to build the wall around California
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Charles, why are you complaining? I thought you made Tam pump all the fuel.
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Years ago i took a tractor to a local farm equipment repair shop to have a stuck manifold bolt removed. After watching the old man heat the bolt and surrounding manifold and remove the bolt i asked him ” why wouldnt you heat just the surrounding metal so it expands and not the the bolt”?. He took me over to a table where he had a brass ring brazed to another chunk of metal like a little basket ball hoop. He grabbed a brass ball and showed me that the brass ball went through the hoop. He asked me if he heated the hoop would it get larger or smaller. I said larger. He heated the hoop and set the ball on top. To my utter amazement the hoop got smaller. He explained to me that metel when heated expands in all directions. The hoop in fact got larger on the outside but also smaller on the inside. He told me that the heat actually only softens the corrosion and then pulverizes it when the metal expands thus breaking the bond. He then explained that if the hoop were much thinner and larger around the inside would in fact get larger. I forget why now but i never have forgotten that lesson with the hoop. As i was leaving the shop the ring had cooled and the ball dropped to the table. The old man smiled and winked at me.
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bad advice
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John, If you have exhausted all places to look the valve may be behind the refrigerator. On my 97 it was in a pipe chase under the lav but it could just as easily been behind the refigerator where some coaches have an RO unit and accumulator.
I have a 3″ high platform you can have that facilitates refrigerator removal so when we get back to TN I will give you a heads up and see if you want it.
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If the fittings are push in I just added to your workload because they need to be replaced with compression. My 97 had compression fittings, but my current one has push in so my change over to compression is in my future.
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This was an exciting trip, for sure. What I found interesting is that the entire trip through the mountains on „Indian Service Roads“ (being inside the Navajo Nation) is on a 2 lane, blacktop road. There were plenty of cars going in either direction. We were even passed by a park ranger/police car. They did not bother to question our sanity so we figured all is good.
I got a good upper body workout because the roads up into the mountains and especially back down on the other side are very curvy.
At times, I was going barely 10 MPH on the upside.
On the downside, it could have been anything … 🙂
As long as you are comfortable with driving and handling your bus, the trip is doable. Even more so, if you do not tow anything.
You will get to see great landscapes (Shiprock, for instance). But there will also be a few scary moments …
We have done quite a few mountain passes, already, up to about 14,000 feet. Other than going very slow (and making new friends following behind us) it never was an issue and the bus did extremely well.
This pass was not quite as high but STEEP.
🙂
Ronald
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We will be in Williams on 9/10 and looking forward to the train ride to the Grand Canyon. Should be good.
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Chuck and Katrina,
I’m no expert. Find a company that operates and maintains a fleet of entertainers and ask their expert what they think.
But I know an expert. He worked for Trailways Bus Co. for 40+ yrs. I may see him next Tuesday night. If so, I’ll ask him what he thinks.
Now my 2 cents. Its not ideal, but if it had to be too hi or too low, I would choose too hi.