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Ditteaux on Brady’s post. Over the last several days, while drowning my sorrows in Spotted Cow beer, I’ve had the opportunity to speak with many of our friends who journeyed to the not yet frozen tundra. Everyone of them have the same sitements we have regarding the Lambeaux and the very cordial Packer and Badger fans. We are about six hours away from the friendly confines of Tiger Stadium. We’ll pick up some boudin to help get us in the winning grove Saturday night.
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Take one of wipers into NAPA. I’m sure they can match it to something they carry.
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I verified again, LED power light is off when the key is off, and on with the key on. This also matches the other monitor for the House batteries. It operates the same way. So, my switch is working to produce 24v or not.
Jon, hoping your LED power light may be just burned out, or, you may not have a properly working monitor. My faulty one was definitely not working properly, and with the Power light on all the time.
Do you have one for the house batteries, if so, does the light work on that one?
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I won’t be much help here, but will share what I know. Just this past June we were at the Prevost St. Nicolas service center where they removed and reinstalled the 208 gallon plastic fuel tank. From that experience, I can confirm what Jon said, that there is one hose at the bottom, about 1.5 inches diameter that connects the 208 with the 90 gallon stainless steel tank. The techs said access to the clamp on the 90 was difficult. If your leak is at the front of the 208, it can only be this connection as there are no other hoses that connect in this area. There is a breather hose on top of both tanks, but their connections are not in that area.
The fittings on the tank you can see by removing a stainless steel access panel (7mm socket) at the rear of the third bay right side will be on the top of the tank, so you may not need this access unless you will be pumping the tank dry. Removing the big tank will require a lift as it is about 2.5 feet high. Hope you don’t, it was a PITA even for the long time pros.
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That is our tire pictured. Not wanting to risk an inconvenient failure, it’s been replaced at Jeffs. It’s a mystery…tire has never been underinflated, wheel is steel and we are running same psi as the previous set of drives. Am wondering if the new 315’s have a different sidewall construction or are slightly wider ? Anyway we have raised psi 10lb and will check it in Dallas when we get oil changed in Sept. Geo.
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John: Looking Good! I assume the UT theme remains. Go VOLS!!!
Truk: Looking Good too!! Does Florida have a football team?
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Replacing a seal is a relatively simple job, but I think the key to success is the care taken to insure clean mating parts, and an abundance of care with the force fit of the seal into the hub.
The inner part of the hub seal rotates with respect to the outer part that is a press fit into the hub. If during the installation the thin sheet metal outer shell of the hub seal is distorted or somehow pinches the inner portion of the seal the rotation between the inner and outer portions of the seal is going to drag.
I have replaced 6 seals on my own coaches out of the 12 hub seals that the coaches had. Each coach had around 250,000 miles on them when I sold them and none of the six I replaced ever had to be replaced. The replacement seals had varying miles on them, some in excess of 100,000 miles.The hub seals I did not replace on those coaches were original. When I bought my first hub seal from a local supplier he told me he loved it when people did not put in hub seals correctly because he got to sell more hub seals. What he meant was do not dent or distort the outer metal ring, seat the seal in the hub so it is not tipped, and after fitting the seal to the hub, put your fingers in the center of the hub seal, spread them until they touch the inner hub seal, and make sure the inner portion rotates freely.
And then when re-installing the hub onto the coach keep it perfectly straight and never allow it to tip of cock sideways when seating it over the spindle or axle housing.
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I have started some correspondence with Prevost Car and Peter and Kim have been copied on it so if needed they can also add to my request for assistance.
A dragging brake on a coach can be an isolated incident and for every one reported there can be a variety of reasons. What makes this situation worth following is it appears there is no lack of proper maintenance, the probable part that was defective seems to be either relatively new or with few miles, and short of some means of monitoring brake disc temps there does not appear to be a viable way to do a pre-trip inspection that would reveal a dragging brake. Waiting until you see smoke or a tire fire from the heat just is not acceptable.
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Not sure which way the rocker switch should be but with our Marathon, when the key is turned on, the 12v pump is energized for use when going down the road. We also have a 12v pump switch inside to turn on 12v when say you are dry camping.
Maybe pressure switch on pump is shot?
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This is the 3rd brake problem in less than a month with caliper pins sticking and not releasing the brake.
Kim did a great job, did everything right and his TPMS saved the day. Smart Tire was a good system being clamped to the rim inside the tire, but they’re not available anymore.
Would Pressure Pro pick up the high temp, yes it would, but wouldn’t be near as accurate as Smart Tire since it’s closer to the heat source. Being as diligent as Kim and using the Pressure Pro Pulse, the problem wheel would have got noticed as the temp climbed for that wheel.
Even yours truly is going to upgrade to the Pressure Pro Pulse, these 3 brake problems make the cost of the system chump change compared to a potential fire, being towed or a breakdown that got worse because of a unknown tire failure or hung brake.
Contact me boys and girls for your Pressure Pro system.
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Chuck
When I owned my 2003 Liberty XLII single slide, had a similar issue and as John recommended, I exchanged the air/ electric Zip Dee with a manual awning. Best decision I made with ongoing awning issues. I have zip dee boxed now on this coach and they are ok but still not adverse to issues.
Good luck with your decision but the old adage, KIS – keep it simple!! May be best….
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I live in the Mohave desert on the AZ side tires are popping like ballons we are seeing paving temps in the 140 to 180 degree range at 4 pm,and the heat is taking it’s toll on batteries too !!!!!!
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I am pretty sure there is no such thing as a Royale with OTR.
With rare exception Liberty coaches will have OTR, some Marathon and Vantare will, but not a high percentage, and almost no OTR on Country Coach. It would be a hit and miss option on some other conversions.
If the lack of OTR is a deal breaker the number of coaches with it are going to be a small percentage of the marketplace.
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Dale,
C’bus will probably jump in here, they know all there is to know about the few Beaver conversions made.
Have you looked at the coaches here on our site? There’s a private sale for a 96 CC for 90K in CA.
Also quite a few low to mid 100’s by our various advertisers.
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If you do, and they are jacketed in red, they should be replaced with black to be compatible with r134a. Your vintage should be ok.