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G-Man,
13.3 & 26.1 is equal to float voltage. Maybe someone has cut back the charging voltage on your Trace’s. You have a lot going on, the best bet would be to try to fix the gen leak so you can get your house back, but with the gen running now and showing bulk, you should be seeing about 14.4 – 28.8. That’s why I think your inverter charge settings have been adjusted way down, they could be at 7.5 each when they need to be at 30 or at least 15 for full tilt charging assuming your other electrical loads are not too high.
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Call the CC folks in Oregon, they most likely have folks there that use to do the buses.
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Bill, I was told to do what Jon said. Use it when you need it. Have the same year coach and don’t do a whole lot of work on mine myself but have experienced a lot of goodies going wrong with a older coach that has set up for 7 or 8 years and not started when I bought over 3 years ago.
Any air issues? If not, wait.
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OK, got it now.. I’m not a fan of brackets being mounted under the lug nuts or the oil hub cover. I just received all new baby moons, top hats and stainless nut covers from Real Wheel that mount without disturbing the lug nuts or hub cover.
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Gil,
Detroit
uses a test to see if the compressor is passing along too much oil to
its outlet. Disconnect the compressor outlet line. Bleed the air system to less than 60psi with successive
applications of the brake pedal. Take a file card and draw a 2″ circle
on it. Hold the card 1″ away from the compressors outlet and run the
warmed-up engine at 1800 rpm’s for 60 seconds. If there’s an oil spritz
pattern on the file card in excess of the 2″ circle then the compressor
is worn and should be replacedBob,
Max for crankcase pressure is 5 inches of water, which is 0.18 psi, positive pressure.
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It’s this hodge-podge of laws that is of most concern to me. And the nuances are impossible.
My current route has us avoiding NJ (I think) and DC, but we are still going through NY and are stopping in Mass.
Not that I want to be the test case, but there is also the argument that the bus is our home and not merely transportation…..
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Bluebirds came standard with the same setup.
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We have dealt with Brandon Blythe at Legacy Coach and he is a really
good guy. He deals only in top quality coaches. He sold our coach for us in the past. We liked
dealing with him so much that when it came time to buy our latest coach we also
bought from him. Your friend should have no trouble contacting Brandon. -
Les has made a good point and all owners should be aware that while certain vehicles are towable not all braking systems can be used with them.
M&G and Air Force One are two good systems but neither will work well or at all with heavier vehicles whose power brake assist comes from the power steering pump as opposed to a vacuum brake booster.
Heavier vehicles need supplemental braking. My H2 Hummer is 6700 pounds. My Ram 2500 is 7600 pounds. Both use hydraulic brake boosting. I am not selling Brakemaster, but I know of no other brake assist that can apply the braking force necessary to help slow that much added weight behind the bus. Air Force One claims their’s will work but the reality is their small air operated cylinder is likely to apply far less braking force than the larger air cylinder in the Brakemaster.
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Picked up and droped on the drivers side by a tornado every surface on the bus was blasted by the force of the wind.
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Paul, don’t know what your needs (other than you don’t want or need slides), wants or wishes are, but the Vantare has Prevo OTR whereas the Marathon won’t. Randy and the guys at Pantera are honest and straight up folks. We will be at Pantera 3rd wk of May if you want us to take a close look. Also, Parliament has a non-slide Vantare that I can get the straight scoop on. George 941 779 5018
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Buddy, I and our fellow pre Crestron Country Coach owners love the fact that we rarely need replacement parts.
Feeling sympathy for those that seem to always be working on their bus, I broke down and replaced a couple Sunmulon switch LEDs the other day.
Sure, there’s the occassional loose hose or maybe a failed sensor, but really this old 99 with over 100K miles on it has been far more reliable than our 08 plastic coach with less than 20K miles. We drove from Florida to Alaska and spent the better part of a year on the road. We upgrades our PC glass dash to the SilverLeaf dash, had an irratic TPS, lost a fan belt, had one leaking hose clamp in a tough place to find, had a very minor drip from one of the Webasto pumps, and replaced the front shocks (because we wanted to). That doesn’t seem too bad to me. Never were we stranded by any of these.
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What Jon said Willy. After have spending several K with Prevost and mine’s got better but still leans after several days, gonna start to check things myself. The only one that will do the best thing for your coach is you. I’ve been thinking the next time I have air problems, gonna do a different paint job and call it a Lowrider! Chech and Chong style. Seriously, the info on the site, Thanks to many, will at least be able to identify and talked to folks that are working on your coach.
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Barry and Mary,
Auxiliary what? What do you mean?
Do you mean the auxiliary air compressor only runs when the generator runs, or do you mean something else?
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sorry error…only will work when generator is runng now…we use to just turn on and worked…this runs trash comparator dish washer..some air.and more.