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My experience with West Austrailia is interesting indeed! I remember renting a car in Perth and heading towards Feeemantle (America’s Cup way back when), missed Fremantle, next thing I knew I went through a time warp. Suffice to say it get’s rural fast.
Brett you need to explain Roo Bars, most here in the US have never heard of those things. Also what kind of bus do you have…Bedford? I remember seeing Peterworth’s and Kenbilts there but, surprise surprise, they were all equipped with right hand drive. A big “glob” of Skylab was located in an Opal Sellers back room in mid town Perth; heck, it looked like a buoy to me, but the owner claimed it was the real deal. Never forget seeing a million and one sheep being loaded on a freighter (boat), bound for Saudi Arabia. Your lucky, a beautiful and peaceful place to be! Still do not understand why your grapes are pruned so close to the ground, but that’s another story. BTW some very fine wines come from West Australia…you all should try them…… I still think it best to stay out of the water, all manner of evil things lurk in the Indian Ocean…………….
I was tasked with checking out the Malaysian Pilots on the new airplane, because I was the resident “supervisor”, I always tried to fly Australia however I did get stuck a time or two with Madras (Chennai), Tokyo or the worst, Karachi. Perth is still my favorite although I did like Melborne and Sydney as well! And yes, you are correct, McDonnel Douglas, the first “electric jet”.
Best,
John
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Now Tom, you know that you do not refridgerate mason jars, Joking it is behind the coach beside the john, You got a new coach congrats tell me about it, did you finally get tired of those awnings? While I am here Let
me give everyone an update on the d### door, The problem as I watched him do the repair was the controller was loose on the wall and every time the door came up it moved just a little bit, just enough to keep it out of order. works good now but he is quoting me one with a hand crank for when the power is out in the barn. Thinking about putting an exhaust outlet thru the wall for the generator would be about 6 feet of flex tubing over the gen exhaust to the wall would this be to long for the engine to exhaust, I could power the barn up during long power outages. Gary
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Gary,
Unless your garage door uses a different type of limiting travel the adjustment once set is unlikely to change unless something in the drive system is slipping. My adjusters ride on a threaded shaft that rotates as the door travels. The adjusters in essence “travel” across the shaft and at each end hit a limit switch. I have had both an end drive which rotates the shaft across the top of the door opening, and to which the counterbalance (spring) cables are attached and the ceiling mounted drive that pulls what looks like a bicycle chain to pull the door or push the door open and closed. Each uses the same adjusters and none have gone out of adjustment.
Regardless of which you have there should be an emergency release that allows you to manually raise and lower the door. It will either be a cord on the case in the end drive model, or it will be on the “trolley” on ceiling mounted models.
If you get wild and crazy you can play with the adjusters yourself after watching how they hit the limit switches at each end to understand which way they need to go. But if they were set correctly it would be my guess something in the drive system is slipping. Sounds like your garage door service company is as competent as mine.
If you have 1″ clearance what is the problem. I have less than 1/2″ clearance every single time I back in or pull out and to get that clearance my front has to be all the way up, and the rear all the way down. You’ve seen my driveway and due to the crown I cannot get a thickness of a piece of paper between the garage floor and my holding tank dump valve as it crosses the threshold into the garage. Where is your sense of adventure.
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Glen,
If you took it in to cure the leans, and their “fix” was to replace ride height valves insist on getting your money back.
The ride height valves have nothing to do with the leans. Even if a ride height valve is puking air by the bushel, as soon as you turn off the key it is in essence taken out of the system.
If you have the leans look at the five port Norgren valve or any of the associated air bags as likely sources of the problem. It could also be a three port Norgren depending on which part of the bus is leaning, or any of the fittings within the system that is leaning. That’s it. Nothing else.
The problem in curing the problem is finding the leak because the leak can “hide”.
Before you return to arm wrestle with the folks that you want to fix the problem, study the articles relating to the air system and especially any that relate to the suspension on this site. Hector’s tutorial is excellent. Once you understand the fundamentals of the suspension(s) you will be in an excellent position when it comes to directing the repairs to your coach.
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I have National Interstate and they always ask if I have a CDL and defensive driving courses. They must count for something with them. I do have both, so I don’t know what the upcharge would be for a lack of them. I have not yet hit the magic 60, so I have not gotten any age related increases, yet…
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When you shut off your engine I am not aware of any air escaping from the chassis systems or any systems installed by a converter.
If you lose air when the key is off you have a leak and something that needs to be repaired. Specifically your coach should hold primary and secondary air system pressure for a long time. I’m talking months. Those are your brake systems and with the parking brake engaged and your foot off the service brake all brake system air is locked into the air tanks at the relay valves and there is no air pressure at the brake chambers.
The auxiliary air system is another story. It is complex with a lot of fittings and valves and devices so it is likely to leak unless you have the time and patience to make it leak free. Anyone here on these forums would be happy if their aux system was so tight it retained pressure for a day.
The suspension system is shut off when the key is off meaning air is locked in it. Unless it has leaks the bus will not drop or lean for days or weeks or months. Even if all air is exhausted from the other air systems the suspension should keep the bus up because when the key is off the valves to the suspension are closed.
If you hear air escape when you shut the bus down, unless it indicates the purge cycle from the air dryer, there is sonething wrong and it should be corrected.
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How cool is Jon’s coach? We had a meeting in Indy in Jon’s coach, it was a pleasent 96 outside and you could hang swinging beef inside. He was only running 2 cruiseairs, Di had on a snowmobile suit and Jon boy was in a PC T-shirt and speedo’s. The meeting went well, for me covered in a nice Liberty quilt and when it was time to leave, I opened the door and my glasses went straight to IFR conditions.
The later Liberty’s must have the Binford 3000 turbo cruiseair upgrades.
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I have Country Coach OTR air and Prevost dash air and have never been uncomfortably warm, even in FL. CC OTR air doesn’t take up a storage bay like Prevost’s. Yes, Prevost OTR air has more BTUs of cooling, as it should. Prevost OTR air is meant to cool a coach with full windows and 55 passengers radiating 98.6 degrees.
I wouldn’t be too concerned about buying a coach converted by a company that’s now out of business. Most of the conversion is done with brand name products. You are looking at a 15 year old coach, even those still in business may have limited support for anything they did unique. Although I hope it doesn’t happen any remaining converter may close their doors tomorrow.
I would focus on how well the coach appears to have been maintained and how servicable the converter planned the conversion. I’ve seen house batteries installed in such a way that it’s almost impossible to service them.
I really like what Country Coach did on my 99.
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I do plan on keeping this coach for a while and am looking at replacing as much as possible while at it. What I am working on now is a detailed list of what I need to order from Prevost. I did list the shocks and Norgren valves but had not considered the leveling valves but that is a good idea as well. I will also replace the air lines and fittings to the air bags and valves as well.
Thanks again for all the help I get here!!!
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The last production run was a bit of a hassle so the company will not be producing any more. They were specifically made to support the Prevost chassis. They were produced in heights specific to the type coach they would support, such as an early XL, an XLII or an H3, all of which had different heights front and rear from the floor to the underside of the chassis support points.
The heights were established based on the coach being raised using the level low system to their highest point, minus about 1/2 inch.
The base was 3/16 steel 8″ square. Centered in the base was 4″ square tubing cut to the desired height minus 3/8″. The tubing had 3/16 wall thickness. The top plate was 3/16 thick steel, 4″ square. Gussets ran down the sides of the tubing to the corners of the base plate to stiffen it.
As long as the materials are heavy enough they can be made from any sizes or shapes of scrap ranging from schedule 40 pipe to any plates suitable to spread the load beneath the support. When my bus is in the garage over the pit it is raised up and stands are beneath it so there is no fear if I choose to get in the pit and work on it that it will drop.
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Here’s what the XL rear looks like Joe when you get the wheels off.
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you didnt mention your weight 🙂
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Just to add to this, many moons ago I was heading from FL to NY state. After about an hour I noticed one of my air pressure gauges was cycling up and down. It was raining and I had air wipers on the bus so I attributed the cycling to the fact wipers were using air. But when I turned off the wipers the cycling continued. I ignored the clue that was staring me in the face.
When we hit Charlotte rush hour traffic and I was at idle speeds and using the brakes I noticed real quick the compressor was no longer keeping up with the air loss and I was fortunate to be able to get off the highway to a wide safe spot. What started out as a small leak causing my pressure loss and constant cycling of the air compressor was a failed diaphragm in the drive axle emergency brake chamber. and the small leak took a few hundred miles to turn into an unmanageable leak that shut me down. Just as I got off the highway into the safe spot the red light and buzzer showed me how important they were. Just as I got almost stopped my emergency brake popped on because the pressure had dropped that low.
My point is even if everything checks out and we get underway, our gauges will help us learn of issues if we choose to pay attention. I have carried that lesson for a long time and I should have known better.
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Yes. The compressor is a Carrier six cylinder compressor and the output of the least efficient Prevost OTR heat and AC system is about the same output as that of six roof or Cruise Air units.
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We have 2 Doberman puppies that are 3.5 Mos old. And Dobermans chew on everything for several Months ! They are very Smart , Lovable and Loyal Dogs . Once they get past the chewing stage , They might be allowed in the Coach ?