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Thanks for the heads up on KOA Yellowstone. We are headed there next week and had considered this site and clearly will steer clear. I encourage everyone to contribute to rvparkreviews.com as I believe it’s the best site currently available for reviews.

FWIW, I stayed in the KoA outside of Albany, OR because all other places were full due to a ballon festival. This KoA wasn’t too bad. I could easily get in an out, the staff was friendly, and they have a huge blackberry field available for anyone wanting to pick berries. The blackberry cobbler was awesome! The owners have owned the land for the last 97 years and they seem to care.

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Looks like recovering it locally is the way to go. Is there a write up on how to remove and replace the windshield?

Thanks, Gerald

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Tom is spot on,I just recently asked him for guidance and it works as evidenced by “Putting some new in the Old” post…thanx Tom..

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Aviation does that to folks. We go right up to the limit, but most of us are smart enough to know the minute we cross the line we go from “pilot” to “test pilot”.

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Gil,

Are you talking about the dash air compressor or CC’s version of OTR?

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I think straight through is best. If you decide to take the beltway, take the west side. The east side has all the I-10 traffic and the roads aren’t as good as the west side.

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If you’re doing that sort of thing, it might not hurt to check the bolts holding the front and rear of the alternator together…I believe there are 6. I broke one off and lost one on a 6 month old rebuilt 50DN when they vibrated out.

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DKO I bought my coach in Dec. and had to replace the 2 year old batteries in Jan. I

changed them by myself and it took about 2 hours.

In my case the batteries were not cared for by the previous owner. If they are drained

downed too far down too many times you can’t expect to get full life out of your batteries.

Maybe the first owner wasn’t properly informed as how to care for the house batteries.

Rick

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John (not Jon) does that Dish “Aux” antenna have auto programming? We have a small WInegaurd unit that sounds similar to what you have,but I have never had any luck in “tuning” it in, it being Manual and necessary to obtain the necy degree settings and then fine tune off the TV itself.

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The brake chamber size and type is all over the map and depends on the vintage coach, the weight and size, and the type of brakes.

My 97 for example had a #30, #3036 and a #1624, front to rear. My current heavier coach has smaller chambers at every position but the brakes are different, eliminating slack adjusters entirely and using a diferent geometry for brake application. The current coach is all disc, the previous coach was disc on the steer and tag, drum on the drive, my first coach was all drum.

Like yours my first coach had an emergency brake on the drive only (and it would not hold on my driveway) and the 97 and 06 have an emergency on drive and tag, both will hold anywhere on my driveway.

The effective braking force is a function of a lot of things. On our coaches engineers establish the brake chamber size based on the forces required to provide adequate braking to meet the standards but not lock up an axle prematurely. Lock up has been mitigated to an extent by the ABS. The guy who told you a 3030 would work needs to show you his engineering degree and job experience designing brake systems at Rockwell or Bendix. Any time you change something on our coaches, whether it is deviations from the allowable axle weight limits, brake chamber size, the length of the slack adjuster arm, etc. you are messing with a highly engineered system with all components sized based on allowable weights and the standards required for certification. I can assure you that the spring size in a 30 emergency brake chamber is going to be about 18% less than the one in a 36 chamber. While you may not care if your coach will hold on my driveway, if you have a system failure and you have to rely on your emergency spring brake to slow and stop your coach that 36 chamber is possibly going to be the difference between life and death.

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I don’t know which model year it was, but sometime in the nineties Prevost switched from a pair of 50 amp Vanner Equalizers to a single 100 amp equalizer. I don’t think anyone replacing a defective 50 amp unit can even get one so it is likely the fix will be a 100 amp to replace both.

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I would say that if 6 volts were the way to go the converters would have done that way. I have not heard of any Commerical Converters putting in 6 volts, but I am still learning.

Greg

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yes it was a oil sands bus. i am located 7 hours north of edmonton. any advise on how those luggage racks come down would be greatly appreciated. if you want you can e mail me and if you have any pics you would like to share of your renos i would like to see them. currently i am makeing my own furniture for in the bus.

thanks and i hope one day to be able to meet every one

petar

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I don’t believe the problem is as widespread as might be believed. I now own a coach that had that problem, had it corrected and I am so confident it is not a widespread problem, and that once repaired it is not going to reoccur that I bought the coach.

Only Prevost, on a coach by coach basis can determine the extent of the problem, the cost to repair and if the owner has to share or absorb the cost. Every service center can do the evluation and the decision as to responsibility lies with Prevost Canada and involves many factors.

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I found another interesting spot for an air leak….. not suspension, but brakes.

Turns out my parking brake actuator was leaking. I would notice tah on occasion, my brake air pressure would drop over the peroid of sveral days. Sometimes slightly, other time more substantially, never enough to fail the brake test so I kind of put that project in my “one-of-these-days” list.

So, as I’m preparing to head to Myrtle Beach, I found that under just the right conditions I could hear a distinctive air leak…. from that parking brake valve.

Luckily, on my bus, getting to the valve was pretty easy. Prevost had the part in stock, although I’m sure that it is probably an easy find at most truck parts stores.

Hunting down air leaks apparently never really ends completely…