Greg
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Nice job Tom , some people may have not seen that!!!!
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Thanks to everyone for your well wishes. We are quite excited. We head south tomorrow morning and can’t wait to get out of this snow. Ended up with about 7″ altogerther.I think snow is something you should have to travel to see, not something that comes to you. We will be in Sarasota, FL for January, February and part of March. Maybe we will run into some of you down there.
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Jerry, I am not surprised at that cost. The radiator can be recored and that might bring it down. You likely have a shop that can recore it that services the local trucking or bus companies.
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Sid at our age 3 years is a long time.
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I could be wrong but what I understand is the that the two ends of the tow bar should be withing 3 inches of each other is not to keep the toad from dragging. It’s to prevent the toad when stopping from forcing the coaches front or rear wheels from being unloaded and reducing stopping power of the coach. With the weight of our coaches you would have to have a very large toad to put any kind of lift to the front or rear axles. I think if you had a light weight coach or a car pulling a trailer this could be a big issue.
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“My coach has a 20,000 pound towing limit and 1500 pound tongue weight limit.”
What was done to get the increase? Who did it?
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Won’t your customers tell you when the generator quits? Won’t they call you if the A/C goes out? Aren’t you going to have house batteries separate from the bus batteries? Are you going to have the large Delco 50DN alternator to charge the house batteries … just fire up the bus and you have tons of electricity?
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Rick,
I would (in fact, I did) go with a 10,000 lb tow bar. You’re bumping up pretty close to the limit on yours, leaving very little margin of safety.
Personally, I didn’t like being greater than 75% or so of rated capacity to allow for any fatigue that may occur during the life of the tow bar.
Also, we have the Air Force One installed on the Hummer and I’m very happy with the performance.
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Rick,
Put the Suburu on our Flea Market.
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Jon,
Doing a search for Bus Grease Monkey results in many sites that don’t have anything to do with coaches. Do you have the specific link we might use to get to the site? Please, pretty please!
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I really like our Kinetico in the bus as it gives us the same soft water in the coach at all times with no consideration for the external water source. Until we recently installed a softener here in the house I used to tell Elsie I am going to shower in the coach as it just feels so much better!
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We have also stayed at Blazing Star.
We found the interior roads to be narrow and they were bordered by large rocks.
Once was enough for us.
San Antonio really doesn’t have an upscale, Big Rig friendly park.
Give Buckhorn a call….you’ll be glad you did.
P.S. Pam Tillis is performing at Buckhorn’s theatre on Dec. 21.
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A 190 to 220 amp hour iron phosphate 24 volt battery is the equivalent performance of 2 8D batteries with a listed 255 amp hours.
What makes the seemingly lower capacity an equal is a conventional battery starts off at its fully charged voltage and then drops off, so as the volts fall, and the load in watts remains a constant the amps are actually increasing so the draw in amps at the end of the charge cycle is higher than at the beginning. On a lithium battery the voltage delivered is a constant right up until it shuts down.
So any 24 volt lithium ion battery in that 190 to 220 amp hour size range is roughly equivalent or greater in performance to an 8D conventional battery. Each battery is capable of replacing 2 12 volt 8D batteries and the battery will have a weight of 125 pounds compared to 2 at 168 pounds for a weight saving of 211 pounds. If you have 8 8D batteries your coach would be 844 pounds lighter. I have no clue how that weight data was developed because I am citing data from the battery specification sheets.
In a previous post you made and that of Gil you guys were all over the risk of lithium batteries. I, like both of you, would not be prone to accept risk on my coach. The reward is just not great enough to accept any risk. But while I strongly believe there will come a time in the near future when converters are all using lithium batteries for those of us with conventional batteries that time is unlikely to be now. But lithium batteries are clearly are where we are headed.
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I have used the CR Spotless system for about 2.5 years and love it. Just wash it and let it dry even in the hot sun. No spots on paint, stainless or windows. I use just a regular hose pipe to wash the coach.
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What the pressure needs to be was going to be my next question.
I need to figure out how to measure it. Theres no schrader valve to check it that I can see. I might have to tee into the line to check and set the pressure again.
I know on my Bluebird, the tag axle pressure was set to 75 psi