Greg
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Forgot to mention my iPad 2 responds very quickly on here… Not at all sluggish. Software version 5.1. Lightning fast actually.
Sent from my iPad 2
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JIM
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Jon will call when I get home next week and we will figure out my short dommings. Bob
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Well since everyone is broke like our government, I have come up with a plan. Some of us can remember the old mule and the single row plow, well that old mule wore blinders for a reason, to keep him focused at the task at hand! Yes Blinders by Carmine, I think they will sell so good I might have to be a sponser on this site. Here is how it works, Any time you are in or near your coach you must wear them this way you are unaware of that new coach beside you or that lot near the water, think of the money you will save! And now for the good news, buy one now and get the next one free, yes start saving now and your grandkids will love you for it! please send 50 dollars to Blinders prosperity program, 007 happy days are here again Street Climax N.C.
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Peter, If you look at Rodger’s post he said it best. Over the years the number of times we had to go into conservation mode can be counted on the number of fingers on one hand with a couple of them blown off. But we opted this last trip to do so although we did have water available and a honey wagon came through regularly. The problem was the honey wagon did not have the more upscale Thetford fittings, but had the rather plebian Valterra fittings found on less expensive coaches.
Anyway we dealt with our hardship of not having an available sewer quite well and lived to tell about it. You are absolutely correct in your observation that having gray and black tanks has a benefit. As long as normal usage does not cause one side or the other to overlfow before the coach’s water supply runs out.
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Sounds like an impressive product!
So where do I order a bottle??
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I cannot remember exactly if my 87 was this way, but my 97 is. In the front electrical box under the driver window to the right is a vertical row of posts. Those posts are both key on and key off 12 and 24 volt.
In the rear electrical box at the bottom towards the right should be some large posts. They will be 12 and 24 volt and a ground. There are also key on and key off positions on the bus bar (I think to the right on the rear wall of the box and they might be at the circuit breakers.) I am saying this without going to my bus and verifying it, but the power for the chassis is there, but it might not be exactly as I describe. A few minutes with a volt meter will confirm what I described.
For the house you should either have 2 alternators, with one being for the chassis and other the house, or one large 24 volt alternator and an isolator. Either way from those sources whould be your house electric. I have a 24 volt house so my house power originates at the isolator, and like the chassis I also have some 12 volt house devices so my house batteries are wired in parallel and series and use an equalizer like the bus. My house electric comes from a large panel with disconnects and CBs next to the house batteries and it feeds bus bars in an electrical compartment in my #2 drivers side bay.
How you set up your house batteries, disconnects and distrubution may determine if or where you pull power for house devices.
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Jon
Mind sharing where the 12 volt chassis spots would be on a 91 XL40. Electrical is not my strong suit but I can get by most of the time.
Rob
91 Xl40
Missouri
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Greg, I heard your described sound, in the shop, after I changed all my brake chambers and hoses. To perform the task all air was remved from the systems. This air down condition was for a period of about one week. After completion of the task, the system was aired up through the rear fill valve with shop air. This filling took up some time until the entire system was filled and what I will call in balance. There were many moans and groans and fog horn sounds until the air reached all components, tanks and check valves and was in balance. I can not definitavely point to any one thing that made the sound, it was scarry and disconserting at first, for I thought I had done something wrong. Not to worry though after a couple days of sitting there on the stands connected to shop air everything stabalized and has been quiet since. I even bought a new brake tredel valve as that had air pouring out of it which is an indication of failure. Did not end up using the valve as it too stabalized and since has shown no signs of leakage.
I think the majority of sounds come from check valves in the system between tanks and components.
JIM
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In your Prevost owners manual or the shop manual support points are shown. Start here………..
http://prevostparts.volvo.com/technicalpublications/en/manuel.asp
I suspect, but you need to verify that in the front yours are just ahead of the wheel well where a crossmember joins with a structural member that points forward. On mine I support the coach on the crossmember just aft of where the forward pointing member joins it.
On the rear of my coach I have a 2″ (approximately) square tube that is bolted just aft of the tag axle that goes crosswise beneath the tail of the transmission. I support the rear at the outside ends of the crossmember.
These are my front support points
And the rear support points. Yours may vary so verify, verify, verify.
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Well, this is my third and final attempt to post time and date of a training session. Not being one that likes to admit defeat, it appears that the data entry process for the forum is getting the best of me.
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Date of session:
February 8, 2012, Wednesday, 7:00 pm, CST (Central Standard Time)
This is planned to be an informal session.
If the time and date does not appear properly in this post, please feel free to send me a message asking for the same.
Sorry for all the duplicate posts
The end.
Hector
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Nope no relation,sometimes I get his bills from the same suppliers that we both use.
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Used to carry a spare. Never used it and since I stopped carrying one I had one tire replaced as a precaution as a result of a sidewall cut. That replacement was while we were in an RV park. We started carrying a spare after our first year of ownership during which I replaced a tire also as a precaution. In both cases I could not get a 120 (the original replacement) or a 315 (the second replacement) and in both cases the odd size tire was put on the tag.
The original coach had 120 tires all around, and all were mounted on aluminum wheels. Now some coaches carry two different size tires and some inner drive wheels are steel so there now becomes less chance of having the spare mounted, and in the case of coaches with multiple size tires, what size should be carried?
I realize we are at risk without one, but it is a compromise like everything else on motorhomes. I would rather have the bay space. Not having a spare sharpens your attention to the condition and pressure in your tires.
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Darrell call the company and talk to them. I tow an Excursion and the attach brackets are located where the front tow hooks where. The brackets bolt into the holes of the tow hooks. I then put some Clevis D rings in the tow brackets to act the same as the old hooks. I use the “D” rings to attach the safety chains. The brackets are two pieces. one for each side so it doesn’t matter what is inbetween them.
Question for the forum are these safety chains the same as “drag chains” that you see post on highway signs?
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I belong to Nicks cadre of Patients and I can readily attest to the fact he is good stuff. Very knowledgeable on what he does. Willing to do what it takes to do the job right. Skilled and always available. Can I say more? I like him and he is a very reasonable person.