Harry
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And ironically a dirty filter traps more foreign material than a new one, right up to the point where oil bypasses the filter.
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Linda,
I think that the top photo is about the time the band was playing Roger Miller’s King of The Road and Jon started to sing along at “Ain’t got no Cigarettes” and Di was telling him to shut the heck up.
Enjoyed the time, great memories.
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We had the same problems. Our foam was turning to dust. My big fear was the dust getting into the windings and trashing our gen.
bought soundown and replaced the failing panels
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Nice updates
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On my SMX panels, if you push the heat AND cool buttons in at the same time, the unit decides which one is needed to maintain the set point temps.
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Google earth clearly shows the row of power outlets along the fence on the west side of the facility.
Go to the satellite view and keep enlarging until Google shows it from the street view. Unless you have a dinky little phone and it won’t show what is obvious on a real computer display.
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There were a couple of converters who had product that did not sell. Vantare and Parliament are two that come to mind. As manufacturers they were allowed to assign the model year so they had conversions with titles as much as 3 or 4 years older than the Prevost chassis year.
I remember looking at one in Kerrville at a rally that had a chassis and engine build date four years old and the coach was never titled and was being sold as new with the current year on the title.
Most coach titles are usually one year newer than the chassis.
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Liberty Harbor closing, that’s not good news. We were expecting to use it when we visiting our NYC and NJ friend this spring. I suspect that the land became more valuable for “something else” vs a RV park.
We lived in Manhattan from 2002 to 2005. One Sat or Sun we took our bikes to the end of the subway, rode them to Floyd Bennett Field, can’t remember if rode the bikes back to Manhattan or if took the subway/train back. What a huge amount of open space. As I recall in one of the hangers there is a group restoring an old military plane, there were one or two P&W R-4360 Corncobs sitting next to the hanger. No reason why the place wouldn’t support more than nine RV spots and why at least 50amp wouldn’t make sense … unless the governing body doesn’t want anyone to use the facility.
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Harry
Good question about our shift in years of buses
The 2002 Marathon XL II single slide was nice. Several things. Marathon 740 had panel delay before it was in vogue. Prevost Mira Loma kept gluing us back together
That coach slide room left us hanging several times, including once in Yellowstone
it also had one of the swing down TVs. Never again. Locked up twice requiring two trips back to Marathon (Dallas once and Coburg)
dropping from 2002 to a200 H3-45, simple no stainless delam yet kept most of the technological goodies the XLII had that came on an earlier H3-45, dual pane windows, disc brakes etc
Going from 2000 H to 1992. Well, a prevost is a prevost regardless of year. And there are fewer 40’s for sale. And the Beaver bus was a nice coach
The current Marathon coach checked all of our boxes, otherwise we wouldn’t have sold Beaver 34. When you buy used, getting more than one of your boxes checked is a feat
And we aren’t flipping buses to “make” money. It’s a loosing cause. If we had a do over, we would have a 1998 Country Coach XL 40 with a single Rogue Coach slide technology we saw in 2000 when we were consummating the deal on our2000 Affinity. We still talk about that bus today, and have never seen it again. And we would have been money ahead. We have learned you only need one prevost in your lifetime. Trouble is finding it, and we found that one years ago and didn’t act
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It certainly is a learning process isn’t Charles. Whether trying to figure out when the Cruise-Airs stop heating or where the GFIs are … we unravel one mystery after another.
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Thanks Jon, that was most informative. It warrants being made an “article” imho.
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If I’m in a campground that won’t allow washing and explain I’m using my own water with my DI system, I have never been turned down. I hook my DI system to the Marathon external hose hook up using the pump. One place said they would send the manager by, he looked at my setup and said no problem. We probably use a lot more water running the washer than it takes to wash the bus with very low flow DI coming out of a 1/4 inch line.
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Awesome Mark ! Hope 2B outta here soon to shovel with you. Happy travels.
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Yes Happy New Year to All of You 🙂
Thanks again Fred and Helen for the buddy plug at Evansville. in case you missed the thank you in the Christmas post.
Truk4 U you missed the Western Canadian Rally May 19 to 21 2018 on list.
Tom I wouldn’t want to think the distance would be too far for a Prevost 🙂
Just a SOB owner
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I’m having trouble understanding why a resistive load like heaters that have current draw well below an inverter rating would be an issue compared to loads such as the start-up current draw of an A/C unit that many owners subject their inverters to.
Unlike the initial current draw of an A/C unit, a water pump or aux compressor resistive loads are quite easy to handle because they never slam the inverter with a huge current draw.