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Jon said: “More often I was drifting a little left or right instead of being in the middle of my lane.”
All you need, Jon, is for Jeff to install the MobilEye system. It will notify you as you touch the lane marker and you can correct your position without even looking at the road… Allows you to keep concentrating on your expanded instrumentation.
Jeff and Lindsay
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I recently renewed my Good Sam for $149. I paid an extra 10 bucks because I wouldn’t sign up to let them automatically debit my account. I used them once for the bus and once for my car but never for towing.
From what I found out all the insurance companies use the same organizations for service. So I’m not sure if it makes much difference Good Sam vs FMCA?
Come on Jon, Good Sam has a smiley face on the card front.
Harry
Jeff and Lindsay
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I can’t advise you for your entire route to Zion, but if you travel down to Portland Oregon make your way to Highway 26 which travels east/west across Oregon. In my opinion it is one of the most scenic Highways in the USA. It is generally quiet and single lane for most of its length. I stayed in Redmond Oregon for the first leg and then onto Boise Idaho the second night.
PS I think I saw your coach last year at Prevost Richmond…getting the usual work.
Good luck on your travels.
Jeff and Lindsay
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Come on Glen, I went in for a bank loan the other day and they had to hold me off until they saw the size of your deposit?
Hey was that The New Green Deal?
Harry
Jeff and Lindsay
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Jon P,
Servicing the burner, cleaning the combustion chamber, cleaning the U-channels in the burn chamber, cleaning the flame sensor and replacing the nozzle cures a bunch of exhaust issues (smoking, smelling). A shop vac to suck up the loose soot is very helpful for a really neat and clean job. But not essential.
When installing the new nozzle, remember to tighten the nozzle, loosen the nozzle and re-tighten the nozzle. This insures the threads are seated.
When the filter to the burner is located below the top of the fuel tank, an open line can siphon fuel. So using hose pinch pliers up stream of the filter prevents this. Very little fuel will be spilled. But a rag or shop towel will be needed to catch a few drips.
The nozzle tower is backed up with a 3/4 inch open end wrench while the nozzle requires a 16 millimeter open end wrench. The preferred brand of nozzle is the brass colored Danfoss brand. Stainless steel colored Hago brand will work but experience with Webasto burners in the Aqua Hot heaters shows Danfoss works better for me.
There are many places to obtain Webasto parts. The owner of the Aqua Hot forum can answer Webasto questions with great authority. Roger Berke sells Aqua Hot and Webasto burner parts with a modest discount and no ground shipping on orders over $75. So a place that can supply and answer questions my be of interest to you. You will need to check with him for 80K BTU parts.
The address for the forum is fourm.rvhydronicheaterrepair.com
The address for parts is parts.rvhydronicheaterrepair.com
Hope this helps. All the best.
Jeff and Lindsay
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She is the light indeed Harry! I sent you an email.
Jeff and Lindsay
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Yes and Yes. They have NO knowledge about how a DDECI works and they have no hardware to test it. They just fired it up using the DD specs and hoped for the best.
Jeff and Lindsay
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I would love to discuss DDEC I
Have a 1987 8v92 with DDEC I and so far so good. I have the Pro-Link scanner for it.
Start the thread and tell us what the deal is and I’ll chime in with basically nothing. LOL I have had no real issues with DDEC I yet but have countless questions.
(First Time posting here, celebrating not lurking!)
Elliot
1987 XL40 8V92 DDEC I, OTR AC, Long Range Fuel Tanks
Jeff and Lindsay
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thank you Davie . was quested 15k today for the 20k receiver . Seems I will be selling our trailer, and just carry less stuff ( junk )
Jeff and Lindsay
91 Marathon XL -
You’ll notice in the pic that there are only three coaches left at the event. The rest of heard that Tom bought a Harley and made sure we were on the road at 5 AM Sunday.
Jeff and Lindsay
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It looks like your temp rheostat is going out. They do not last forever. On your model this should be a stand alone rheostat (vs an integrated circuit board). Should be able to get it from Prevost. I’d try to repair the original design vs. doing a “hack”.
If you can get to the rheostat, disconnect wire on one side and measure resistance as you turn the rheostat. It should respond smoothly.
Jeff and Lindsay
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Thanks for all the advice
Jeff and Lindsay
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Unless you intend to bring everything up to temperature, including the transmission, differential, etc. you are far better off to leave it asleep.
It takes a lot of heat to bring the mass of cast iron and steel in our coaches up to temperature so the suggestion above about 50 miles is valid. Failure to get everything to operating temperature tends to create condensation which is definitely no good for any of the drive line components. The same applies to the generator, and how long that should be run depends on how heavy you load it, thus creating heat.
Jeff and Lindsay
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Hey Glen, “If she blows, she blows.” now that’s positive. I’ve thought of many things when starting/driving the bus. But I must admit “If she blows, she blows.” has thankfully not been one of them!
Now Jeff, that’s the idea!
Harry
Jeff and Lindsay
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As Dan said you should monitor your batteries when parked. I installed an on board 24v smart charger, Does your coach not have a 24v charger? What coach do you have? My 97 Royale came with a 24v charger that was old and old school, sitting for a while working on it the battery’s would get low enough not to start coach, so I removed the old bread box charger and installed a new 24v smart charger, now about every month or two I switch on charger and it’s will read 15 amps for a short time then after a while it drops down towards 0 and it’s at full charge. The old charger would only charge at 24v even when it was new, newer smart 24v chargers will charge up around 28v for a while then drop down, just like your inverter does.
Jeff and Lindsay
91 Marathon XL