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I have no issues with my Imac.
Jeff and Lindsay
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This is an ongoing problem and has been getting worse. If you use Chrome we have the fewest issues, but the Apple folks can be specific as to how they avoid issues with their browsers and devices.
Jeff and Lindsay
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If the coolant that was new was OAT (organic acid technology) it is a 6 year coolant instead of 2 and the cartridges will contaminate it and make it a 2 year coolant. But if it is a conventional coolant it needs SCAs and typically you run it about six months because it is already precharged with SCA (supplemental coolant additives) and then replace the old cartidges or if they are new just open the valves.
Jeff and Lindsay
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In response to Dick above:
My dump and fill switches are in the plumbing bay. These are just piggy back switches. The dump switch reads the position of the valve and will indicate if it is open or closed using a magnetic switch. The piggy back controls are going behind a panel in the coach were the rear slide controls are so there is no reason for anyone to be in there unless they are performing a spicific tast. If my GF decides so wants to push the button in the coach while I’m connecting the sewer, I probably deserved it. 🙂
I will rarely use from indise the coach but it is nice to have.
As pointed out, I have been connected and had some nasty weather role in and it is not fun going out into a cold rainy mud pit to dump and fill in the middle of the night. Better planning would prevent that BUT sometimes life doesn’t work that way.
Speaking of which, sometime I need to figure out why I can’t get this site to work correctly on my Mac using Safari or Firefox. No matter what I do, I can’t get a signature file (even text) to stick and notifications to work. I’m no fool when it comes to forums so file sizes are correct and the proper boxes are checked.
Jeff and Lindsay
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Jon with a DVD…be lucky if it was Video Cassette and then probably Betamax. Geo.
Jeff and Lindsay
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Jon. You really did miss the boat on what could have been a brilliant political career. You sure know how to state your point and still keep yourself out of trouble. But, to your statement “when we need it” did you mean when we need the macerator or the quiet time?Im sorry to have to hold your feet to the fire.
Jeff and Lindsay
91 Marathon XL -
Looks Great Rusty, very clever idea. Would not have though of using boat hatches! What brand basement air unit are you using? Thinking about a redo on mine.
Jeff and Lindsay
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Thanks for the rapid responses. Since I’m in middle TN it seems to make a lot of sense to go the more direct route of I-65 to 231 to I-10. Any input on this route is welcomed!
While I drove through Atlanta en route to Nashville from Florida, I hit it at good time with no delays. However, just a day before the interstate collapse, the Southbound traffic was backed up. Yeah, it’s Atlanta!
If I didn’t need to be at Prevost on Monday morning, I would have taken Jon’s suggestion and headed through the Smokies. But for this rookie, that would be a great three leg trip as it’s a lot of steep miles in a day. I will say that going through Monteagle with the Aware system on was a positive experience. After all, in the Flxible without cruise, I never get the chance to stretch my right leg!
Jeff and Lindsay
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It is not how much you can negotiate off a purchase price, but what you as an educated buyer deem a coach to be worth.
If I get a coach that checks all my boxes and it is in the condition I require my greatest concern is not to beat up the seller but to be willing to pay a fair price for a coach I want. Some coaches will not be of interest to you if they are free. Others (once you get to know the market) may be so underpriced you will be better off paying the asking price so someone doesn’t slip in and buy it out from under you.
As your focus is narrowed you will very quickly learn what you should spend for a given coach and in some cases you have to negotiate to get the price down but the amount a seller might come down is all over the map.
Jeff and Lindsay
91 Marathon XL -
HJ,
The service manual available from the Prevost Car web site will get you all the chassis information, but you still need to know the specific coach because in the vintages you consider you could have a solid axle or IFS and that affects turning radius. The age of the coach can affect axle weight ratings. Some converters use standard fuel others get the optional long range. Just be aware as you look at coaches you need to know serial numbers to learn some information, or at the very least how the converter specced out the shell.
Other information beyond the chassis is strictly converter information and you have to go to them for things like holding tank capacities.
Don’t suffer paralysis by analysis. You will drive yourself nuts. All share the Prevost chassis, and all converters made a great product.
Jeff and Lindsay
91 Marathon XL -
Very soory. I thought I was including a link but apparently I didn’t manipulate the computer correctly.
https://www.griotsgarage.com/product/digital+tire+inflating+gun.do
I hope this helps.
Jeff and Lindsay
91 Marathon XL -
Jeff,
That opens up a line of questions………first, we know the EGR burns more fuel because when it goes into EGR mode the fuel flow is increased along with turbo boost to compensate for loss of power that will occur when the engine is trying to run on exhaust fumes. Does this module “delete” the EGR? By deleting I mean does it disable it so that is not inhibiting performance and eating up mileage.
I understand that there are many ways to “tune” a diesel, and any one change such as increased fuel flow forces additional changes such as timing. Those changes then increase the heat of combustion (which is why the EGR is there in the first place) and in turn that increased heat brings about the need for another timing change. Where I am going with this is some performance boosters come at the expense of engine longevity. Some can be very damaging because they increase internal cylinder pressure which is typically an increase in power if done right, or detrimental if done wrong. Some clues are the EGT but we no longer have pyrometers on our engines to measure exhaust gas temps.
Our mutual friend turned up my fuel flow, changed the timing and the result was an increase in power such that at normal driving my downshifts were significantly reduced. I failed to get some baseline data because I did not know the changes were going to be made the day they were done, but I know I am burning clean, saving fuel, and can top Jellico mountain southbound at the speed limit towing the Hummer which I could not do previously.
Jeff and Lindsay
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I am getting more data that I can post, however this is the real deal…I started looking after I was not happy with the ugly fix and what it was and was not doing….This is available for all engines, ordering one for my dodge as a daily driver and driving 45 minutes each way daily I can see what I am getting consistantly also….
Jeff and Lindsay
91 Marathon XL -
Bob nailed it about picking up pieces.
I watched a TV show about the building of a “luxury” motor home. I think it was a Newmar King Aire but it was typical of almost all RV construction.
The chassis was essentially a flat top platform. Beneath the flat deck which was to become the floor of the RV was the fame rails and mounted on them was the engine and transmission in the rear and the front and rear axle structures. The bays would be hung under the platform and the house would be above.
What blew my mind and made me understand why a conventional RV gets scattered all over the place in an accident is the walls of the RV were just bolted or screwed to the platform decking. In our Prevost coaches we sit enclosed in a welded cage type structure which is not going anywhere, even if the coach rolls over. But to see the entire upper structure of the RV bolted or screwed to a flat deck was a surprise because when some forces are applied those fasteners are going to be pulled out of or through the decking. And then the top and walls are leaving the chassis.
Jeff and Lindsay
91 Marathon XL -
I think the reason the auto-start voltages are low (at least to us) is that we aren’t thinking of them in the context of being loaded voltages. In other words we think of resting voltages at the batteries when there is no load.
But the auto-start doesn’t kick on instantly at a specific voltage, it must detect that voltage for some time period, and usually the low voltage is because something has loaded the batteries such as the tivoli lights or maybe some electric device powered via the inverters. But when the coach is in storage and there are no loads on the batteries those voltages are the resting unloaded battery voltagees so the batteries really are deeply discharged.
If you do have the option of adjusting the auto-start voltage you will do your batteries a big favor by increasing the voltage level for auto-start.
Jeff and Lindsay
91 Marathon XL