[Jeff]

I actually have a couple short sections of hose with clamps on mine.

[Jeff]

If you have Verizon as your wireless carrier:

Buy one of these on Ebay for about $50 – Verizon does not sell them anymore but they will give you a sim card for it and add it to your plan. They may even be able to just activate the sim card that comes in it if you open the battery compartment and give them the EMEI number.

Novatel T1114V Tasman VERIZON 4G LTE Broadband Router + Voice internet data on Ebay for about $50.

Activate it on your Verizon Wireless plan for $20 per month. It gives you WIFI in your bus 15gb wireless hotspot data per month. I also gives you a phone line to which you can hook up an old traditional land line phone.

As a bonus, if you get this Verizon device the “old fashioned” phone line RJ11 jack can be used when your bus is stored to connect to a door open and/or motion alarm system (not included) that will dial your cell phone and alert you of break in at your storage facility.

If you do not have Verizon, other carriers have mobile hotspots that will work for the WIFI portions of the above described capabilities – ATT has one for $80 per month with true unlimited, unthrottled data at “guaranteed” 8 gbps – though mine often runs at 15 gbps or more. The $80 is a bit steep unless you have need for large amount of data to run a business or whatever. I got mine from employer to work from home during COVID situation.

Buy one of these – Wyze Cam 1080p HD Indoor Wireless Smart Home Camera with Night Vision, 2-Way Audio, Works with Alexa & the Google Assistant, One Pack, White – WYZEC2 on Amazon. Connect it to the WIFI from the Verizon (or other) router and you have real time monitoring video of the inside of your coach.

Put a digital thermometer near the camera and you can see the temp in the coach. Or put it near your main panel and you can monitor battery charge, input voltage/amps, etc, etc. Put your digital thermometer near the panel and you can see it too. Aim the camera right and you can watch most of the rest of one direction in the coach, including the entry door area. Can set alarms for motion. You can also hook up multiple Wyze or other cams to the WIFI and monitor anything in or around the coach.

Or you could buy a Canary that gives the video monitoring, motion alarm capability, and has temp, humidity and air quality monitoring.

Note these are not all theoretical propositions, I have done all of the above, and it works.

[Jeff]

I am thinking of using shop vac blower to push more coolant out after having drained system. My questions relate to the webasto heat circuits- does the webasto (heat and hot water) have to be energized to open any valves, or does the enginge coolant circulate thru the heat exchangers, just the fans do not operate?

Also if I need to engage the heat systems, the webasto will fire since the coolant is not hot-does anyone know what sensor on webasto to trick to think coolant up to temperature?

I purchased vaccuum fill system to help with air pockets.

Thanks

1996 Marathon 45xl

[Jeff]

Don’t start poking a stick at those two.

[Jeff]

Mine was buried in trim work behind and to the side of the Headhunter.

[Jeff]

Jon hit the nail on the head with the pickups filling up in truck lanes. Probably then went into store complaining to the managers about something.

Always thought there should be a 100 gallon minimum. If you use less no discount.

[Jeff]

Approximately same year coach. At 245K during pre purchase the system was purging quite often. The easiest fix was to replace govenor …very accessible. Turned out to be not so lucky and not the problem. We had to put a new unloader valve repair kit in. Their are two versions of this kit. One just the top end..and one for complete system. More complicated to do this repair as they had to removed manifold. Its a half days worth of work for an expert mechanic.

[Jeff]

The amount of air pressure in the tanks has no impact on the leans of later vintage coaches (sometime after mid 90’s).

You can have all tanks full or all tanks empty and the coach will either lean or not depending on the integrity of the suspension air bags, valves, Norgrens, fittings, etc.

[Jeff]

Nice job Don…

[Jeff]

I didn’t mean the thank you in a sarcastic manner I just wanted to say thanks because you gave me an idea that I did not think of, you know sometimes it’s easier to ask than look kinda thing. Lol

[Jeff]

did you get itbidy one in center of housing –prob 1/4 inch od?

[Jeff]

Tried pulling the fuse as this unit has no key, will keep it out for a few minutes when I get back to the unit

[Jeff]

That is a solenoid valve, and when power is applied it passes air, in this case to move a spool inside the three port valve. When power is removed the air that was applied to move the spool is exhausted from the red cap so there is no air pressure remaining on the actuator that moves the spool and the spool under spring pressure goes to its normal position.

A long way of saying the only way air should be coming from the red cap area is if the solenoid valve has power removed, and only then for a short period it takes to bleed pressure down.

If that valve body was replaced there were two O rings associated with it and if they are missing, misaligned or old air could be leaking. Or the valve body is leaking. Remove the solenoid valve actuator from the 3 port valve, make sure the two relatively small O rings are in place, and then with it assembled determine if it leaking through the cap (bad valve body) or from around its mounting position (leaking from the area of O rings.)

[Jeff]

Last month I had two days of work at Jacksonville and they would not allow you to walk in shop. They asked me to go to lounge when I was walking into shop to view the work on coach.

I am sure this is some of the reaction of obtrusive people wandering into the service bays and interrupting the technicians doing their work.

I will suggest there are Prevost owners who are not savvy in the service center and cause the Prevost community to be restricted from some of freedom we enjoyed in the past.

[Jeff]

My 27 year heater hose is still going strong. Though I might replace it soon. If it’s red – it’s possibly silicone heater hose which will easily outlast the coach.