Jerry
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The chief information officer on Alaska is Bill Fogerty. His Alaska trip has been featured in Marathon’s quarterly magazine. Traveled up by road and back by boat….with wife, Lauren, 3 kids,1 dog.
Here on PC we helped him several times with things during his trip when he was having second thoughts about traveling 1 year and appox 28 K miles.
BTW…..Bill has great stories
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We are also looking at going up there next year.
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Dont forget to disable the auto start on the genny as well!
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For what it’s worth,when I first got my coach I drove it home 1300 miles
Never driving one, I thought I had to steer it more than I should have to
Or was it the wind? Anyhow after that I checked the tow on it and it was towed out
a frekcle,so I towed it in 1/4 inch. Night and day difference!! No more steering down the road
Prevost calls for 3/16. However since then I have replaced the tires and had the three axle
alignment set the tow to 3/16. I’m sure I will leave it at spec but I think a1/4 inch may seemed a
little better. Probably not great for long tire wear,but mine would age out first. -
You are right Alvie , can nobody read any more 😂????
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I absolutely agree with the benefits of weeding out the unsafe vehicles. Even our motorhome members should strive to have their vehicle safety checked by Prevost or other qualified service shops if there is any doubt.
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We found out tonight we are all inclusive here on PC, At this evening’s BS session Royale, Vantare, Marathoin, Liberty and CC were all represented and nobody picked on anybody very much.
Sure is boring when we don’t tease each other. Tomorrow we will probably have a hug fest.
Whatever happened to the good old days we all we did was pick on each other?
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What Mark and Peter said is correct about moving left and slowing down. Here in Texas it’s the law to move one lane over left or right and if you can’t you have to slow 20 miles off the posted speed. I also think that here in Texas any vehicle registered as a commercial vehicle it will have a commercial licenses plate on it as well as the DOT numbers. And to clarify what I stated about moving over one lane to the left or right is this, on I20 comming through Arlington the police will stop you on the left and right side of the interstate, matters not to them.
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but Andre at least you can just get new seals and put it back together.
i didn’t take a lot of pics of the job because I was in a rush to get done but I found water on the barn floor this winter. Had never noticed a leak. All the tanks, fresh, gray, blank, the water heater all had to come out and the floor get replaced in that bay. I now have marine grade ply floor coated in marine epoxy, all sides all edges . All the rubber grommets on the black and gray got replaced. Talk about a s—- mess to handle. New valves, new piping, I no longer have the tetford connector but rebuilt with a camco.
when I was leak checking the rebuild was when I realized I had a wax seal leak and decided to just deal with the flapper as well.
I hope im done with plumbing for a while.
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Hats off to the greatest working man of all times! RIP Merle Haggard!
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Jon,
What you say about filters is correct, however once approach being blocked the by pass valve opens and you get no filtering..
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The breakers are good, I have power at the stat and the board. Cliff
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Think my wife has found a source. She contacted Marathon (Mike Jensen) who advised they were made by QFD Shades at http://www.qfd.us/ She went to that website and it does show a photo in the lower right hand corner of the web page with the product in an RV. It has the three horizontal retracting strings that we have in our Marathon and looks like the right thickness/width at the sides to fit in the custome “niche” that holds the retracted shade. From the “contacts” page of the QFD web page, we contacted Hilda Crispin at 1-800-530-8484 and talked to her. Very helpful and Hilda e-mailed a page for noting the key measurement points. For side windows, Hilda said just make a simple drawing with measurements. From that information, they will provide a quote.
We can see the little plastic boxes that hold the retracting spools, but not too sure yet how those are attached in the coach. The end that pulls out has snaps. To be continued…..
Hope this helps.
Kirby
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I agree with everything that has been said about getting an inspection. So why did we take the chance of buying the coach without a thorough inspection? We had looked at this coach for a while, and last fall we got serious about it. We knew we’d be taking a risk buying a coach where he refused an inspection, so we gave a low-ball offer that he refused, so we started to look for other coaches. Lo and behold, on New Year’s Eve he called and accepted our low-ball offer, and he agreed to a reasonable trade-in for the coach we had been trying to sell for several months. After some mulling over, we decided to go for it, despite several of the issues we had already identified. We loved the colors inside and out, as well as the floor plan. The fact that it fell way under our budget didn’t hurt, and with Prevost and Marathon within 300 miles we knew we could get it fixed. So far we have gotten the significant issued zeroed out, although a few still remain. Helps to have a good credit rating! I would not necessarily recommend this approach to anyone else, but we are very happy with the coach. Will head to Coushatta Casino this afternoon for the first non-maintenance related trip. I do have to say Prevost and Marathon were outstanding in their help on the coach. Want to take it to Jeff’s too, but he is a long ways off, so we’ll have to see when we can make the trip.
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Was just in Lowe’s and spotted some window coverings by Levolor and Bali that look sturdy enough to be mounted vertically, they have the retracting mechanism that I think you’re asking about.