Jerry
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Wow… they had donuts & coffee every morning for the week we were there and offered lunch everyday… we took turns buying lunch for everyone… fantastic service … I was impressed !!
Larry & Diane
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I bought the Guest 2611A charger. After consultation with Jeff Rowe on how to hook it up properly, I installed it and put it into service about 3:30pm on Saturday. At this point there was no response on the dash when I turned the key. By Sunday morning the red light was out (phase 1) and the green light was on (phase 2) I turned the charger off at 8am this morning (Monday). After 37 1/2 hours of charging the dash would like up, the electric gauges worked, but I had barely had 19 volts and of course the engine wouldn’t turn over. I shut the charger off.
I’m thinking one of the batteries is bad. These are four Interstate Group 31 MHD that were new in April when Jeff installed them. I plan to pull them on Wed morning and take them to the regional Interstate facility for testing.
Any suggestions? Anyone have experience with Interstate on warranty claims on batteries barely six months old?
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Mark…
We are loving the Suburban… got the 4WD LTZ retractable running boards the whole works… very very nice !!
The issue is not resolved thru GM yet… they say they are working on it however the GM guru here in town has installed a marine grade battery cutoff switch under the hood which is as simple as it gets then to save the radio settings etc we plug in a battery memory saver to the cigarette lighter which has a 9 Volt battery plugged into it and all the settings are saved but the steering stays unlocked… a very simple proceedure and the battery lasts a long time… so far tested it for 15 straight hours and was still working.
I turned the battery off with the cut off switch and left the memory saver in the cigarette lighter and it worked fine and the steering didn’t lock up when we tried to make it do so… so it is looking good to us at this point. We are going either this Friday or next Tuesday to get the M&G brake system installed which is manufactured just 100 miles from here in Athens, TX… then we will be looking for somewhere to go.
I HATE to welcome you to the TBC so hopefully you will move your Monaco quickly, you will be in a better area for selling coaches than we are….so many people don’t want to take off into the “Boonies” to look at a bus.
I know you are elated with your new Liberty, hope it all goes well for you both…. quite a learning curve ahead of you compared to the Monaco. Enjoy that bus !!
By the way this year the new Escalade is also available in a 4WD… and it is sweet !! We almost bought one but they didn’t have an ESV anywhere that had the options we wanted and we have to have the long one.
Should you have an interest in a 2015 GM then I can email you pics of what we did.
Cheers, Diane
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We took delivery of the new coach today.
WOW, what a learning curve I’ve got in front of me. Everything went well, more ‘classes’ tomorrow and a test drive. We’ll start staying in the coach tomorrow night.
If you want to see all the pics (much better than I could take), they are on the Liberty Coach website.
It’s coach #787. I had a central vac installed along with a ‘see vision’ system so I can look around the coach at night through the camera’s (from the bedroom). I also wanted a Jenn Air fridge rather than the regular GE or Sub Zero normally installed. They had no problem with my requests.
Mark
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Rob…I just posted a question about the same thing you’re referring to…the Remco Drive Shaft Coupler (disconnect)
Hopefully the answers will help both of us. ty -
Don’t go putting words in my mouth. I wouldn’t insult any used car dealer by calling him a politician. My remark was intended to show how this thread could end up in the dumper if a politician did jump into the discussion, not that it isn’t headed there anyway when the two dealers are firing shots across the bow.
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Call em up, HERE is the website ! 610-682-9764
They are very familiar with Marathon (obviously), even asked which coach # I had. You can try and reset yours, but if you already did that then just call em up and give them your info then send it in.
Really nice people and helpful.
I tried reset on mine, no joy, oddly as I look closer at the LEDs now, they light up and dim at all settings all the way down, but very very low light, so kinda working but obviously nowhere near full voltage.
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Chip,
I have no knowledge of Commonwealth, but I can tell you that if they are not very experienced in the Prevost suspension, you could be in for a very long and expensive project chasing leaks and trying to diagnose the cause of your leans. If you can get to Jeff’s, your going to be way ahead.
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The Guest 2611A has two12 volt charging cords.
Our coaches have two 12 volt batteries in parallel hooked to two more parallel batteries in series.
As I understand the logic, charging the two 12 volt arrays separately will assure that each of the arrays has the maximum charge before lowering the charge rate thus assuring that all of the batteries are charged as much as possible. This tends to guard against one battery exhibiting full charge (or a faulty cell) and therefore causing the array to shut down prematurely.
The instructions are easy to follow to hook up as described above and by others in this thread.
The 2611A is a 3 stage charger which makes me more comfartable about leaving it operating full time.
As an interesting side note; I have left the original single stage charger installed so that I can use it as a backup for the 2611A in the event of a malfunction. It being a single stage charger does not allow it to keep the batteries topped off automatically as the invertors or smart chargers do.
That’s my 2; hope it is correct and worthwhile to someone.
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G Man
i just changed mine all three no big deal looks harder than it is , I have one under OTR comp , I have had the bands on mine I don’t think it makes much difference one way or another I put new ones in every two years they are cheap
I just put six new rear air bags on and two new brake chambers on drive axle all good now
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We have just gone through these same decisions. In our previous coach, we had the sofa across from two Euro-recliners w/ottomans. We had the legless dinette with two chairs and an additional two folding chairs with a leaf if needed.
After some very serious thinking on how we would use the new coach, we decided to go with the J-booth. I kinda got tired for the loose chairs and they made dents in the carpet.
No offense to anyone who has the two attached chair set-up, we just didn’t understand two fixed chairs with no option of adding any guests. I know that the J-booth will sit only 3 people comfortably but we were thinking of having a couple of tall stools made to put 5-6 at the table if needed. We would put the stools in the under bay.
I’m going to use the J-booth as ‘computer central’ as that’s where I’ll set up my laptop.
We also decided to go with two sofa’s across from each other. The reason being is that the driver’s and passenger seat are not part of the seating arrangement. So now, we can seat 6 people for cocktails and then when everyone is gone, we can lay back on the sofa’s and watch the big screen TV with our feet up.
We also have two ottomans if we want to sit on the sofa normally and put our feet up. Originally, we were going to have two recliners across from the sofa, but since we have four slides, the table between the chairs would have been small.
Mark
On edit: I should mention that we all have custom coaches and should have them exactly the way that want them, there is no right answer. What works for us may not work for you. -
No drawbacks as long as you have the amps to run other devices. I think you’ll find a 30 amp setting on 24 volt will get you good results, but try different settings to see what works best for you. Also remember, bulk/absorption run time is programmable at which time the inverters switch to float.
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Jim, kinda been waiting for Jon to chime in because he has owned both. When we looked for our first Prevo, we read all the threads going back a long time on POG. We decided based on that info to look for an XL that had a series 60 and IFS. Turned out to be the correct choice. Sure do love the sound of that 8V92 though. Just don’t want the maintainance headaches.
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Jim,
I have had both, and you did a pretty good analysis of some of the two stroke engine weak points.
The cracked manifolds or failed manifold gaskets were problems I had. I had to replace the inlet tubes to the turbo. but except for a crack in one of the heads which was an unusual event the engine was a good one. It was not cheap to run however because unlike the pre-emissions Series 60 it liked fuel in large amounts. My average for 14 or 15 years of owning it was 5.6 MPG.
The Series 60 engines appear to be reliable, they certainly are more fuel efficient, and unlike the 8V92 my experience with the Series 60 is that it does not have a tendency to plug radiators or have owverheating issues.
Given the choice of two identical coaches with the exception of the engines, I would go for the one with the series 60. You will not necessarily save the difference in fuel purchases, but it is likely it will always hold a greater value than a coach with the 8V92 so when you sell you should get most of your money back.
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870 and 1020 on the cranking amps.
George – Send me an e-mail please, your address on file keeps coming back.