JIM
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I haven’t use Silverleaf very much. What type of identfier is it asking for? Like a hex address or PID?
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One of my clients has a nice little RV park just south of Houston called Fire Lake. I stayed there last month and it’s pretty nice. http://www.firelakervpark.com/ Let him know Chris from Millennium told you about it.
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Robert can you post the names of the junk yards in Vegas? We are going to Vegas in the next two week I would like to visit these Prevost junk yards. Thanks Hish
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Go to this web page and enter a local zip code to find a dealer.
http://www.michelinrvtires.com/michelinrv/index.jsp
As Jon said I would not drive anywhere on that tire except to the tire dealer in town.
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Well, the culprit was two fold on the air leak, but major one was the front floor slide, a real pia to get to! on mine you have to rip the carpet up and there is a small trap door for access to the back of the cylinder, do not know how you would get to it with hardwood or granite floors, the other was the front height adjusting valve, course had to call troy to find this out, I am still at Millenium have not heard back from Robert Hilt, I am just going to baby this slide problem go on down to Riverbend and get it repaired on the way back, guess I will just pay the repair bill for the work they did and hope to not get charged when I go back, I still prefer slides over non slide coaches and believe my problem is very fixable just have to find what it is maybe a bad fitting on the tapered shaft? Any way I am not going to let this get under my skin and will enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas at Riverbend before heading back north the first of Jan. First stop J-ville! Gary
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Kinda changing the subject (and by the way nice looking ramps) after having spent thousands with Prevost and my 1991 with air leaks and them changing goodies out gonna start do things myself. Since it cooled down she got the leans again. Built 50’x60’bus barn for this puppy and looking for air over Hydraulic jack to get her up in the air. What do you guys use and where did you buy it. Gonna build the stands to hold up after I get it in the air.
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As an alternative you could flush the system with RV plumbing anti-freeze. Then you don’t have to worry about it and maybe even shut off all power to the coach.
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We are planning to attend, count us in.
Richard and Robin
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That condesate hose is suppose to run thru bottom of spare tire compartment on to ground. Bob How do you guys service your filter? on you hvac there?
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Corey (or George), she never saw it. It was O’dark 30 when we left and by the time we got to Nashville for the night it was gone.
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Thanks for the response. We are working in our must haves. I’d like to look seriously at some no slide coaches before ruling them out. We like to go a lot and I hate how closed up ours is while going down the road. I also really like the stainless but certainly see the storage advantages of the H. I guess there’s still a lot to figure out but that should be the fun part. Look forward to meeting some of you next Tuesday and thanks in advance for your help.
Dean
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John, before you condem the Isri, go to a sales lot and sit in some newer coaches and see what you think of their seats. You then might do better purchasing a new Isri instead of the new Recarro, you entioned.
JIM
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Gil,
I think you might be surprised at how much pressure is actually in our air bags to maintain the driving height. I haven’t done this on my current coach, but did on my 97. I limited the system pressure to see what it took to bring the coach to the driving height because when I did it there was a lot of discussion similar to what was taking place on this thread.
Going by memory I think my 97 had 22,000 on the drive, 10,000 on the tag, and 14,000 on the steer. With an aux system pressure of 70 the rear came up to the drive height. It took 100 to bring the front to drive height. Going strictly by noting my pressure gauges I am seeing about 100 PSI capable of bringing my 17000 pounds of current front axle weight up to drive height. The air bags are clearly a greater diameter. The only way we can really tell however is to put a pressure gauge on the line to the air bags.
The point is it appears the air bags are sized to work within the pressure limitation based on axle weights that are at or below the Prevost limits.
Just like our tires the working pressures are beyond our control and there is no doubt a large bump in the road is going to greatly increase air bag pressures. I think the reason higher pressures are used may not be solely related to lifting the weight, but to do it in a reasonable period of time. And just an aside, when we raise our coaches for leveling purposes we are often greatly exceeding the design pressure rating, but when we do that the pressures are static. The same thing applies when Prevost uses a wheel lift to raise our coaches and they lift the entire rear under the drive axle shifting all the weight from the tag to the drive tire(s) likely sending their pressures well above the stated pressure limits.
I have used the lifting of the tag as a means of getting more lift on the front or to more quickly lower the rear. Because of my driveway slope I need to do both (at different times) and raising the pressure would speed things up but I prefer not to start becoming a test pilot.
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Has anyone ever wondered why psychics never win the Powerball Lottery drawings?
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As long as you know where you are going a GPS is a great gadget!!