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Thanks Tom. Sounds like Jeff will be the answer for me.
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Ronald,
Everything you say is appreciated. I, like Jon, have a flip phone, I don’t text, I’ve been to a lot of places and have no real need to go to the place that you are talking about. It may be great for others and I hope that they use it.
Reading here is my euphoria. From all the threads, I know that Jeff near Knoxville is the place to go if I can’t get to Liberty or a Prevost Service Center. If I want a new toad built, I will go to that place in TN.
No offense to anyone here on PC, I just enjoy reading all the posts and don’t see the need to go to PC Maps (that’s just me).
I think people here realize that Prevost owners have been to the rodeo a few times. They are not needing to look at maps or places to visit as they have done ALL of that already. Many owners here are 30+ years of RV’ing, they share their info by talking to people, not posting on a map as you have seen. It’s hard to change people.
Safe travels,
Mark
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As owners of earlier model coaches with the stacked charge air coolers know they can last a long time. I am sure some charge air coolers have been replaced on early model Series 60 coaches but they can probably be counted on the fingers of one hand.
But when Prevost went with the charge air coolers mounted on the side of the radiator they opted to use a supplier that had great paperwork but a shitty product. So now we all pay the price.
Start your coach and put it on low idle. Squirt some soapy water along the top and bottom seams of the charge air cooler that is to the left of the radiator.If it blows bubbles, a lot of them, and especially big bubbles you win the prize and get to replace your CAC. I tried to stretch mine out a little assuming I could complete a 2800 mile trip before replacing it. By the halfway point I was showing codes on the message center. By the end of the trip I was crawling up hills I could ordinarily take at 60 MPH as low as 20 MPH.
The point is if your turbo boost has begun to fail to reach the upper limit of the gauge you are beginning to near the end of the CAC life. As long as your turbo boost can reach 30 PSI you likely have some life left, but the bubbles don’t lie. When the CAC is blowing bubbles at idle you are losing turbo boost.
The only one to use is Dura-brite which ironically Prevost stocks as the replacement for their lousy choice for original equipment. It has a seven year million mile warranty.
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I saw a video someplace showing a truck driver stopped for speeding by a state trooper. At first the conversation was somewhat abusive by the trooper not showing any respect to the truck driver. Into the verbal exchange the truck driver says, “By the way officer I have a video camera which also is recording our conversation”.
Attitude adjustment by trooper at which time verbal warning and released.
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Hello Jack,
Any updated news on the new build of your 2016 Prevost Millennium? We are anxiously awaiting new pics!
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Mark
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I could have sworn that Sid’s photo and signature line were to indicate he had an H.
But I guess not.
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As I think ahead to the day I have my Coach I think about the stretch of Interstate from Flagstaff to Sedona where the drop is from 7K to 4k in 20 miles. This is is 6% grade on parts of the route. From what I am gathering; if you are driving on snowy roads with 6% drop grades is it best to not travel down if the Jake or Retard brake is not to be used in Snow or Icy conditions. I feel a little pucker everytime I go down that grade with a van and small trailer on day dry roads thinking all that can go wrong with that degree of decent and road curves, I would need Depends if I took the Coach down at night or when it was raining, snowy or icy and not have the benefits of the brake assist. Not much room for error and lots of fatal dropoff points along the way. Now my question: when mountain driving; is the recommendation to drive only in ideal condition when you can use the Jake or Retard Brakes?
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The round knob in both pictures is the one I have opened to get fuel to the injectors. I think if you crack any line downstream from the pump and when turning the generator over you see fuel the problem is likely not related to fuel delivery. But that is the first think I would be guessing as the issue.
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What keeps you from taking off the fuel filter and filling it with Diesel? and reinstalling it…. You may have to do it more than once. It could have run dry and does not want to prime correctly. This is a procedure I have followed before. Jon is the expert but I have a practical experience of this procedure.
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Glad to see you’re keeping two hands on the wheel 🙂
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Why the animosity from POG, or rather the POG administrators toward PC?
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Guys…thanks very much…all the best…Mike
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If I was concerned about tailgaters and wanted their attention I would go for the switch that senses deceleration. I would use a time delay relay so that once the sudden stoppiing is detected, a time delay relay would allow the strobes to continue flashing for a number of seconds.
As to morons who like to tailgate we will never stop them, or likely discourage them even with annoyingly bright strobes on the back. My defense so far has been to maintain a lot of distance between me and the guy in front, so even if he slams on his brakes I can bring mine to a stop with less agressive force. I get rid of tailgaters using a trick I learned from an old trucker. He turns on his RH turn signal and lifts from the gas slightly until the tailgater changes lanes to go around him. It works so when I see someone doing that in my monitor I just use that technique.
One thing to be aware of……with cell phones and texting you can set of a nuclear device on your rear bumper and it still will not get the attention of some folks who text or talk.
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finally got the 12volt solenoids/coils from liberty. theor peices are very reasonable, compared torevost on the 24volt solenoids/coils.
installed and tested the system today. aired up with no issues, leveled perfectly and will watch ot for holding air. i will still replace the other norgren valves when up at jeffs later this month as well as have him drain air tanks again (checking at air dryer shows no water, but i would rather have him purge the sustem again like he did earlier in the summer).
next season will be a further going through of air system. air bags, brake air tanks and check all air brake controller valves (already replaced two).
hopefully that will keep us going for a while.
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Jon, my first car at 15 yrs old was a 1950 Ford 4 dr Custom, 6 cyl flathead with 3 speed/overdrive. I paid $100 for it. Paint was faded, upholstery was bad, but it was mine and I paid for it. But that was also back in 1959, $100 was a lot of money. I had 2 different brothers who also had 1950 Fords.
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