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Hey Jim thanks I’ll give that a try
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Ralf:
Yes you can remove the part you have circled. Put a deep socket over it and unscrew it.
CAUTION!!! there is a round rubber seat on the back of it that has a hole in the middle of the round rubber. As you turn the screw in or out it moves the rubber closer to the seat or further away. PROBLEM with mine was, the rubber is supposed to come out attached to the screw you are removing. Mine got stuck inside and the center hole that fits over the screw portion was fractured from age not allowing it to hold firmly to the screw part. I just put it back together and left well enough alone at the time because I was not in a location that I would be able to get another. Hopefully someday when it does fail I will be able to find a new rubber seat that will work.
Chuck
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During 1996, starting with coach that had a “T” in tenth position of Vin, followed by sequence numbers 5873
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Agreed. Air, fuel, coolant hoses are everywhere and they all need attention. Then there are the unexpected hose issues. I was driving in TX by Van Horn and I noticed a coolant smell and then saw my gauge moving up and then a cloud of mist coming from the rear of the bus. I pulled over and there was a huge coolant leak coming from the transmission cooler area. The aft hose on the transmission cooler was split down the middle! At the time I thought it was just a bad hose giving out. I lost 12 gallons of coolant. I called for help, and we replaced the hose and the coolant, and off I went with only a 4 hr delay. When I got back home I was replacing the coolant filter and happened to look at the backside of the bumper and inside of it stuck to the back of the bumper was a spike about 6 or 7 inches long made out of what looked like thick brass material with a dull grey color to it. The spike had notches on it so it may have been a dipstick for something on a truck or maybe some heavy equipment of some sort. I really try hard never to run anything over on the road but this metal dipstick was basically the same color as the road so very hard to see. It may have been a dipstick but its afterlife was a hell of a shearing knife! I was lucky the damage was repairable on the side of the road but beware of road hazards, some could be the same color as the road you’re on.
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I just went through that with my coach and I timed to to coincide with a coolant change. Most were OK but one hose had a bad spot near the clamp so staying ahead of the game turns out to be good preventive maintenance.
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The steam is hard on cooling systems. It can wreck radiators, check your tubes and make sure they haven’t gone from eliptical or flat to round, and end up not letting air flow through.
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Pretty sure that switch is manufactured by Hella; see if you can find a name on it.
I’d start my search there because Hella has made reverse compatible upgrades to a lot of their products.
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Anytime I am trying to find parts or devices I start with an internet search. For your possible switches I would just start by doing a search for “lighted rectangular push button switches”. That will bring up a lot of potential sources plus a lot of junk, but it becomes a starting point.
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Travel safely and enjoy the ride.
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The ears have a tendency to break off … especially in colder weather.
And when your in a hurry when its raining!
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I do a selection as here for Royale and results show but no pictures
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David if you are a DISH customer you cannot use the Hopper/Joey ,AT ALL with a dome. The best you could do is use a Wally with a hard drive attached and watch 1 program (or record the program you are watching). It would also be able to record 1 program while you were away but it can only handle 1 channel at a time. You could get a 2nd Wally and hard drive but since there are 3 DISH satellites and a dome can only point to 1 satellite at a time, watching or recording programs is limited to ensuring both channels are coming from the same satellite. It’s not something you can plan, you just have to hope for the best. With a Trav’ler you would have the exact same service you have at home and you could simply move a Hopper to the RV. You could also move a Joey to power a 2nd TV. Some of that depends upon how the coach TV’s are setup.
With DirecTV, the domes cannot receive ANY programming in high def. so you will be watching satellite TV with an SD picture which, personally, I think sucks!
You would be able to use the Genie receiver/client setup ….yuck!
With the Trav’ler, same as above…full service.
With the Trav’ler, DISH or DirecTV and either the Hopper or Genie you would have all of that recorded programming (hundreds of hours) available to watch while traveling, under trees or just bored. You are also able to watch this programming without losing the signal every time you go under a bridge, behind some trees or driving through a tunnel.
We are DTV customers and full timers and have had a Trav’ler on my roof since it was released by Winegard about 6 or 7 years ago. Can’t imagine ever going back to a dome.
Let me know if you have any additional questions.
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I really like David’s attitude about starting with the simple stuff. As an avowed lazy bones individual I look for the low hanging fruit long before I get into the more complex and more difficult solutions.
Excellent job.
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Joel, you can switch it back but there is nothing wrong with the system as Liberty modified it.
I don’t use the automatic leveling either, but there is no way I would revert back to the original Level Low. You would be changing the LH control panel to eliminate the Liberty controls and replacing them with Prevost controls and you would be rewiring the system to revert back to a single 3 port Norgren that is the exhaust valve for all three systems.
I forgot earlier, but Don’s numbers may be good, but since he has a Classic they might be 12V. I can’t remember if it is only the center solenoid valve in the manifold that is changed to 12V or if the valves being discussed are 12 also.
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If you get rid of them you have no means of discharging air in the rear air bags if needed to level the coach.
They open to bleed air from the left or right air bags using the Liberty switches for the left and right rear.
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