Kirby
Forum Replies Created
-
We stayed at the Iowa State Fairgrounds campground a few years ago; I think I put it on the map. I think they have a hundred or more sites. I thought we had 50amp service, maybe not. Its a great place to stay if your doing anything in the Des Moines area or just passing through. As I understand it they have lots of horse events in addition to the State Fair. The night we arrived they sprint cars running on the dirt track. Some of the campground is located on what has to be the highest hill in all of Iowa!
-
Harry,
7 times You posted that, You must be bored ? I take it that You have not got Your bus back yet ?Safe travels,
Rocky -
Robert,
Yes I like that tester and use mine a lot for simple stuff. I like that it tells you if your on ground or positive without having to switch leads around.
If you can find the magnetic pick up on the bell housing that might be a logical place to start testing. Then try to trace it up to the DDEC. However, it seems like you would have issues with the bus running if your DDEC didn’t have a tachometer signal. Hopefully someone more familiar with the chassis wiring will help you trace the tach signal? Jeff P.S. I assume you had the tester power leads on chassis and not the house side.
-
Fred I will find you two inverters for 4 ramps, is that a deal.
Jon if I were you I would check the tire dates Jeff put on your coach last week, just a thought.
Harry I know you haven’t met me yet but believe me these guys love everybody but get ready, it’s just getting started.
You will fit right in with this group.
Glad you got here, maybe I will still be here when you come back, I have to find a torch to cut the logging chain Jeff has around my drive axel.
We’ll have a private conversation and I will tell you the ones to look out for. (All of them)
-
I presume you would pay for results. Remember these are the folks that said it is just a relay that is bad.
But the reality is nothing has changed but the folks at Clarke who represent themselves as Detroit Diesel dealers are actually going to try get you to pay for thier on the job training. Now that everyone has been schooled on your bus it sounds like now they will put an expert on the job.
Put it on a credit card, get your bus out of there and then protest the charges. If they get anything they should have to work very hard to get it from you. This stopped being amusing a very short time after it was obvious they were fishing and you should not have to pay for their lack of skills.
-
Thank you Prevost Service –
So appreciate the insight, and contact info for Leon at Marathon. I will reach out to him tomorrow and get his take on what the device is for, how it works and any wiring info that may help chase the in’s and out’s.
-
Common problem with the center coil and valve. That center one is energized with the ignition and gets REALLY hot.
-
Andre,
Last summer, we were up in Montana, SD, ND, & Wyoming. There was one Love’s in SD and one in WY. I could not find a major truck stop that accepted the second fuel card.
Heading out to Oregon this summer after Harvest … hopefully better luck!
-
OK…I admit it…I’m anal about fuel prices.
I use the GAS BUDDY app frequently…I plan ahead for fuel stops and take a look at the station layout on Google satellite to figure out approach and egress… I’m not at all bashful about Sam’s Club or WalMart…any station where fuel is priced right…as long as I can comfortably get in and out. If you can’t get into a service station, how do you get into campgrounds?
Secondly…I carry a Sam’s Club MasterCard…It will pay 5% of any fuel purchase, anywhere….not just at Sam’s. There are other credit cards and discounts, but I’ve never known of one that beats the 5% rebate program. Fuel is the only reason I carry that card.
Truck stops bother me…they’re always greasy…alot of traffic, not to mention the double march to the fuel desk. Plus, they have decided their presence deserves an extra 30-50cents/gallon. I don’t like ’em to begin with, so the price just puts the icing on that cake.
What am I missing here?
-
$189,000. Heck put a $1400 Wingard Satellite on that puppy and be good to go!
-
Towing is extreme. I hope it doesn’t come to that.
Without knowing what Good Sam or the local mechanic(s) did to “test” the batteries, its hard to offer suggestions.
Can we assume the mechanic(s) bench tested the rebuilt starter with a 24 volt power source to ensure it worked? No insult to the mechanics, but at this point everything needs to be double checked and confirmed.
Were the chassis batteries “hooked up” while the starter was being rebuilt? Was the key left on? Parasite load drain the batteries?
Lights work? City horn work?
If you’re pretty sure the batteries are dead or drained, I would pull them, take them to NAPA, and have them charged and load tested. NAPA’s load tester should be able to tell you if the batteries are good or not. From the looks of them as Jon has observed they look old. If one or more are deemed bad by NAPA, replace all four of them.
Are you comfortable pulling them and replacing them?
-
Harry,
You will know if it is battery related the minute the starter is installed and you try to turn it over. With the price of some tools today such as multi-testers and battery testers it now makes sense for us to have our own because when we chase problems we are almost always using these tools. I would be lost without a multi-tester, battery tester and an IR temperature gun.
Our coaches have a lot of batteries and if you read the posts you will see that we have to know their condition so having the ability to not ony test them and read voltages, but to recharge them is important. They should be on a schedule for replacement unless you are willing to stretch their life and deal with the issues and replacement on their schedule and not yours.
-
That diagram makes sense.
-
When Prevost started using the Allison World Transmission they used the VIM box from Allison. This box contained two fuses and 6 relays. At the end of the 90s and with the XL2 the VIM was removed and replaced by 6 relays and two fuses as part of the front electrical junction box.
So if you look in the electrical junction box you will find these relays mounted together and labeled: VIM N, VIM R, and VIM 1-4. The two fuses, F1 and F2, are mounted in the snall fuse panel in that same compartment.
The relays are wired so that most need a ground signal to activate and those grounds come from the transmission ECU. What goes through the then closed contacts of the relay may be voltage or a ground depending upon that particlular circuit.
-