Kirby
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Hi Glens,
I always thought when the Jake was on and you took your foot off the peddle, regardless of speed or transmission setting. You’d feel resistance like you were no longer freewheeling?
I remember when I first drove a Newmar 40’ DP we were on the interstate going 60 and our exit was coming up. The salesman had me put on the Jake or retarder, whatever a Cummins uses. When I took my foot off the peddle there was an obvious slowing, way more than a transmission drag.
That’s what I expected with my bus “an obvious drag”! Jeff told me to turn on the Jake going 20 mph and take my foot off the peddle and report back to him.
I’ll do that Friday and let you know?
Harry
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We were in a secured area on the backstretch at Daytona a few years ago. Won’t do it again.
We found some folks who were in that area were there to party. Imagine a few conventional RVs with 6 or more guys in them loaded with multiple cases of beer playing with frisbees or footballs the whole 4 days next to your coach.
If the frisbees or footballs weren’t banging against the side of your coach, the all night party was wearing you out. The guys never left the secure area. They watched the race on TV apparently so the money for tickets could be spent on beer.
The back stretch RV area should be restricted to adults.
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Yep, Lots of good radiators custom made for old Hot Rods that are aluminum. By the time You figure in the cost of modifying one to match Your old one. You might be better off to get an aluminum one made ? They cool better too !
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Oh Andy … Oh Andy … are you going to the Prevost maintenance seminar at ETLC this weekend?
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Harry:
See my post under “Valley River RV Park”. + Check on the bus regularly when it’s cold outside. Have the park call you or call them if power goes off. I’m in the same area you are, plugged in, water tank full, water bay heater on, two small electric heaters inside, bath & galley cabinet doors open. Only difference is that our bus is inside a storage unit. Have stored RV’s for the winter this way and using water line antifreeze for years. Never had a problem down to about 15F.
But now we head to Florida. Much more gooder.
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Harry:
Does the Campground/Resort have 50amp hookups? What about water and sewer?
Have you posted this facility to the PC map?
How far is this facility from your home?
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All Prevosts are welcome at River Landing..
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Mark:
Consider putting a large pan under the drip hoses that is big enough to go outside the footprint of the coach that you can put a 120volt sump pump into. Route the discharge hose of the sump pump “somewhere” to a drain. If there isn’t a drain in the building, talk the owner into letting you put a hole in the side of the building with a short piece of pipe with hose fittings on it through the wall. Hook the discharge hose from the sump pump to the interior side of the pipe, hook another hose to the exterior side, and route that hose away from the building to where it wouldn’t be a nuisance. When your coach isn’t in the building, put a plug on either side of the pipe so the building is sealed from infiltration of bugs, varmints, and air.
Edit: Some of the readers might not be familiar with a “sump pump”. Sits in bottom of pit, pail, or bucket. Has a “float” that controls the switch for the pump; turns the pump on when the water raises the float and turn the pump off when the enough water is pumped out that the float drops to the “off” position. Extremely reliable, pretty simple technology that’s been around for many, many decades and not very expensive. The best sump pump made is a “Jim Murray”, manufactured in Germantown, Wisconsin; ask for it by name.
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Maybe you don’t Dick, but on certain (rare) occasions I may have expelled some flatulence. But being a Liberty owner however there is a fragrance of rose petals.
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Harry, engine looks really good, Keep up the good work
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I am typing posts and replys on my Samsung Android phone. To make it work for me I have to go into the tools menu on the reply page on the PC site and shut off the “spellcheck as u type” or it comes out like I showed u above.
Herb
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Just a thought Jon…
With the vast membership base of PC, have you considered contacting other quality tire companies to see if they were interested in producing 365’s?
Isn’t Bridgestone headquarted just down I-40 from you?
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BTW, when we lived in western NY we would always get at least a week long stretch with temps no exceeding zero, and at least one or two days at or below minus 20.
The bus was stored in a barn and the only value to the barn was it minimized the wind on the coach but other than that it got as cold as it was outside. We did the following just for feeze protection. We filled the water tank and instead of using the bay heater supplied with the coach we used a small cube heater set to the 500 watt setting and aimed it at the water tank. That put warmth into that 130 gallon mass of water as well as keeping the bay warm. On the worst cold stretches it never got below 45 in the bay because that water which was usually about 50 degrees contributed to the warmth in the bay during the coldest times.
This doesn’t mean anything to you since you will be living in the coach and keeping inside temps warmer, but I placed a 3 setting heater on the kitchen counter and most of the time used the 500 watt setting. When it was approaching single digits I went to the 1000 watt setting, and when it got colder than that I went to the 1500 watt setting. Andre is correct in that opening cabinet doors is important if the interior is not heated to normal room temps, but when we were in the coach and it got down to minus 26 for 2 days we never had issues or concerns about pipes or staying warm. The only issue was with all the single pane glass a lot of heat escaped through the glass so driving at 55 wicked away a lot of heat and the heaters including the bus heat system were taxed. As soon as we stopped rolling it was still cold near the glass, but the heaters had no problems keeping us comfortable if the shades were down.
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Ditto, we’d like to know that also!