[Larry]

Except for the extra weight….I bet you find that you really don’t need it anyway. I seem to be able to find enough places to fuel that I wouldn’t want to lug around the extra weight.

I know you don’t like truck stops…I don’t either, but they are a necessary evil sometimes. I do get out as quickly as I can. Too many idiots around those places.

[Larry]

BCO, what did it take to fill your coach and how big is your tank supposed to be?

There has been some discussion on the accuracy of the fuel gauge on the Silver Leaf glass dash. After a couple of calibration adjustments, I’m pleased with how Silver Leaf reports fuel levels.

The first thing I did was to determine when Prevost’s fuel tank sensor begins to drop below the full reading. Putting 10 gallons at a time into the coach and measuring the sensor’s resistance I determined that the sending unit reports the first 30 gallons of fuel consumed as full. Knowing this I set the tank capacity to 180 gallons instead of its actual capacity of 208 gallons.

I then fine tuned the empty calibration over a couple of fill ups and have it calibrated such that I’m happy with what it’s reporting. The other day Silver Leaf reported I had 53 gallons remaining. I filled up taking on 147 gallons. So, 147 gallons plus the 53 gallons reported remaining is 200 gallons. Being off by only 8 gallons more accurate than can be seen on any standard needle gauge.

My generator was running at the time, so I’m pretty sure I had most, if not all of the 53 gallons still available to run the engine. My SilverLeaf dash changes the fuel reading to RED when you hit 25%, which is what I hit when pulling into the pump. So, I will continue to fill up by the time I hit 25% until someone can tell me the actual fill capacity and how much fuel is in the tank when the pick up tube can no longer suck fuel.

I’m with Jon, why is it hard for someone to answer the real full and empty numbers. Surely the bus operators want to know these numbers so theyt don’t carry more fuel (weight) than they have to.

Hoping to never run dry!

[Larry]

Tom,

That’s a good idea, next time.

[Larry]

This seems to be a fairly common problem with older coaches. The previous owner replaced mine at 74,166 miles on April 12, 2006 by Prevost.

The advantage of doing the replacement through Prevost is they keep a record of the date and mileage when this was done, that is how I found out how many actual miles were on my H3.

[Larry]

The previous owner , original owner replaced the Iris seats with Knoedler seats I really like them no problems so far, I like the massage on after several hours of driving, seats are heated and cooled bad to the bone! gary

[Larry]

I have found the problem. When Royale (Monaco) wired the dryer they used a 2 conductor wire plus a ground wire. The ground wire is hooked to the ground bus not the neutral bus. The controls for the dryer require the neutral to work. I jumped the 2 busses together the dryer worked. If the rv pedestal is set up with both the ground and neutral hooked together the dryer would work. If the ground is seperated from the neutral the dryer will not work. This is the way both of my 50 amp hookups are wired. This explains why the dryer worked with generator power. I installed a ground rod on each of my pedestals to seperate the ground and neutral. I wanted the coach to be grounded to the earth not the neutral 60 feet away in the house panel.

To fix the problem we can only park in the states that do not require the ground and neutral to be separate.

Now to correct my dryer problem is moving the dryer ground wire from the ground buss to the neutral buss.

In our 6 plus years owning the Royale last summer in a rv park in New York was the first time this problem came up. I suppose it will be as safe as I can make it grounding the dryer to the neutral buss. There is another ground wire, green with yellow stripe, Royale installed. I can’t see how it is routed with out moving the washer-dryer combo out. I am not up to this. I will assume it is a good groung. The upside is I know all the wiring in the panel is good.

[Larry]

Thanks for the replies. I have checked all the wiring connections in the breaker panel, the back of the dryer and at the bow the dryer plugs into with both a multi-meter and the tightness of all the screws plus looking for any stuff growing in the connections. The dryer works on generator power with the inverters off or on. It also will not work on shore power with the inverters off or on.

The transfer switch is next on my list. I have a hunch it may be the problem.

[Larry]

That is a question that sounds as though it has no answer. If both shore power and generator power supply voltage to the 120 / 240 VAC circuits there should be no reason why the dryer works on one and not the other.

It seems if one works and the other doesn’t the problem would be at the transfer switch, but since all circuits except the dryer are powered on both sources something doesn’t make sense. When you say you checked connections did you look at them physically or did you put a multi-tester on them?

[Larry]

Here are a list of things to do and see while in the Bangor area.

This list will be up dated peirodically.

Greenville Flyin Seaplanefly-in.org great area to view moose

Coles Land Transportation Museum colemuseum.org

Bar Harbor barharborinfo.com

In Bangor:

Stephen Kings home

Hollywood Casino

Paul Bunyon statue

Antique malls and shops

Penobscot Narrows Bridge observatory 420ft above the water,this is the only one in the USA!! 360 degree views! in Prospect

Fort Knox in Prospect

Here is a list of those whom want to come so far

Rick & Denise

Jon & Di

Tom & Nancy

Jim & Nancy

Gary & Megan

Ronald & Gabi

[Larry]

Thanks Jon and Tom for working on this program. I get all of my belts and oils from NAPA already and this will help.

[Larry]

Brian

There are at least 101 places to buy old window shade parts, just google “window blind parts” and see.

I purchased some brackets for old blinds a couple of years ago for next to nothing. All that old stuff is still available. So, don;t worry if you need to break a bracket or two.

Good luck,

Peter

[Larry]

I had almost the same experience in my old GMC 4104. It’s been several
years, maybe 20, but I still remember exactly what you describe. It is
breath taking, scary, it’s hard to express. I never had another panic
stop since. I’ve often wondered, is it normal for a bus not to slide the
tires under full pedal pressure?? Of course my old GMC had no ABS like
my 88 Prevost. I have had to get on the brakes very hard, but not full
pressure. I’m guessing it would not slide the tires under full pedal
pressure. I know the stopping distance is longer if the tires are
sliding. I would like to have enough braking force to do that if I
choose. Will the tires lock up on my 88 if I stand on the brake Pedal??
I guess I could do the test but I hate to flat spot my tires.

Ken

[Larry]

Diane,

Newell may have some spare circuit boards; talk to Chuck in parts.

SCS is out of business (they were located in Ft. Worth). Victory Systems bought out their inventory of circuit boards and now they are out of business. Seems like I remember hearing that Newell had found a place that would make up 100 or so boards. I’m not sure about that.

If you have your existing boards improved with the heavy duty wire connections you will be way ahead of the game.

These SCS units are really good ACs. Mine are 14 years old and still going strong (knock on aluminum).

Thanks for asking but we can’t make the trip to OKC – wish we could – JDUB has some great BBQ and we would love to see you guys.

[Larry]

Thanks to you both for the information!

I appreciate it……

[Larry]

Why aux. compressor? Does your coach not build air enough or fast enough for you. Air up tires, etc.?