Marius
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Hi Les,
I know that Amazon Prime is used by many, but for $990 and the few times I’d use it isn’t worth it, it’s a not a good deal for me. I’m going to call Detroit Diesel in the morning to see if they recomend this type of product and do they recommend one over the other?
Harry
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Mark,
Please tell us about the roller buffer ?Safe travels,
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I don’t think we have a one-stop service facility like ETLC in the West. But here are my go to places:
Marathon in Coburg is first class for non-chassis work. I have seen them work on all kind of coaches.
CoachPro in Eugene is run by some ex-Marathon guys and does good work.
Kaiser Brake and Alignment in Eugene is recommended for brakes, etc.
Superior Tires in Salem.
Pacific Power Detroit Diesel/Allison in Ridgefield, WA just north of Portland is recommended for engine/transmission work.
Prevost Service Center in Richmond, BC is not as big as Mira Loma but does great work and the Canadian $ exchange rate helps.
Gerald
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If you think the filter was expensive, just wait for the ecm cost.
Harry – Who did your pre purchase inspection?
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Where the heck was that thing located??
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You could consider having someone on a ten foot ladder watching the stuff on the top while you slowly back the coach in.
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I just hope everyone realizes we make all these answers up.
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I think Brett is reading the first 11 words of Jon’s reply and applying it to asking the original question about looking at a coach. I don’t think that was the meaning, it applies to posting his budget etc.
This speaking to each other in the third person is great isn’t it?
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I’m a lifter also..
Bill S.
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Had the P’sOS in my 1 ton welding trucks so we all to talk to each other on locations we were on. Seemed to work okay in short areas. Heck they would work going down the road also. The antenna is the key. Got a old cobra dash mount in the bus.
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A real plumber can explain in greater detail, but plumbing codes all across the nation forbid there to be any potential for waste to backflow into the fresh water supply so that is why on some campsites you see vacuum breakers on the hose bibs, some water supplies have backflow preventers and all plumbing codes require at the very least air gaps so waste water cannot be siphoned back into the fresh water supply.
One glaring example of an illegal plumbing connection is how Headhunter connects its toilet to the fresh water supplying it. The water supply to the toilet bowl is under the contents of the toilet bowl and their response is to require a water supply check valve to prevent backflow. That is great as long as the check valve never ever leaks and we all know that is not likely. Our toilets at home have an air gap between the supply of water from the tank, and the contents of the bowl. In our Headhunter equipped coaches it is probable our own fresh water holding tank is what will be contaminated in the event of a failure. Anyone whose flush would not stop due to a timer failure or flush valve issue should sanitize the water system because there could have been back flow contamination when the pump was turned off and system pressure went to zero.
When fresh water is connected to a waste tank a drop in supply pressure such as a water line break, can cause the waste water to siphon back into the fresh water system creating a health hazard. A check valve is not an acceptable back flow preventer when public safety is involved. If anyone feels their tank flush or tank emptying system is safe then use water pumped from the bus water tank to do the flushing, then if there is a failure of any device to prevent backflow it is only your own coach whose fresh water supply is contaminated and not the public water supply.
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The guy I bought the bus from said you guys are telling me exactly right! But what they don’t know is the way I maintained it. He said in the four and a half years he’s owned it, everything was done ahead of schedule, it never sat more than 45 days without going on a min 30 mile run and everything, as the records show, was done 2 months before I bought the coach. He said he’s hard pressed to believe it’s a filter issue!He thinks something is not makeing a 100% connection or like one of you said, to check the circuit breakers. But I need to get this fixed whatever it is! I live in the mountains and most every direction I travel there are significant hills and I have to have the Jake brake to survive the life! I came in on 64 west and that has some bills but nothing like the others directions I will have to travel! If I have to travel to Asheville or Franklin they have crazy crazy hills. My best bet would be something like Chattanooga where I can take 64 east which is manageable. Hopefully I can find a place there who can help me! As far as the Dragon, I took my car over that going up to see Jon. There is no chance I’d take my coach on it. If the Dragon didn’t get me the people behind me would!
Tomorrow should be a pretty day and I’ll go over and look at everything I can look at and put my hand on everything to make sure it’s tight. I’ll look at all the breakers and make sure they are as they should be. This is one time it would be helpful if I had some RV experience. But we’ve all had to be first at doing something and I’ll make this happen for sure!!!
Harry
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I haven’t used mine since last June. I think mine is a 2013 sn#. Here’s another forum talking about the problem.
http://www.irv2.com/forums/f53/winegard-roadtrip-mission-problem-on-dish-network-334609.html
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It is on tape. The tape was recorded at the Nov. 2016 Autofest just after Big Al showed Nancy his beautiful Marathon coach with slides.
As soon as Tom realized Nancy not only had a chance to see a slide equipped coach, but had been recorded saying she wanted slides he bought her a new Jeep to try to placate her, and when he realized that was not going to do it he had his coach remodeled, and now he is out of ideas, money, and chances to give his poor suffering wife of 50 years the slides she wants and deserves.
Poor Nancy.