Michael
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The truth is Tom has his people set up the lawn chairs when he and Nancy want to come out to mingle.
He told me one of his aides was a fellow named Rick who I think he said was a car detailer. He wasn’t happy with the quality of the guy’s work, but he didn’t pay him much so it evened out.
Or was Tom the flunky????? I can never get it straight.
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There is no doubt in my mind that push in fittings are better than compression fittings initially.
Assembly is significantly easier and there is less likely going to be an issue with a leak because someone got the ferrule in a compression fitting a little twisted or over or under tightened. But as the push in fittings age they suck.They begin to leak and rarely are the leaks easy to find. It is the one bubble per minute type of leak, but when you consider the total number of fittings on our coaches even a minute leak in every fitting adds up to a huge rapid air loss.
Once a compression fitting is in place and leak free it will never pose a problem.
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Les’s comment should start to wave some flags.
I have had a few of our members take shots at my choice of tow bar. I use a Roadmaster All Terrain that is toad mounted and when unfolded it drops over the ball on the hitch on the coach.
At rallies I am almost the only one who uses that type towing method with the vast majority using the tow bar that slides into the receiver on the coach and then connects to brackets or some form of nearly invisible attach point on the toad. I understand when the toad is unhitched it looks a whole lot better than having a folding tow bar sticking on the front on a nice toad. The preferred method now is to leave the tow bar on the back of the coach.
But my reason is simple. As Les points out, as long as we have been towing the tow bar manufacturers have made it a point to insist the tow bar is to be level when the toad is hitched. That might be possible sometimes, but different toads have different heights where the tow bar attaches, so in a lot of instances the bar is pointing up or down and as Les stated that leads to problems,
I create a greater problem for myself because I am about to have 3 possible toads, all of which are set for towing. They range from my 50 Ford to my H2 Hummer to my Ram 2500 pickup. Not a single one is going to match another in height so to keep the tow bar level I am using and adjustable hitch.
I admit the folding tow bar can look ugly on a toad (the Hummer is ugly without the tow bar so that doesn’t matter) but I think the tow bar that is stuck on the rear of a great looking coach makes the coach look ugly so the way to go is whatever makes you comfortable. I’m going to stick with keeping my tow bars level.
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To the owner of a new or different coach I would like to add:
As far as the members of Prevost Community are concerned…THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A DUMB QUESTION!!!!! so, ask away.
Thanks Jon, Tom and everyone else in this community for answering questions I didn’t even know I had.
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Wow! That is interesting. They kept the road hot because I turned off from following them at Texarkana, Arkansas Saturday evening. Pretty rig.
Davy
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Roger,
Still kicking inspite of all the layers of clothing up here. We planned on being on the road right after New Years but I had too many other things that needed tending to. I have finally gotten around to getting the Prevost on the top of my list of things to do. Unfortunately, my lack of knowledge in many areas is slowing my progress considerably. I am in need of more tutorials beginning with Prevost 101 I guess!
Don
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Thanks everyone for the quick feedback. Looks like the bearing is the culprit. It would be nice if I could just fix the $10 bearing….
Tom, Gary,
how did you get access to the bearing? There is a dust cap in front that is pressed in pretty far and looks like it would be destroyed upon removal. On the back the pully shaft is pressed into the plate. Did you press the shaft out of the plate and then press the shaft out of the pulley?
Gerald
After having a look, I don’t think there is a way to press out the shaft from the back side of the plate. Just no way to support the plate on the press. So how did you guys get to the bearing?
I’ll have to check the Prevost parts book. Detroit only showed it as a complete assembly.
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Bill does coaches of our years have extra holes?
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I’m sorry about what happened to Joe. I made an appt last year with them to do the 2 windows at the frt and rear of the slide. Then I kinda remembered something happening to Truc there and dug up his post and cancelled the appt. Disaster averted thank you very much. I think some of us should post on FMCA along with the company’s response to both Joe and Al. That might hurt them where they live….in Plasticland. Geo.
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As we continue to grow our collected knowledge for problem solving, locating sources, and sharing information also continues to grow. As a group we can also expect to wield influence to help create programs that benefit us all, such as the fuel discount program.
We really never expected such growth nor as much participation from all Prevost enthusiasts, but as long time Prevost owners Tom and I are glad to see what is happening.
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Make sure that you never mistakenly put DEF into the diesel fuel tank.
DEF will cause major damage to the fuel pumps and injectors.We had guy recently fill the diesel tank on one of our
Mercedes work vans with DEF and then drive it until the engine quit. That little mistake cost us over $13k. -
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Yes … That would be great, hope you can make it.
Cheers, Diane
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think the point of this particular thread is that the loss of life or injury
would or could have been even worse in this instance without the structural
strength and isolation afforded by the Prevost, contrasted with most other
motorhomes or trailers. All are of course heart-broken over the loss of
life caused by this accident. Godspeed the individual who lost his or her life. -
We never thought of crash worthiness when we bought our first Prevost, but once we started to travel in it we saw a number of accidents involving conventional RVs. If anyone has seen how a conventional RV comes apart in an accident it becomes evident the occupants have very little crash protection.
We are not bullet proof, but our coaches are unlikely to be scattering parts of the structure along the path the RV travels after a collision.
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Diane,
The only thing negative about our dash cam is that it records audio. In some ways it might be a good thing as it is making me try to clean up my act and reduce my “sailor descriptive phrases” when driving challenged individuals make poor choices. 🙂