Mike
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Tom, very nice and clean A Model. From my auto parts background I can tell the Wix oil filter was pulled out of your personel stock room and you didn’t just run down to the local auto parts store and purchase one. Good luck at the auction with your Model A, they are always such a neat car to own.
PS. on another note, Yes Coreys appetizers are second to none. Speaking from experience.
Bill S.
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Don’t listen to anyone that downplays the importance of shiny copper pipes. Every Liberty owner knows for sure that as long as the pipes retain their brilliant shine the coach just runs better. It is a built in feature and everyone knows that shiny pipes and rose petals go hand in hand with making an engine operate at peak efficiency.
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this Bank could be the answer to alot of folks dreams ! when i was searching to get mine financed several years back it was impossible to find such a bank! I had to sell off my car collection … being close to retirement and all of our money was being put away for that . Nobody wanted to touch the Bus because of its age,. i even had marathon do aprsial … no luck… so if we can help any future PC members acheive there dream lets open the door…
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Tom I have a test box I can send it to you or get it to you at the Parliment rally.
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wow, looks factory ….
wait till you see see how much fits in that drawer freezer…tons-o-space!
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Another incredible company based in incredible Wisconsin helping incredible people who belong to an incredible community on an incredible website buy incredible motorcoaches to live an incredible lifestyle.
I wonder why they don’t have an incredible advertisement on this incredible web site.
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We do…we even used to have one in Monroe, La…but then he got shinier wheels.
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TJ, give me a call at your convenience. 402 658 9437 , Dan
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TJ,
The tire code contains the week number, first two digits, and year (second two digits) of manufacture. So 1611 would be the 16th week of the year 2011. It does not matter the tires were not installed until “early 2012.” The fact is the tires remain over five years of age. Also, sitting still on a concrete surface is not good for the tires, even if kept inside. Old RV tires always have good looking tread left and thus they tend to be run after their “freshness” date has passed. New tires will be part of the zero’ing out process for this coach. There are other rubber based items to be concerned with such as the air bags. They can and will develop cracks in places that can’t be seen and slowly or worse, dramatically, lose the ability to support the load. Start the generator and let it run with as much load as can be found. Check the gauges to make certain the genny has the right oil pressure, it is not running hot, oh and it is in fact generating sufficient electricity to power the coach. Batteries are another example of things that age on a bus, especially one that has set still for awhile without shore power or on board charging units that work while connected to shore power. Batteries also have install date stickers. If the bus does not have that feature then an aftermarket charger from Guest may well be in your future, three stages please. How do I know this, well the “Classic” bus I bought January 1, 2007 had a set of chassis batteries with date stickers from November 2006. First trip out in 2007 was planned for April but it did not happen. One of the four batteries had failed and there was not enough power in the bank to get a grunt from the starter. So it could be a good idea to get the batteries load tested before purchase. Check to make certain there are no signs of past leaks in the underbay tanks. The would include fresh water, grey water, black water, and even the fuel tank(s). If someone involved in the sales effort says, “Trust me” about anything, don’t do it – trust them that is. Always request they prove you can trust them by being that old guy saying “Show me.”
An old adage may well apply here, “Beauty is only skin deep.” It is your responsibility to go deeper into the bus, check all the systems, lights, plumbing, electrical panels, control mechanisms, slide functions and their air bladder seals. I think there is a PDI checklist posted in the articles section of PC that should be very helpful in your quest for answers on a specific bus.
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Bill, that is from the Liberty and I especially wanted to point out the knobs are not symetrical which makes it impossible to have the knobs 180 degrees from OFF and still be able to set the cover on.
I am a bit of a chicken when it comes to potential problems so there are certain devices on our coach whose circuit breakers are only ON when they are in use, and as soon as we are done using them the breaker is turned off. The grille and the cook top are two of them, but I also will not turn on the breaker for awnings. I never use auto start for the generator. The switch for the TVs is always off except when we are on the road because the dish is on the same circuit and I don’t want it to be searching when the bus is in the garage. I know it stops after a while but I just don’t want it searching. I also turn off the aux compressor and water pump in the garage and only use the aux compressor on the road if I think I need air for something. I don’t turn on the breakers to the washer and dryer unless we are using it, or the bay outlets, or the chassis battery charger, or the block heater.
I think it is a good practice just to be thinking about only turning on power to devices when we use them.
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Great advice! Thanks!
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Merry Christmas and a happy and safe new Year.
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Mike
You re going to need to read the description as a general one
As Mr Mark indicated above, this coach is a 2004 Country Coach, most likely on a 2002 chassis.
It appears to be an early “LO” series of coach. Up to 2003, Country Coach busses were labeled with a 60000 production number such as 60449. From the first CC bus of the sixty thousand numbering which they went from 60001- to 60491 these XL and XLII’s had cruise airs or rooftops a/c units. The later XLIIs of the first generation of CC used Girard awnings, outside, split cafe bay doors under the slides using Knudsen Products Rams to open and close the bay doors. They also came with a simpler electronic switching system coupled with mother and sister boards in brief
The LO bus series began with LO-1 which was MSO’d as a 2003 model.
With more complexity than the earlier models these coaches were state of the art. Rooftop awning were now the lower profile ZipDee New Century, that Liberty and Milennium now use. The mother sister board electronics were replaced with crestron hence the 20 inch dash TV screen. That is not the main front TV. These earlier LO coaches had projection screen TVs in the salon that dropped down up front at windshield.
The push button color changing spring loaded Korean made delicate Sun Moulon light switches of the 60000 numbered coaches were replaced with touch pads
the driver dash area utilizes the original Prevost installed switches in lieu of previous switches which were the above mentioned Korean brand
HVAC was a combined system for use when parked or driving down the road. Country Coach was trying out something new new alternator wise for road travel. It could have the Aura-gen belt Darien generator of main engine to power a rolling coac
Also, after Prevost adopted engineering thatCC founder Bob Lee was doing on earlier coaches increased front axle capacity, this coach will have the 365/70/2.5 tires, instead of 385/65/22.5
This coach will have 20K Power Tech Genset, although ad reads17.5kw. I will have to look to see if I have a brochure from this era of a Country Coach. ,I might, but not sure
i think the tank caps for grey and black are a little light.
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!!!
Many thanks to everyone on the forum. We have made many new friends, enjoyed the no rally rallies, and benifted tremendously from the knowledge, questions, answers and good natured ribbing that goes on here.
Our Christmas wish is for everyone to have a safe and fun filled 2017.
As much as I hate to add this, Jon and Tom, you have created a wonderfull place here and we really appreciate Prevost Community and everthing that it provides to the members. Thanks for all you do to make it work.
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Year, chassis type, and converter in your signature would help the other members give you more concise help. Are you converting an older seated coach? Does the coach have an existing generator.
I met Jim Martin a few weeks ago at PRI in Indianapolis. I found him to be a very nice and interesting person. Very, very knowledgeable and sounds like he and his company have a long history in the motorcoach business.