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  • Mike

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    January 29, 2020 at 10:18 am in reply to: RV Self Park!

    Fighting the branding power of KOA and the related stigma/impressions might be a challenge. I believe clean, simple and convenient will win out.

  • Mike

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    August 1, 2018 at 8:32 am in reply to: Prevost Hub Caps
  • Mike

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    July 31, 2018 at 9:38 pm in reply to: How to Value a Bus – Buyer’s Perspective

    True. I bounced around Nashville a few years ago and looked through about 15 of them. Most seemed to need maintenance of some form or another.

    The exception was Wade and Libby Staley had some nice ones on their lot that were well maintained.

  • Mike

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    February 10, 2017 at 9:05 am in reply to: Jake Brake Foot Switch Install

    Since all of the vehicles I primarily drive are manual transmissions I could just picture myself stepping on the “clutch”. On the bus it feels a little odd initially to not step on the clutch and I have found my right hand in the air feeling for the gear shift.

    The ideal set up is the one used for the retarder. Even with the retarder selector in the “0” or off position, as long as the master switch is on the retarder is engage proportionately with brake engagement. Step on the brake and the retarder is automatically operational.

    When I had a jake it was on 100% of the time. Same with my retarder. Why not engage the Jake when the brake lights come on so you never have to think of raising your left foot? In a panic situation, unless you have practiced panic stopping often enough to have “muscle memory” you are not going to be engaging the Jake to assist as efficiently as having it come on automatically.

  • Mike

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    February 9, 2017 at 10:26 am in reply to: problem with front TV lift

    I doubt this is your answer but you never know. I was driving down the road and the TV came down above me intermitently. Scared the living daylights out of me. It would come down a few inches. Then a bit more. And a bit more. This went on for miles until the 48″ tv came all the way down.

    Turned out we have TV Lift up and down switches in multiple places. One set is by our salon recliner whose arm was butted up against the switch. I guess as I hit bumps down the road the chair would hit the TV Lift Down button and down it came. It wasn’t a ghost or a short.

  • Mike

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    February 8, 2017 at 4:21 pm in reply to: 12V Water Heater

    Buddy,

    My 12V WH is my Webasto …