Paul
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You may not to ever want to come out of the corner when you total up how much you now owe Jeff…..
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Hey Glen, you forgot to mention how I light my cigars with $50 dollar bills. Which is especially revealing when you consider I don’t smoke. I’ll not forget my first time at Jeff’s when I said that I left with my pockets empty. And Jon said “You left there with pockets”?
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I do not suggest this as acceptable but my driveway has a 31% slope and my parking brake holds the coach on that slope. It is so steep, with the nose pointing downhill I have all I can do to pull the door closed when entering the coach.
In case that isn’t easily understood as to how steep 31% is, when the tail of the bus is at the garage door, the mirrors are below garage floor level so I cannot see the garage floor until the tail of the bus is about 5 feet inside the garage.
I have spring brakes on both the tag and drive axles, and if just one of the springs has failed the bus will not hold on the slope of my driveway.
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Sounds like Harry is taking responsibility for any price increases.
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Thanks for the detail, Jon & Joe.
Richard, this is the latest version of what I use for OTA TV: Winegard HDTV Antenna
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Bluebird was a casualties of that era.
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My only CB experience on a bus is with the Liberty conversions. None have been exceptional at transmitting or receiving.
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ADMIN: Please delete this redundant post. TIA!
Dr. Gary: If you end up with a conventional, stick ‘n staples plastic RV/motorhome you definitely want to keep that inside … and hidden from view.
But a Prevost luxury motorcoach is different. When your local community see your Prevost they will probably ask you to park it out in front of your house! The Prevost shells which the converters start with are built to be used a million miles running coast to coast as a seated coach in Canada. Its a commercial chassis, with commercial design and engineering. Many Prevosts in commercial service rarely are inside.
I’d love to be able to keep our coach inside when we’re not using it, but our local municipality limits me to a 1000sf detached “accessory building” which I built for the race shop. I did put a concrete pad next to the race shop with plenty of gravel and a vapor barrier underneath the concrete along with twin 50amp RV plugs, fresh water, and dump station. But in essence the coach sits outside … as you can see from the pictures.
Prior to our purchase the coach in 2014 it likely spent most of its life inside the owner’s truck barn for his beer distributorship in SW Michigan or inside his large toy box near his vacation home in Tennessee.
In the time we’ve owned the coach, we’ve experience only two leaks in the roof. They both occurred at the same tie while we were at East Tennessee Luxury Coach for a Prevost Community maintenance seminar during a torrential rain storm, they were both on opposite sides of the coach in the exact same distance from the front. Jeff Rowe determined they were from two vents that needed some fresh sealing up. Typically when we have Jeff do service on the coach he is up on the roof doing a thorough inspection and addresses any of the old sealant that needs it. Last fall I had a guy clean the roof and he said that the clearcoat was coming off before he started to clean it and now I’m investigating repainting the roof (probably with an insulating paint) and applying to clear coat.
If you can’t store the coach indoors, I wouldn’t worry too much about storing it outside. I wouldn’t cover it nor would I sheath it. Snow doesn’t bother me. We keep two or three 1000 watt cube heaters running inside the coach during the cold months and have found that between the heat from the inside of the coach and the sun after a snow storm that the snow melts and runs off the side of the coach.
In winter I keep the fresh water tank filled, single holding tank empty, monitor the temp in the water bay, and if temps will drop much below 30*F I turn the water heater on. I’ve found that the water heater throws off enough heat to keep the water bay (and 200 gallons of fresh water in the tank) easily in the 40’s. At about 5 to 10*F I will turn on the 1000 watt heat gun Liberty installed in the water bay, and if it gets really cold out (below zero for any length of time I’ll fire up the Webasto diesel boiler which heats the inside of the coach, the water heater, and the water bay.
Good luck with your search.
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Chad,
Trunk Monkey is great.
Send more
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Dave, The kit is year and model specific and the problem began with the introduction on GC’s of the electric power steering pump.
Some owners were affected, others not affected. It was that early group of electric power steering GCs that kept reporting the problem to Jeep Chrysler who kept saying there was no problem, but ultimately realized there was and created the original kit.
Some owners have a lot of miles experience towing and never had the problem. Others have had it often enough to know they have to get stopped ASAP to make it go away, but not so much they are willing to have the kit installed. I really like the GC, but it is clear to me Jeep Chrysler considers customer service to be little more than a suggestion. My finger is extended to Jeep Chrysler for all the support they provided to me and the dealer.
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This is exactly what Jon needs.
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Is a 1997 chassis same as what you are looking for?
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I saw a documentary that said the carbon footprint to obtain the minerals to build electric cars was actually 9% greater due to the mining of rare earth minerals and transporting, and manufacturing the batteries.
Another documentary said that the residential power grid would not support the recharge of electric cars if every one had an electric car requiring recharge.
Still trying to understand how we are going to provide the electricty without fossil fuel?
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I am a power pole to power pole guy, but I will not hesitate to use the generator.
Pulling into a rest area for a sandwich in hot weather has me using the generator to run a couple of A/Cs. If our destination is more than one driving day away we typically overnight in a rest are and the generator is on from when we pull in for the night until we go to bed. If it is hot or cold out we run the generator all night.
We do have at least one week every year that we dry camp, and the generator was going to run most of those hours.
We rarely need to run all 4 Cruisairs, but when dry camping with the generator running I make it a point to run all 4 and allow the thermostats to keep the bus interior cool or warm. Loading the generator is beneficial.
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Now that last one’s pretty funny, Dick!