Paul
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Al…
Yes mine is a 10″ brush make sure it’s ultra soft as they do make a few different ones.. Your best bet is a marine store like West Marine so you can see exactly what you are buying… also a good idea to buy from somewhere that you can take it back if it’s not what you want especially after what Tom said about his experience with them. Mine has been great used every week for years.
The lamswool that Tom has sounds good too…
Good luck,
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Liberty coach is now using espar heating systems on their new coaches. They stopped using them a number of years ago because of problems (not sure of what the problems were at that time) but have started to use them again.
We had this system in our 2012 H-45, it was slow to heat, but worked well once it was on for a while.
they are small units , ours was located above the tag axle on the drivers side. One interesting fact is the exhaust pipe can only be 4 feet long so ours emptied behind the tag wheel, so you are limited in that respect.
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Those who have never seen the driveway (rises 80 feet in 285 feet of length) it presents a challenge when transitioning from the upslope to the flat garage floor. The rear of the bus is still climbing as it enters the garage, while the crown of the driveway gets closer to the bottom of the coach between the axles.
But now that it has been shown to get into the garage without damaging anything the process is simple. Raise the front as high as it will go, and when the rear is at the door opening, lower it as low as it will go. When the front is about 10 feet from going in the garage lower the front so the satellite dish clears the opening.
Leaving the garage and going down the driveway just requires a reversal of the raising and lowering sequence. I have been doing that for years with the current coach (except on that coach I do not have to lower or raise the rear) so I don’t see a problem. If I forget to do things in the right sequence however it will turn into a mistake with very serious consequences.
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On our first Prevost, at around 100,000 miles the coach started locking in gear. When we were driving we would get a “do not shift” alert. When that occurred the transmission was locked in whatever gear it was in at the time. When we had to stop the engine would stall because it was still locked up in 5th. It was like stopping without stepping on the clutch.
Prevost found the 28 pin connector was corroded so the male and female portions of the connector were locked together and would not come apart. The coach had to be taken to Allison and the repair was to chisel the plugs apart and rewire the entire transmission, something that took 2 days. The corrosion was what eventually led to sending false information to the brain so the transmission was acting as it did. To the credit of Prevost and Allison the costs of the repair were borne by both companies even though the coach was out of warranty. What I learned is to separate the plug and receptacle at every service to keep the two parts from corroding together. Plugging and unplugging about every 5000 miles would evidently “wipe” any corrosion that might have developed from the pins.
It did not help that at the time we used the coach during the winter doing trade shows in the snow belt, exposing the underside of the coach to all the road salt and crud used to keep the roads clear. As Mark points out the electrical parts of the transmissions do not tolerate corrosion very well because corrosion becomes a path for or inhibits electrical signals which are very low voltage, and when that occurs the transmission will not function as intended.
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We were there over the New Year’s weekend and they have hundreds of sites, almost all back in sites, but most of the sites will fit a 45 footer but the driver will have to exercise care backing in. They always provide an escort to the site and the escort will guide the driver into the site if wanted.
There were probably 10 Prevost coaches in there while we were there with a couple of them 40 footers and the balance 45. Their policy is to take you around to the available sites and let you select the one you want.
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Tom and Jon, I hope this turns out to be everything you envision.
JIM