Per
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Way ahead of you, Tom. I mentioned PC first time we were there in early May, and they are an advertiser on PC.
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I don’t mean to hi jack this thread….I can see the thermostat on the rear bulkhead in the water bay but cannot see where the electric baseboard or toe kicker is? My eyes must be failing as I am getting older…still a junior compared to Jon though!
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Per,
Sounds good. Safe travels!
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That’s a shame! I was planning to there next year to get the valves adjusted, and fix the oil leaks. I liked their method of pulling the engine out–one of my oil leaks is at the oil filter mount/block junction, and pretty hard to get to with the engine in the coach. Any other outfit you guys would recommend?
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I did not know that was what toilet you had….Fix that one it is good…yours should be 24v
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Directv installed a booster to allow me to slave the tv in the side bay to coax. No charge. Reception is the pits. Guess you get what you pay for! If some one has a good suggestion I’m all ears.
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We had a power steering presure line fail earlier this year…first time on the “hook” in 300K miles! Fortunately Tom at Prevost Road Service was able to hook us up with a local bus company in PA that agreed to replace both power steering lines.
The failure occurred where the pressure line goes thru the bulkhead above the rear suspension, apprently corrosion set in and caused the fittings to fail. The Mechanic was able to fabricate both the pressure and return lines and feed them thru a PVC pipe that went from the bulkhead forward to the spare tire compartment in the front of the bus. total time for the repair was about three hours.I always check in with Prevost road Service first if I have a Bus problem
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The cluster is an XLII type unit. I suspect, without any knowledge of how the fuel guage works, is that the guage is faulty or there is a wiring issue or the sending unit in the fuel tank has crapped out…..or any or all of the above. Just wondered if anyone else in the Prevost community experienced a similar issue.
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Charlie,
Your diagram has a fatal flaw. It appears you start the turn at the beginning of the edge of pavement radius return. If you do that your drive and tag wheels on the inside of the curve will definately be riding on whatever material is off the pavement before completing the turn. If its grass and raining, throw in a slight uphill grade and guess what? As soon as the drive wheel on the inside of the turn hits the unpaved surface you will stop. As I understand it the Prevost drive wheels are not posi-traction operation. Therefore the first drive wheel to lose contact with the pavement will be a spinner. Don’t ask how I learned this feature during a check in, raining hard for all afternoon, clay surface off the stone surface, and at a facility in western NC (uphill grades).
You will have to begin your turn further forward from the point of curvature (POC) in order to keep your drive wheels on the pavement. I posted an engineering diagram some time ago which detailed the geometrics of a coach turning sweep area with wheels shown. If I can find it, that is if I did not delete it from my computer, I’ll re-post it again. For a straight front axle 40′ coach the inside turning radius is 45′. One other piece of advice, provided there are no objects in the way of the front bumper, is that with the significant set back of the steer wheels you can start your turn later and allow the front of the bus to overhang the outside of the curve pavement while keeping your steer tire closest to the outside of pavement actually on the pavement. It is spooky the first couple of tries at doing this but with experience comes success.
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Jeff that bunk bed contraption looks pretty cool, but that price is not.
If you want the traditional dinette sleeping area, you just need to replace what you have with the arrangement you will find in many motorhomes. In my prior bus, a Country Coach, there were two opposing benches at the table with a small lip on the inside edge of the bench. To sleep a kid we would remove the post from the table and rest the tabletop on that lip, filling the space between the benches. The cushions from the back of the benches filled the space on the table and made a nice, but small bed. You can buy ready made dinette sets of this type.
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I probably mis-stated a lttle when I spoke about Prevost slides and not having this conversation. While we would miss the current floorspace my wife and I both said the non slide is easily doable (with an adjustment). We didn’t feel cramped and we don’t hate each other..lol It also had the fore/aft bed wich for us made the bedroom much more doable than a cross bed.
After much deliberation what we both have decided that it cmes down to is whether we want to write the down pament check….lol We are simple people, we aren’t rich and a bus isn’t simply a write off for us. I am a retired, disabled Military vet on a fixd income (not bad, but fixed) so I have no more earning potential. buying a bus would NOT change the way we live or put us in a financial pickle. We are currently upside down and would be again. It is what it is. We owe on nothing except our coach so payment is no issue (actually would be the same as current) but writing that big down payment is tough to make the pen wiggle……lol
So our conversations really are is it worth the price of admission, not whether we can live in it or like it. We both like it and we both know we can live in it.
I was a bit worried over maintenance costs, but Jon and the rest of you have kinda put that fear to bed. So now it really is about whether writing that check is worth it or not.
My wife and I certainly appreciate the comments and the fact they are honest and that you all are not Prevost salesmen. We even had a couple private email and we really appreciated the fact you took time out of your day to talk to us. We know you can’t make our decesion (even though we can easily help each other spend their money) but your thoughts and views as owners, especially those that came from big traditional coaches are valued.
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Jon, you are correct, progress can be a PITA…. But I sure thank God for it…
Bill S.
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Per,
Why are you getting a down shift on a slight down grade. Have DD program to follow the selected gear, then just a slight throttle pressure keeps the jake off whether cruise or not.
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Yes you can do the update as well as update for the crestron app as there should be some….One of the updates dealt directly with video stream which is used in the backup camera systems
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Thanks Tom, I will have them check in the morning.
One of our problems, is we are in Mass and the coach is in Fla
The door key looks like a Ford key, could we get a key from Prevost by the vin #?