[Per]

Diane,

I lost the motor that moves the seat back. Turns out they have to gut the seat because the motor itself can’t be fixed. Then, between the time I got mine and installed it they changed the whole engineering…….

[Per]

I’ve only had this one Prevost coach (H3-45) but I’ve got alot of time in motorhomes of all sizes.(Not to mention driving our church bus, an H3-45, many thousands of miles) I can’t say there is NO difference between a 40′ and a 45′ coach…but I will contend that neither is really good for running down to the store! My traveling seems to be from one campground to the next and, by in large, size has really only mattered a very few times. Look at it as sharpening your skills!

We are 65′ feet with the dinghy and I can honestly say I think if I were ONLY 60 it would not make things any easier. Where the 5 feet becomes really apparent is the living space. I don’t know exactly what I would want to give up if I had to get rid of 5 feet from my MH.

Stretch your building— fill up with diesel and hit the road. I don’t think you’ll be sorry—I sure havn’t been!!!!

TY

[Per]

Our
security department has been alerted and Colt’s registration is
poised for self destruction, but Melissa is safe!

[Per]

I need to say thank you again to you all! Through this forum, emails, and phone calls you have all been extremely helpful and I feel like I’m coming up to speed a wee bit.

I just completed a morning of yard work and am a soaked mess from our AZ sun, so the thought of air conditioning is still running through my mind. I’ve read Gil’s article, but would like to hear a few more opinions on the Country Coach OTR. I’m not a fan or their dash air in my 97 Allure. I’m curently having the third compressor installed in about as many years. What do you know about CC OTR?

BTW, in case you’re curious, I had my neighbor (who’s family contracted our home and RV garage, but before we bought it) help me understand what would be invovled with extending our garage from an interior depth of 41’7″ to 53’7″. Its a block with stucco and faux stone finish garage. He said plan for $20K – $30K for everything. That tells me to plan for $35K. It a two door/bay garage and we would extend forward into the concrete driveway, most-likely just leave the middle pillar there for support of the current roof, cut concrete for footings but use the current driveway for garage floor. Going back would be preferred but more expensive, because we have a small guest house that currently takes up the rear of the garage across both bays.

[Per]

Kurt, I agree with Red that American Coach conversions are good for boondocking. Apparently American used both roof airs and Cruisairs. Mine has 4 Cruiseairs, which I really like. They don’t shut down while driving, but I did have that problem on my ’90 Country Coach XL40. I don’t have OTR, but my MCI has super powerfull dash air, effectively 1/2 of the OTR system, so that may make the difference. As Joel noted, Cruiseairs do have a hard time cooling the coach while parked on shore power if the temp exceeds 100. We don’t have slides. With slides increasing the interior volume I think it would be even worse. Not sure if roof airs can do better at temps over 100 in an RV conversion, but I’ve been in entertainers with 5 roof airs that were ice cold at 105 ambient. Noisy, though.

[Per]

Had several cracked lenses on the overhead clearance lights on my 1991 coach and Prevost had a couple here and a couple there of the old ones and had to order from other Prevost Shops. They had 50 LED types in Houston Tx. store. Had Prevost Houston install all new LED ones and they did it for around 300 bucks when they did the Level 3. Thought that was pretty cheap and didn’t have to climb around on a ladder. Had to cut fiberglass openings larger to fit. Mucho brighter.

[Per]

Dick, you should find 2 screws in frt of seat pad. It will then kinda slip out. I just left mine out, you don’t need them to keep pad in place. Geo.

[Per]

National Wrecker fixed the problem they had the red wire on the battery terminal instead of the small terminal. If anyone experiences a solenoid problem, try to find a place that will just replace the solenoid and not the complete starter. It is much cheaper. Again thanks for all the help.

[Per]

Kurt,

Phil Cooper has a 99 – 40′ Marathon that looks nice.

I bought my 98 Liberty from him last year, he was a great guy to work with.

http://philcooper.com/inventory/99-40-marathon/#.VfDhk8uCOrU

Good luck, and welcome to the family.

Jackson

[Per]

aleys alt shop inWichita Falls got me one 24 volt out ofDallas if an needs phone number let me know 1500.oo dollars I believe thanks Dan

[Per]

I see. Thanks, Jon, for elucidating me.

As you probably know, on my antique there are two separate compartments, each with its own ‘door’, and the toll window is not a part of it.

[Per]

Is there any particular year range this is happening in.

My 99 door has been opened and closed more than I could count but no problem yet.

After being locked out before I have a hidden bay door key and front door key.

The bay door key alows me to access all my tools and a specially bent piece of metal that will slide between the windows on my door and unlock the little lever that will let you slide the window open.

[Per]

Great write-up and pictures.

Thanks, Tim.

[Per]

Andre

what happened to your F-150 you had at Branson?

[Per]

Well Jackie, your wellcome.

The on/off switch is in the coach somewhere probably hiding in plain sight. I have no idea where it is but someone here certainly does. Once turned on, you may need to get the burner to run by demanding heat via running hot water or interior heat via the thermostats for that purpose.

All the best.