Peter
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Yes, I drain that site glass daily as it accumulates at least 1/4″ of moisture. The cutout seems to go off at around 120 lbs, maybe this is set too high?
Thanks for clearing up the mystery of the smaller gauge, now I know a lot more thant I did this morning!
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Thanks Tom tried to call u but not there just getting ready to get on the road so last minute checks replaced some more air fittings with compress fittings replaced fan bellow below fan hard to change new air bags on gen. But could not get coach to raise up in front much just wanted to check put check valve in on air bellow for engine fan and belts
PS moved beer to rear through out horse gear put shorts and sun glass in should be good to use in Michigan next week take it to royale next week for some of the floor lights then starts the 38 week marthon of traveling for my business all across USA east west north south plus all of Canada u think I would get tired of it this is the 25 year lot of miles every year but lots of fun
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Tom. We like the glass dash. Economically for us being able to use the iPad for other than coach stuff is great Comparing analog vs G-Dash gauges:
turbo boost right on the money
speedo analog 3 miles an hour faster
tach is 200 rpm faster than glass dash
oil pressure pretty much equal
Coolant temps eliminates guessing do to sparsely placed analog gauge numbers. Always wondered if coolant is SO important why the lack gauge numbers.
When we don’t have obstructed fuel filter we can pull 7 percent grade in 2nd gear doing 35-38, pyros at 1050-1100, and coolant goes to 187-189 maybe 193 if I don’t back off. We don’t have as much info from our diagnostic port like series 60’s like gear selection, but glad we did it
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I look harder saturday when I can get back to the coach and get pictures Thanks for the help Jim
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Thanks for the info. I haven’t seen that site listed anywhere. I appreciate the help.
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The peterbilt was 2005 it had none of that stuff it was great
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Its hurricane
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Hurricane heat? It’s not Webasto?
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Jim, you realize it is customary for the new guy to buy us all expensive gifts I hope.
Just kidding. Welcome aboard. Ask questions anytime, and on occasion you might actually get a correct answer.
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Yeah I am trying to find a solution for this tour. We are going to be moving through 47 cities from April – December. So really we need a place to shower / hook up for a night or two max in each location.
I tried calling KOA HQ in Montana. Got a lovely lady, and she explained that there is no Rule against my request of 11 adults. However it is up to each owner of the KOAs in question. Since they are all owned and operated by private owners.
So I suppose I will start to call a few of them tomorrow and see what they say. One would assume its just an extra fee for the “services” like water (as suggested). At least I am hoping that is the deal. Cause having to get a few hotel rooms just to have a shower is gonna hurt my budget big time.
To be honest the bus has a shower on board…but to have 11 people use it in a none hooked up situation doesn’t seem to work…I would think we would run out of fresh water quick 🙂
I’ll keep you posted when I call tomorrow
Thanks guys
Paul
CaptVelocity
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I think we have to accept that our coaches rarely lose wheel bearings and when they do it would appear they were run dry.
The two instances I know of were when seals had been replaced and the bearings were run dry because the hubs had not been filled with oil. Both were drive axle bearing failures and both had leaky seals replaced with the buses released from service less than 10 miles prior.
If a hub seal leaks, leading to the loss of oil in the differential or the hub the result is usually an ugly mess that is hard to ignore.
While a tempstick makes sense, for one to be useful on our coaches the operator would have to go to the trouble to remove the hubcap. By that time the temp may have gone down. My somewhat cynical sense of this is the operator that cannot see the black grease and oil from a leaking hub seal, and react to that before the bearing runs dry is likely to not even want to go to the effort of checking fluid levels (or having them checked) or using a tempstick.
The benefit of checking temps at the wheels is not so much to catch a possibly dry or failing bearing, but to catch a dragging brake.
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I agree it is sad cat was good motor we just bought two 150 horse power four wheel drive tractors for the ranch they all have the regen on them how dumb is that u can not idle them it must idle at 1800 rpm or run at 1800 rpm so filters do not get pluged for feeding cows that is not that good usually just going slow so 1800 is way to fast old ones burned way less fuel and u could idle them up a little bit maybe 1100. Rpm and do the job on a tractor really come on get real regen on tractor . And they wonder why beef cost so much
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If this is your first drive axle oil seal, you’re probably doing fine; what’s your mileage? I am the self-proclaimed expert on rear axle temps/wheel seals. I’ve averaged 70,000 miles/seal over 300,000 miles.
Both of my buses had/have diff oil temp gauges. Up to 250 seems to be fine for synthetic. I’ve run as high as 300 during hot, high speed towing and that’s when I had the most problems with seals. As the diff oil breaks down from use, temps will escalate. I STRONGLY recommend full synthetic fluid (axle AND trans) and if you don’t have a temp gauge, I would use a change interval for synthetic of 50,000 with severe use and 100,000 with normal use.
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The reason for asking on raising the tag was that as mentioned on our 06 Royale it seems the whole rear drops when tag is raised whereas on the coach I drove from Florida to northern Indiana a week ago http://panterracoach.com/coaches/2001-prevost-thompson-xlii-45/ would actually as Jon mentioned show about 3 inches of clearance under the tires. I guess maybe I just didn’t wait long enough on ours to raise back up to ride height. I’ll check it again sometime when the weather is a bit more conducive to being outdoors. Had our best snow of the season last night!