Peter
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My coach might be a little different. But mine has a high pressure hose out of the pump and a return line back to the reservoir. It has a short suction line from the reservoir to the intake of the pump. Based on the print supplied by Prevost my high pressure line went from the pump to a bulkhead fitting just in front and above my fuel tank. I’m not sure if a solid pipe runs between that bulkhead to the front of the coach or not. The failure I fixed was between the pump and the bulkhead. I was not able to remove my fuel tank so I just cut out the ruptured section of hose and purchased reusable hose ends and a union to splice the two ends together.
Root cause of the failure was old rubber bumpstops. The bumpstops compressed sevral inches more than new bumpstops which allowed the rear end to pinch the power steering hose between the rear end and the coach floor anytime the air leaked out of the coach while parked.
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Thanks Al…
Bill S.
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I don’t know what kind of work you do, but it is likely you will not find adequate parking facilities near your work on many occasions. Unless you are willing to do a lot of ‘dry camping’ you will be inconvenienced more than being restricted to a hotel room. Adequate parking facilities is the weak spot in the Luxury Motor Coach industry, in my opinion. Also, as Jon says, unless your driveway has 5 or 6 inches of reinforced concrete on a good base, be prepared to replace a lot of broken driveway.
I know what it is to ‘catch the bug’ to justify a coach purchase, but they generally are more trouble than they are worth outside of the recreational and personal enjoyment areas. Again, in my opinion. But opinions are like other parts of the anatomy, everyone has one.
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Les, I hope when you have a problem the adjuster from State Farm understands the local shop may not be the best qualified to repair your coach to its original condition.
For our Prevost conversions we need people that don’t shy away from having a bus towed to the nearest Prevost service center or even back to the converter if the repairs impact the house.
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I had a Royale that would do the same thing and it was the voltage regulator also !!!
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The device to the right of the car stereo is a simple 110 V lights switch. But, it is a super cool one from Lowe’s rather than the typical little toggle switch you see in the house. This bus must have had some type of entertainment system in this bay before. There are a lot of different wires and coax cable’s and video cables that were stored behind a cover in the upper right corner of Bay.What I did was use the 110 V that already came into the bay and switch it with the light switch to turn on and off a plug inside that cover where the speakers and the TV are plugged into. I also have a little 12 V transformer in that same plug so when the light switch turns on it sends a 12 V switch signal to the car stereo to turn on Just like a car stereo would do when you turn the ignition on to your car. The car stereos main power comes from 12v already in the bay. Presumably that is house 12 V.
That 12 V transformer also feeds the colored LEDs I installed under the little subfloor so that you would have a visual reference that that switch is on.
Basically when I flip the switch on the car stereo comes on the speakers come on and the TV comes on with the flick of the switch . And of course with one flick of the switch everything turns off. That’s why I set everything up to work that way to make it easy to turn it all on and off. I thought about trying to add everything to the remote control system to turn it on and off but felt this was a more positive way to ensure everything was off .
The subfloor is made from some five eights inch hardwood ply that I bought at Lowe’s . The sideboard that the TV mount is screwed into is the same five eights inch ply. The material is automotive carpet that I bought from an automotive parts store out here called O’Reillys. The carpet is the easiest part. You get 3M spray adhesive, spray the plywood, and stick the carpet on… it’s awesome.
And then the audio and video is switched from the main AV system in the bus so I bring my iPad out and can select whatever I want to see with the iPad. I ran a new cat5 down to the bay which I use with my switcher to send video to the TV. The switcher encodes HDMI to HDBaseT which makes it easier to run over a cat5 cable. Though…. Not gonna lie…. I wish I just ran a 40′ hdmi cable down there. The network thing has lots of delays and drops. Anyway…. If you have more questions… Just ask!
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Ours jumped about 25%, too. Having Marlene at Miller Insurance shop around couldn’t come anyhing better either.
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If I read the Koehler manual correctly, it says change hoses annually. But I can’t believe you would have to change the radiator hose annually. Don’t know if mine have ever been changed, but they still look in good condition.
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As I have posted many times, I have loved all of my Prevost’s. But I still have my ’77’ GMC 26 footer. It was way ahead of its time with front wheel drive, air bags and 50V Power cord. I still get a kick out of driving it, and to be honest, I get a whole lot more looks and comments when driving it than when in my Prevost. BEST OF BOTH WORLDS.
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https://www.amazon.com/1-25-Pitch-Stainless-Metric-Threaded-Coupling/dp/B00FSYB6OC
You’ll probably want to have an M8-1.25 die handy to clean up the threads after cutting.
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Tom,
I know that you guys are talking about house batteries. Since we have LI batteries for house, what kind of life should I get out of my 4 starting batteries? We are at 23 months and have 31,000 miles on the coach now.
Mark
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Hope you are able to isolate the problem before you need to replace all batts! Surely a single batt or two at most should give you a cure if you don’t find anything else. Good luck!
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My 01 Liberty didn’t have an accumulator tank, check valve for the Headhunter water feed or a cut-off and I added all those items myself. You do have an accumulator tank and have checked the air pressure correct Charles?
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Yes Jon
Thanks for address offer. We’ll figure it out. This is the case for every emissions tested every vehicle in the State of Colorado testing area. You give up control of your vehicle and they will not succumb to any pre-inspection at your beckoning.
This whole thing has completely mushroomed after I tried to see if the muffler needed further securement for travel in two weeks to Mira Loma And to see if we can change out muffler ourselves.
God D$$$N.
The radiator fan blade was involved when the muffler was pulled rearward, the exhaust blanket covered exhaust pipe came in contact with the fan blade, shredding a portion of the blanket and melting bending every tip on one side of every blade. I called the Dept of Revenue guy a hour ago and left a message for him about the newly discovered damage! I’ll send Tom photos to post. But there again, we have no observable proof the testing agent did this damage. It’s he said, they said. And they say they didn’t do it and we are liars!
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OMG…I’m turning into Jon…I $@*^ hate Windows 10! Geo.