[Peter]

Fred nailed it, I’ve seen the string. Jon finding an alarm on his flip phone is priceless. Wait until he realizes it probably has a vibrate function and he will….. Never mind, you won’t be able to get that image out of your head.

[Peter]

You’re giviing away your age Gary.

A kid of today doesn’t know how to open the windows on a car with a crank. And almost none of them know what to do with their left foot.

[Peter]

A camp locator is typically a 22′ telescoping fiberglass pole that some people put flags on at race events. For us, we plan to put a LED 3′ whip which is also offered with various camp locator manufacturers.

We use a camp locator to help with finding our way back after riding atv’s at night. I use my drop pin, then switch my maps to satellite so I can see the trails on my maps which is super handy. And we turn on the “find my friends” so we don’t lose anyone. But when we get into the camp ground it becomes a pain to look at the phone and drive to get to camp. So when we get close a locator light we be great!

If you go to http://www.safeglowhips.com and click on camp locator you can see the options. They have a couple of mounting options. I think the best one for a Prevost, since there is no ladder, would be the hitch. Then, put some sort of hose insulation around the pole to protect the coach from possible wind damage from the pole.

I was also wondering aobut the power to the whip. I might could use the power from the toad plug:?????

I just wanted to use y’all as a sounding board.

Thoughts?

[Peter]

I just received a pair of oem shocks for the steer axle from Prevost, and was disappointed. They have virtuallly no resistance on compression and very little on rebound. If the application was a street car, I would throw them away. It will be interesting to compare the old ones to the new. I have run bilstein and koni on track cars and they cannot be compressed by hand, maybe that is biasing my opinion. My intuition was that the oems would have to be stiff to control the weight of our front axle. But like Jon said, less stress on the sidewall on compression.

The shock controls the rate of lean but not the ultimate stroke. Sway bar controls the stroke.

[Peter]

Re boot is a good idea but for some reason my brain is telling me AV1 is not the right input for Techlink. Before you re boot you might want to switch thru your video functions.

Later

bv

[Peter]

You want three axle alignment and have them look at the steering parts they will know what to do

It takes usually a hole shift to get it done

[Peter]

Thanks Peter! I’m glad to finally find something that is “cheap” on a Liberty Prevost.

[Peter]

Prevost told me that shocks are a 35,000 mile item,I like the Koni in the stiffest position.

[Peter]

Dick,

The other morning when we moved the coach, it was in the high teens/low 20’s. That’s about where I start to use it as a pre-heat mechanism… Not sure if it’s really needed, but I would rather error on the side of caution. I also let the engine run on idle for a good 5 minutes (or till the air system has filled 100%) before I switch to high idle. Of course anything below 50 is freezing in my book 🙂

I remember those mornings growing up in Mass, where my car wouldnt even think about starting. Some people had plug-in blankets for their engines so they could go to work on the really cold mornings. There is a reason I moved away from there and never went back 😉

[Peter]

Should be two big bolts on front off bumper undo those should fold down then

[Peter]

Marius, could you post some pictures when you are finished with the headlight upgrade?

Thanks,

Ken

[Peter]

We had a bunch of us go thru this last year, there are 2 or 3 pages on the Duralite replacements in the archives.

The Duralite from Prevost was 9800 when I replaced it and 8.5 hours labor. I was out the door at Mira Loma for 24000. Changed the hoses too.

I don’t know why Carguy’s bill was higher.

Anybody buying or owning a DDECV will almost certainly have this to look forward to.

I would not be believing anyone doing a pressure test and telling you it is within tollerance. If you are blowing bubbles with the soap test, change it.

Later

bv

[Peter]

I think mine cost around $1200, and doing the job by myself without the air if a fork lift I would say I took about 8 hours.

But I expanded the job to include all new flexible hoses in the air intake system, a complete coolant change (it has to be drained anyway), and a lot of cleaning in areas of the engine compartment I never have access to with the radiator and CAC in place so I probably spent twice that amount of time.

[Peter]

What does it cost to replace the CAC?

[Peter]

Now that is cool!