Reagan
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Put me down as a ‘lifter’ also.
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They were red when they hit the floor, but the refliction of light from the poilshed pipes and slack adjusters, bleached the red out and they faded to yellow. In a few hours they may faded to white.
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Thank you Jon and I think I get all of that! But when I get in the coach and warm it up for 10 minutes before starting off. Doesn’t the coach, by itself, air up to the drive position? It was my understanding it does! So if that’s the case, are you saying that I can manually air the coach up higher from the drive position?
I don’t mean to drive you all crazy with this but I’m desperately trying to understand!
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I want to add to the previous post because you need to learn this.
Our level low suspension system allows us to adjust our height by inflating or exhausting air from the air bags such as to level the coach in a campground. We have about 4″ we can go up or down to accomplish that and we all have been in sites where one side is all the way down, while the other is all the way up and the front may be up while the back is down or any combination needed so the coach is level.
Do not only think of that feature as something only for leveling. When driving you are going to encounter conditions that will cause the front, rear or belly to drag and when you see those conditions stop and raise or lower the coach where and how necessary to provide clearance. As an example, a high crowned set of railroad tracks can hang the coach up in the center, or you can anticipate the need for additional clearance by raising the front and rear all the way up to provide the greatest ground clearance under the belly of the coach.
When entering or exiting a steep driveway it is possible to drag the front or rear so that might be a situation when you should raise the front or rear so you do not drag. If you ever have to get hauled on a low boy you may have to raise the coach to avoid damage to the sheet metal under the front bumper. If you are coming off a steep driveway you might want to raise the rear to avoid dragging the engine cradle or hitch.
From this you can see there are times when you will actually be moving when the coach is all the way up or down so don’t fear the need to raise or lower the bus when needed with the only exception being when at highway speeds you must be in the road or driving position.
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FYI – Prevost in the past discouraged dumping all air allowing the bags to rest on the internal stops for long periods of time.
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Jon… I plan on taking the coach to Disneyland Tennessee so Jeff can fix it while I mingle with Goofy and Daffy who I hear are hanging out there.
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my wife takes long showers so I have the Raratin 20 gallon water heater set at 150 as well as a tankless water heater in line set to the maximum which will allow both of us to take long showers.
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Absolutely fabulous… see you there..
Pres
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Jeff,
Perhaps you should consider opening a campground. Jon and Tom could be your campground hosts / entertainment
Bill
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There wasn’t a seat belt extension strap so that I could reach the buckel !!!
The only invoices I know you don’t have to pay are those for Oil Changes !!!
And yes………..electricity is free here, thank goodness, I’ve been here two months.
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Remember boy’s, when you pick that non Prevost experienced cheap insurance company and you have a boo boo because you didn’t see the steel post when you turned the corner, you’re in for a big surprise when the fiberglass claims adjuster shows up at Prevost and learns the repair will be 50,0000. You’ll be contacting your lawyer looking for relief from the 18,0000 settlement your cheap insurance company offers.
Agreed vs Stated Value
An Agreed Value policy guarantees the policy will pay the full insured amount of the vehicle, inclusive of all sales taxes – with no depreciation – in case of a covered total loss. A stated value policy (sometimes called stated amount or maximum limit of liability) does not promise upfront to pay this stated amount. In the event of a covered total loss, it may pay less than the stated amount, as the insurer has the right to pay the lesser of your collector car’s depreciated actual cash value (ACV) or its replacement cost. Also, many insurers that offer stated value policies require periodic appraisals to substantiate the insured amount, adding cost and inconvenience to the client
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Looks like Sanford, Florida
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I had the same problem on an 01 H that I had previously. What it was…………one of the door lock actuators was actually loose, so it would not activate the micro switch. The bolts, if I remember right, were bolted into a plastic housing. I gently tightened them with a little loc-tite, and it worked until I sold the bus.
Raise the door up half way, and let it down on a 5 gallon plastic bucket, so you can get to the inside of the door, remove the panel in the center, and you can see what I’m talking about.
I guarantee you one or more of them is loose, and it probably won’t be the micro switch being the problem.
Wish I had pics, but it’s been too long ago………
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Jon, I do not
appreciate your last comment with the four letter word (bite) .As I have
told you before and will stress once more:I can dish it out,… but I CAN’T TAKE IT !!! :o) :o) :o)
Seriously, I want to thank Andre and Ann Ducote and Mike and
Karen Davis for all the help cleaning up after our “Left Overs” dinner Sunday
evening. Also to Jon and Tom for this
site and for all the technical help that is allowing us to keep these complex
units on the road for our enjoyment.Remember that all the
fun we had was made possible by the advertisers, so thank them when you see
them. To everyone hitting the road
today, stay safe.3-F
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We looked at one I saw on I-90/94 between Chicago and Milwaukee in the summer of 2012. 1981Country coach, 1996 complete refurbish. Wasn’t for us … but convinced me a Prevost was better for us than a Peterbilt 379 converted to a motorhome.
Then we went to the first All Prevost show in Tampa in January of 2013. Looked at 42 coaches at the show … many were out of price range. While in Florida we looked at four or five we found in Craiglist or saw along the side of the road. Stopped at Parliament and looked at one or two there.
I spent six out of seven nights a week combing the coaches for sale at PC, POG, Prevost Stuff, RV’s for sale, a couple of other RV for sale websites, and then started to surf Craigslist sights across the country.
I called the sellers on probably 20 to 25 coaches, asked questions, got more pictures, but nothing really got us excited (other than short-term) until we found the coach we now have. Knew from the pictures and description it checked the boxes (late 90’s, XLV, Lliberty w/OTR, stainless steel sides!, no slides, no stickin’ DEF, private toilet room, and an interior that didn’t look like it was built as the courtesy bus for a New Orleans bordello.
As the saying goes … you’ll know the right coach within 30 seconds after stepping inside. I walked from the front of the coach to the back of the coach NOT listening to the seller trying to tell me how clean and wonderful it was; for cripes sake its a Prevost, a Liberty at that, it IS wonderful … that’s why I drove a day and a half to see it! When I got halfway back through the coach I knew this was the one … if Jeff Rowe would tell me the following morning this was a good coach. Which he did, he told me what I should expect before I left his shop, and he was right and accurate.
I strongly encourage you yo look at as many Prevost coaches as possible in your general price range as reasonably possible … even if you have to drive four hours to spend an hour looking. If you haven’t found your coach by January, go to the All Prevost Show in Tampa. I will caution you that as the show has matured over the last four or five years … there are less and less coaches from the late 1990’s at the show (or at least that is what it seemed like). I think the show promoter should try to get more entrants from the mid to late 90’s.
You might look at 20 coaches before your find the right one. Or you might look at only one … if (1) it checks enough of your boxes and (2) you’re comfortable with the maintenance history/records.
We bought ours without maintenance records/history except for a recent trip to Liberty in North Chicago, one or two trips to Buddy Gregg’s over the last couple of years, and a Freightliner service manager’s memory of the coach being in their shop over the years (changed computer systems, no records). Jeff and I took that into account. Oh … the filters had dates/milesage/hours on written on them
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