Rick & Denise
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Made my reservations today for the Tennessee moonshine festival & PC Rally
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John,
We had a wonderful time and still remember how great it was to get up close and personal with all that was going on at the Indy 500. Our experience at the Daytona 500 this year was the opposite because we ended up parked next to a plastic sitcks and staples that had about 7 guys whose sole purpose for being there was to drink beer and make everyone’s life miserable. The opportunity you presented to us was the benchmark we have used and nothing yet has come close to how enjoyable that was.
Welcome to Prevost Community. We look forward to having you post on our forum and hope you can join us at our rallies.
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Obviously an impersonator. From the sounds of the number signed up so far we are going to have fun.
Don (the manager) and I are going to get together after the first of the year and put together a list of neat things to do and see in the area. With such a wide variety of venues ranging from restaurants, to attractions, to great shopping to scenic drives nobody is going to get bored.
And Tom told me he would bring his tools and fix anything anyone wanted on their coach.
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Mine ends with 1096, our coaches look like twins (on the outside). Thanks.
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Chuck, Tom was thinking of you and Barb when he set it up. Hope you can make it.
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Hi Larry,
Search for item 120825504508 These are the 12 volts model with rechargeable battery for nighttime operation. The cost is $830 including shipping. That is a very low price, considering the new cost was easily 3 times as much.
Cheers,
Ronald
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The cost of German engineering…
I recently replaced the world’s most expensive automotive rheostat. The throttle position sensor that’s mounted under the gas pedal has a $270 price at the Detroit Diesel shop in Vegas. Given I was in Vegas I just chocked it up as another gambling loss.
Seriously, see if you can find any of the manufactures markings. It’s probably a Bosch part.
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Rocky,
There are many others reading your experiences and learning from them. Apart from tires over which you have a lot of control during their life span, batteries are high on the list of expensive things that can make coach ownership very enjoyable or miserable. If you note one of the first things I mentioned was to separate the batteries and check them. One bad battery in the house or the chassis can create problems that make no sense.
When you replace them make sure all the batteries are the same date, make sure the inverters are set up for the specific type of batteries and that you take the time to insure all connections are clean and tight, including those at the master switches and circuit breakers and grounds. As long as the batteries are out you can do that easily with no concern about sparks or burns.
Just so everyone understands the importance I will repeat……..make sure the inverters are set up for the specific type of batteries you install. And then monitor the voltages to insure they are limited to the charging voltages specified by the battery manufacturer. Otherwise you have another new set of batteries in your future.
It is too bad new owners fail to take the time required to a complete coach inspection before money changes hands, especially when the information required to do that inspection is available thanks to the internet.
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Hi folks, here is an update. I found the obvious leak. It was a blue 3/8 inch nylon line that had failed(cracked) where the line enteres a manifold/valve dead center on the forward bulkhead in the spare tire compartment. Clipping off the cracked portion of the line and replacing the fitting fixed the air leak. But alas, that did not fix the front air bag problem. I still had no or insufficient pressure to raise either front air bag.
Further investigation with bus up on leveling blocks showed a solenoid valve adjacent to the front height leveling valve with a blue 3/8 inch nylon tube entering the solenoid valve, then exiting the valve and routed into a TEE fitting that feeds both front air bags. Removing the blue line from the inlet fitting to the solenid valve showed we had air pressure up to the valve but none coming out and getting routed through the TEE fitting to the front air bags. Simply by bypassing the solenoid valve and routing the incoming blu line straight to the TEE fitting we got the bus to raise to proper ride height. Now we can drive the coach but the level low is not functional. The ir line is still being routed through the ride height leveling valve but not through this solenoid valve in the same location as the leveling valve.
The PDF drawing I downloaded from prevost is half French, half English and all lousy quality drawing and writing. I do not know what the solenoid valve is called, its part number or its function. But that is progress.
Thats all for now and as usual any further info/insight will be appreciated.
Thank You, Mike Felice
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I don’t believe that vintage coach has the K-B calipers so he would be able to see the slack adjuster which is not on later coaches. I’m not sure he has a tag axle parking brake.
But Bob brings up an excellent point. If you have disc brakes the caliper has to slide. Unless you can take off your wheels yourself it might require you to take the coach to someone to have them check to see if the calipers do slide. If you have drum brakes you will not have to check that. Infrequent use of our coaches creates a lot of problems never experienced by owners who use the coaches routinely and corrosion is one of the problems on moving parts.
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Do something nice for Tom and he’s likely to fix you up with one of these:
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Jon,
That would really be nice to be able to just sit in the drivers seat and check the systems like that. I’m definitely not going to show Jan your post, she is really getting tired of crawling under the bus. 🙂
ps, I glad you have found something that tells you… your ok. 🙂
pss, I would really like to talk Jan in to heading to OKC to see everyone and to look over you new bus. We have been running so much, that it’s time to stay home and get some work done.
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Bruce,
I remember a few years back, Fast Roger had trouble on his XL II Country Coach with fuel “puking” as Jon calls it. He called Prevost and raised a little sand and they sold him a “kit” to fix the problem.
I don’t know if you are having the same problem he had, but he said that the kit from Prevost fixed the problem.
Maybe he will chime in or you can PM him (Fast Roger).
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“…were attacking if you dont hear it click when you push yhe botton let us know and i will find out what relay it is. That funny looking word that was attacking me was a flying insect that carries the West Nile Virus and i cant speel it…”
That’s hilarious! Thanks for the info. When you find out which relay it is I am interested in that although it is probably the switch.
DKO