Roger
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I cannot speak specifically about the batteries installed by Liberty, but generally a set of lithium batteries can be rebuilt for substantially less cost than the initial purchase price. At one time the economics of Li batteries would be hard to justify, but I believe when the time comes for folks to replace them they may in fact not only be used to save weight, but they might prove to be more economical.
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One of the nicest places on the planet.
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When we bought our first coach I was in full blown Type A mode. I had no time for anything and I was always trying to make up time.
I knew I had a problem when I fell asleep in the plane on my way to an 8:00 AM meeting. Problem was I was the pilot.
On the first trip in the new-to-us bus I made certain that I turned the switch off. Some people can modulate their efforts. I can’t. I am either in full blown push ahead mode or relaxing. The folks at the factory were instructed not to call. I made it a point to not call the factory. I made up my mind that from the minute I was in the driver’s seat, even if I was just pulling out of the driveway I was on vacation. I have held that philosophy for 24 years. I drive at 62 MPH. I can and have driven faster, but have a hard time justifying it because I am relaxing if I am in the coach. In fact just driving it is relaxation.
We have driven 1200 miles in one stretch, and as little as 50 miles. When I don’t want to drive, I stop driving.
We have traveled with other owners and I don’t know how they ever relax. I can see them in the mirror on the cell phone constantly. Even when they are in the bus or at a rally, they haven’t left work behind them. Too bad. I paid my dues. I worked too many hours, I kissed too many customer asses, I had to act like Dear Abby to a factory full of people. But in the bus, I am almost unreachable. I’m on vacation and I am enjoying the ride.
As to maintenance and mechanics. There is almost nothing a mechanic working on the chassis needs inside the coach. There is no reason for anyone to be inside, tracking in grease or getting fingerprints on anything. But if you turn your coach over to anyone for service and then leave you are guaranteed to find the coach was viewed by everyone. There will be a dirty path from front to rear. The exception is Prevost.
Conversely, if you have repairs or service done by the converter your privacy will be respected and your coach will be protected. The technicians are not going to conduct tours and they will leave the coach clean. Still not a good idea to turn the coach over to them and leave.
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The CC Digital Dash will give you all the important opporational parameters like oil pressure, oil temp, transmission temp, 12 and 24 volt readings, front, rear and aux air pressure etc.
I don’t remember if mine would calculate mileage and some of the other things you mentioned.
If I can help in any way just email me or contact me on the forum.
The SilverLeaf has been great. No problems at all and it will give you MPG, GPH, Instant MPG, AVG MPG, Rolling MPG, in some model World Transmissions it will indicate gear selection, there 4 different screen set ups you can choose to use and in some cases the type of info displayed and in which position on the screen.
Good Luck
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Bill, later models had air to air CACs, the 8V92 has an internal coolant to air intercooler.
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Jack: Never had a problem with inverter bay temps on mine. I have a single (maybe 4″ diameter fan) mounted lower rear of compt which exits air to the center batt/ac compartment BUT, it pulls cool side air in. The gen radiator intakes air through the rear side of the bay door and an open access to the inverter compt in the front of the same bay allows unheated radiator intake air into the inverter compt.
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Party at Mira Loma! We are there as well waiting for a part for the OTR from New Jersey.
Gerald
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Peter,
Great website. I couldnt get the Description to work on what H1, CW and CS means on your workshops. I am wondering if the Beeville clinic might be good for my 15 year old son and his horse? Hope to see you and buy you a bean when you are down our way.
Loc
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Are they in the old Vantare/feather lite building in Sanford Florida?? Do they employ some of the same people?? Use some of the same technology??? Are the two companies related? My curious mind would like to know.. I was impressed by my visit to Sanford shop about 4 years ago and the staff.. Bob
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Gerald,
I’ve been down this path before chasing the wrong problem. I would say your readings are perfectly normal. Setup your VMS to also monitor intake air temperature. This will tell you if the swing is due to normal thermostat cycling or the fan kicking on and off. If it’s the thermostat you will not see much change in intake air temperature. If it’s the fan cycling you will see the intake air temeperature swing with the engine temperature change.
If you have Prevost dash air and it’s on the fan will be locked on high speed. and you should then only see the thermostat opening and closing affects on the temperature.
FWIW, the low speed fan relay get’s its butt worked off when dash air is not on. At about $3 a relay I highly recommend you replace these every 75K miles or thereabouts. There are 3 to 5 relays depending on how your coach was equipped. The important 3 are the Fan relay R99 and the low and high speed clutch relays R78 and R79. If you do replace these make sure you get the ones with the blocking diode, not the ones with the protection resistor or no protection. The diode is there to protect the DDEC from voltage spikes that natuarlly occur with coil relays.
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My Feather heavy stacker is a 26′ tri axle. I normally haul two corvettes or similar size cars and a golf cart in it. Tried backing both cars in (not easy) to shift weight. Made no difference. Still blew tires. If you computed the weight of the trailer and the cargo the Goodyears work out on paper. In reality they were extremely unreliable. I bought new Alcoa 17.5 rims, higher rated low profile 17.5 tires, and no problems since. Highly recommend this to anyone that is having blowout problems wiht a stacker. Not cheap, but no more trailer damage from blowouts nor sitting beside the road wondering who just pulled up and stopped.
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WOW Thanks guys.you can never have too much helpful info and taking advantage of othe folks expeirences saves lots of unwanted problems. Keep those cards and letters coming in folks !
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I think a test box would be fantastic………….but……………I have some concerns. First, electronics are sensistive so who bears the responsibility for insuring the test box is functional, and what do we do if there is some external problem that has damaged the original box, and then the test box?
And what test box do we use? My two Webasto equipped coaches used two different boxes. Which voltage? 12 or 24 volt? I have no clue about the Webasto control used on an Aquahot or the voltage required. That may be another version.
Anyone have any ideas on how to create such a program of “rentals” that covers not only Webasto units of all versions, but maybe other “brains” that run parts of our coaches.
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Tom,
There is a guy on E Bay that sells overhauled units/guaranteed for 1 year for 1600, you send back your old and get a 600 credit…..total cost compared to yours 1 and you dont have to take a chance breaking it whilst taking it apart.