Roger
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WOW … Thanks for the help everyone! Today I tried working on park brake valve. No success yet. A truck mechanic told me the 1/4 inch yellow line was the exhaust …. wrong! Robert, I will try putting the yellow on supply and green on delivery. Will use 1/4 inch plug on bottom and let you know how it turns out. I also heard a air leak at the tag axle valve. Guess it will be next to be replaced! Oh and Robert that was Toby Keith singing Trailer hood. “Somethings always going on down in the trailer hood”.
Thanks Don, Robert, Jon & prevost service you guys are the BEST!!!
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Greg, cmon over and hang with the crowd. A lot of us are near Tom’s coach. You will recognize it because it is the H3 without slides.
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Al,
No splash back when fueling.
We fueled near Demming NM so relatively warm weather.
I will check both fuel caps.
Do not recall driving thru a puddle of water or diesel.
No recent service done.
When we first noticed it, it was dripping faster.
Roy
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Be sure and check the speed rating of any tire you are going to buy.
The last Toyos I had on my coach were only rated for 65.
If you only drive 65 then no problem but exceeding the rated speed limit and/or driving at the rated speed on a continual basis is not for me. I want a little safety margin below the rating.
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Just out of curiosity how successful would a self driving bus be under the many situations we deal with? I’m a relative novice here from the amount of miles driven on my bus. But like you I’ve been in situations where there’s been an accident, road work, soft shoulder, difficult turn etc.
How well would an automated system handle situations unique to a large vehicle? I can understand general driving situations but what about the non standard. Like a tight right turn in town with a sign or pole too close?
You learn these thing through driving and experiences. If you’re use to something driving for you it seems to me you’ll be ill prepared to do so in special situations.
Harry
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I’m about 30 or 40 steps away. Have to go outside.
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We will be going full time in January and we will want to go up into Canada once in a while, what are the options if you have a handgun in the vehicle? Would a gun shop rent storage for a handgun and the amo while we visit Canada?
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Larry,
Are You talking about the Watchdog board. I went for about 2 years having to go out to the electrical bay and by-pass My watchdog to start My gen. And would have to go out to stop it as well. You cannot buy a replacement. Not sure if this is the same board You are talking about. But it is worth a shot.
There is a control board inside of the watchdog that has a spare fuse in it for starting. You will have to take the watchdog out of the bay and get it on a table and replace the fuse with the spare. If someone in the past has not already used the spare. Look at F5 and F6 in the diagram.
Mr Bill Doughtery from Liberty Mission control in Chicago sent Me this diagram a few years back. And I was able to get my watchdog going again. He also was very helpful another time when I had to replace the Groco water pump in My bay. I had a mobile RV mechanic replace it, Direct replacement I mind You . Same , Same. And the yoyo’s wired it wrong. Mr Doughtery spent a good 20-30 minutes on the phone helping us get it straightened out. Kudos to Mr Doughtery !
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Anyone have any comments on Flying J?
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Ron,
If you need batteries I can help you out.
What concerns me is you say the batteries and inverter are behind the bumper, there isn’t a worse place for those components. I’ve seen that on an early entertainer XL and the batteries had actually exploded. Hope yours are in a weather proof box because that compartment gets soaked when driving in the rain.
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It is a Prevost type dash, but I suspect Beaver may have modified the layout of gauges and switches. I am just pointing that out so if you have questions relative to the dash you do not just assume we know how your various parts of the dash are configured. If you question things like the purpose of a gauge for example if you cannot describe it at least post a photo. Saying it is the gauge to the left of the speedometer won’t help because another conversion may not have the same layout.
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Harry, you clearly did not read the fuel reimbursement program rules.
We provide double the fuel costs in exchange for use of your coach. I can assure you I will not only provide a replacement for all the fuel I use, I will also pay you an equal amount of (monopoly) dollars.
I have always wanted to go off roading in an XL, I would like to race against motorcycles on the Dragon, I would like to see if it will actually fit under the stone bridges on parkways, and I wondered how long it would last parked in the Bronx with the keys in it.
Drop it off any time.
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Most of our buses spend most of their time in storage. Are you caring for those expensive Lifelines properly while it’s not being used? I hope your not over or under charging them. I especially worry about overcharging. In the Lifeline Tech Manual read section 5.4 Charging, table 5-1 shows what the “Float” voltage should be at any given temperature. Are your inverter/chargers set properly? If not, CHA$CHING$ sooner rather than later.
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Elreg quoted me $895 for a belt drive 24V 50DN. What I was saying is there would be about an $850 differnce between me buying a new unit ($895) or spending $45 on new oil seals for the unit I have and still rolling a 16 year old alternator.
Glad to know the air cooled ones are out on the road and seem to work fine. I hadnt priced one yet. I think I may just get the direct oil cooled replacement but didnt know the useful life of them. Im good with 16 years!
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Jon, a couple things… How does tire dressing harm the tires, I never heard that before.
Other ther than someone thinking there may be an inverter problem. Is there any other systems problem that can come from a bad battery? I ask because if a car a battery goes bad the car won’t start but no harm is done to the car. Is this not true of house batteries? And do you always have all batteries changed out?