[Tim]

We had the Driver Side window squeak. We bought some weather stripping and applied it to the bottom of the window. Solved the problem. It does make closing the latch slightly harder to close but the squeak is gone!

We are just 20 coaches newer than yours!

[Tim]

Jon, point well taken…need to take the kids to couple landmarks before they “leave the nest”.., I am very much aware of the distances /effort on my side…but I hope it will create some good / bad memories….still RV life, good and bad together…travel plans are being adjusted to fit everyone’s wish…appreciate your input Sir…

[Tim]

Well Howdy All!

Well after all of your help and answered questions. We couldn’t wait to get home and tear into things. Butch called AAP and Fred was off, buit spoke to the nicest, most patient and informative guy named Johnny. He had Butch do a series of things and diagnosed it as the Solid State Relay, $300.

We just received it, so we haven’t had time to install it, but we feel confident that is what was giving us the problems since Johnny was so thorough.

Thanks for all the help! As usual you don’t dissapoint!

I’m going to post another thread under a different topic but not sure where to put it, so Jon or Tom put it where it needs to be.

Here are some pics. Of the A/C location for the next Featherlite owner that will need to know. 🙂

[Tim]

Is this an issue with the S60 or will the 8V’s do the same?

[Tim]

wow – I think my coach with it’s non-syncro 6 speed manual transmission and no Jake might actually be less frustrating to drive than an (Allison / Jake / Retarder) combo the way you guys make it sound.

I recently test drove a 2016 Honda Accord with a 6 speed manual. The car locks up the brakes each time you start so it won’t roll backwards. All it ended up doing was smoking the clutch and the brake pads at the same time. Annoying! I think most people who would buy a car with a manual transmission (in this day and age) probably know how to heal and toe…..maybe I’m wrong.

[Tim]

Josh and Dan says how would Peter know about these wrenches, he’s never used

one. The reason the wrench was in the house is because it is Trina’s.

Peter, I’m just posting what Josh and Dan told me. I’m having fun at Jeff’s right now

in the 17 degree weather.

Michael

[Tim]

thanks for the good advice. The wall outlet at my storag facility is non GFI, and i plan on dumping all water just in case. Keeping in mind I haven’t purchased a coach yet, am I correct in assuming the inverters are also what keep the batteries charged? Or does it depend on coach builder?

[Tim]

FYI. You can not plug the coach into a GFI it will blow the breaker it needs to be a non GFI receptacle

[Tim]

Tim,

Low battery light…… on side panel is for generator battery condition.

AL

[Tim]

Somewhere in all our conversions there is going to be an actual voltage readout of house batteries, generator battery, and chassis batteries.

Every owner needs to find them and understand what they are saying. This is not just a suggestion, but something critical all of us need to do. We need to refer to those reasonably often and learn what they tell us. For example if dry camping you will want to know the actual house battery voltage. You can tell when the inverters are putting a charge in them if the bus is connected to shore power or the generator is running. When the bus engine is running you can tell if the bus alternator is charging them. A routine review of these establishes in your mind what is normal under various conditions and alerts you when something deviates from normal or what you expect to see.

The easiest way to deal with problems is to prevent them and unless and until you learn how to read your bus’s information from the various dials or displays you risk having a problem, not knowing, and then finding out the hard way when you are in deeper trouble than if you noticed it earlier.

Everyone should make a list of all the various things that should be monitored on a regular basis. Get used to looking at everything at the appropriate moment and life will be good. Wait until the bus gets to the point where the signal something is wrong such as when stuff shuts down, and all of a sudden bus ownership sucks.

This also holds true, perhaps more so for the engine gauges. When the coach engine is running you will see the gauges and learn what is “normal”. When there is an unexplained deviation from normal that is when you begin trying to understand why there is a deviation. It might be something simple like it is hot outside so you expect to see temps up a little, but if there is no explaination that is when a look at things related to the cooling system should get some attention. This is no different than what you need to do with the house.

[Tim]

Well if I’m plugged into 50AMP, doesn’t that keep the batteries charged thru the inverters?

[Tim]

I agree that the switch location for the Jake on the two Royales I have had is less than ideal. I have wondered, and looked, to see if someone made a switch that was a lever like the transmission retarder with three positions: off, 1, and 2. Never found one. Any ideas?

[Tim]

Yep, we came up to one of those in Pennsylvania in 2011 (previous coach). I caught it in time as this was the only warning. We were 12’8″ tall.

Thank goodness there was a place to pull over. We didn’t know how to get around it so we called the local police. They couldn’t have been nicer. The officer told us exactly how to get around the bridge about a mile or two down the road. He said that it was better that we were on this side of the bridge because there was not a place to pull over on the other side.

He said that he couldn’t count how many time chickens were flying over the road with peeled back trailers! LOL!

I had to disconnect the Honda to get turned around…. and, of course, it’s starts raining.

Mark

[Tim]

This was the look I was after which I did shortly after buying this bus. The turn signals are LED, low beams xenon, high beam halogen. Wiring was updated to keep day time run lights, chrome covers over headlight bezels, paint to match, I know the only paint color you see is around the bulbs but it needs to look original, then 3 coats clear.

The most challenging part of this upgrade were radius corners fitting which required fiberglass build up and a re-cut on stainless moulding. The second fitting allowed a flush mount against headlight door opening. Re-done back at X-Caliper , Sanford FL. Doug, can be proud of this detailed fitting upgrade.

Detail of workmanship is very important to me that it looks like an original headlight install.

$2200

[Tim]

OK, Now I am not kidding about going to Jeff’s. I just haven’t had a discussion with him about this yet.

I played with this map http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html and it can be seen clearly that a short ride from Jeff’s such as the Sweetwater exit on I-75 you could see the eclipse.