Tim
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Tom, pay attention. I thought the same thing and Roger tried to see if that would make a difference, but no joy.
This is going to be one of those problems that makes no sense. We are missing something.
When the coach is being driven it seems the only difference between it sitting still is the parking brakes is off, but Roger ruled that out, and then has ruled out ride height valves. WTF??????
I think Roger needs a volunteer to run alongside the coach while it is in motion to listen for and locate the air leak that has to be substantial to cause once a minute compressor cycling. What does not make any sense is for the air to leak down that fast, my guess would be it would take forever for the compressor to build pressure to the cut off pressure, so now I am trying to puzzle through what part of the compressor / dryer system would act that way. But I still cannot get my brain to get that to tie in with having the coach in motion.
Roger…….anything else you can add to our understanding of what is going on?
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Yes
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I was just the messenger guys, Jon made me do it from my smart phone.
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Will that Prevost app work with Apple iOS?
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Really?? I would have never guessed that.
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Haldex makes a 90 degree check valve, # KN23060? FindItParts sales them?
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Hmmm mine says V-12 !!
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It would be sufficient to keep your batteries charged if you winterize the coach and turn off refrigerator and any other major loads.
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Ditto.
My equipment with Yanmar or Kubota engines call for 250 hour oil changes, but my generator asks for 100. I try to do that, but sometimes I run over and don’t even worry about it because like Les I think it might be a little overkill.
I just changed the oil and I went 102 hours since the previous change. So far the generator runs OK, but I probably took 1000 hours off its life by going over 2 hours.
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Thank you, Andre. You were correct. Volvo had suggested Truck Pro yesterday, but I was out of time. It was my first planned stop this morning. I took the old hose and collar in case they needed it, but they did not. They had what I needed for that end of the line but they had no inline shut off valves that Jeff suggested.
This is what I found under the seat.
The line on top is the incoming line. That fitting is a plastic T. The line on the bottom is short, that is all the slack I have in the picture. Is that a plastic compression fitting? I dare not put a wrench to it until I know. I am tempted to put a union in the line about 5 inches back from the T.
Davy
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That’s a fantastic idea.
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Can you explain why you should not plug a heater into an inverted fed circuit? (I assume all outlets in the coach are inverter fed, so to run an external heater means running an extension cord from a land-based source?)
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A Prevost I can afford will be close to 20 years old. I don’t worry about other parts because I am quite handy, mechanically adept and have tools, so I feel I could deal with most electrical, plumbing, etc issues myself. I have never dealt with pneumatics before, though. Just want to avoid surprises on the road until I get a handle on that.
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It appears that some of your coaches have 10 gal. heaters stacked on top of each other. Our Country Coach and the heaters in a cabinet side-by-side. I replaced the 2 Atwood 10 gal. units with 1 20 gal. unit which easily fit in the same space with room to spare. All the connections were easily accomplished and the only “draw back” is that there is 1 heating element for the 20 gal. vs. 2 (1 for each 10 gal.). I have not seen any negative to this over the last 5-6 years and I don’t have to worry about both heaters kicking in and blowing circuits. I have never had to wait more than 10 minutes to have enough hot water for both of us to get showers.
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Braveliner, one more thought. You may want to post this on the Bus Conversion Magazine Forum. You would get a wider audience of busnuts that deal with older rigs.
Milo