[William]

The OTR Prevost air has superior cooling capbilities, but the Counrty Coach OTR does not eat up the bay space allowing for more storage. For those who don’t know the OTR Prevost system uses up one bay. That can be argued both ways. We carry too much stuff if we have the room. We do not have the room now – so the volume of stuff is reduced.

I was told that the OTR Prevost option from Prevost now adds about $2300 to the cost of the new shell. I have not verified that. You can buy a nice new Hyundai for that.$

[William]

I will keep Mine clean , And apply Armour all or something when I do the tires. Dried out Rubber Looks like what comes out of the Dump Valve IMHO.

[William]

Tom,

Go with the Jun- Air. They are quiet, very dependable often operating for 20 years in commercial applications.

[William]

This was an unusual and extreme event. The campground people gave us explicit instructions regarding how to get to the site which turned out to put us in the situation of having to make a turn where everyone seemed to have these little aluminum fishing boats on trailers. None of them were completely clear of the road and a couple made it impossible to make a normal turn.

Add to the equation some very large trees and low lying rocks. A perfect combination of obstacles that lead to damage.

Then all the campers had to come out to see the big bus. Unknown to me a couple of them were the boat owners and all they had to do was push their boats a lttle and I could have made the turn. But noooooo. They didn’t want to put down their beer and cigarettes so they just watched. Di’s focus was at the base of a tree on the front driver’s corner that would have wrinkled some metal so she was concentrating on making sure I didn’t hit that. So out of frustration and to get the room needed to complete the turn I watched in the camera as I backed to the sign and since it was perfectly centered and the hitch was going to bear the brunt of it I just let the coach brake off and at idle that post (a 2 post sign) snapped. I completed the event by snapping the second post. Boy did that feel good.

As if I was being punished the site we were assigned had no electric and we had to move anyway.

But for all our travels that was the first and only time I couldn’t readily get around in the campground. It took about 5 minutes of see sawing to finally make the turn.

[William]

Oh ya, we want to hear the story again!

I would think the tongue weight of say my Dodge Dakota would easily exceed our Prevost limit.

[William]

I am not sure either. It is hard to hold them and make them react, but the new ones are smoother in and out than the originals. None of the old ones were leaking oil FWIW.

[William]

no bumps, so I guess I am just imagining additional lean. It really isn’t significant, but does show the power of advertising, doesn’t it!?

[William]

I work on automotive ABS systems very frequently and I know my 1988
Prevost does not have computer controlled ABS. It seems that it should
have been engineered with enough braking force to lock up the tires
under full pedal pressure. If not, I guess it does have anti-lock brakes
after all. I’m curious if the later model coaches have enough braking
force to lock up the tires if the ABS were disabled, all you folks maybe
like me and have anti-lock brakes even without computer control?? I
know it’s mostly about control on slick surfaces. I like ABS on slick
surfaces, but I’m pretty sure I can stop quicker on dry surfaces without
ABS, at least in the automotive world.

Ken

[William]

Now that this thread seems resolved I have another question that is similar but different. If this is the wrong place to post this, please let me know.

When using the heat pump side of my center Cruisair and the outside temperature starts getting down around 45 degrees F, I often get a “LO/PS” code and the unit shuts down. None of other Cruisair units, which are also in operation at this time does this. What am I being told? (I see from this thread that I am experiencing low suction pressure, but that doesn’t mean much to me). Is serious damage about to occur? What should be done?

Thanks for any and all help. As Jon says, “whether it is accurate or not”.

[William]

Yep… me too Jon… that over the road air is a “priceless” feature to say the least !! 102 outside and 65 inside. I just don’t run my cruisairs driving on boiling hot roads.. isn’t worth the effort to me. I do run the big house air sometimes so the bedroom stays cooler…(for some reason the road heat doesn’t affect that unit) the over the road air isn’t as strong in the back of the bus but will freeze us out in the front.

Also when it’s over 90 I always hose down the pavement right under my units before I park… after 5 mins of running the water the temp has to drop considerably and I run the Over the Road until the bus is as cool as I want it.. usually just a few extra minutes does the trick…. once cool, maintaining the temp is easier.

[William]

I have Tom beat. We are in London for two days and then depart from Dover for a 12 night cruise ending in Rome. Then we can come home and use the bus!

[William]

Jon @ Tom, I sure would like for the date to be in April or May, after oysterfest, since we football folks can not attend in the fall. Just my request.

Bill Cleverdon

[William]

I’ve been through the lube program and it helps. I think the factory wiring/relays are ok, but when I go in my electrical (computer) bay, there’s a vertical row of 24 volt std relays on the left side near the panel of a zillion fuses. Only one of those relays is clicking. My WAG is that a binding lock has caused an excessive current load and blown a fuse between the computer output and the Liberty relays….if there is one.

[William]

Tom I will try to do that, One thing I don’t think my bag phone will work for this!