Think Tools and parts like Jon
Sawdust (Ed)-
I wish I had the know how of Jon to repair everything myself. The more I pay what I've coined the "head scratching" fee's at service places (Prevost or others) I see why some POG members like Jon would'nt dream of letting anyone else work on their bus except themselves. "If you want it done right..........."
I know the thrust of your question was on storage and not so much what to bring but I couldn't agree more by what Jon says about tools and spare parts. I don't have near the collection of spare parts Jon does but I'm about to start collecting them and Jon gives a good starter kit ideas for me. But at least take a very generous size tool box that is well stocked. My latest bus came with a decent size craftsman on a slide out (the slider is pointless) and it's overflowing with tools. A volt meter is a must have as well as an extra set of every single engine belt for starters besides the tools. Costco sells a great 3 fold tool kit by Cresent with wrenches, sockets, allen wreches, etc for $50. I carry two of them in the bus and I made up an electrical kit full of bulbs fuses, wire strippers, etc. Now, most of this is worthless without all the knowledge needed to know how to fix it. Probabley quicker to learn to land the Space Shuttle than to get to point of knowledge where Jon is. So........you need a buddy that's got a lot of experience that you can call when you coast to a stop at 11pm and trouble shoot your problem with you and tell you that the reason the bus isn't getting enough electricity and the lights are dimming and the transmission is shifting funny is becuase your Vanner is out and in order to keep on limping to the service depot, you need to run a hot wire from your 12 volt alternator to the terminal of the Vanner and whala, your on the road again .......instead of getting towed 250 miles from CT to Prevost NJ (true story). I used the Prevost Service hot line tonight at 5pm on a Sunday and they got me on the horn with a regional service manager that spent 30 minutes pointing me in the right direction (see recent thread I posted on Emergency Check Engine Light).
I know this is going in a different direction than your question but when I saw Jon's post on the tools and spare parts AND since at the time of this writing I'm sitting and pleasantley stuck at an RV park until I an do further trouble shooting in the AM to likely find a bad oil sensor, I thought I'd 2nd Jon's motion to carve out space for a generous size tool box. If you have tools at home and don't want to buy whole other set, just move your tools into the tool box in the bus bay and as long as your not parked too far from the house, go there when you need a tool and put it back every time and make that the new tool barn. I got chest high Craftsman tool box on Craigs List the other day FULL of Craftsman tools, I mean every drawer was full, for $200. Box AND tools. Put that set away in my work shed to keep from running back and forth to the bus.
I had a shirt when I was heavy into RC Models that said "If you don't want to crash em', don't build em'" I think the Prevost motto should be "If you don't want to fix em' don't own one".
I got about 5 CD's from a tech at Monoco (Royal) full of wiring diagrams, owners manuals, had the DDECK codes in it I needed tonight, electical cataloue and I have't even browsed through them all. I'll make you a copy of them when you come to Florida in a few months or if I make it to another POG Ralley anyone that wants to can copy them. I might be able to email a lot of the stuff beause most all of it is in PDF format with different chapters. If anyone is still reading my long boring post, email me and request and I'll try emailing it to you. The reward you get for reading and not nodding off. Ha. Maybe someone out there can post it somehow so anyone can FTP it or download it. These CD's have a wealth of info on them that I'm very thankful to have stumbled across and you pick you year and your coach (has H3 and XL's) and you get the correct info for YOUR year. These are Prevost CD's, not the converters.