Fast Roger,
Stars = number of AquaHots he's sent to boot hill.
Mango Man
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Fast Roger,
Stars = number of AquaHots he's sent to boot hill.
Mango Man
Some use weights, some use equal however, I understand there:rolleyes: is another product called COUNTERACT at least I think that is the name. Anyone had experience with this product? Thanks
Hi Joe, I would like to know more about the second tire valves you mentioned in your 7-16-06 post. Do you have polished Alcoa wheels or steel? Did you drill the extra holes yourself or have it done? Are the valves adjacent to each other or are they diametrically opposed? Please elaborate if you would. I can't imagine doing this successfully with hand tools.
THANKS IN ADVANCE, JIM
[SIZE="3"] Does anyone out there have an H-I Hummer? I seem to recall it has a tire pressure monitor readable from the cabin and is capable of filling from there as well. Can anyone elaborate on this and if it works well or not? It seems like one more thing to add to a bus to keep in repair but it sure would be nice.
Maybe Sting could get this on his new bus and we could all copy it.
JIM
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Jim,
I have seen (but I can't remember where) sensors for tire pressure that are mounted on bands that go around the inside of the wheel before the tires are mounted. They send a wireless signal to a receiver. I don't know if they tell you pressures or just energize a signal if the pressure falls below a certain value.
I saw Joe's tire valves. He has polished aluminum wheels and he has the standard valve stems, but he had a second set of valve stems added 180 apart from the first. I don't remember his brand of pressure monitor, but on the second set of stems he has the wireless sensor (a fairly large black plastic device that screws onto the valve stem) and that sends a signal of low pressure to a small display box he has on his dash.
Joe's is a great idea.
Jim, all I used was a drill. What a pleasure and convienence being able to check pressures with a push of a button.
[SIZE="3"]Thanks to all for your replys. I continue to find it amazing how much knowledge and information can be shared in such a short time. After this discussion I am prone to spending LewBucks for the centramatic rather than expend the effort to drill valve stem holes and adding a media into the tire for balancing that may or may not cause a tire valve leaking situation. I am still busless and gathering information to help in making a purchase decision I will not regret. As an asside my wife Barb and I are planning to attend POG-III without a bus. I can not stand looking on from the sidelines any longer. I retired and sold my business last week and got my Medicare card today so it's all down hill from now on. JIM[/SIZE]
There's another option for easy checking of tire air pressure. These are available in chrome or black finish, in packages of two or four caps and in five pound incriment from 20lbs to 130lbs. Simply replace your valve stem cap with these ones made by 'TireWise'. There is an o-ring in the cap for a positive seal on the valve stem, if your tire pressure drops more than 10% the indicator changes from green to red. The cost around here is $14 (plus tax) for a package of 4 and $8 (plus tax) for a package of 2.... chrome or black are the same price!! I've been using them for about 6 months with no problems and pressures are within tolerances when checked with my Milton pressure guage.
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Woke up this morning to our tire pressure moniter alarm beeping. Front left tire 89lbs. But, no flat, no leak either, change in ambient temps.
Lew, in a previous post in this thread, thought we were weird or something buy suggesting that it was unnessary to adjust tire pressures when going from Chi. to Key West in Jan. when the temps. conciderably change.
When we left Chi. on Christmas day this year I remember it being just above freezing. Mind you that was mild, usually it is 20 or below pulling out. I put 100 even in all our tires and try to do this when the temp. is inbetween 70 and 75. The day we left, and just above freezing, the pressures were in the low 90s and although that is a little low that was in, what I concider, accepable peramiters. So we ran with it.
We are in Scottsboro Alabama this morning and its 24 right now.
Lew let me do the math as you requested. That would be an 11% drop in pressure with a 50 degree drop in ambient temp.This will also take place in reverse causing exessive heat and a terrible ride, not to mention blow outs.
Looking ahead it looks like its gonna be 0 in Chicago when we get back there the middle of next week and i'm guessen around 45 or so during the day down here. We will be leaving here with pressures at 105 or 110, because I will take the time to make that adjustment, and when the time comes this spring to head out again during warmer temps. we will readjust again.
Heres a pic of the moniter with the ambiant temp. about 80 and rolling about 45mph. Once again I put 100lbs at 70 or 75 degrees.
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So, do you need to adjust pressures on ocasion over the course of any 1 given trip from time to time? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Insurance? Piece of mind? Saftey? This is some of the best LEW BUCKS I ever put out! 700 or so.
What I can't get over is folks are now shelling out astronomical bucks for these busses and the converters haven't yet thought it nessesary to include these devices?
Hey Joe,
What are you going to do in Chi Town when you get back and its -Zero-?
Are you homesick for "PETE" or what???????????
Maybe your tired of walking the dogs with those little plastic bags. :eek:
JIM :)
Probably do a bunch of stuff Debbie wants done around the house.
There is nowhere else I'd rather be in that weather, and dog dodo picks up very well in those temps.;) it doesn't stop.
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Honey do this dog do that. HA HAQuote:
Originally Posted by Joe Cannarozzi
I only asked, your trip seemed so short for when your not trukin in the winter, but I don't have all the facts I'm sure!
Did Lew put in the new microwave? :cool: JIM
Jim you really know how to hurt a guy. We've been gone for 5 weeks the longest vacation of our lives. Going home with better than 300 great pics. double the great times and memories.
We love our home as much as our bus and can honestly say we have been gone long enough, its time to go home.
Although Bill made some convincing arguments for selling the house as we grow to work less and travel more we will always have somewhere to go home to.
As for that microwave, we never got a reply.
Lew was just 1 of many folks that we wanted and tried to meet while gone that' for whatever reason, just didn't happen. Mabye next year.
YOU on the other hand REALLY need to go out and get that bus:D
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Originally Posted by Joe Cannarozzi
Jim, all joking aside. It's all good, looking forward to meeting you folks someday as well:)
Jim and Joe
Just ordered the microwave/convection oven yesterday. Will take a week or so to get it. No stores stock such a thing I can use so everything has to be ordered.
Thank the Lord thaqt there is on-line service. The prices are much better there. I feel sorry for the retailer but I don't feel sorry for all of them. A lot of them are thieves. I thought that Jetson was a discount appliance dealer. They advertise as such. That's just a come on. Bend over if you go in there.
Will install the m/c oven when I return from the mini rally in TGO
lewpopp; Jim and Joe
Just ordered the microwave/convection oven yesterday. Will take a week or so to get it. No stores stock such a thing I can use so everything has to be ordered.
Thank the Lord thaqt there is on-line service. The prices are much better there. I feel sorry for the retailer but I don't feel sorry for all of them. A lot of them are thieves. I thought that Jetson was a discount appliance dealer. They advertise as such. That's just a come on. Bend over if you go in there.
Will install the m/c oven when I return from the mini rally in TGO
Hey LEW, Did you get your microwave installed yet? :confused: JIM
Installed the m/c after drilling a hole for the cord in a different place but hidden. New wall hangers or brackets were supplied and all went well.
Thanks, Lew