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    Scott and Cyndie, The Comic Geniuses are getting ready to operate ! Keep your cell phone handy.

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    On standby...................

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    Default ??????

    How is it going?

    We are thirsty for updates...........

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    We are still eating. Can't work till we are full.

    Will keep you posted. Conditions also have to be right. As in air temp.
    Roger that!
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    What's going on in Masaryktown? Are you still drinking wine or replacing seals?
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    Well we had to take a little time out to ride down to Parliament to check on Cousin Tony and Cousin Rick's bus.
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    "COUSIN TONY'
    He takea carea stuff.
    Well then we found this guys bus
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    A POG Guy?
    Well Cousin Tony say he takea good carea of Rickys bus
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    Quote Originally Posted by parksincpp View Post
    On standby...................
    Scott and Cyndie, Thanks for all your help. We did it ! More to come.

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    I am back home after being worked like a borrowed mule by the King. I believe tool man Jim Keller, King Roger and I can say slide seals can be easily replaced by two men and I will be drafting a how-to article.

    I should note that despite my position against slides, anyone looking at or considering a slide coach should not be afraid of one because from what we three saw and experienced. They are not so complex that the average person cannot work on them. We needed help from Scott to get us out of trouble (due to poor Prevost maintenance manual information), but apart from that the entire project went very well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Wehrenberg View Post
    I am back home after being worked like a borrowed mule by the King. I believe tool man Jim Keller, King Roger and I can say slide seals can be easily replaced by two men and I will be drafting a how-to article. I should note that despite my position against slides, anyone looking at or considering a slide coach should not be afraid of one because from what we three saw and experienced. They are not so complex that the average person cannot work on them. We needed help from Scott to get us out of trouble (due to poor Prevost maintenance manual information), but apart from that the entire project went very well.

    Damn it Jon, where where you 3 guys last year, when I needed ya !!!! Not so complex indeed

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    I don't want to minimize the learning process. The things we found troublesome were not covered in the shop manual or told to Roger in advance despite the fact he spoke to a lot of people about how to prepare.

    Also there are some tools not readily available to most people such as a port-a-power that made part of the job incredibly simple. Without Jim Keller's vast tool collection we would have had a more difficult job.

    Beyond that by making some errors we learned how to do it in a trouble free manner and the article will cover in detail what not to do as well as what to do.

    Editorial comment: Slide seals, air bags, hub seals etc. are all routine maintenance items and having now done every one of them I can say the only reason those of us who do our own maintenance do projects such as these is because Prevost has gotten way beyond unreasonable in their pricing. I learned recently that Prevost now charges $4400 to replace all air bags. To put that in perspective they have $1200 (approx.) in material costs allowing them $3200 for about 10 hours labor. For slide seals they charge around $4500 to $4800 for the small rear seal, of which $2095 is the cost of the seal allowing about $2400 to $2700 for about 10 man hours of labor.

    Even if you do not want to repair your own slides for example at the very least shop around for a facility that will do the work for a reasonable fee.

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