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Good for you Herman!!! BillE

J, Yes it will be here Monday. I emptied the trailer and put the new "purty wheels" on it this afternoon. It is in the middle of the afternoon rain soon to be clear again. I will get after it this evening again. Needed a break. I will go pull the AC tie down bolts so in the AM I can pull them and get the roof painted. As a matter of fact now would be perfect to rinse it since the storms have past and it will be dry by morning. My boy is commin down to visit and he can help me put the ACs back on Sunday PM...great! Yup Sept 1 is rollin in fast. It has cooled jus a bit but it will heat back up for a short bit. Yes Carl you have a real coach with even more to go awry than I do. I like my simple little coach with really nice solid walnut cabinetry, even if it was built on Monday after a long hard 3 day weekend. It is that C 12 CAT I like! I can straighten the rest of it out easily enough. Janet is beginning to worry a bit, hard when it is out loud...guess I had better get to it BillE

Carl, I will try that right now since I did not think of it. Thank you, Apparently a wear item as REV/Monaco has fifty of them on the shelf...what am I missing here. it appears to be a fairly common problem. Valve is 136 bucks, probably could have found it in town but a lot to do rather than running all over this spread out area. I will have it Monday and back in in 15 minutes. Maybe I will have the roof painted by then. Bill Edwards

Gentlemen, Ok, finally got the rig turned around and now can take this apart. 3 lines 1 in and two outand plenty of air. As I stated earlier I could mess with the valve and get it to air up both sides right side faster for sure than the left. Taking the valve out and blowing thru it produced good air out the right side and only a little out the left. This appears to indicate a restriction internally. Valve has no real labeling other than a brand, like a branding iron symbol of a W with a C off the center of the W. The C comes off the right side center of the W facing down. It has a date code of 98 on the back and id made of a hard black plastic. Bill Edwards

Herman, As usual u lived up to expectations BillE

That is the way a smart man handles it, particularly these days. It is not the way of the majority! When I talked of buying a boat since Janet's family lived in Hawaii, good place for one right, here mother, little conservative Chinese lady said "no holes in water". Ok I said, no boat. So it became Porsches she just shook her head. I had the last laugh when I sold all the old 356 inventory a few years back. Bill Edwards

Carl, You would still have to stoop maybe to your knees in my shower and I have a skylight! With that kind of height you could probably ski on those things you walk on. I had an uncle my dads twin that was 6' 4" and I thought that was tall. The custom house you built, I assume it has extra tall door jambs? What kind of toad do you drive, sure isn't a PORSCHE or a BMW! Were you any good at basketball? BillE

Herman has a reputation and we should help him maintain it. I made a guess that was probably the case. His response will be priceless and it equals lots of humor. I think it comes with the age thing. I know my turn is coming... Herman If we call you direct is there a discount?? Dang it anyway, I will be too far east to make it but I will make the one in March in Arizona. BillE

Is there something I am missing or do you guys know where the time warp portal is. I think the date has past since my calendar says it is August 19th today. Maybe that is why Carl and Bill are smiling so big. Herman are you trying to pull another one???

I picked up on that little point, " Historic" as being a good reference. For us another good point, old coach thing is overall height is under 12 feet, 11' 9" to be precise. I know Carl would not like that inside but we do! I seem to remember Carl saying he was a tall one. BillE

J, It's either your eyes or the computer as I see a Wanderlodge BillE

Thank you Wildebill, I will put Corning on the list. We will not see Niagara Falls as we have been there before and yes very good but will do the Canadian side another time. Passport you bet never know! We looked into the easy pass, it has to be a commercial account! Not really al that big a deal but we are not big on the freeways. Secondary roads are more favored and between the MC atlas and the 760 I think we should do OK. We will be in Harrisburg if we change our minds and find using the Turnpike favorable. I have been on it before with a deadline and nice. I will be pretty long with the trailer toad and the 24 foot trailer so attention will be the order of the day! BillE

J, I agree. Today it is BLING that gets the attention and the idea that it is new and without problems or issues. It is just like everything else these days, who can I impress, how good can I look...and then you ask is it paid for...nope, the bank owns it! It looks like all the real coachers are driving the older and best of the bunch built and own them outright! There must be something I am missing. My mother thought I was a spend thrift, yet today comfortable and living the dream with no help from her and we own it all except the cabin!!!. all the way to the bank! Huffy keep rolling, nice to see you back, enjoy. I still like going back and watching the roll out up the Siskiyou Mountain pass out of Ashland, Oregon. gonna do it in the Panther next time we are out there. It is home ground, grew up in Medford. Porsches are not the same either...it's a money game! BillE

THEY CALL IT PROGRESS BillE

Bill, Aside from getting there, first stop Akron, Ohio for of course a 356 PORSCHE convention. Then down to Hershey for a day and the Motorhome Show. Janet said last night we get to see Falling Water and then down to a chili cook off at the Gettysburg RV Camp Ground. I have old Porsche friends in Harrisburg that I have not seen in years. We will then go up to Sam Talerico's place in Mohnton, PA. and pick up a load of quarter sawn white oak for the log cabin I have ben building. After that, we will just wander back north to Mohawk, New York. We will spend some time here helping another Safari owner with his coach. He has a place for us and will loan us a car to explore the Adirondack mountain country for a bit and then head back to Colorado. Any tips would be appreciated as this is the first time spending any real time in the three states, Ohio,PA and NY BillE.

Tell that to the founders that built all those old bridges in the EAST before there was an established norm. There are countless videos on You Tube of trucks blazing through an underpass with a sign advising of low clearance, leaving their roof skin in a crumpled mess behind. It is what it is supposed to be but not always the way it is. Any thing new certainly, do not count on it if 60 years or older. That is why that Motor Carriers Atlas stacks up, pages of low ceilings abound in the EAST! Thank you Tom and Louise for the Atlas tip, Janet has been hard at it cutting me to 300 miles a day!!! Carl all the credit goes to Tom and Louise.

Call Koni in Kentucky, a far superior shock for this application. They are hydraulic as opposed to gas and some of the applications use a "smart" shock. They are knowledgeable. During that time at Monaco they did all kinds of things off the beaten path. At that time they bought Beaver and Safari and then they went under like so many others. In response to Mikes comment about them being the same I would like to disagree. "B"s were on the Safari Zanzibar I bought initially getting into this DP world. It did not take long to switch to the Konis and what a change it was! Now PORSCHE and BMW guys will always find a point to disagree on anyway... BillE

J, I thought of that but alas no extra line...one place on this coach no extra, plenty of wire and PEX though! I have two other friends different parts of the country with same system all run 90/100 psi or very close. Air pressure seems to hold at 90. I am sure it is adjustable, well I know it is. It runs a Bendix 500 and regulator is on the forward side of it. What does your coach weigh, curb weight? This coach maxes at 31K, curb weight around 28K or so unloaded I think, do not remember for sure BillE.

Brett, It appears so. I will remove it tomorrow after turning it around and take it apart before replacing it appears to be the ride height valve and inflater in one unit. It releases air out the bottom to adjust. It has, the coach, 4 deflator/dump valves one each corner.

Thank you Carl for the encouragement, ahem, we are headed that way in a couple weeks...with a 24 foot trailer! I will keep my eyes wide open!!!

Yup, On the list Thank you...spectacular...all you have to do now is teach them all how to walk and not beat it up. I just bought 400 sq feet of air dried Black Walnut wondering what I was gong to do with it, not! Bill Edwards

Alright Gentlemen, and I use the term loosely, I solved the problem I do believe. It appears to be the valve on the front that has the rods attached setting the ride height. I jacked the coach up to be sure the bags in fact unroll and they did. Next I let it all back down, fired the beautiful C12 CAT up and brought it up to the 90 psi operating pressure. Right side unfurled just fine and the left not. Unhooked the control rod and began playing with it and found the sweet spot where the left side also began to inflate beyond just tight. Problem showed immediately. It or they began, left side, to inflate but so did the right side and it was already inflated to ride height. I vote Valve! Bill Edwards SAfARI GURU! HA

Carl, Sflute, I do not think that is on track for this one. But the question bodes asking have you been in wet weather lately? Pressure test is a really good Idea. Do not do it with water, a bigger mess. Do it with air, an opportunity to buy another tool and a little compressor a whole lot less than Camping World or other. Empty the system and then pull the water anode rod. Make or buy a fitting from Home Depot or Camping World and charge the system with 30 to 50 PSI and start looking. It will not take long to find it hissing away. Easy way to maintain pressure set regulator on that new compressor for the desired setting. Do not use a tire filler chuck, plumb the hose right into the system and you will have a constant volume of air with out running back and forth and you honey will thing you are a genius! Call or PM me glad to help have a couple of Safari coaches at present 2001 Zanzibar and 1999 Panther Bill Edwards .

MoFro Buy a copy of the Rand McNally "Motor Carriers" Atlas. It will in the first several pages give you bridge heights all over the country state by state and approved routes. The ones not listed...use the toad. All the pages are plastic coated and you can mark on them and then erase. Pricey at 60 bucks on Amazon but it has a pretty good WOW factor too. We just bought one, very nice! Bill Edwards

As Brett stated shocks in general carry ZERO weight in any application they only control bounce or rebound. Often times the outer face will fracture and the inner where the elemnts can not reach are fine. That said the fact that it is so soon indicates poor rubber quality in general and as Bret said time to upgrade. Rubber formulations these days do not seem as good as many of them produced in the 50 for instance.The chords on electrical hand tools frequently fail these days. In the automotive restoration business, we disassemble everything and replace with new even if an individual component looks good. Often those suspension rubber parts had to be done again because of fracturing like you are referring to only months after replacing. Manufacturers buy may of these shocks, subsequently a few cents makes a big difference to the bottom line so the less costly the component the better. That is why there is an after market and many upgrade choices. Bill Edwards