Another wanderlodge. Kingpin work, air leaks, and wheel seal issues.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- Getting into the chassis on this Wanderlodge. The kingpin we were able to just add shims the bushings looked like new. Major air leaks, couldn’t build air over 80psi.
Another lightning strike that was a near miss just after we settled the insurance claim in the last one.
Hi Grease Monkey, A company called Keine Tool makes a tool to remove hub pilot wheels and also brake drums that are stuck. They also make several specialized tools that are life savers for mechs that are doing back breaking jobs. I bought clutch removal dolly from them and also the wheel, drum removal tool, and its a game changer for your back. Thanks, Bill
I was born in Tennessee. Back in the late 60's we moved to Upstate New York and lived there for seven years before moving back to Tennessee. My Dad pointed out how all barns and most all farm houses in NY had lighting rods, where he never remembered seeing any in Tennessee, even though Tennessee had many more electrical storms then we ever saw in NY. Just be sure to not make your bends in the ground wire to sharp. If you do it can cause the lighting to jump out of the wire and hit something in the direction the lightning was traveling.
A couple of days ago I just happened to think of my friend's dad from back in the 80's, he installed lightning rods and drove a truck with lightning bolts, in New Lebanon NY no less, this happens to me all the time.
You are correct make any turns as mild as possible. Lightning likes to fly off and go anywhere it wants!
@@tinysolarshack9615 I worked for AT&T as a power technician. When I was sent to Kansas City for the power school, the teacher told us how one of the Central Offices (CO), I do not remember where had a Church building next door. The steeple had a lightening rod on top of the steeple. The Ground conductor came down the roof and was bent back about 180 degrees then down the corner of the Church building. The lighting rod took a lighting hit and as the lightening traveled down the conductor it jumped out of the conductor, through the glass window to hit the ground buss-bar on the main frame.
My great grandfather was a lightning rod salesman in Upstate NY. He drove around both Seneca, Cayuga and Keuka lakes selling them to farmers for the Electra Lightning Rod Co. He made a pretty good living at it too. Many an old barn in my hometown in Upstate NY still have them on their peaks today. My favorite and very rare are the Cobalt blue globe lightning rods with "Electra" stamped in the glass.
Apart from the lightning rods I would suggest some form of surge protection devices on your wiring. You don't have to have a direct strike for it to cause damage. Our site telecomms have gas discharge tubes to ground out excess voltage and they've saved our systems many times over the years.
Scott this YT channel is one of my all time favorites. Hope you and your family have a great 4th! 🇺🇸
Those king pins sound great 😂
Awesome work Scott. You should make a brake drum installation application from a hydraulic floor jack. Less lifting of heavy weights.
Happy 4th of July to everyone !!!
thank god for home owners insurance
Happy 4th guys. Safe travels. Ken.
Hint. Have your machine shop buddy turn a lug nut socket into a drill bit jig. Each flat on the socket has a different size hole but at an angle so you are drilling thru the flats of the nut at an angle to allow you to drill nut nut and the taper without hitting the tapered seat of the wheel. You may have to send a wheel. 2 inner nuts and 2 outer nuts. One of each installed in the wheel.
Kingpins seem to be a chronic problem with these buses. Almost every bus that comes in has worn out, and often dry, kingpins. I guess "Out of Sight Out of Mind" plagues those parts.
Happy and safe 4th . Thanks for all the great content. 👍
Scott, I know you are missing Hunter! I wish him well in college. He's a big strong boy!
A LOT OF WORK IN ONE DAY.
13:07 If you noticed, the giant springs were bottomed out (not providing any more tension) and if there was still play between the leveling pad cylinder and pad mount then it may have been making a rattling noise. The bungee may have just been a noise canceller and not so much of a dumb idea as a quick fix.
Blue Bird Wander Lodge at Albuquerque balloon fest. Mass acention trippy.
How can a bus with such air leaks on the road? I mean, as a driver I should easily notice that something is severely wrong!😨
Private, non-commercial, owners of these buses never seem to think about such things. Their Toyota daily driver never needs such attention so why should this big complex bus need it?
keep the clips coming
When you install your lighting rods and ground system make sure your ground rods are good and deep. Also I am sure that chirt ground is probably like gravel and not the best conductor so occasionally watering the ground rod will help with conductivity
A good idea might be for BGM to run water from the washing machine drain hose to the ground rods to keep them wet and in good electrical contact.
Love Watching, NOT DOING hehehe. Good video
make sure the ground rods are least 6 ft in the ground deeper is better and that heavy conductors are used to them near lost my house in houston to a strike cooked all the electronics and melted romex in a wall i had to cut open an re run 12 feet to get the lights and outlets working again ask why... cause they used a 2 ft ground rod which was no where enough depth to ground out a strike it cooked the rod an wire to it
Scott how many pairs of jeans do your boys ruin in a week? Might be time for you to supply coveralls for them.
Where do the bus owners go if they’ve got a stay there for a week etc. is there a hotel nearby?
Hello Scott from Jeff in Michigan
Have a great Fourth, y'all!!
No more fireworks in the solar systems tho! 🎆😲
I was holding my phone walked over to turn my inverter on, static electricity burn it out. Ground everything real good.
Burned up the phone or the inverter. Whichever burned out via static electricity was already weak… don’t you think?
I wear boots that can supresd 10,000 volts. The tires should do the same, were you shuffling your bare feet prior to turning on?
My house was hit several times and even melted the phone lines in the wall. I had to connect to different wires to get the line to work. Luckly the trees grew up enough to prevent any more strikes on the house.
I see a lot of suspension grime. Is your outdoor pit for cleaning or just inspection.
Happy 4th y’all! 🎉
Hey Scott, just wondering about something. Did you guys ground the building when you built it? I don’t mean the electrical system, but the building itself.
Yes
for all the buses you fix im horrified to think of the thousands driving about with the problems you find and thier ignorant drivers
I heard that old Wanderlodges with 8v92's sometimes had something called a Jacobs Electric Retarder. Apparently if you combine jake brake and the electric retarder it would give you aboot 350hp of braking strength. I heard that now days a company called Telma makes the same electric retarder that Jacob's used to make. I have watched a lot of your videos and i dont remember ever seeing one mentioned or shown, i have bad memory these days though....so maybe i forgot or missed it. Is this something you've come across or heard of ?
Hope the lightning mitigation keeps the strikes away from your buildings !
Push / ask for every single dollar possible from insurance, they deserve the pressure.
I worked for Metro Bus in Seattle we had Telma 's on our fleet of Flyer buses that were added to the fleet to save on brake jobs. Unit would bolt to the 3rd member had a big disc brake that would get power sent from brake input worked good when set up properly they had some teething problems but was finally fixed believe they had wire's for the unit box hooked up wrong.
Have a happy 4th of July 🎉🎉🎉😅
The other day I saw a1947 hound for sale in Los Angeles someplace, the guy was asking $1000.00. Have you seen any thing of this ?
Nice VW Thing . I want one , but they are to much $$ for a retired guy.
Are you still letting the customer work too, or did you have to stop that? Thanks.
I just heard Scott say (last week) they ' ..will allow owner's Sweat equity to reduce their repair bills ''. Do you expect Scott to keep repeating himself over/over again/again. Book an appointment with Scott or go to your local shop & take your chances
How can we get hold of you to do some work on a diesel pusher that I haven’t bought yet for an inspection thanks
Throw enough money at anything and it will get fixed .
Rainy here in Ohio!
Flip so a Wander loldge all decked out like $35k went from
I’m getting ready to buy 2005 beaver Patrick thunder how can I get a hold of you Lexington Kentucky to go over it make sure everything’s OK. Thank you.
How much damage did the storm do that to the solar panels and thanks
Can you use aluminum wire for those lightning rods or does it all have to be copper? I’ve seen it done on a bunch of farm houses in Barnes but I don’t remember everything.
There are certified UL system that use aluminum. I bet the conductors are upsized a couple gauge sizes over copper. I don’t know if the NEC has a section dedicated to it as ive never looked and mostly use section 330 and associated ampacity tables.
@@mikebuffing727 thanks Mike for your reply. I was just kind of curious about the aluminum wire. It’s probably a hell of a lot cheaper than copper if you can get away with it and be safe.
I recall seeing braided aluminum conductors between lightning rods and grounding electrodes, but that was a long time ago and can't say for sure they are still being installed.
Are they called Wanderlodges because the wander all over the road with loose suspensions and steering gear?
Blue Bird has always made a good bus. Ignore maintenance on any vehicle and that’s what comes of it.
I was thinking the same, lol
It’s because the drivers wander all over the road looking for Arkansas’ largest stick, and the second roundest boulder east of Toledo
And they’re as aerodynamic as a ski lodge.
Hi do you work on spartan chassis? I have a forty foot diesel pusher with air leak and a big clunking noise under the front end. Thanks.
Yes we have but locating parts is an issue.
Off topic question.
Would a turbo from an 8V92 be able to be a replacement for my 6v92 turbo?
I found a new one for really good price and my turbo is shot. Thanks in advance
It’s not a bolt on replacement if that’s what you are asking, all the pipes are different sizes because it’s physically much larger.
So my USMC neighbor. Wrench 🔧 big deez. Gave me 300 lbs of weights. I put 30 extra my tiny wrists are strong
Can I ask why you always renew the kingpins when all you show is kingpin lift surely this can be removed by either adding or removing shims if only lift
Apologies had commented before seen you were shimming them
Happy 4th of July.
Question: what are the best tire for diesel pushers?
I’m getting ready to buy a 2005 beaver a call Patrick thunder Patrick thunder
Recently found your channel.
Where is Tyler lately
Scott said he had driven his bus back to Indiana. I don't know if that's permanent or what.
Dunno, but Shawn (?) seems to be coming along.
Anybody notice the spider at 2:01
Wear coveralls save sum clothes