Funny these overtorqued wheels. When i was an apprentice at a trailer shop there was a sticker right above the wheels that said torque to 565 ft/lbs. I asked the tech who was supervising me where the torque wrench was. He said no torque wrench, just hold the 1" drive impact gun trigger for 1 minute on each nut. I later looked up the model of impact specs and it puts out 1200 ft/lbs. lol
I had to use my torque multiplier to break 5 studs off a Country Coach that was over torqued and pulled the threads in the bud nuts. Life saver!!! Every air leak counts!!! Thanks Scott!
Scott & Tyler, the owner's of those lovely old buses, must feel like all their Christmases have all come at once when they find you two, you guys certainly know your stuff,...xxx
Love what you have done with your shop. You know when you guide the buses in it remains me of an Airport and how the guide the plane into the gate. Maybe you should put down some guide markers down so they can be in the same work space 100% of the time.
Might need to start an inventory of the things you buy every time, like that turbo pipe, brake cans, air bags, or persuade US Coach to stock a container at your place ...
You guys are amazing. Try "free all" penetrating oil. I'm surprised that you don't use a smoke wrench on stuck hardware. Had to break out the 3/4" drive socket set and a 5' pipe torque multiplier to get the tires loose on my wife's minivan. It had new tires at the Goodyear tire store and they overtorqued all the lug nuts.
Well done Scott on you and other lending and borrowing items to get bus up the ramp to the shop see you on next video, hope you building is still moving forward as well
Great video 👍 upgrade the multiplier handle breaker bar and socket and repair exhaust for future get it up the Hill and stock exhaust pipe tube start welding your own.
You might want to acquire a 2 inch gun, it demands a 3/4 inch supply line but with 1200 pounds of torque it ought to make removing over tightened lug nuts come off with ease. I bought one and never had trouble removing lug nuts when driving over the road. Thought I did have to buy my own 3/4 airline and fittings to get full power out of it. Food for thought
Different names for things make TH-cam interesting. I follow Danger Marine and Project Brupeg (sp?). I always do a double take when they refer to using a “spanner.”
The 4104 beside the pad is your daughter's bus, right? Will we be seeing conversion videos on that one? It looks kinds lonely down there all by itself.
Love the Eagles more than the MCIs. Always underpowered and prone to rust. Just so cool. But Clint Black had a blacked out MCI w/full size satellite dish back in the 90s. 5ft wide and automated. Serviced at the shop on 65N just above Nashville. Almost as cool. As an Entertainers Eagle.
20/20 advice, while working on my 044 scenicruiser, I put a wrench into my overall chest pocket, now I get to buy a new phone, folded the dam thing, then everything got real hot real fast. oops.
I’d imagine if you can get the individual pieces (v-band flairs, flex, 90 degree elbow, etc) it probably wouldn’t be all that difficult, or expensive to make that normally expensive exhaust piece. It would probably fit a little nicer than a pre-made off the shelf pipe, since it would be built specifically to fit the bus it was being put on.
When you first said that torque multiplier was less than $100 I thought wow, you’ve really got your money’s worth out of it and was amazed it hadn’t failed yet. Sorry I jinxed you Scott! Happens all the time to me at work. I just need to keep my big yapper shut.
Gday Scott, I love these videos where you and Tyler do the initial inspection. Is there any chance of a quick tour of this bus. From the outside she looks awesome. Anyhoo everyone stay safe and keep healthy. ✌🏻 Peace.
You can wear a leather glove and twist the impact socket in the direction you want it to go when using an impact gun. That reduction in backlash can save your bacon when you're using an impact gun that can't quite undo the fastener.
Also it sounded like the gun was set to the highest speed, not highest torque. The Milwaukee's have a high torques setting that's actually a little slower than level 3.
Really would love to bring my 2002 Gillig Phantom to you guys to give her an inspection. Got a few issues. Not sure how to make contact with you. I was the guy driving the 60 foot brand new Honolulu Transit bus westbound on the I 10 about a year or so ago when y'all blew by me with Lenny😂🙃
The amount of soot on the rear around the access door is a good sign of a BIG exhaust leak. Note to customer: DON'T go back to the shop that did the previous "work"!
For those watching and questioning the 250 HP rating, that's accurate but it probably has 650 FT LBS of torque. Don't let those low HP numbers on the Detroit's fool you. They're all torque monsters.
@@tlr-nut7275 what were bone stock diesel pickups making in the 1980s? I can assure you it wasn't even half of 1000 ft lbs. To try to compare a 40 year old engine to a new engine is an exercise in asshattery. For 1980 standards, 650 ft lbs was a torque monster. Do you have any other asinine assertions you would like to make or are you done being a troll?
@@tlr-nut7275 well yes troll, because that bus was built in the 80s, which you either didn't know or are failing to acknowledge. Those same style buses today come with engines like the Volvo D13 which produce 1850 ft lbs at 900 RPM. So yes, by 80s standards they are absolute torque monsters.
Did you say you used AeroKroil? My wife's uncle just introduced me to this oil and it is amazing! I just ordered a case of it and it wasn't cheap but great stuff to used on seized bolts!
See that lug nut problem all the time now. Everyone impacts them on. Had discount tire strip 3 of 5 lug nuts on wife car. Almost feel off. I could make you that exhaust pipe for cheap. 32 years welding, did food grade stainless steel.
Scot, doesn't that front end have air bags ?? ....or what is the suspention on this puppy ??..... BTW, when I see the brake shoes, new drums, and you replacong the bearings, it makes me want to start tearing my own stuff, in need of repair, apart.....Good Job....!!!!
Giant rubber torsion springs about the size of a large welding tank are the suspension. It’s a great riding suspension. We will be adjusting it in videos soon so you will see it.
heli arc welder tube binder and some SS tubings you can make what you need in a very short time. You do enough jobs it would pay for itself and no second or third party involved less down time.
That's a turbo'd 6V92. Higher HP diesel for that age bus. The 92ci's with that long stroke are real mountain goats on the long hills n passes with tha big Garrett turbo when all is right, valves, injectors, pump n boost system
I disagree. Just make sure the boost system works like it was designed. Thousands of trucks use boosted engines as well and they climb over mountain passes every day. Same for diesel-electric train locs. Ships use boosted engines as well. They cross entire oceans. Boosting is a proven concept. But all those engines do have to be maintained. This includes the boost system. No boost, no decent power.
@@jfv65 gears low enough to function with reduced torque is an even more proven concept, and normal wear will always eventually reduce torque as much as loss of boost, and gears must function there too, especially since reduced torque is INEVITABLE!!!!
U.K. Better to have the wheel nuts too tight than leaving them very loose like a local tyre fitter did. Got the sack of course. Dick head would pick a Rolla to do it on. The only problem with these vids is they have to end, I could watch them all day.
could you stock up on big diameter exhaust pipe,straight and 90* bends to make the need turbo pipes .a small ring roller could roll small diameter round steel to be used on the end of pipes for sealing the V-bands
Definitely a marked difference in making it up the hill! As an old former Trailways bus driver here, really loved the Eagle buses! Just a question...I heard the gentleman use his "high idle" after starting his engine. Do bus drivers nowadays not use this feature any longer, as I don't hear that when viewing other bus videos? Maybe a generational thing? Keep up the hard work, gentlemen!! 😊
My high idle takes the engine up to 1200 rpm. That sounded like he was revving it up. I always let mine get a bit of oil at lower rpm before making the rpm high.
Your work brother I used to use pictures bubble solution ones your blow bubbles with that's what I used to use to find air leaks at work the best minnows pretty cheap Golden Gate at the dollar store big bottle for like a dollar extreme pain disorder 30 shot from what I could see the bearings that's a good catch on all that in a boat diagram I want you was Joe if I would have done both and I would have checked the rears to just saying that's what procedures we would have ended up taking I'm a retired mechanic diesel bit buses with your trucks even pickups cars tractors heck I think we worked on everything even come there's carrying almonds and walnuts and step up for loading we worked on spreaders all kinds of stuff I used to work on me CDC buses here in California ways to maintain and repair all the buses for CDC call majority we were there man shop and far as I know they're still got the account semi one by there used to do school buses with neighbor get overloaded Valhalla probably couldn't figure out there bring it to us I miss working on all that stuff great video brother great work enjoyable to watch thank you and God bless you and your family thank God bless United States of America when Jesus name amen USA
@@BusGreaseMonkey it can work, a 12-point 15/16 can service most of a heavy truck from what I remember as it will fit over the square headed plugs using the box end
At that price I should start manufacturing those pipes myself, there is not much money in parts and I could build a superior part using 304L or 316L stainless steel instead of mild steel. If a used one is $300 how much is a brand new one. They would be easy to make once a simple mock up fixture is made.
dig your channel. been watching a lot! Question if I can. Your opinion on a 1998 Gillig Phantom two-door. Was a city bus all its life. Is it a good candidate for a rv conversion? Thanks Much & Cheers from Louisiana.
@@BusGreaseMonkey is it safe to assume that a bus in such poor maintenance is also in need of rack and linkage adjustments? We had a Model 10 Eagle years back and it always amazed me the complexity of linkages. Oh wait…. Does a DDEC even have the same fuel system?
How good is a late 90s early 2000 Cat C-7 motor.. I'm looking at a 30 ft school bus with 198k on it. Or what's the best motor to get in School buses ? Love your vids... I have been working on cars all my life, But sure have learned a lot from watching you guys. Thanks
A 5.9 Cummins. The cat c7 engines are boat anchors. They burn oil bad, if you over heat them, the engine is destroyed. The liners aren’t replaceable and they are very loud.
@@BusGreaseMonkey So comforting to know there are hundreds of folk hurtling about in 17 tons of bus without the faintest idea of how to maintain them or even check for defects.
I will say that from my first hand experience 90% do not do any pre trip what so ever or even know what normal operating perimeters are for the air system. Of the 10% who do some type of pre trip inspection maybe 10% of those do a complete proper one and that would only be before a long trip not every drive. So 1 out of 100. And my margin of error on this study is + or - 2% so a negative number is an acceptable answer.
on heating the lug nut, if you cool the stud with some water it will contract and help. but as tight as those were, you tried all the tricks and just a thought with them that tight did any of them stretch may want to measure them from the wheel face. but like most things you probably already looked at that... nice hand held induction heater btw.... since you have bought 2 recently I had to look, it's over 200$ in parts to make that exhaust part, that flex piece is over 100$ wholesale.. so 300 for a used one is a great deal...
Why did someone put a 6-92 in that thing? Interesting setup on the rear cap, is that additional cooling or just aftercooler? Hopefully there is enough adjustment left on the Rods to get the ride height correct.
I'm going to buy a bus just so I can bring it in and hang out with you guys.
Now that's a bloody good idea 🤔
👍🇬🇧
Scott your mind is a magnitude of knowledge. I'm amazed how you diagnosed problems and have the solutions.
Funny these overtorqued wheels. When i was an apprentice at a trailer shop there was a sticker right above the wheels that said torque to 565 ft/lbs. I asked the tech who was supervising me where the torque wrench was. He said no torque wrench, just hold the 1" drive impact gun trigger for 1 minute on each nut. I later looked up the model of impact specs and it puts out 1200 ft/lbs. lol
Jesus we could hold a 3/4 gun on a nut for 10 seconds and it’d be over 500 ft/lbs.
What a blessing that hill has turned into, no arguements if the bus will not climb the hill you need help.
And no discussions about wetter to get the brakes fixed either.
Love your driveway, with all those buses parked on the side on the way up.
Guy putting those lug nuts on: "How tight should these be?"
Guy who pretends to know: "Use ALL the uggaduggas you can"
Glad your bus clients have you and Tyler to do the job right. You guys rock.👍🍺
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I had to use my torque multiplier to break 5 studs off a Country Coach that was over torqued and pulled the threads in the bud nuts. Life saver!!! Every air leak counts!!! Thanks Scott!
Scott & Tyler, the owner's of those lovely old buses, must feel like all their Christmases have all come at once when they find you two, you guys certainly know your stuff,...xxx
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Love what you have done with your shop. You know when you guide the buses in it remains me of an Airport and how the guide the plane into the gate. Maybe you should put down some guide markers down so they can be in the same work space 100% of the time.
It's good to see so much help from the bus community. Thanks, Robby!
Might need to start an inventory of the things you buy every time, like that turbo pipe, brake cans, air bags, or persuade US Coach to stock a container at your place ...
You guys are amazing. Try "free all" penetrating oil. I'm surprised that you don't use a smoke wrench on stuck hardware. Had to break out the 3/4" drive socket set and a 5' pipe torque multiplier to get the tires loose on my wife's minivan. It had new tires at the Goodyear tire store and they overtorqued all the lug nuts.
Another good , well explained episode 👍🇬🇧
Man, You have all the cool tools!
I'm always amazed at how long these buses will last. Nice job.
That’s a big bus with a lot of problems hey
Good job he is at your place to get it sorted 👍👍
Well done Scott on you and other lending and borrowing items to get bus up the ramp to the shop see you on next video, hope you building is still moving forward as well
Good thing he brought it to you, that will be a safer and more reliable bus after your finished.
Great video 👍 upgrade the multiplier handle breaker bar and socket and repair exhaust for future get it up the Hill and stock exhaust pipe tube start welding your own.
Kudos Robbie 👍
Pretty underpowered bus! Lucky you guys can even get parts these days with all the supply chain issues.
With the boost working it's not too bad at around 330hp and 950 torque.
It’s set to 250hp ddec New Jersey transit
@@BusGreaseMonkey Weird, the brochure and wiki show the non-turbo at 270HP. Must be the TTA version, which shows 250HP.
You might want to acquire a 2 inch gun, it demands a 3/4 inch supply line but with 1200 pounds of torque it ought to make removing over tightened lug nuts come off with ease. I bought one and never had trouble removing lug nuts when driving over the road. Thought I did have to buy my own 3/4 airline and fittings to get full power out of it.
Food for thought
Good luck guys you sure do have a lot of work ahead of you.
Awesome! Love that 4 piece vintage airplane on the wall!
Thank you for all you do. Must be a regional thing, but we call that a Crescent Wrench.
Adjustable wrench. My brain wasn’t working
Different names for things make TH-cam interesting. I follow Danger Marine and Project Brupeg (sp?). I always do a double take when they refer to using a “spanner.”
@@brucefay5126 ya agreed i love what some of our brothers across the pond call thing like the grocery cark is a trolley lol
We call them a “fitsall.”
AvE calls it the universal nut f*cker….
Thankyou for the content. I would vote on videos being longer if possible please.
Lack of the use of antiseize causes that problem, but torque spec. Must be applied for proper reassemble.
You guys are keeping the bus company's going on spare part shame on yhe workshop that worked on the bus a year ago
Good to hear the turbo issue is not the turbo itself. Kinda had a feeling hearing it run when he showed up it was in the piping or a clamp issue.
The 4104 beside the pad is your daughter's bus, right? Will we be seeing conversion videos on that one? It looks kinds lonely down there all by itself.
Looks like another maintenance free Bus. Thank God for BGM!
Thank u for ur videos!
Love the Eagles more than the MCIs. Always underpowered and prone to rust. Just so cool. But Clint Black had a blacked out MCI w/full size satellite dish back in the 90s. 5ft wide and automated. Serviced at the shop on 65N just above Nashville. Almost as cool. As an Entertainers Eagle.
20/20 advice, while working on my 044 scenicruiser, I put a wrench into my overall chest pocket, now I get to buy a new phone, folded the dam thing, then everything got real hot real fast. oops.
wow you have your work cut out for you on this bus
and i love the we have a air leak in " this " area haa haaaa
I’d imagine if you can get the individual pieces (v-band flairs, flex, 90 degree elbow, etc) it probably wouldn’t be all that difficult, or expensive to make that normally expensive exhaust piece.
It would probably fit a little nicer than a pre-made off the shelf pipe, since it would be built specifically to fit the bus it was being put on.
Have Tyler give update on his bus with the inside
another good video, keep them coming
I guess all of those back and forth trips from Philly to A.C. took their toll on this bus.
When you first said that torque multiplier was less than $100 I thought wow, you’ve really got your money’s worth out of it and was amazed it hadn’t failed yet. Sorry I jinxed you Scott! Happens all the time to me at work. I just need to keep my big yapper shut.
Ha thanks for nothing. I’ve used that tool a lot prior. At least it’s just the handle
That’s the neatest tool I’ve seen
@@BusGreaseMonkey Get the welder out! I'm sure it's fixable.
@@DaffyDuc69 I'm not sure if it is cast iron or not, but brazing something that will be under a stress load is sooo much stronger than a weld!
Gday Scott,
I love these videos where you and Tyler do the initial inspection.
Is there any chance of a quick tour of this bus. From the outside she looks awesome.
Anyhoo everyone stay safe and keep healthy.
✌🏻 Peace.
You can wear a leather glove and twist the impact socket in the direction you want it to go when using an impact gun. That reduction in backlash can save your bacon when you're using an impact gun that can't quite undo the fastener.
Also it sounded like the gun was set to the highest speed, not highest torque. The Milwaukee's have a high torques setting that's actually a little slower than level 3.
Really would love to bring my 2002 Gillig Phantom to you guys to give her an inspection. Got a few issues. Not sure how to make contact with you. I was the guy driving the 60 foot brand new Honolulu Transit bus westbound on the I 10 about a year or so ago when y'all blew by me with Lenny😂🙃
If you go to their about section on their channel you can find the grease bus monkey forum. :)
Yeah Robbie!... Another great video..The king pins were scary....How long has he owned this bus?....Good thing he brought it to you to look over...
Hard to believe that huge bus is so under powered
She is a former commuter coach for NJ Transit most likely not the same powerful drivetrain as her highway coach sisters.
First bus I've seen with hub piloted wheels.
The krauts used a similar torque multiplier tool to start the Tiger tanks in WW2
250 horses? You would think that bus would need double that and maybe more, wow.
The amount of soot on the rear around the access door is a good sign of a BIG exhaust leak. Note to customer: DON'T go back to the shop that did the previous "work"!
Lol that engine said hello boost welcome to the party
For those watching and questioning the 250 HP rating, that's accurate but it probably has 650 FT LBS of torque. Don't let those low HP numbers on the Detroit's fool you. They're all torque monsters.
Torque monster? My diesel pickup truck has double that! Even bone stock new pickups make around 1,000ftlbs.
@@tlr-nut7275 what were bone stock diesel pickups making in the 1980s? I can assure you it wasn't even half of 1000 ft lbs. To try to compare a 40 year old engine to a new engine is an exercise in asshattery. For 1980 standards, 650 ft lbs was a torque monster. Do you have any other asinine assertions you would like to make or are you done being a troll?
@@tlr-nut7275 That Detroit will still be running LONG after your light duty diesel is in the junk yard.
@@better_than_nothing So, torque monster in 1980. Got it!
@@tlr-nut7275 well yes troll, because that bus was built in the 80s, which you either didn't know or are failing to acknowledge. Those same style buses today come with engines like the Volvo D13 which produce 1850 ft lbs at 900 RPM. So yes, by 80s standards they are absolute torque monsters.
Did you say you used AeroKroil? My wife's uncle just introduced me to this oil and it is amazing! I just ordered a case of it and it wasn't cheap but great stuff to used on seized bolts!
Best stuff ever.
I've been using Kroil for 40 years. My dad worked in a machine shop and brought it home.
See that lug nut problem all the time now. Everyone impacts them on. Had discount tire strip 3 of 5 lug nuts on wife car. Almost feel off. I could make you that exhaust pipe for cheap. 32 years welding, did food grade stainless steel.
Scot, doesn't that front end have air bags ?? ....or what is the suspention on this puppy ??.....
BTW, when I see the brake shoes, new drums, and you replacong the bearings, it makes me want to start tearing my own stuff, in need of repair, apart.....Good Job....!!!!
Giant rubber torsion springs about the size of a large welding tank are the suspension. It’s a great riding suspension. We will be adjusting it in videos soon so you will see it.
@@BusGreaseMonkey thanks for the reply, Scot. Though it sounds like something hard to find a replacement for
...I await the next video.....😊
10x more expensive at the least
I see Lenny has escaped the workshop which looks very empty with only the bus being worked on in there.
good old yorkshire engineers saying "if in doubt , give it a clout " lol
Pipes like that exhaust can easily be made with parts costing less than $50.
Why do I get the feeling that the last one to work on this just ran the nuts on with a one inch impact until the socket stopped turning...........
And then just a little bit longer just for good measure
@@BusGreaseMonkey Now imagine being on the side of the road with a tire shop servicing that flat tire and removing the nuts! ☹
heli arc welder tube binder and some SS tubings you can make what you need in a very short time. You do enough jobs it would pay for itself and no second or third party involved less down time.
I feel like anything that can't climb a hill without boost should have a lower gear, though I suppose that is more a design than a service issue.
That's a turbo'd 6V92. Higher HP diesel for that age bus. The 92ci's with that long stroke are real mountain goats on the long hills n passes with tha big Garrett turbo when all is right, valves, injectors, pump n boost system
I disagree. Just make sure the boost system works like it was designed.
Thousands of trucks use boosted engines as well and they climb over mountain passes every day. Same for diesel-electric train locs. Ships use boosted engines as well. They cross entire oceans.
Boosting is a proven concept.
But all those engines do have to be maintained. This includes the boost system.
No boost, no decent power.
@@jfv65 gears low enough to function with reduced torque is an even more proven concept, and normal wear will always eventually reduce torque as much as loss of boost, and gears must function there too, especially since reduced torque is INEVITABLE!!!!
1:00 as Eric from SMA would say, there's ur problem lady😂
I drive one for living . Work on them some. Retired now . I wish every tire guy had torque wrench
With all the grime and grease caked on everything, does it make any sense to pressure wash the majority of the grime off before tackling the repairs?
Why don't you have the 1" Milwaukee impact? That would really help you out.
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@ 13:33 they are called Crescent wrenches....lol
I showed you and said that… it was a near death experience i was flustered ;)
@@BusGreaseMonkey Understood....I've been there myself....Keep up the Good Work....Cheers
I had 4 model 15 Eagles and 1956 scenic cruiser sold all of them should have kept one of them miss riding in a bus.
U.K. Better to have the wheel nuts too tight than leaving them very loose like a local tyre fitter did. Got the sack of course. Dick head would pick a Rolla to do it on. The only problem with these vids is they have to end, I could watch them all day.
could you stock up on big diameter exhaust pipe,straight and 90* bends to make the need turbo pipes .a small ring roller could roll small diameter round steel to be used on the end of pipes for sealing the V-bands
That’s not a 90° 5-10° off
that thing needs all the works. my lord
THAT BUS NEEDS SOME SERIOUS WORK. PROBABLY HAS 2MIL MILES ON IT.
How would you check for elongation of studs from over tightening.
2:00 SEVERE deferred maintenance
Just quick question are you going to put doors on the front of the building or leave them as it is
Kevin from the UK
Because of how tight the front lugs were, will the nuts and studs be replaced?
Can you weld that handle and put some gussets on it? Or can you order just the handle from the company?
It's shocking how many of these private coaches are unsafe
Definitely a marked difference in making it up the hill! As an old former Trailways bus driver here, really loved the Eagle buses!
Just a question...I heard the gentleman use his "high idle" after starting his engine. Do bus drivers nowadays not use this feature any longer, as I don't hear that when viewing other bus videos? Maybe a generational thing? Keep up the hard work, gentlemen!! 😊
Electronic engines can go to fast idle rightbaway. Mechanical engines have to wait to build air to about 60psi before it will engage
My high idle takes the engine up to 1200 rpm. That sounded like he was revving it up. I always let mine get a bit of oil at lower rpm before making the rpm high.
..s'ok...first time or two Scott, you almost didnt make it up the hill either... ;)
That’s because i started from a dead stop already on the incline. Not many buses would make it from where i tried to start.
And to be fair in the video i said i was familiar with the walk of shame backing down the hill.
@@BusGreaseMonkey ..I meant you - walking up the hill...
Your work brother I used to use pictures bubble solution ones your blow bubbles with that's what I used to use to find air leaks at work the best minnows pretty cheap Golden Gate at the dollar store big bottle for like a dollar extreme pain disorder 30 shot from what I could see the bearings that's a good catch on all that in a boat diagram I want you was Joe if I would have done both and I would have checked the rears to just saying that's what procedures we would have ended up taking I'm a retired mechanic diesel bit buses with your trucks even pickups cars tractors heck I think we worked on everything even come there's carrying almonds and walnuts and step up for loading we worked on spreaders all kinds of stuff I used to work on me CDC buses here in California ways to maintain and repair all the buses for CDC call majority we were there man shop and far as I know they're still got the account semi one by there used to do school buses with neighbor get overloaded Valhalla probably couldn't figure out there bring it to us I miss working on all that stuff great video brother great work enjoyable to watch thank you and God bless you and your family thank God bless United States of America when Jesus name amen USA
That was painful.
10k out of a Michelin. Wow, that's an expensive fault. Should get nearly 100k out of a steer axle Michelin.
Scott a bit off topic. Did you see the market on VW Things? $20k+ for avg runners. $30k+ for restored. It's crazy.
The entire air cooled VW world is being overrun with tweaked out flippers and bone heads with more money than brains- it’s a very sad situation ….
I would gladly sell mine for 15k
@@Westy73 it's not sad if you have one.
What are your thoughts on getting qualified on the computer/digital side of newer DD engines?
You might find a 12 point socket that fits the torque multiplier and use breaker bar.
No corners on it
@@BusGreaseMonkey it can work, a 12-point 15/16 can service most of a heavy truck from what I remember as it will fit over the square headed plugs using the box end
6v92ta running right will spin the tires up that hill.
Is that a mini split mounted over the engine on the left?
Yes
At that price I should start manufacturing those pipes myself, there is not much money in parts and I could build a superior part using 304L or 316L stainless steel instead of mild steel. If a used one is $300 how much is a brand new one. They would be easy to make once a simple mock up fixture is made.
dig your channel. been watching a lot! Question if I can. Your opinion on a 1998 Gillig Phantom two-door. Was a city bus all its life. Is it a good candidate for a rv conversion? Thanks Much & Cheers from Louisiana.
Not generally. Insurance is harder for a transit. Low floors don’t give you big bays for storage and house systems. It’s just harder but can be done
@@BusGreaseMonkey Thank you, sir. That consideration never crossed my mind.
I officially rename this bus Leaky lol
Tire idiots with rattle-guns are a real safety hazard. Torque specs aren't just superfluous data.
Where are you guys located
Borrowed parts and hill climb redemption!
Yes it scooted right up
@@BusGreaseMonkey Is there any way to override that system to get boost if you didn't have a pipe around?
@@DaffyDuc69 nope.
I could have added some propane.
@@BusGreaseMonkey is it safe to assume that a bus in such poor maintenance is also in need of rack and linkage adjustments?
We had a Model 10 Eagle years back and it always amazed me the complexity of linkages. Oh wait…. Does a DDEC even have the same fuel system?
I use a half inch drive Milwaukee IMPAC to do all my semi truck tires I know they are a little pricey but they’re worth the money
How good is a late 90s early 2000 Cat C-7 motor.. I'm looking at a 30 ft school bus with 198k on it. Or what's the best motor to get in School buses ?
Love your vids... I have been working on cars all my life, But sure have learned a lot from watching you guys. Thanks
A 5.9 Cummins. The cat c7 engines are boat anchors. They burn oil bad, if you over heat them, the engine is destroyed. The liners aren’t replaceable and they are very loud.
Get a DT466, anything older then 2003 non egr. If you get an EGR, get something 2007 and older, with out the DPF.
@@user-ln7of9gs4s Thanks...
I don't care much for the paint color but to each his own I guess.
what is the weight on one of those busses?
My guess is around 34,000 lbs for a converted eagle. +- 4,000 for build variations
@@BusGreaseMonkey dang thats some big girls lol
@@BusGreaseMonkey So comforting to know there are hundreds of folk hurtling about in 17 tons of bus without the faintest idea of how to maintain them or even check for defects.
Those wheel studs are overstressed n the threads pulled, will fail on the road , Nuts are ruined by sa me mistreatment
The brake chamber diaphragm should have been caught on the air brake test that should be done with every pretrip. just sayin
Preaching to the preacher
My guess is most of these never get a pre trip. Kinda scary if you think about it!!
What percentage of rv bus conversion owners do you think do a proper air brake pre trip test?
@@BusGreaseMonkey Can we use a negative number? 😁
I will say that from my first hand experience 90% do not do any pre trip what so ever or even know what normal operating perimeters are for the air system. Of the 10% who do some type of pre trip inspection maybe 10% of those do a complete proper one and that would only be before a long trip not every drive. So 1 out of 100. And my margin of error on this study is + or - 2% so a negative number is an acceptable answer.
on heating the lug nut, if you cool the stud with some water it will contract and help. but as tight as those were, you tried all the tricks
and just a thought with them that tight did any of them stretch may want to measure them from the wheel face. but like most things you probably already looked at that...
nice hand held induction heater btw....
since you have bought 2 recently I had to look, it's over 200$ in parts to make that exhaust part, that flex piece is over 100$ wholesale.. so 300 for a used one is a great deal...
Why did someone put a 6-92 in that thing? Interesting setup on the rear cap, is that additional cooling or just aftercooler? Hopefully there is enough adjustment left on the Rods to get the ride height correct.
i was wondering about that, i think it might be one of those split residential ac units
Many Eagle buses came with 6V92T in them.