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| Syl Szucsko (Syl)
Registered Member Username: Syl Post Number: 26 Registered: 6-2006 Posted From: 74.32.222.70 Rating: N/A |
Been reading the thread towing a bus. I have had mine towed twice because of broken drive line and once for blown engine. The drive lines where caused by my lack of not listening to the grease mits. I have a MCI8 8V92 740 trans, old style U joints (two bolts to hold the cups in) seems they have to be greased quite regular. I mean every 3000 miles. So since then I have not have problems (touch wood). Now the engine 8V92 was well used when I bought it but it was a strong runner till one day on I5 at Wesley CA I tried to keep up with a modern bus, I lost the race and dumped h2o in the pan and ground. Now all of this is operator failure so I was wandering what happened to your tows. | ||
| RJ Long (Rjlong)
Registered Member Username: Rjlong Post Number: 1472 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 67.181.166.160  Rating: N/A |
Syl - Well, my toes haven't done any wandering, they're still on the end of my feet. . . (Sorry, couldn't resist!)  | ||
| Ednj (Ednj)
Registered Member Username: Ednj Post Number: 223 Registered: 3-2003 Posted From: 67.85.237.82  Rating: N/A |
Sitting in Construction traffic my Air Compressor Committed suicide. I was able to make it to the first open shoulder and wait. The Guy who towed me, only tows buses. He has a wheel lift and always pulls the axle no matter what transmission. No air no go. here's the link i have no interest other then he helped me out. http://www.evolutioncustomcoach.com/towing.htm   | ||
| David Evans (Dmd)
Registered Member Username: Dmd Post Number: 271 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 71.125.9.161  Rating: N/A |
Nice link Ed. Mostly because they arent to far away from us but good info. Thanks | ||
| FAST FRED (Fast_fred)
Registered Member Username: Fast_fred Post Number: 606 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 66.82.162.20 Rating: N/A |
NO inverter , no genset , no AC air supply? FF | ||
| Tim (Timkar)
Registered Member Username: Timkar Post Number: 118 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 24.64.223.203 Rating: N/A |
When TTC rebuilt the engine (before my purchase) they installed lockwashers on the blower drive bolts. The "heads" protruded too much, rubbed on the housing and stripped the gears. Thought I had some bad fuel as the engine was hunting. After pulling in to fuel up could not get started again as the blower had quit turning (took a while to figure that one out)  | ||
| Mark Renner (Boomer)
Registered Member Username: Boomer Post Number: 138 Registered: 11-2006 Posted From: 206.58.200.38  Rating: N/A |
That is the "coarse" 29 tooth splined drive you have that ordinarily would never strip like the early fine tooth drives (on 71's). Sounds like your engine builder facilitated the failure. Stripping the blower drive is a fairly common failure on the old 71's; the engine just dies and that's it. Had it happen on a truck one night and I pulled the shaft out and reversed ends with it to get in; you can see about 1/4" of spline left in the picture here, that you can limp in with sometimes. For anyone who is still running the fine spline drive pack, I highly suggest changing to the course drive whenever your blower is off. If your engine ever quits suddenly you can pull the air horn off and turn it over to see if the blower is spinning. If it is, the above is the likely culprit (if you have fuel). | ||
| Dave Hartshorne (Yeeolde48)
Registered Member Username: Yeeolde48 Post Number: 66 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 24.209.222.82 Rating: N/A |
Just saw this thread, and had a towing experience a few years ago. Had the primary fuel line swell up on the inside, so had a slow reduction of power over about 2 hours on the road, and I thought was filter related, but then she cut out trying to start on a grade and would not re-start. A real tough one to find. Got towed by Zores towing in Indianapolis, great people, lifted from the front axle, had to back of the brakes as I did not have an auxiliary air point (I did the next weekend). Towed us the their shop, and gave us access to all their facilities so I could fix the bus. They even help me re-adjusted the brakes once they had towed us, and made up a replacement line when we finally found the problem. Just charged me for a standard tow. Picture on our web site: http://www.chachingracing.com/chachingracing1_009.htm | ||
| Larry & Lynne Dixon (Larry_d)
Registered Member Username: Larry_d Post Number: 181 Registered: 7-2005 Posted From: 71.111.188.44 Rating: N/A |
Now that you mention that five or six years ago going into Los Vegas Had a Blue Bird Wonderlodge forty footer 6V92 loose power, made it to a DD dealer in LV. They sold me a fuel pro which I liked. Went on to AZ and gone about a month changeing filters about every three hours. A month later got home and hometown DD dealer went to the fuel line changed it and coach ran like a charm, also cut the fuel line in half showing how the rubber inside the steel webing was shot. Good thing to look at if engine warms up and weens the fuel. 4905,Larry |