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rdub
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 12, 2004 - 9:04 am: | |
Thanx for all the input on V-drive rear ratios. The final word for all GM east-west (V731) drivetrains is that 4.10 is the highest (highway speed) gearing available. I decided to go with the RTS axle since it matches the alignment of the Series 50/V731. The axle housing is now mounted in place. Only one "small" problem...I still need the 4.10 gear set...new or used...today. Any help out there? Thanx, rdub. |
Marc Bourget
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 12, 2004 - 10:58 am: | |
This is a frequent topic on the Yahoo RTS BB.
Understand $1800 for the pieces, no used available, you still have to have the ring and pinon installed at extra expense, unless you have the ability to do it yourself. Don't know the source, check with Geoff Smith.
Onward and Upward
Marc Bourget |
rdub
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 12, 2004 - 11:25 am: | |
Thanx Marc,
You wouldn't happen to have a contact e-address or phone for Geoff, would you? Best I've found so far is $2500 for the gears and $1000 to install the gears and overhaul the carrier. Who said old buses were cheap! |
Gary McFarland (Gearheadgary)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 12, 2004 - 1:50 pm: | |
That sounds high to me rdub...
Gary |
Buswarrior (Buswarrior)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 12, 2004 - 11:49 pm: | |
Rdub!
There are RTS transits with your gear in them retiring somewhere in America for scrap money.
Find out who has them geared that way and find out who they scrap to. A small financial reward (probably some coffee and donuts for him and the boys) to a guy in their shop with access to the vehicle history computer will give you a low mileage axle.
And you get a nice parts bus to pick over before you send it back to the scrapper. Hmmm, maybe a nice seat, spare lenses, LED tail lights, cleaner body panels, fewer holes in something than yours... the possibilities!
You'll get the whole bus for close to what you're going to pay for the axle parts. And then sell most of it back.
happy coaching!
buswarrior |
rdub
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 7:54 am: | |
Buswarrior,
That is excellent advice! So good, in fact that I "took it"...two months ago. I beat the bushes coast to coast. I talked to a dozen transit companies, bus parts yards, auction houses - anyone and everyone I could find...even Rockwell. In the end, no one knew of someone operating 4.10 gears although you and I know that they made them for a reason...someone should be using them. I just couldn't find a bus for sale with the gears, the engine, and the trans I wanted. Then, I was running out of time to get this project done. I agree with you 100% that for anyone out there doing a major (or even minor, in some cases) conversion, having a "parts bus" is a great strategy. Rdub |
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