Not sure if you or your followers are interested but Canada has officially shut down its Greyhound bus lines. As a result there is an auction coming up…might be able to snag a good bus at a decent price 👍 Toronto-based auction house Corporate Assets Inc. is auctioning off 38 Greyhound Canada passenger buses in just a matter of weeks. The motor coaches, which can fit up to 55 people, will be auctioned off on January 18, 2022, at 10:30 am.
Your great mechanic, it's amazing you find everything wrong with the bus to make it safe and reliable, no easy job with this diesel pusher .love watching your videos.
Wow, it's a mess! At least it's now in good hands. I wonder who the last school district or user was? The missing air plenum is a fiberglass box that isolates the air intake from the bus's interior. I made mine easily removable so I can look down inside my air filter to check for deterioration - mine's the biggest Racor ECO-BC, so I'm surprised this bus has such a small filter. Is it original? The three switches/senders on the passenger-side thermostat housing are, from the left: the Crown high coolant temperature switch that activates the driver's red light and buzzer at 215 degrees, way too hot to be useful (but not anything to do with the DDEC overheat shutdown that has its own temperature switch), then the middle one is the front temperature gauge's sender, and the right one is the 195 degree NO/NC switch that's closed until 195 to send power to the radiator fan's hydraulic control block that uses a Danfoss 7WA110-2 solenoid directional control valve to divert some of the fan motor's flow back to the reservoir below 195, and at 195 the switch opens and shuts off power to the Danfoss valve thus making the fan motor run at full speed with full flow. Curiously, it's actually a Gillig assembly used in their Phantoms! I've had my Super II for thirteen years now, and there's not much I haven't yet discovered about it! I have all the factory electrical schematics (including the DDEC schematic), air schematic, full Service Manual and Parts Catalog from Crown, and lots of other info, so if you have any questions please PM me and I'll do my best to help you.
If I remember correctly, this may be one of the post-Carpenter purchase Crowns... Definitely not one of the old school twinkies I rode in elementary school on various field trips... Too Thomas-like.
@@john242ti Correct. I forget who bought the Crown name. They intended to bring the name back, but it failed to catch on. Thomas, IHC, and Bluebird have their lock on the school bus market. Carpenter also had a very brief resurrection with an equally quick fail.
@@nicknunya7776 I don't know. I just remember seeing a few come across the auction scene when I was looking for a donor bus to convert to an RV - one of my wanna do things that never came to fruition.
Wow! A new compressor because it was sucking dirty air. That air filter reminds me of my wife's old car when we were dating where it was so clogged that it stopped running because of it. Just out of curiosity, I would weigh both filters to see how much dirt the old one has.
I like seeing you work on a school bus ,into motor home as buying one is less money and make the conversion is easyer on dollars spend// as do it your self people // build on a pusher bus// I had one at action for $2500.00 Blue Bird and sold it
3:00 that's a great way to get rid of weed smoke. If I was a smoker. I would pipe my intake inside my car. Damn, that would make a great how too video for me.
used to drive a 88 passenger around St.Louis county Mo.every day for 2 years . I think they were Freightliner's 2012 models were the oldest in the fleet lots of smaller IC's too.
Seems like there is not enough space for airflow around the engine air filter due to the housing being so small. Seems restrictive. I look forward to and would vote YES to longer videos please !
All those little issues add up quick. Good thing the owner brought it to you guys because when he leaves, he'll be one happy customer. Just out of curiosity, do you guys perform D.O.T. annual inspections and if not is this a service you might consider? I know when a bus leaves your shop, it's 100% and road ready.
AHh a Crown bus !! I prefer the older ones but this one is nice ! I was told that the Crown busses were known to be the Rolls Royce of busses, are the Crown busses are handling better than an other bus brand ?
Hello, my name is Jose. I have a broke engine in my bus, idk who is the best at fixing this engine 6v92 ta . Any tips are welcome. It is in Houston tx and need to get it to NC
The wheels on that bus won't be going round and round for several days long. I suppose there is a lot of weight in the bus but any half decent tow truck driver would know the hard points where to lift. Clearly not the case here. Time for some BGM TLC. How long was it out of service? Just wondering when it was last serviced/maintained.
There is a local company that "rejuvenates" the air filters. Somehow, they claim to test the filter before and after cleaning to ensure no holes. Has anyone ever had that done, and what was your experience? The person I bought by bus from had been using them for years.
1:21 Run down with an impact. What's the use in using a Torque wrench after that. Impact wrench runs down way beyond a natural torque. I'm a former aircraft mechanic.
I'm thankful to see you guys bringing these issues to light. We have these mega ton vehicles on the road and some shops just willie-nilly with these lugs and studs and ignore torque sequence, and a host of other things shops just glance over or just totally over look. I hope the DOT is watching your channel and get some idea of what is going on out there. Again thanks Grease Bus Monkey, great work!
Why does every bus owner not have one of those diagnostic computers? If you can afford a bus you can surely afford one of those. Is there anybody that makes a display system that reads all those parameters for display on the dash or in the engine compartment?
Crown went outta business because they overbuilt their buses. A lot of school districts could get 30 to 50 years of service life from a Crown. In California, they had to make legislation to get them off the road before 2018 because schools where still keeping buses built in the late 70's to 80's in regular service. They thought they would just go away but nope, if it wasn't for the stricter emission laws you'd still the classic "twinkie" in Cali in 2021
Whatever school district that had that bus needs to fire their mechanics along with the supervisor. There is NO excuse for any of that. people's CHILDREN rode on that thing probably not that long ago. It is way too new for that kind of damage to be there. Tow truck that damaged that also needs to pay for the damage. Will need an alignment check to make sure it's not tweeked. Who knows where they attached the chains.
This was most likely a contractor bus outta California. The sketchy companies buy these from auctions and will drive these until the wheels fall off. I can assure you that if your school district can afford to get Crown's, they sure as hell wont neglect them. At the time they were the most expensive bus you can buy
Scott, plase don't bash tow trucks so much.... not all of us are bumbling idiots and a lot of us are very serious and professional about our job. Towing coaches is one of my specialties.
@@BusGreaseMonkey of course not, and I can speculate on how that bumper damage happened. Likely that the tow truck started to go up a sheepish hill. (like a driveway) Angles change drastically between the casuality and wrecker and if you don't plan ahead for things like that, this is the type of result you get. Granted, that bus should have been forked by the front axle and I'm not sure why it wasn't. Personally, I would have flipped my receivers over and used my tall forks as well as strapping the axle down. There is also a possibility that the operator didn't know this happened as well, but I can't be certain on that either.
When you say you're doing a tuneup on it. Are you actually doing an overhead on it and just calling it a tune-up so people understand what you're doing.
Setting the valves and injector timing is a tune up for DD. Making sure everything opens, closes and fires when it should. Very important for maximum power
Hopefully neither. Even hauling only air the thought of several tons of bus loosing a wheel bearing or an air bag at anything more than walking pace just doesn't bare thinking about.
@@18robsmith I've heard a truck tyre go bang at traffic lights that was loud. I wouldn't want to be close if an air bag goes pop like a kids party baloon
Not sure if you or your followers are interested but Canada has officially shut down its Greyhound bus lines.
As a result there is an auction coming up…might be able to snag a good bus at a decent price 👍
Toronto-based auction house Corporate Assets Inc. is auctioning off 38 Greyhound Canada passenger buses in just a matter of weeks. The motor coaches, which can fit up to 55 people, will be auctioned off on January 18, 2022, at 10:30 am.
"That's impressive" understatement of the year.
Your great mechanic, it's amazing you find everything wrong with the bus to make it safe and reliable, no easy job with this diesel pusher .love watching your videos.
Wow, it's a mess! At least it's now in good hands. I wonder who the last school district or user was?
The missing air plenum is a fiberglass box that isolates the air intake from the bus's interior. I made mine easily removable so I can look down inside my air filter to check for deterioration - mine's the biggest Racor ECO-BC, so I'm surprised this bus has such a small filter. Is it original?
The three switches/senders on the passenger-side thermostat housing are, from the left: the Crown high coolant temperature switch that activates the driver's red light and buzzer at 215 degrees, way too hot to be useful (but not anything to do with the DDEC overheat shutdown that has its own temperature switch), then the middle one is the front temperature gauge's sender, and the right one is the 195 degree NO/NC switch that's closed until 195 to send power to the radiator fan's hydraulic control block that uses a Danfoss 7WA110-2 solenoid directional control valve to divert some of the fan motor's flow back to the reservoir below 195, and at 195 the switch opens and shuts off power to the Danfoss valve thus making the fan motor run at full speed with full flow. Curiously, it's actually a Gillig assembly used in their Phantoms!
I've had my Super II for thirteen years now, and there's not much I haven't yet discovered about it! I have all the factory electrical schematics (including the DDEC schematic), air schematic, full Service Manual and Parts Catalog from Crown, and lots of other info, so if you have any questions please PM me and I'll do my best to help you.
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Thanks for the detail bearing shoots, helps me understand a lot.
Always looking forward to watching ur video's Always interesting to watch different Rv's and motorhomes!!!!!!!!
Love watching all of your videos!
Love the Crown Super Coach II’s
How to keep the door and windows from rattling?
Pull a vacuum from the engine intake… 😂
I love these busses. Very rare with a luckily owner
This is I believe the first modern looking Crown bus I’ve seen. I wish I knew where those old Gillig transit school buses went, those were awesome.
And what's funny is that's a late '80s early '90s bus series 2 is what they called them
If I remember correctly, this may be one of the post-Carpenter purchase Crowns... Definitely not one of the old school twinkies I rode in elementary school on various field trips... Too Thomas-like.
@@john242ti Correct. I forget who bought the Crown name. They intended to bring the name back, but it failed to catch on. Thomas, IHC, and Bluebird have their lock on the school bus market. Carpenter also had a very brief resurrection with an equally quick fail.
@@wolfman9999999 was that with Navistar international at their resurrection?
@@nicknunya7776 I don't know. I just remember seeing a few come across the auction scene when I was looking for a donor bus to convert to an RV - one of my wanna do things that never came to fruition.
I wish that i had a ride in one of those in my school days
Wow! A new compressor because it was sucking dirty air. That air filter reminds me of my wife's old car when we were dating where it was so clogged that it stopped running because of it. Just out of curiosity, I would weigh both filters to see how much dirt the old one has.
I like seeing you work on a school bus ,into motor home as buying one is less money and make the conversion is easyer on dollars spend// as do it your self people // build on a pusher bus// I had one at action for $2500.00 Blue Bird and sold it
Looks like it's time for a longer building!
Crown bus for life 1904 to 1991
3:00 that's a great way to get rid of weed smoke. If I was a smoker. I would pipe my intake inside my car. Damn, that would make a great how too video for me.
It would really get your engine running good at high rpm all the time
@@BusGreaseMonkey That's a good one.
used to drive a 88 passenger around St.Louis county Mo.every day for 2 years . I think they were Freightliner's 2012 models were the oldest in the fleet lots of smaller IC's too.
Seems like there is not enough space for airflow around the engine air filter due to the housing being so small. Seems restrictive.
I look forward to and would vote YES to longer videos please !
Ugh! More neglect and abuse. I'm glad you're there Scott!
All those little issues add up quick. Good thing the owner brought it to you guys because when he leaves, he'll be one happy customer. Just out of curiosity, do you guys perform D.O.T. annual inspections and if not is this a service you might consider? I know when a bus leaves your shop, it's 100% and road ready.
My bus is fixing to resemble that one soon enough as she needs new inner rear axle seals.
Something I thought I’d never see on this channel! A scanner! lol
Hey you must not watch us very regularly we have had at least a half dozen ddec buses this past year
AHh a Crown bus !! I prefer the older ones but this one is nice ! I was told that the Crown busses were known to be the Rolls Royce of busses, are the Crown busses are handling better than an other bus brand ?
Passing oil ? I think bleeding oil,,,, or is it like me on blood thinners?
The tow operator jacked up the front panel on our tech school GMC ex transit bus. He did not lift it by the axle. Totally buckled it.
Did the tow operator pay for damages?
OH LOOK!!!
IT'S A HOVER BUS
Didn’t know the Supercoach II’s had air bags
I know this was removed from service, but imagine more buses like this are transporting kids to school before they are removed from service!
Hello, my name is Jose. I have a broke engine in my bus, idk who is the best at fixing this engine 6v92 ta . Any tips are welcome. It is in Houston tx and need to get it to NC
Fuck I did not think I would ever get to the video with all the commercials
RUclips is crazy sometimes. We have no control over how many they show.
I didnt know any school buses existed with air suspension.
The wheels on that bus won't be going round and round for several days long.
I suppose there is a lot of weight in the bus but any half decent tow truck driver would know the hard points where to lift. Clearly not the case here.
Time for some BGM TLC.
How long was it out of service? Just wondering when it was last serviced/maintained.
Is that a crack in the wheel housing located around the stud? Look at 11:35. Almost looks like it extends towards the race.
keep the videos coming
There is a local company that "rejuvenates" the air filters. Somehow, they claim to test the filter before and after cleaning to ensure no holes. Has anyone ever had that done, and what was your experience? The person I bought by bus from had been using them for years.
When the Tow Bill is $1,000 ...
and the damage caused by towing,
is $4,000.
when we tow them we put on landall trailer we never tow them with wheels on ground
1:21 Run down with an impact. What's the use in using a Torque wrench after that. Impact wrench runs down way beyond a natural torque. I'm a former aircraft mechanic.
We use the Milwaukee one key set to around 400ft lbs then use a torque wrench. It never takes it to 500
I'm thankful to see you guys bringing these issues to light. We have these mega ton vehicles on the road and some shops just willie-nilly with these lugs and studs and ignore torque sequence, and a host of other things shops just glance over or just totally over look. I hope the DOT is watching your channel and get some idea of what is going on out there. Again thanks Grease Bus Monkey, great work!
i wonder what the weight difference was on those filters.
Why does every bus owner not have one of those diagnostic computers? If you can afford a bus you can surely afford one of those.
Is there anybody that makes a display system that reads all those parameters for display on the dash or in the engine compartment?
How can it be so long with only two axles instead of three?
Has to do with the axle and weight ratings. It's not heavy enough to need two rear axles.
The bus antifreeze test sure reminded me of a urine drug test.
Crown went outta business because they overbuilt their buses. A lot of school districts could get 30 to 50 years of service life from a Crown. In California, they had to make legislation to get them off the road before 2018 because schools where still keeping buses built in the late 70's to 80's in regular service. They thought they would just go away but nope, if it wasn't for the stricter emission laws you'd still the classic "twinkie" in Cali in 2021
Whatever school district that had that bus needs to fire their mechanics along with the supervisor. There is NO excuse for any of that. people's CHILDREN rode on that thing probably not that long ago. It is way too new for that kind of damage to be there. Tow truck that damaged that also needs to pay for the damage. Will need an alignment check to make sure it's not tweeked. Who knows where they attached the chains.
This was most likely a contractor bus outta California. The sketchy companies buy these from auctions and will drive these until the wheels fall off. I can assure you that if your school district can afford to get Crown's, they sure as hell wont neglect them. At the time they were the most expensive bus you can buy
Scott, plase don't bash tow trucks so much.... not all of us are bumbling idiots and a lot of us are very serious and professional about our job. Towing coaches is one of my specialties.
Do you think that tow truck did a good job?
Read my chat comments. I didn’t bash all of them.
@@BusGreaseMonkey of course not, and I can speculate on how that bumper damage happened. Likely that the tow truck started to go up a sheepish hill. (like a driveway) Angles change drastically between the casuality and wrecker and if you don't plan ahead for things like that, this is the type of result you get. Granted, that bus should have been forked by the front axle and I'm not sure why it wasn't. Personally, I would have flipped my receivers over and used my tall forks as well as strapping the axle down. There is also a possibility that the operator didn't know this happened as well, but I can't be certain on that either.
It's too easy to armchair quarterback this stuff, but some kind of service pit would have been awesome to have in the garage...
Nope
When I think of a service pit, the scene in the movie Twister where they ran from the drive-in movie to hide in one comes to mind.
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What are they going to do about the tires?
Replacing them
Waaaay back when I was a lad and fitting tires on rigs I'm sure you would have whacked me in the head for what I did to lug nuts.
man you need doors for your garage
It's something else to find other peoples hacks, makes ya wonder 🤔
how are the air brakes ?
So far so good
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When you say you're doing a tuneup on it. Are you actually doing an overhead on it and just calling it a tune-up so people understand what you're doing.
Setting the valves and injector timing is a tune up for DD. Making sure everything opens, closes and fires when it should. Very important for maximum power
I know and understand what he's actually doing but in the trucking industry we call it an overhead
@@waldosworld1318 ok, now we both know something different.
Overhead = tune up
Boot = trunk
Bonnet=hood
Etc. All good imo.
Rich
Please don't blame tow trucks. The manufacturer is just as much to blame.
The should strength that area or design a point for us to hook up. Too!
....Airbsgs, brakes, tires, .....what were they hauling ?? Kids or cattle ??
LOL..!!!
Hopefully neither. Even hauling only air the thought of several tons of bus loosing a wheel bearing or an air bag at anything more than walking pace just doesn't bare thinking about.
@@18robsmith I've heard a truck tyre go bang at traffic lights that was loud.
I wouldn't want to be close if an air bag goes pop like a kids party baloon
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