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09-22-2016, 10:08 AM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Texas
Posts: 160
Year: 1997
Chassis: Saf-T-Liner MVP ER
Engine: Cummins 5.9L Diesel Engine
Rated Cap: 83
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Bus engine parts
Where is a good place to get specific engine parts for your bus? For example I am looking for a new cap for my reservoir tank and have not had any luck.
But there are other parts I would also like to get, but not sure if there is a good reliable source I should tap into for getting them. Any suggestions?
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09-22-2016, 10:17 AM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Posts: 1,791
Year: 1997
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: B3800 Short bus
Engine: T444E
Rated Cap: 36
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Look for heavy duty truck parts stores. Fleetpride is a big one that comes to mind. Napa also has a decent supply network. Otherwise you could probably get away with using an expanding rubber plug:
If you can figure out exactly what you have under the hood you can get engine specific parts all over. Getting the model # off the engine would be the first step.
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09-22-2016, 11:20 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Columbus Ohio
Posts: 18,756
Year: 1991
Coachwork: Carpenter
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: DTA360 / MT643
Rated Cap: 7 Row Handicap
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be careful if thats a pressurized reservoire like a lot of the International DT engines are.. the cap needs to be a specific pressure..
also if it was a vented cap then a plug like that will impede the ability of that reservoire to release and retrieve coolant from expansion..
truckpro is another place to try as is Rush truck centers.. Rush is in masny cities the ionternational dealer.. that cap may be specific to the Truck as opposed to specific to the engine...
ive bought parts for mine from schoolbus pasrts company and also from finditparts.com
-Christopher
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09-22-2016, 11:24 AM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Posts: 1,791
Year: 1997
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: B3800 Short bus
Engine: T444E
Rated Cap: 36
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Oh yes, of course! I was thinking small vehicle coolant reservoirs with the cap on the rad. :S I'm glad you caught that. My bus (being an International) has a pressure cap on the reservoir. I'm not sure what the Cummins 5.9 set up typically has going on.. Either way the bung idea is a bad one since you want some way for air to enter and exit. Dumb caps still need a pin hole.
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11-12-2016, 03:49 PM
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New Member
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1
Year: 1993
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: International
Engine: DT360
Rated Cap: 60
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Hey, I'm sure you've already found something by now but my husband and I found this website and they have a whole lot of parts!
I hope it helps!
School Bus Parts
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07-25-2019, 10:00 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Johnson City TN
Posts: 441
Year: 2004
Coachwork: IC/AMTRANS RE
Engine: T444E 7.3 w/ MD3060
Rated Cap: 36000lbs / 78pass / 39'
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Endreta
Hey, I'm sure you've already found something by now but my husband and I found this website and they have a whole lot of parts!
I hope it helps!
School Bus Parts
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The only post from that account, smells like SPAM.
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07-26-2019, 06:21 AM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Ashtabula, Ohio
Posts: 1,494
Year: 1996
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: International
Engine: T444E 7.3L
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Well the link is good anyway.
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07-26-2019, 08:55 AM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: E Central Tejas
Posts: 2,094
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: IH 3800, 8 window
Engine: T444E w/ Spicer 5-speed MT
Rated Cap: I prefer broad-brims hats
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If it is spam, then it was incredibly devious of them to wait 5 months before trolling...
I didn't do more than a quick perusal of the site, but it looked legit enough to bookmark.
Besides, it was a link to an outfit Christopher'd mentioned earlier.
If it's OK by CK, then that's all the endorsement I need!
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Those who say that it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it.
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07-26-2019, 10:24 AM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Western Oregon
Posts: 876
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Blue-Bird
Chassis: TC RE 3408
Engine: 5.9 Cummins 12V Mechanical/Allison MT643
Rated Cap: Blue-Bird says 72 pass.
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I've been looking at this site for a while, and I'm getting ready to contact them. I have a leaking coolant expansion tank right above my engine. It's cracked near the top ot the tank. Someone put a patch on it. It looks like it may have held for a while. It does hold some pressure now, but not enough.
I am unaware of any wrecking yards or anywhere I can get used bus parts around here. Anything like that in Oregon is probably located much closer to the freeway, over in the central valley where most of the vehicles in this state are.
I do intend to try patching the tank, and if anyone has ever tried anything like that, even unsuccessfully, I would love to hear from them. It would be good to know what didn't work for someone else.
But I also want to see what a new one is worth. It's just a piece of plastic. It shouldn't be too expensive, hehehe.
So I intend to contact these guys soon. They've been in business for a while. They started in 1956, which, coincidentally, was the first year I rode on a schoolbus. It was a 1940 Ford and stayed in service until around 1960.
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07-26-2019, 03:57 PM
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#10
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Western Oregon
Posts: 876
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Blue-Bird
Chassis: TC RE 3408
Engine: 5.9 Cummins 12V Mechanical/Allison MT643
Rated Cap: Blue-Bird says 72 pass.
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I just got an email from the CEO of BusParts.com. He said he couldn't help me with the expansion tank and advised me to contact a BlueBird dealer.
I also asked him about the mysterious threaded hole in my bellhousing that I have mentioned in other threads, and he advised me to contact a Cummins dealer about that.
So BusParts.com does exist. They do answer queries from people asking for things they do not stock. Which is good, because one of these days I intend to try to service my own transmission, change the filters and such, and these guys stock filter kits for my transmission.
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07-26-2019, 04:02 PM
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#11
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Johnson City TN
Posts: 441
Year: 2004
Coachwork: IC/AMTRANS RE
Engine: T444E 7.3 w/ MD3060
Rated Cap: 36000lbs / 78pass / 39'
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Please everyone forgive me, I didn't even realize that Chris was talking about them in his post till I read it another 3 times.
Everyone have a good weekend.
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