The WanderLust Bus

[WanderWoman]

Originally Posted by cadillackid

water is a good thing!!!!!!!!

I noticed just a tad of color starting in the trees as i drove up the Jellico mountain in tennesee today.. a cold front is going to march right across and should turn things nice and colorful for you next week up north! (and for me part of the way)
-Christopher

That's great news!!! I'm so excited to see the fall colors.


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[WanderWoman]

Bus ran great from Florida to Maine! The leaves are just changing and GORGEOUS!
Really enjoying my trip.


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[cadillackid]

Yes!!!! You got in right at peak ! Little rain and then some cool nights the colors pop beautiful !!!

You roll wheels like I do! Wow way to go!!!
Christopher

[Dog Rescuer]

Originally Posted by WanderWoman

Bus ran great from Florida to Maine! The leaves are just changing and GORGEOUS!
Really enjoying my trip.


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What a beautiful view!! Way to roll!


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[EastCoastCB]

Glad you got to see it Sandi!

Yall stay safe and have a great time!

[WanderWoman]

Even more leaves this morning! Like a painting! Off to Moosehead Lake today.


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[EastCoastCB]

Did you enjoy the cruise control yet?

[WanderWoman]

Originally Posted by EastCoastCB

Did you enjoy the cruise control yet?

I've used it twice. Takes getting use to!


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[cadillackid]

if you are on cruise and hit a steep hill does it let the bus slow way down before it downshifts to a lower gear or is it pretty pro-active and shift down quickly?

stay dry up there.. Nate is on the way.. we had SOLID rain yesterday afternoon through this morning here in ohio.. wasnt torrential but definitely ponded on roads and was hydro-plane HE double L, so take it easy!!
-Christopher

[Twigg]

Originally Posted by cadillackid

if you are on cruise and hit a steep hill does it let the bus slow way down before it downshifts to a lower gear or is it pretty pro-active and shift down quickly?

Cruise Control generally doesn't work like that. It maintains a set speed. If the speed drops too far it disengages. CC usually doesn't change gear at all.

Safety switches can be fitted on any or all of clutch, brakes, tachometer or speed drop.

If buses work differently, I'd be interested in what they do.

[cadillackid]

Originally Posted by Twigg

Cruise Control generally doesn't work like that. It maintains a set speed. If the speed drops too far it disengages. CC usually doesn't change gear at all.

Safety switches can be fitted on any or all of clutch, brakes, tachometer or speed drop.

If buses work differently, I'd be interested in what they do.

cruise control will downshift in an automatic.. at least it does in every car / pickup ive owned.. it goes full throttle and if it loses speed it causes the kickdown to engage.. so yeah it certainly does allow the transmission to change gears.. cruise wont change the shift RANGE.. (ie it wont go from (D) to D, etc..).

the reason i ask is because this has been an issue in my transmission swap computer-programming, since sandi's electronic transmission is factory, i wondered how hers works, or if its as you say never downshift and just lose speed till you stab the accelerator.

-Christopher

[EastCoastCB]

Originally Posted by cadillackid

cruise control will downshift in an automatic.. at least it does in every car / pickup ive owned.. it goes full throttle and if it loses speed it causes the kickdown to engage.. so yeah it certainly does allow the transmission to change gears.. cruise wont change the shift RANGE.. (ie it wont go from (D) to D, etc..).

the reason i ask is because this has been an issue in my transmission swap computer-programming, since sandi's electronic transmission is factory, i wondered how hers works, or if its as you say never downshift and just lose speed till you stab the accelerator.

-Christopher

Everything with an automatic I've ever owned will downshift with CC on.
Manuals obviously don't.
My bus will downshift IIRC. I'll have to get out and drive the shorty and find out. You've got me curious. I will say that after I engage CC on the shorty it will shut off if I hit a BIG hill. I can't remember if it downshifts or not though.

[cadillackid]

a downshift on an electronuc 545 wont likely occur until you get down to 41 or so... anything above that and it likes to stay in top gear and just slip the TCC.

im sitting here as we speak shredding apart the bits and bytes from the data link between the engine and transmission.. if I have to build my own TCM to get the shifting I want then so be it..

by the way I did take a $100 piece of hardware and can make a digital dashboard data-grabber out of it.. instead of a $400 piece.. now I just need to write some software for it I can give away to skoolie members so everyone can have a cool digital dash display.
-Christopher

[Twigg]

Originally Posted by EastCoastCB

Everything with an automatic I've ever owned will downshift with CC on.
Manuals obviously don't.
My bus will downshift IIRC. I'll have to get out and drive the shorty and find out. You've got me curious. I will say that after I engage CC on the shorty it will shut off if I hit a BIG hill. I can't remember if it downshifts or not though.

I'll hold my hands up to this. I got it wrong. I've never experienced the car downshifting with CC on. I guess I have switched to manual control when that might be necessary.

On the CCs I've fitted ... They have a tach sensor and would drop out of engagement if the revs rise by 1000 rpm. Clearly that wouldn't happen on a bus engine, even on kick-down, but it would probably happen in the car.

[cadillackid]

interesting on the REV sensor... I suppose it is to detect if someone shifted to N while driving? in a bus it definitely would rise by 1000 or close to it... esp if it went from 6 to 5 to 4 (which is exactly what it needs to do on a hill in mine).

in sandi's bus it would be 5 to 4 if she were on a long up grade..

I do know the navistar built in cruise wont cancel if you stab the pedal and force the downshift. it downshifts.. I let off and it upshifts once the throttle / speed requirements for a normal upshift are met.
-Christopher

[tobeamiss]

What a view! Well, we had a good rain here in the NY over the past 2 days so our colors will start to change now. I leave for Maine though on the 18th and it will be prime time then. We're usually in prime by now but we've had unusually warm weather. You'll hit it just right on the way back down.

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[WanderWoman]

Wrote a blog post on my first week out on the WanderLust Bus... we are having a fine trip. The only thing is the leaves haven't peaked yet, we seem to be a week early, since it was a warm, dry summer and they really haven't had a cold snap yet. Still some gorgeous colors (especially on 112 West through VT) and the bus is running great! Getting about 11 mpg!

https://thismidwifetravels.com/2017/...s-road-trip-1/

Sandi
Full-time skoolie

[EastCoastCB]

[WanderWoman]

You crack me up... it may be the reason the leaves are not changing like they usually do, LOL...

[EastCoastCB]

Originally Posted by WanderWoman

You crack me up... it may be the reason the leaves are not changing like they usually do, LOL...