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Old 08-20-2019, 09:02 PM   #1
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Need help disabling the buzzer on my 2002 Blue Bird Workhorse

Just what the title says I have tried everything and the bus still drives and everything just an extremely loud buzz the entire way

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Old 08-21-2019, 05:22 AM   #2
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find buzzer and disable it by unplugging the ground.
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Old 08-21-2019, 11:51 AM   #3
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As ECCB above, but before diconnecting the buzzer I would make sure I understood exactly why it's buzzing.

It seems a little strange to me that a 2002 bus will still start with buzzers going off. My bus starts with the buzzers going off, but it's a 1995 and has no computer chips
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As ECCB above, but before diconnecting the buzzer I would make sure I understood exactly why it's buzzing.

It seems a little strange to me that a 2002 bus will still start with buzzers going off. My bus starts with the buzzers going off, but it's a 1995 and has no computer chips
It happened after I eradicated some wasps out of the stop sign hole
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Old 08-21-2019, 12:09 PM   #5
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My grandfather used to have a very effective way of dealing with yellow-jackets, which can be quite a problem around here. A large nest can be over a foot in diameter, and contain hundreds of aggressively defensive yellow-jackets.

In those days you could buy DDT by the pound in paper packages at any hardware store. So Grandpa would suck a pound of DDT into the vaccuum cleaner, and then get my dad to climb a stepladder and suck the whole nest of yellow jackets into the vaccuum cleaner with the DDT. Then they would stick a small rag in the vaccuum cleaner hose before turning it off, and go drink some more whiskey.
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It happened after I eradicated some wasps out of the stop sign hole
Is it possible the buzzing is some really pissed off wasps?
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Just what the title says I have tried everything and the bus still drives and everything just an extremely loud buzz the entire way
If you record a video of the buzzing and post it here, folks will at least immediately know what it is, exactly. I have a weird occasional buzzing in my bus as well, but it never happens whenever I'm set up to record - which is a way of fixing it, I guess.
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Old 08-21-2019, 01:49 PM   #8
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My bus only has one buzzer in the driver's area. That one works for everything, except low air which has it's own warning system with intermittent beeping and flashing lights on the instrument panel. There are also buzzers on each emergency door and hatch that only go off when it is that particular door or hatch that is not properly latched.

The stop sign thingie on my bus was gone when I got it, so I have not paid much attention to it, but it must have originally had a sending unit to tell the driver when it was extended. So in your case I would find that sending unit and disable or remove it.
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My bus only has one buzzer in the driver's area. That one works for everything, except low air which has it's own warning system with intermittent beeping and flashing lights on the instrument panel. There are also buzzers on each emergency door and hatch that only go off when it is that particular door or hatch that is not properly latched.

The stop sign thingie on my bus was gone when I got it, so I have not paid much attention to it, but it must have originally had a sending unit to tell the driver when it was extended. So in your case I would find that sending unit and disable or remove it.
I wonder if spraying the wasp-killing liquid in the hole shorted out that sending unit?
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If it was water based, I think that would rate somewhere between probably and certainly.
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