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Old 12-05-2016, 10:30 AM   #241
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Our 2000 BB rad. is a job that required 6 different size wrenches, 2 hours and no mods.
The toughest was removing the grillwork due to tight wrench space but I found a better way.
Did the serp. belt recently from the eng. side and once I learned the secret it was no biggie.
I guess the olders were different?
Please tell me how to do this. Did it several times years ago on my 5.8 liter Bronco. I forget.

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Old 12-05-2016, 10:35 AM   #242
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Please tell me how to do this. Did it several times years ago on my 5.8 liter Bronco. I forget.
Which, the serp. or the rad.?

Looks like you have a dog nose? Right out in the open, easy access to both I would think.
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Old 12-06-2016, 08:16 AM   #243
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Which, the serp. or the rad.?

Looks like you have a dog nose? Right out in the open, easy access to both I would think.
The Serp. I remember using a 1/2" breaker bar and a 3/4 socket and used it on the tensioner pulley to pull it back to remove the tension.. Can't remember after that. I do remember that going over the fan won't work.
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Old 12-06-2016, 09:17 AM   #244
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The Serp. I remember using a 1/2" breaker bar and a 3/4 socket and used it on the tensioner pulley to pull it back to remove the tension.. Can't remember after that. I do remember that going over the fan won't work.
1/2" drive breaker. I slipped it over the fan ok. In my case I had to remove the 2 AC drive belts.
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Old 12-07-2016, 01:31 PM   #245
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WHOA! THIS RINGS A BELL! MILLICENT HAD A LEAK IN THAT AREA.

I HAVE NOT READ EVERY word here yet, or even watched the video, but there is an oil hose in that area, and on Millicent, a couple years ago, that hose had rubbed thru on a sharp edge.

It wasn't gushing oil like yours, but it was spraying toward the wheel hub, and it looked exactly like a blown wheel hub seal.

That hose was very hard to reach, or even see.
There is an air compressor there that could be lubricated by oil supplied by the engine. I would think it should be quite obvious if that hose was leaking but who knows?

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Hey Dred, have you looked at the turbo oil pressure pipe? Not sure if I mentioned this on the thread, but our fuel line was rubbing on our oil pressure pipe and had worn a pinhole in it, and we were losing a gallon of oil every thousand miles or less. I know that doesn't have anything to do with the starting problem, but maybe it's a place you can check for a leak.
That would be on the right side. About a foot long piece of braided hose from about the oil filter to above the turbo. His leak is on the left, and I doubt it would migrate that far over.
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Old 12-07-2016, 01:50 PM   #246
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Has anyone got underneath and looked up as the oil is poured in?
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Old 12-11-2016, 05:44 PM   #247
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Thanks for all the support folks, I am back in Florida, unloaded and trying to fit back into the grid (funny, as I type this, the power is out). Missing the bus and all the peeps I would meet at Skoolie Palooza. I will be back soon, as fast as I can make some cash and find another bus. Look for that thread in a few months....

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Old 12-11-2016, 06:11 PM   #248
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Best to you, see you in the spring for sure.
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Old 12-11-2016, 08:58 PM   #249
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Thanks for all the support folks, I am back in Florida, unloaded and trying to fit back into the grid (funny, as I type this, the power is out). Missing the bus and all the peeps I would meet at Skoolie Palooza. I will be back soon, as fast as I can make some cash and find another bus. Look for that thread in a few months....

If that was a kidney stone at 6:38, you are my hero!!!

Dammit, wish I'd known you were passing through Oklahoma... I'm only 45 minutes south of I-40... I'd have come up and had breakfast, lunch, or dinner with ya

The offer still stands when you regroup and pass back through!
I'm on Arkansas/Oklahoma state line near Fort Smith Arkansas
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Old 12-13-2016, 09:25 AM   #250
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im not sure how the cummins does it, as i dont think there are glow plugs. but hard starting at altitude can be a sign of failed glow plugs. fuel isn't preheated enough to combust.......

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They have a grid heater in the intake tract.
NOT a bus/truck engine by any means but my dad had an Oldsmobile Delta 88 with a diesel engine. Not to offend if you are jewish but he could teach jews how to be jewish!! He was too cheap to replace the glowplugs, ran a tube to the carb thru the firewall, and would squirt and then blow zippo lighter fluid and the car would start. Those were N. FL winters. Cold but not bitter. 30/40s.

Was trying not to spoil the story by reading the end but I think the bus is dead? so I don't this will help in this case.
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Old 12-13-2016, 10:06 AM   #251
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"Greasy, grimy and educated"

Totally sig-worthy.
Speaking of sigs, "You can finally say you have enough horsepower when you leave two black streaks from corner to corner"

Wouldn't that depend on how far apart the corners are, how sticky the tires are, how wide the tires are, etc.?

Crinkle tires on a dually bus!!
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Old 12-13-2016, 10:32 AM   #252
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Where's the bus now? Any chance of staying in touch with it? The engineer in me won't leave it alone. How does it leak THAT MUCH oil and not be able to see where it's coming from? How did it fail? Why did it fail? Where did it fail? As the old tabloid rag use to say in their commercials, "Inquiring minds want to know."
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Old 12-13-2016, 10:43 AM   #253
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I would also like to know where you got the $10k price for a rebuild + labor. It wouldn't have made any difference in your case but I just can't find an any ready rebuild for more than $5.5k. It is the 5.9L right?

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Old 12-13-2016, 12:18 PM   #254
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Sold the bus to a guy that is gonna fix it, so hopefully we will find the cause.
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Old 12-13-2016, 12:51 PM   #255
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Sold the bus to a guy that is gonna fix it, so hopefully we will find the cause.
I dunno if you said and I missed it or what. Did you have a passenger with you (i.e. did anyone crawl under the bus while the oil was going in)?
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Old 12-13-2016, 01:09 PM   #256
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I dunno if you said and I missed it or what. Did you have a passenger with you (i.e. did anyone crawl under the bus while the oil was going in)?
It was a shower of oil, not a small drip, and you could see it pouring from the side as you poured oil IN. Be patient, hopefully we will hear about something soon. All my patience was left under the bus
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Old 12-13-2016, 01:17 PM   #257
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It was a shower of oil, not a small drip, and you could see it pouring from the side as you poured oil IN. Be patient, hopefully we will hear about something soon. All my patience was left under the bus
Yeah I saw in the last video it pouring on the ground. That kind of leak is usually a $2.50 drain plug, hose, cover, etc. I hope you didn't unload your bus because of something so stupid. The engine block has a hole in it where it isn't supposed to, fine and dandy.

I did see a little road kill patience too.
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Yeah I saw in the last video it pouring on the ground. That kind of leak is usually a $2.50 drain plug, hose, cover, etc. I hope you didn't unload your bus because of something so stupid. The engine block has a hole in it where it isn't supposed to, fine and dandy.

that would be embarrassing, but as you probably missed in the video, it was gonna be a storage container in a couple months anyway
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that would be embarrassing, but as you probably missed in the video, it was gonna be a storage container in a couple months anyway
I saw you wanted to make it a storage container. I didn't see that the new owner was going to do the same.
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I saw you wanted to make it a storage container. I didn't see that the new owner was going to do the same.
Perhaps he will sign up and you can pester HIM?
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