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03-02-2020, 07:18 PM
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#41
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: kansas
Posts: 152
Year: 1986
Coachwork: ward
Chassis: ford B-70
Engine: Cummins 8.3 liter
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Seemsealed and painted the hole.
Also working on building up a sub floor for the brake pedal and steering column to mount too. Needed to raise up the floor cause there isn’t enough clearance between floor and frame. The bus used to have firewall mounted pedals.
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03-02-2020, 07:19 PM
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#42
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: kansas
Posts: 152
Year: 1986
Coachwork: ward
Chassis: ford B-70
Engine: Cummins 8.3 liter
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Oops put the wrong pic in lol
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03-04-2020, 08:07 PM
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#43
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: kansas
Posts: 152
Year: 1986
Coachwork: ward
Chassis: ford B-70
Engine: Cummins 8.3 liter
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Worked on putting the steering together today after work.
Bolted some angle iron to the steering assembly. It was all made of aluminum. Did this so it could be welded into place.
Here’s a picture of welding it on! It turned out super sturdy. Definitely not gonna fall outa there XD
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03-06-2020, 08:32 AM
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#44
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: kansas
Posts: 152
Year: 1986
Coachwork: ward
Chassis: ford B-70
Engine: Cummins 8.3 liter
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Got the pedals all squared away. Had to build up the floor a tad so that the brake valve fit.
Next have to finish running the air lines and wire everything. Hoping to get it running this weekend! Super pumped to have it running. Fingers crossed that the wiring goes well
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03-06-2020, 08:50 AM
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#45
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Aug 2019
Location: Moved to Zealand!
Posts: 1,517
Year: 2002
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freightliner FS-65
Engine: 7.2L Cat 3126 turbo diesel
Rated Cap: 71 passenger 30,000 gvwr
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I know we never wanna think about the "what ifs" but...
After adding the steel to your steering column do you still have the "collapsible features" that would have been oem?
A good shoulder restraint will keep you from hitting the wheel, but in a hard impact you also want the column to collapse or fold away from your gut...
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03-06-2020, 09:09 PM
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#46
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: kansas
Posts: 152
Year: 1986
Coachwork: ward
Chassis: ford B-70
Engine: Cummins 8.3 liter
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Well I hope I don’t get squished and it kills me… The set up is the exact same as the semi truck was. I believe that the idea is that in a hard enough impact the bottom of the steering shaft would rip away from the steering column.
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03-07-2020, 12:54 PM
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#47
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: kansas
Posts: 152
Year: 1986
Coachwork: ward
Chassis: ford B-70
Engine: Cummins 8.3 liter
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03-16-2020, 04:04 AM
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#48
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: kansas
Posts: 152
Year: 1986
Coachwork: ward
Chassis: ford B-70
Engine: Cummins 8.3 liter
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Ayeo! Been a busy week or so since I posted. Got a lot done on Dave and Kenny.
Got the wiring pretty much squared away, starts, runs, and drives now! I was hella pumped about all that! There’s a few little things that still need figured out. The tach and Speedo don’t work. And I wired the headlights wrong. But those shouldn’t be toooo hard to fix.
The rear of the bus didn’t have a frame section under it, cut the rear section of of the old bus chassis and spliced that onto the new frame. Worked out super good. Then put the bumper back on!
Drove it to the exhaust shop just down the street. Had them extend the exhaust out back to right before the rear axle. It exits on the passenger side.
Worked on cutting a piece for the hood gap. Got it cut. Just need to mount it up!
Wanted to drive it home from the shop over the weekend. But there’s just tooo baby little things to sort out first. Hopefully by the end of this week!!
Will post pictures soonish.
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03-16-2020, 06:46 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 6,995
Year: 2003
Coachwork: International
Chassis: CE 300
Engine: DT466e
Rated Cap: 65C-43A
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rubydoooooo
Ayeo! Been a busy week or so since I posted. Got a lot done on Dave and Kenny.
Got the wiring pretty much squared away, starts, runs, and drives now! I was hella pumped about all that! There’s a few little things that still need figured out. The tach and Speedo don’t work. And I wired the headlights wrong. But those shouldn’t be toooo hard to fix.
The rear of the bus didn’t have a frame section under it, cut the rear section of of the old bus chassis and spliced that onto the new frame. Worked out super good. Then put the bumper back on!
Drove it to the exhaust shop just down the street. Had them extend the exhaust out back to right before the rear axle. It exits on the passenger side.
Worked on cutting a piece for the hood gap. Got it cut. Just need to mount it up!
Wanted to drive it home from the shop over the weekend. But there’s just tooo baby little things to sort out first. Hopefully by the end of this week!!
Will post pictures soonish.
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As in a real live baby? Good luck!
I was curious about the exhaust-to-the-side thing on RVs. Looks like there are only a handful of states (Cali, Connecticut, Mass and Georgia) that require RV exhausts to run all the way to the back. Vermont allows it out the side if it's behind the rear-most openable side window. The rest of the states don't have anything specific about it. If my flex-pipe repair over the rear wheels ever fails, I'm just going to go out the side, too, Vermont (where my bus is registered) be damned.
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03-16-2020, 06:50 AM
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#50
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: kansas
Posts: 152
Year: 1986
Coachwork: ward
Chassis: ford B-70
Engine: Cummins 8.3 liter
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Hmmm hadn’t specifically looked into the regulations on the exhaust. I’ll probably just run with how it is now. And if I have any issues won’t be hard to extend it out the back.
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03-16-2020, 06:50 AM
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#51
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: kansas
Posts: 152
Year: 1986
Coachwork: ward
Chassis: ford B-70
Engine: Cummins 8.3 liter
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Mine is also registered in Vermont XD
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03-16-2020, 06:56 AM
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#52
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 6,995
Year: 2003
Coachwork: International
Chassis: CE 300
Engine: DT466e
Rated Cap: 65C-43A
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rubydoooooo
Mine is also registered in Vermont XD
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Heh, might want to avoid the Vermont inspection, then - like the rest of us.
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03-16-2020, 06:58 AM
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#53
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: kansas
Posts: 152
Year: 1986
Coachwork: ward
Chassis: ford B-70
Engine: Cummins 8.3 liter
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That’s a picture of the underside before I added the rear frame section.
That’s after I put the section from the old frame in. Notice how much smaller it is.
Welded the mounts fur the rear bumper on here.
Really happy with how I got the the bumper to fit back in.
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03-16-2020, 06:58 AM
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#54
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: kansas
Posts: 152
Year: 1986
Coachwork: ward
Chassis: ford B-70
Engine: Cummins 8.3 liter
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Yuppp plan on avoiding it for sure
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03-16-2020, 07:18 AM
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#55
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: kansas
Posts: 152
Year: 1986
Coachwork: ward
Chassis: ford B-70
Engine: Cummins 8.3 liter
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That’s the old frame after I cut off the rear section.
There’s the rear section. I cut off those bumper mounts before I put it in. Then once it was in test fitted the bumper with the mounts attached. Then welded it all on.
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03-16-2020, 07:20 AM
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#56
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: kansas
Posts: 152
Year: 1986
Coachwork: ward
Chassis: ford B-70
Engine: Cummins 8.3 liter
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03-16-2020, 07:24 AM
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#57
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 6,995
Year: 2003
Coachwork: International
Chassis: CE 300
Engine: DT466e
Rated Cap: 65C-43A
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I'm not at all a chassis modification guy (my welding and fabrication has all been on the body) but a lot of what I've read says that welding on the chassis rails is a big no-no. It seems people usually extend the rails by bolting a splint to both sections.
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03-16-2020, 07:28 AM
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#58
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: kansas
Posts: 152
Year: 1986
Coachwork: ward
Chassis: ford B-70
Engine: Cummins 8.3 liter
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The rear section I bolted in. It’s not as structural as the rest. As for when we welded the middle section in to extend the frame had to do a whole procedure.
Heated up the area to be welded to 500 degrees then welded the joint. Wrapped it in several layers of insulation so that it’s cool nice and slow. Took around four+ hours till it was touchable.
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03-16-2020, 07:32 AM
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#59
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 6,995
Year: 2003
Coachwork: International
Chassis: CE 300
Engine: DT466e
Rated Cap: 65C-43A
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rubydoooooo
The rear section I bolted in. It’s not as structural as the rest. As for when we welded the middle section in to extend the frame had to do a whole procedure.
Heated up the area to be welded to 500 degrees then welded the joint. Wrapped it in several layers of insulation so that it’s cool nice and slow. Took around four+ hours till it was touchable.
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Cool (no pun intended), it certainly looked you know what you're doing with this stuff.
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03-16-2020, 07:43 AM
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#60
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: kansas
Posts: 152
Year: 1986
Coachwork: ward
Chassis: ford B-70
Engine: Cummins 8.3 liter
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Thanks dude [emoji3577]
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