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12-07-2017, 12:43 PM
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Almost There
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Tracy, CA atm
Posts: 74
Year: 1991
Coachwork: Crown Supercoach Series II
Engine: Detroit 6V92TAC
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6v92 Crown mystery knob
It might be super obvious or who knows, it might be obscure since this model had alternative fuel. Name the knob. No not me, in the pic.
There are more but this one worries me the most atm.
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12-07-2017, 02:22 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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Why do those buses never come with manuals?
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12-07-2017, 02:48 PM
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Traveling
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Midwest
Posts: 2,573
Year: 2003
Coachwork: BlueBird
Chassis: TC2000
Engine: 5.9L Cummins
Rated Cap: '00
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push it.
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12-07-2017, 04:43 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 386
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You might look in the engine compartment and see if there's a a canister that looks like a propane torch cylinder. Some older Detroit's had a starting fluid canister with a button to activate it for cold weather starting. Or see if there's a glow plug in the intake never know.
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12-07-2017, 08:14 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Virginia
Posts: 2,326
Year: 1971
Coachwork: Wayne
Chassis: International Loadstar 1700
Engine: 345 international V-8
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Most likely a starting aid. Yes could be for the starting fluid canister.
Another cold starting method although more rare but I did have one, that had a spark plug in the air chamber and a fuel injector that would spray fuel into the the engine for preheat. This did not spray into the cylinders as a normal fuel injector would but rather into the air space around the bottom of the cylinders where the intake air is fed.
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12-07-2017, 11:31 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Orange County, CA
Posts: 1,363
Year: 1990
Coachwork: Crown, integral. (With 2kW of tiltable solar)
Chassis: Crown Supercoach II (rear engine)
Engine: Detroit 6V92TAC, DDEC 2, Jake brake, Allison HT740
Rated Cap: 37,400 lbs GVWR
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I'm guessing your bus was never originally a methanol-engined bus, otherwise it would have had switches for the fuel cooler or fire suppression system in the two positions between the three start switches and the gauges. My Super II has the Quick Start ether injection system, but its push-switch is next to the ignition key switch up front. If you have a Quick Start system, there will be a small injector nozzle with a 1/4" MPT threaded into the driver's side (engine's right side) of the air horn between the turbo and the blower, between the cylinder banks. There will also be an orange ether bottle with a feed tube running to a temperature-controlled valve in the driver-side thermostat housing. Do you have that?
I'm curious what the extra wires to and from the 100-amp fuse are for? They are not Crown's original factory wiring, so who knows? Also, what's that ribbed aluminum housing on the right of the photo?
On my bus I put a toggle switch and lamp in the two spaces for the methanol switches, and they are for my small electric fuel pump that's for priming (6V92s don't self-prime) and plumbed between the Racor primary and the secondary fuel filters. If I ever get air in the fuel lines, I just turn on the pump for a minute or so, and instant engine start. Easy! I also changed from Crown's whacko three-switch rear start system to a much simpler two-switch arrangement, grounding the front junction box's ignition solenoid via a 50-foot length of 10AWG wire all the way back to the push-pull Ignition switch and then to a good ground near the engine. This way, if I push in that switch I cannot inadvertently start the engine from the front or back, useful if I'm working on something critical. I never understood why Crown used such a complicated three-switch arrangement for the rear start function. And when I moved my start batteries to the empty space between the air dryer and right rear wheels I also moved the Cole-Hersee battery master switch to the right side of the rear start panel - this saved many feet of the 4/0 battery cables for other use elsewhere! I now have a fuel pressure gauge, oil pressure gauge, ammeter and Racor primary fuel filter restriction gauge on the rear start panel, and I've put three new coolant temperature gauges (left bank, right bank and radiator out) on a new panel where the Cole-Hersee switch used to be. With eleven (soon to be fourteen) gauges up front and another nine in the engine room, I know exactly what's happening! So, lots of changes from original, all to make it easier for me.
John
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12-07-2017, 11:38 PM
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Traveling
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Midwest
Posts: 2,573
Year: 2003
Coachwork: BlueBird
Chassis: TC2000
Engine: 5.9L Cummins
Rated Cap: '00
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push it.
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12-08-2017, 12:05 AM
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#8
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Orange County, CA
Posts: 1,363
Year: 1990
Coachwork: Crown, integral. (With 2kW of tiltable solar)
Chassis: Crown Supercoach II (rear engine)
Engine: Detroit 6V92TAC, DDEC 2, Jake brake, Allison HT740
Rated Cap: 37,400 lbs GVWR
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin97396
Why do those buses never come with manuals?
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Every Crown came from the factory with its own unique Service Manual and Parts Catalog, a Driver's Manual, and full electrical schematics and wiring diagrams, plus specific information on any other custom-installed equipment (e.g. sanders, automatic chains, Webasto heaters, air conditioning, etc.). It's well worth you looking for them. Maybe the PO still has them? I can't imagine not having mine that have helped me immensely during my bus's renovation and conversion.
John
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12-08-2017, 07:43 AM
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#9
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Almost There
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Tracy, CA atm
Posts: 74
Year: 1991
Coachwork: Crown Supercoach Series II
Engine: Detroit 6V92TAC
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The bus has plates so today I will move it. This weekend I will add some jpegs of the pressurized bottles and and and anything to uncover this mystery.
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12-08-2017, 08:12 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Orange County, CA
Posts: 1,363
Year: 1990
Coachwork: Crown, integral. (With 2kW of tiltable solar)
Chassis: Crown Supercoach II (rear engine)
Engine: Detroit 6V92TAC, DDEC 2, Jake brake, Allison HT740
Rated Cap: 37,400 lbs GVWR
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Whether or not your bus originally had a methanol engine is easy to determine - look at the VIN plate above the driver's side window, and if the 2R-40N-552 model number has an M after the 552 it originally was methanol. If so, those two switch positions between the three rear start switches and the gauges are for the original methanol switches (fuel cooler and fire system, I think?), and if not the left mystery switch is an add-on, maybe by the school district? Methanol buses which were all subsequently repowered with diesel 6V92s, such as Ventura's and Rialto's, will still have the small engraved labels for their two original switches there.
John
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12-08-2017, 09:27 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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Did you push the button yet?
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Nobody's Business
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12-09-2017, 11:36 AM
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Almost There
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Tracy, CA atm
Posts: 74
Year: 1991
Coachwork: Crown Supercoach Series II
Engine: Detroit 6V92TAC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin97396
Did you push the button yet?
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It's a time machine add-on. Well I didn't notice anything and I drove with it. Being from Bakersfield, I don't think they needed special starting. There is no m after 552 in model number. I have these images though.
Very Jules Verne.
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12-09-2017, 12:51 PM
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#13
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Vacaville, Ca
Posts: 1,634
Year: 1988
Coachwork: Crown / Pusher
Engine: 8.3 Cummins
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I just pulled out my 88 Crown, Sorry I don't have that button.
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12-10-2017, 09:44 AM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 386
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The top pic is your air tanks looks like the 2nd pic is air distribution manifold.
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12-10-2017, 09:50 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Columbus Ohio
Posts: 18,850
Year: 1991
Coachwork: Carpenter
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: DTA360 / MT643
Rated Cap: 7 Row Handicap
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Quote:
Originally Posted by golfersmurf57
The top pic is your air tanks looks like the 2nd pic is air distribution manifold.
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sure likes like you nailed it.. wonder how he moved his bus if all the valves are closed...
-Christopher
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12-10-2017, 10:29 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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It could be a button that makes the bus transform into an autobot.
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Robin
Nobody's Business
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12-10-2017, 10:31 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 8,462
Year: 1946
Coachwork: Chevrolet/Wayne
Chassis: 1- 1/2 ton
Engine: Cummins 4BT
Rated Cap: 15
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Let's just hope it's not a Decepticon!!!
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12-10-2017, 10:52 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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We'd have to assemble multiple buses into a megabot to defeat the decepticon. With my luck my bus will be the butt.
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Nobody's Business
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12-10-2017, 11:41 AM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Orange County, CA
Posts: 1,363
Year: 1990
Coachwork: Crown, integral. (With 2kW of tiltable solar)
Chassis: Crown Supercoach II (rear engine)
Engine: Detroit 6V92TAC, DDEC 2, Jake brake, Allison HT740
Rated Cap: 37,400 lbs GVWR
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Quote:
Originally Posted by yello
It's a time machine add-on. Well I didn't notice anything and I drove with it. Being from Bakersfield, I don't think they needed special starting. There is no m after 552 in model number. I have these images though.
Very Jules Verne.
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The second photo is the four air tanks' drain valves, but what is the fifth valve on the right for? It looks like it's connected to something - what? Those are not the original valves: Crown used Bendix truck valves, and yours look like gas valves. I used my unused fifth position for a new bulkhead fitting and valve to connect my on-board electric air compressor to the Accessories tank and to three air outlets around the bus, and I now can also connect my Accessories system directly back into the wet tank, useful if I need to fully air up the whole bus from external air.
John
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12-10-2017, 11:41 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Columbus Ohio
Posts: 18,850
Year: 1991
Coachwork: Carpenter
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: DTA360 / MT643
Rated Cap: 7 Row Handicap
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin97396
We'd have to assemble multiple buses into a megabot to defeat the decepticon. With my luck my bus will be the butt.
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a super dire Butt emergency could be used as a back-up thruster
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