The bus runs

last week i shorted a bus and it would not start. I then got on the Internet with new flyer "the bus manufactures" and i chatted back and forth with a Mr Butch Hartley. He gave me tips ,advice and most importantly testing procedures. What the problem turned out to be is A burnt up a CPU or also called a rack. Its a type of data buss for the vehicle. I also burnt up a few relays.

Learnd my lesson

To any one out there please learn from my mistake. This week i have been trying to get thies buses running so my company can use them for turnaround, to haul workers back and forth to the refinery. The buses have been sitting in the back Field for over three months and the battries are dead as dead. I stuck a 24 volt charger on them for a day and it started up. I then continued to let them charge for a few hours. but the last bus i went to turn off wouldn't fricken turn off. I tryed unplugging the coolant sensors and i also flipped a kill switch that was on the dash. still running.......then i did the no no i flipped the battery shut off. I think i fried the brain to the bus. What i should of done is stuck a book over the air intake. If i could only go back in time i would. Wheres a delorean when you need one.

Home project

 I took a 5mge motor and put it into a Toyota pickup

 this is the motor installed

 the donor car i bought on Cragslist

 i had some fun destroying the car :)

The car

The truck

Something iv learned from this project......take your time trace wires well and MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT WIRING SHEMATICS! just because it says on the internet its for an 1983 dosnt mean its for an 83 "but dont we belive every thing we read on the internet"?

my internship at Western refinery services this quarter has been going great. I'm always learning new things. last week I learned that an ABS hook up to the a Bendix can tell you things that would take hours to figure out. example of that is taking a wheel jacking it up and checking the sensor for an AC signal. The computer would tell you what wheel is out wheather its the sensors bad or you have an open circute there. Another thing iv learned not so much through work but on my own project at home is web site forums is a good tool for a mechanic. At home im doing a motor swap into a pickup. Basically taking an old a** truck and fuel injectioning it. The guys on the forum have been some help. But a little warning to anyone using them. Brush off the smack talk it happens people are jerks. Questions are questions just try to think the questions out befor asking them online. No one wants to waste there time.

exhaust horse power

well its 4:30 am and i cant figure out why when you let off the throttle the jake brakes work. i know jakes open the exhaust valve on the power stroke  thus making the engin use horse power to slow the truck instead of speeding up. The jake itself is made up of springs and valves that are controlled by oil pressur. To get to them the valve cover comes off on a isx cummins they will be on the exhaust side on the rockers there will be three of them," power exhaust and injector". the  exhaust you will see a round thimbel with a snap ring around it. when you press down on that it willrock back slightly when you press foword it will rock foword like an inch that is the exhaust  valve. if you ever take the snap ring off the internals are simple litterly two springs and a shaft.

Diesel

This is what the valves are set at on the isx Cummins on the Dino 11/14/12. The first set of valves at make A ether cylinder 1 or 6 "brake exhaust and intake" are the ones that take the longest to measure. Starting out you don't know the range to start with after the first few you measure it gets easier because you start a routine. you start jotting down the feeler gauge measurements and if the motor is correctly adjusted they will be similar or in specs from the Cummins website.

 black dodge codes found that the injectors are open!

dpf

The truck was throwing up codes for the diesel particulate filter. The valve for the fuel was taken off the truck and put onto a beacon for measuring. The amount of diesel that gets injected into the particulate filter is about 8 oz.