Re: What did you do to your coach today.
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Pulled the Batterys out and have them on charge, Mainly to get rid of the acid that is all over every thing, will dose the lot with baking soda and hose it off,
As the Drag link was bent with an Oxy when it was converted to RHD, It has been Rejected by the Engineer and the Mechanic, So now I have to get a new drag link made and Engineered,
These parts are unobtainable here in Australia,
So the Company making the Drag link have asked for all the parts to be given to them, and they will machine them all so they will fit Ford ball joints, I can buy them off the shelf any where here,
The drag link will be remanufactured so that I will have a screwed ball joint each end and a threaded tube for adjustment, So in future, I only have to buy a ball joint for each end of the Drag link,
I have the bus up on jacks, the front wheel off, ( thats one heavy wheel,) I have to make up a puller tomorrow so I can get the steering link out of the bus,
It needs a sharp heavy impact to break the taper, But there is no way I can swing a 14 Lb hammer under there, So I will load it up with the puller, a bit of heat and the hit it again, Hopefully it will break out.
The Transformer that was put in, cooked itself, It was red hot, so I cut the cables with insulated bolt cutters and removed it from the Bus,
I could smell burning electrics, Had no idea where it as coming from, finally found the transformer under the bed, Lucky I was there, Or my bus could have been burnt to the ground,
I have a groove in the windscreen, right on the bend, So epoxy is out, and polishing will distort it to much, distortion is not allowable here for roadworthy,
So its going to be importing from FT or making my own mould here for it,
Cost is the big factor here,
$700 from FT, But the wooden box it comes in, has to be changed to wood that Australian customs will allow into the country, Then a shipping company to import it, Etc Etc, Which could end up around the 2000 mark by the time it gets here,
Or, $3500 to make the mould, But I will own the mould, so any one that needs a new right hand windscreen will have to buy it from me,
This way, I will have the mould, and if I break a windscreen it will only cost me, around $300 for a new one, But I can sell windscreens to the 7 other Grand Villa's already here, So in time I can recoup my very large outlay for the mould,
Decisions, Decisions,
I finally sorted the bursting hose on the steering box, 3 times so far, including a whole new hose, I replaced it with high pressure hose, The return line is pressurised, so it needs high pressure hose, Not the wire enclosed hose it came with,
It was getting very expensive, as it would pump all the fluid out onto the road and all up under the bus every time it split, At $50-00 a time,
Replaced burnt out wires on the back of the motor, Soldering wires that were just squeezed together in the dash for the conversion, they just pull out of the fittings.
Bought all the new lights, the ones on it were the wrong colour, More reflectors on the sides, Still looking for why all the dash lights dont work, probably a loose wire some where,
The air bags are perished and need replacing, The bearings on the tailshaft are cactus as well.
I am lucky that I can do most of the work myself,
Yes, I am very happy with my new second hand coach, Its 25 years old, so I expect it to be needing some things,
The TV's and DVD that were in it have been stolen, Who knows where they went,
Another installment later, At least it came with all the manuals, Whew, They have made it a lot easier,
Topic: What did you do to your coach today.