[tcb] Re: repair story

Well, I don't know what causes so many brake cylinder leaks in the old busses.  
I have changed so many wheel and master cylinders on my busses I think I could 
do it in my sleep.  The current leak, lower cylinder on the left, is not more 
than 3 years old.  About 3 years ago I rebuilt the entire front brakes on that 
thing with all new cylinders.
 
I heard that Steve Chamberlain is an expert on the split bus brake systems.  
Maybe he has some ideas.

--- On Thu, 11/17/11, Eric Woodall <ericthomaswoodall@xxxxxxx> wrote:


From: Eric Woodall <ericthomaswoodall@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Re: repair story
To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, November 17, 2011, 8:20 AM




I've got the same problem currently Sammie, which is the reason I haven't 
driven it in a while.

On Nov 16, 2011, at 3:24 PM, sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:








There's always something wrong with the old busses.  I drove the panel van to 
the VW club meeting the other night and the front brakes were pulling hard to 
the right.  OK, got a chance to look at it this morning; sure enough wheel 
cylinder leak on the left had given the shoes a good coating of brake fluid.  
Order two new cylinders.  Will be here in a couple of days.  It's always 
something to keep them happy.

--- On Wed, 11/16/11, Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:


From: Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] repair story
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 12:23 PM







So, I have gone back to work, painting apartments and condos and houses for a 
rental management company and Murray is my work truck. He loves it and he goes 
to work every day, but he started a miss and a hesitation from a standing start 
and got worse soon. I cleaned my points with a little sandpaper and it seemed 
to run a little better, but still bad. I changed my spark plugs, I put in new 
set of points that was in my tool box. No joy. I bought and put in Petronix 
ignition (because I hated setting the gap on the points) and set my timing and 
still I had a miss. It wasn’t sporadic anymore it was a steady power loss.
 
OK. Not the coil, no cracked dizzy cap, rotor OK, new ignition, new plugs, what 
the hell, I’ll change the spark plug wires. In doing so I couldn’t get one old 
one to come out. I had disconnected it at the dizzy and at the plug, but it 
wouldn’t pull free.
  
I had changed my alternator months ago and, apparently, when I put the top 
shroud back on, I pinched the wire between the shroud tin and the head tin. 
What an idiot. 
  
I lopped off the old one and put in the new wire and… Murray runs like a 
rocket. 
  
Isn’t it a great satisfaction when you solve a problem and your bus runs well 
after? 
  
 

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