King pin and bushings worn that bad and all the metal in the rear differential is testament of the absolute lack of proper maintenance. I'm glad that bus is in your care because you give a darned about maintenance and safety of these land yachts no matter how old or pretty they are. Thanks Scott and crew.
@@BusGreaseMonkey The good side is you know what to show to tell the story of this bus, this part, this time. Your commentary is usually brief and focused. Much as I'd like to see you with a separate camera operator so we could see some of your hands-on work, your POV is what tells the story. BTW, Jonathan is gaining confidence and technique and I'm guessing his productivity is up, too. He's learning fast in a craft where "just knowing where to hit it" isn't obvious or intuitive until you've done it a bunch.
I trained for both auto and heavy diesel. I'm glad I didn't go into diesel as I would not have been able to stand that kind of garbage coming in. We had some donated semi tractors come in to practice on that were straight from service that no-one at the school had touched yet (the rest of the practice trucks had been apart so many times that they just fell apart and everything was clean). These donated trucks were about as bad as the bus you are working on.
Just think if he was running that equipment up in the cold country in the winter and all that moisture in the steering and wheel bearings froze? Have you even had a chance to check the steering box yet. Seals are probably gone on it as well. He is a very lucky man to get in touch with you. Have a nice day.
Definitely looks like Scott saving more lives, it's awful to consider what could have happened if this stuff gave out at highway speed. The inability to keep a lane is particularly frightening.
Wow that bus has a lot of troubles Saw an idea on mortski repair on RU-vid That might help with your rearend clean out problem Attach a round toilet or bottle brush to a length of pipe or dowel rod to push through and clean the axle tubes He's used it to clean two pickup truck rearends so far Maybe it will work for you
Any debris left in there will destroy the bearings and gears. There is a reason bearings are made in clean rooms, parts are washed after maching. We have parts we test after assy and do an oil filtering inspection looking for single digit micro particles to ensure clean parts.
@@TheBeingRealI'm not disputing the things need to be super clean and ready to go before you put the new parts in I'm just giving an idea how to get that done
Looks like lack of maintenance on this MCI has caused a lot of damage. Concerned for that diff with all the metal in the fluids. Big bills for the owner on this one.
At least the rear differential is not shot, that would have been a major disaster. However that was some crazy sparkly fluid coming out from the differential. It dose look to me this thing must have taken serious water damage in the past. How else you can explain this kind of crazy pitting and wear? Glad this bus will be safe to use and all the gremlins getting sorted out.
Will you rebuild the third member (pinion & carrier bearings and perhaps ring & pinion gears) or try to find a good used one? The metal you've seen already must have doomed it for any further use. On second thought is a complete used differential a viable idea?
Under water? The last time I saw the underside of a bus that rusted it was in a flood. It looks like that one was dried out and driven without going through it,
