Chasing gearbox mounts for smot gearbox

[T1 Terry]

Don't lik'em Huh Terry ?

The ones in the passenger bus fleet loved to get the selector pin out of the gate when reverse was selected if proper care was not taken resulting in a bus stuck across a road because the driver had panicked while making a 3 point turn cause he missed the street for what ever reason. Bus full of passengers and the floor has to come up to take the top of the gear selector off, select neutral, then the gears the driver was looking for so he can get it off the road, then put it all back together with 40 plus people all complaining they are now late for what ever it was they had to do.

[alleng]

I drove school and passenger buses for years. Then coaches out the mines for a number of years. Would prefer the urbans any day to screaming kids or whinging miners.. lol Fran ( mrs allen) Fortunately the urbans and mine coaches were well maintained so very few breakdowns. But the old school buses were forever spitting the dummy usually in very awkward places. And loaded with kids..

[T1 Terry]

Had a load of misbehaving primary school kids being delivered home from school through the Parramatta outer suburbs. I told one young girl I would put her off the bus to walk home if she didn't settle down a bit..... sure enough, called my bluff so I put her off with a 5 km walk home carrying her school bag. The other kids kept asking when I was going back to pick her up, when I didn't there was a hush across the rest of them. Copped an earful the next day from the bus yard manager and I pulled the "endangering safety" card as my reason for my actions and bugger all they could do. The next day the kids were like little angels, very polite and I got an apology from the young girl concerned. The next load were high school kids and immediately got the questions about putting the kid off the bus and making her walk home. Apparently her older brother was a passenger on the high school bus run and he was a BIG boy and I thought I was going to suffer for my actions..... he shook my hand and also apologised for his sisters actions, apparently she got a roasting when she arrived home. The high school kids were suddenly very well behaved, just like the primary school kids and they were an absolute pleasure to deliver to school and home again
That was back in the early '80s and I doubt I'd get away with it these days

[alleng]

Definately wouldnt get away with it nowdays...I was pretty lucky never had major problems just spraying deodorant in a bus with 75 kids on board...Im very sensitive to perfumes so radioed base pulled up on side of road got out sat under a tree for half hour . Made the kids stay on board till the smell was gone...jumped back in and went on our way...fortunately it was going home so they were all late...never had that happen again...fran

[alleng]

Thanks all for the help finding my gearbox mounts for the Beddy. Took 3 very long days to remove the old ones and clean up and hone the bellhousing ready to press the new ones in. And what a job that was. Anyhow shes all back together and passed roadworthy with her new plates and ready to head off again in the next few days. Cheers

[BruceS]

Well done Allen & 'helper' !! lol
I once saw a chap spend 6 days trying to replace Hendrickson bushes & finally took my advice to go get a lend of a Porta-Power ............
Another good job is removing liners out of a diesel engine! (without the proper equipment)

[alleng]

I bought a puller which worked on 1 bellhousing bush. Then just made a puller up out if a bit of threaded rod as didnt have enough room to use the puller. That bit of threaded rod was a life saver. Which in the end I changed and used to push all the new bushes back in. Worked a treat.

[Lance]

Allen, mate, lots of 'smarts' went into that little project from both of you.
Great job well done.
see Lance clapping hands here


Now get out there and enjoy the road

[alleng]

Yep...hoping to start heading north Tuesday. Just sold our camper trailer and have to get the gas cert on monday. As soon as the guy pays me and picks it up were off...We have a property on Sunny Coast up the mountain before Mapleton and the damn nights have been freezing. Cant wait to get back on the road..cheers

[mottleemob]

Try Don Kyatt spares they specialise in Bedford and Isuzu parts unfortunately I haven, got their ph number
cheers Phil