If he wants the bus serviced and a check over take it to Michelangleo of Phoenix they own MCI's and are great people but I don't think they do engine work but there they will let him watch and explain the different systems.
Andy or Bill do you have the phone # I can not find it in the search here.
Mike a word of advice don't take your bus to Desert West or Taylor in Phoenix been there done that.
good luck
I would like some clarification on this lugging thing. My 8v71/Spicer combo when running 2000 rpm in 1st, meshes perfectly to about 1100 rpm in 2nd. Hence, it would seem that one must run at lower rpm when building speed. I don't remember exactly now, but the rpm differential becomes narrower as you climb the gears. 2000 rpm in 3rd is just over 1400 rpm in 4th. So I guess the point is that one should not try to cruise or climb below 1600rpm in a 2 stroke. Am I missing something here?
When is someone going to invent a BBS posting screen that doesn't lose all your $%&*@ work if you happen to click for Google and leave the page???
you have to remember to open another tab before clicking go on the handy Google toolbar thingy...
After you forget, when you click back, your reply post window is nicely blank for you to start again.
happy coaching!
buswarrior
Hi Clifford... Thanks for writing.
I'm only theorizing, but it makes perfect sense.
Oil is seeping in through the blower seals (or from somewhere) into the blower and when the piston retracts and reveals the intake port the blower blows in fresh air along with some oil and it is combusted along with the fuel. This is the reason for the blue smoke. The reason that it does not run away, is probably that the amount is too small to support combustion.
When I gunned it the other day and it ran away for a few seconds, the amount probably reached the window of combustion and it took off! Since it was only a minute amount, the run-away lasted only a few seconds.
Then too, when the piston retracts and reveals the intake port, the blower blows in fresh air along with some oil in through the intake and right out the exhaust port. The oil lands on the superheated exhaust manifold... turns into white smoke... which travels out through the tailpipe. Remember it takes only a minute amount of oil to give a billowing white cloud.
When I did Special Effects in LA, we built a small cracker out of a 25 gallon drum. We filled the bottom with Johnson & Johnson Baby Oil just to cover the air manifold and we could make smoke all day without refilling the drum.
You are right about the zip. I use my brothers address as a base. He lives on 85th and Chaparral. I've been bouncing it around from location to location until I find a nice spot where it's not a bother to anyone and I have electricity to work on it. I have it parked at my apartment building right now. The owner is cool. Thought the Rolling Stones were in town. ;)
What do you think of my theory?
Like to hear my theory on gravity?
Thanks again for writing!
If you like... send me an email and I'll send you my contact info.
Best regards,
Mike
N9EWS