Greetings from central Oregon,
I am in need of someone to overhaul an 8v92 in my 1992 Prevost bus conversion want someone that does quality work any information would be geatly appreciated
call leid diesel they rebuilt mine and did a awesome job
( out of frame full rebuild )
717 776 7725
267 green hill rd newville pa 17241
Hillsboro Diesel in Hillsboro Or is a good shop or I can send you Joe's number in Eugene OR,Joe is one of the best on the 8V92 engine
Quote from: luvrbus on November 04, 2022, 04:23:33 PM
Hillsboro Diesel in Hillsboro Or is a good shop or I can send you Joe's number in Eugene OR,Joe is one of the best on the 8V92 engine
Joe does great work!!! He also may advise you against a rebuild and just fix what needs to be fixed.
Leads is great! Unfortunately he is in opposite side of country. Near Carlisle, Pa., in Newville.
Thanks for the info...if you could get me a phone number for Joe it would be greatly appeciated
thanks for the information guys ...I got a hold of Joe and hes coming over next month gonna start by pull the heads first then see whatis wrong ...we are thinking an inframe at this point
In case anyone was curious this is what happend.... fired the bus up was a bit chilly noticed a bit of blue smoke....after it warmed up a bit the smoke dissapated headed down to the local truck stop for some fuel...shut it down got my fuel fired it back up and headed out started blowing out a bunch a blue smoke and had a bad miss.....had no power ....finally got it limpped to the house and I noticed a bunch on oil comeing out of the blower drains and I do mean a bunch.....got a hold of Joe out of Eugene Oregon and heas coming over to see what the carnage is.....ill post more once we get it pulled down
Joe will do you a good job, he is old school and set in his ways like me :P
Has Joe showed up yet and found your problem
We are going to wait till after the holidays
Quote from: dj on December 23, 2022, 10:15:54 AM
We are going to wait till after the holidays
Happy holidays and wishing the best for you when Joe visits...
Thanks and to you and yours merry Christmas and happy new year
Any update on your motor work by Joe?
Quote from: freds on January 27, 2023, 11:10:29 AM
Any update on your motor work by Joe?
Joe's time management like mine can suck sometimes but once he shows up it changes a little
just waiting for him to get time to come over
Up date on my bus.....been in contact with Joe over the last several months,,,,,this is where it REALLY pisses me off he says he will be over and then no show no calls nothing. this have seen going on since march...Called him yesterday (again) and he said he would be over in the morning (today) still no show no calls nothing ive left him countless voice mails ect. Im soooo done with him. He may be good but I want to get this thing back on the road
I talked to Josh at J&H diesel he really dont like working on busses but hes going to do this for me. heys saying sounds like I dropped an injector so more to follow,
I get it if someones busy but you cant take 2 minutes and call to let me know Ive got better things to do with my time than wait around for someone to show up
Thanks for letting me vent have a great day
Quote from: dj on May 22, 2023, 03:18:06 PM
Up date on my bus.....been in contact with Joe over the last several months,,,,,this is where it REALLY pisses me off he says he will be over and then no show no calls nothing. this have seen going on since march...Called him yesterday (again) and he said he would be over in the morning (today) still no show no calls nothing ive left him countless voice mails ect. Im soooo done with him. He may be good but I want to get this thing back on the road
I talked to Josh at J&H diesel he really dont like working on busses but hes going to do this for me. heys saying sounds like I dropped an injector so more to follow,
I get it if someones busy but you cant take 2 minutes and call to let me know Ive got better things to do with my time than wait around for someone to show up
Thanks for letting me vent have a great day
I understand Joe has another owner or 2 pissed off too,so you are not alone
Life lesson is don't get too attached to people. They may be good and highly regarded but people are afraid to switch to someone else even if like in this case, get jerked around. Sometimes you wonder how people like that stayed in business so long. I tried a locally owned pharmacy once and the old man would curse and slam his magazine down if you had the nerve to come in and want a prescription filled. He behaved that way toward my Mom too. The heck with him so I went elsewhere.
Quote from: dj on May 22, 2023, 03:18:06 PM
Up date on my bus.....been in contact with Joe over the last several months,,,,,this is where it REALLY pisses me off he says he will be over and then no show no calls nothing. this have seen going on since march...Called him yesterday (again) and he said he would be over in the morning (today) still no show no calls nothing ive left him countless voice mails ect. Im soooo done with him. He may be good but I want to get this thing back on the road
I talked to Josh at J&H diesel he really dont like working on busses but hes going to do this for me. heys saying sounds like I dropped an injector so more to follow,
I get it if someones busy but you cant take 2 minutes and call to let me know Ive got better things to do with my time than wait around for someone to show up
Thanks for letting me vent have a great day
Joe is really good at what he does and when he rebuilds an engine, it will be better than new and will never leak. However, once he tears your engine down, it may be a few weeks or even months before he will get back to work on it. So if you have a timeline to get it done that is critical, be careful. He has heavy equipment operators that he needs to get up and running first so they can generate revenue, so bus people take a back seat.
In all honesty CV-19 screwed time management up big time for OEM parts,you can get offshore made junk and used parts.I orderd $8000.00 worth of parts Monday and it going to take 3 months for delivery.Joe could have taken a few minutes to return DJ's call though
Up date on my bus...since Joe desided to pull yet another no show no calls or texts I got Jarod from J&H diesel within and hour to give me the good news (not) we pulled the injectors and had them flow checks,,,all good... so we got a borescope down the injector hole saw some things that didnt look good pulled the inspection plates off the side of the motor and found the carnage dropped a couple valves not good.....so now in looking at a reman motor and do a swap so more to follow will be a couple months till i get the new motor from PC industries all new with warranty
wish me luck
What a bummer,the 8v92 will drop a valve though I have one waiting to rebuild that dropped a valve too,Randy at PC Industries is a good guy and does good work
Yeah they seem to know what they are doing....i think the previous owner used the wrong oil
let the buyer beware
New update I got a hold of Randy at PC and gave him my serial number ,,,,called me first thing next morning told me exactly what I have....so they are going to build my motor sent half the money $15k should be about six weeks till i can go get it total wii be $29500 + 8500 for the core I head over and pick it up then take my core over once we get the new motor up and running will be a good shake down run.
more to follow take care
That takes all the fun out of owning a bus,it is easy to spend $16,000.00 + just on good parts for a out of frame on a 8v92 now