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#61

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Re: Windows in a Bus Conversio...

Last post by luvrbus - May 18, 2026, 06:39:07 AM

You may want to go the glass route after you price the door!

LOl I am going the glass route I priced the door at Lowes,when I purchased the doors 20 years ago they $1200.00 not now. It is a double pane I just thought 900 bucks for 1 broke pane was crazy

#62

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Alaska 6

Last post by dtcerrato - May 18, 2026, 05:45:51 AM

We started our sixth run to Alaska with the bus pulling a trailer a week ago tomorrow. Last night we pulled off in Whitecourt AB CA. We've covered 2927 miles and have 1589 miles to go. The rig has been running great. At just over 7mpg the trip is about a buck a mile! How's it go? Can't take it with us nor come back and get it. We're doing this run solo as the new to come grand baby is holding out (in) & wild horses couldn't pull wifey away. Life is good.

#63

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Re: Windows in a Bus Conversio...

Last post by dtcerrato - May 18, 2026, 05:34:56 AM

Most glass shops cut the glass and then temper the glass I never saw tempered glass cut before . Mowing the grass the mower pickup up a rock and threw and it  now it is going to cost me a patio door glass, the price they are asking I can almost buy a new set of doors, $900.00 for a tempered door glass is crazy 

You may want to go the glass route after you price the door!

#64

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Re: Windows in a Bus Conversio...

Last post by luvrbus - May 17, 2026, 07:23:34 AM

I just wonder if you could take the original tempered glass and cut it in half down the middle? What would it take to do that?

I'll need to look at it, if the seal around the glass is thick enough there may be room to put in plastic tracks above and below the glass and some sort  of edge  and/or end pieces so the two pieces would overlap a bit. Might not be that hard but I'd need a glass shop that is comfortable cutting tempered. Not sure there would be room for a sliding screen though.

Jim

Most glass shops cut the glass and then temper the glass I never saw tempered glass cut before . Mowing the grass the mower pickup up a rock and threw and it  now it is going to cost me a patio door glass, the price they are asking I can almost buy a new set of doors, $900.00 for a tempered door glass is crazy 

#65

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Re: Windows in a Bus Conversio...

Last post by Jim Blackwood - May 17, 2026, 06:06:55 AM

I just wonder if you could take the original tempered glass and cut it in half down the middle? What would it take to do that?

I'll need to look at it, if the seal around the glass is thick enough there may be room to put in plastic tracks above and below the glass and some sort  of edge  and/or end pieces so the two pieces would overlap a bit. Might not be that hard but I'd need a glass shop that is comfortable cutting tempered. Not sure there would be room for a sliding screen though.

Jim

#66

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Re: Jakes, Automatic Downshift...

Last post by Glennman - May 14, 2026, 09:46:24 PM

Hey there luvrbus, I would be interested in your Pro Link 9000. If you wish, send me a private message and let me know what you want for it.

To tell you the truth, there would be a learning curve for me, but it sounds like something I could use.

Thanks!

#67

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / BCM Classified Ad Alert: 1950 ...

Last post by Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM - May 13, 2026, 03:28:34 PM

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#68

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Re: Windows in a Bus Conversio...

Last post by Jim Blackwood - May 13, 2026, 06:37:08 AM

I found this quote from last year, Motion/Peninsula in Vancouver. Looks like overall the windows from them would cost about a grand each. For that money I'd be tempted to make my own.

Jim

#69

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Tame the Heat in Your RV Conve...

Last post by Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM - May 12, 2026, 01:26:46 PM

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#70

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Re: Jakes, Automatic Downshift...

Last post by luvrbus - May 12, 2026, 04:12:27 AM

My spare ECM is on its way, along with a spare Allison transmission button pad. I plan to have the ECM checked for Jake brake functioning along with having some other issues looked into such as the high idle and other things that have quit working. I don't show any codes, but apparently that is no guarantee that there aren't some other issues. Once I have it checked out, I'll have them both synced like I did with the transmission control module so they both work the same.

I replaced my 500 mile brake shoes today with ones that are more of a metallic material, unlike the previous ones that are purely organic. The organic material just glazes over too easy I guess. I was going to get shoes called KVT, but I ended up with ones (supposedly comparable) called "454A". I hope the new ones are hardier. The material looks like what's on typical disc brake pads, and they look way better. We're taking about a 150 mile trip to the lake at the end of the month, one week before we head down to southern Utah in June. That'll give us a chance to see how well they work.

I have a Pro/Link 9000 Plus with the cartages, printer. manuals and cables for the Allision and Series 60,I will make you deal then you can really have fun. All brakes shoes will gaze over with enough heat, It is a PM on school buses they pull the wheels and deglaze the brake pads and shoes about every 3 months when the brakes start making noise, the glaze is not deep they sand the shoes with 80 grit sanding wheels  and go again, I may be wrong but in the past harder brake shoes glazed over faster than the softer shoes used on buses. I do know harder brakes shoes wear drums faster they did on my trucks, it was always drums and shoes when it came time for brake jobs