Urgent Advice: Poof of air, lost pressure, pressure rebuilt???

[John316]

Looks like a D2 to me. http://www.amazon.com/Bendix-Reman-D2-Governor-275491RX/dp/B002HU0538

This looks like the Bendix manual on it. http://www.amazon.com/Bendix-Reman-D2-Governor-275491RX/dp/B002HU0538 Problem is, my aircard is not pulling it up, so I do not know if that is correct or not.

FWIW

John

[demodriver]

You might give clifford a call and make sure that adjusting the govenor is the best thing to do. I was making a educated guess/suggestion.  

Good luck, Eric

[bevans6]

First question should be what is the maximum air pressure that your system builds to.  You said earlier that it was at 120 psi plus or minus when the pop/whoosh occurred.  If 120 - 125 is the max, then that is on the barely high side of normal.  The safety valve is supposed to be set at 150 psi - lots of headroom.  I would only adjust the pressure if it is abnormally high.  The reason is that the adjustment is a range of both high and low - cut-out pressure and cut-in pressure.  If you were to crank your cut-out pressure down to 110 psi, then your cut in pressure would drop to 80 - 85 psi, which is too low to be either legal or safe.

If you do decide to adjust the governor pressure, you unscrew the cap on the end of the governor (usually black plastic cap), undo the jam nut and screw the screw in clockwise to lower, out counterclockwise to raise  pressure.  The generally recommended settings are 95 psi cut in and 120 psi cut out.

Brian

[technomadia]

It seems it is currently set to cut off at 120ish. Previously, we had not seen it go above around 115. So we were thinking, if we can't find the valve here in Page, that we'd adjust the governor down to 118-ish to reduce to the chances of it cutting out again until we can find the valve.

We just pulled into Paga to a Napa, and are about to see if they have what we need.

Cherie

[technomadia]

Or, get the existing valve re-adjusted to trigger more around it's intended 150psi. Suspect that from age , the spring hasn't held it's tension. And/or it was gunked up, thus why it didn't re-engage immeditely.

[Lin]

I'm not sure, but it looks a bit like the one we had on our last bus.  It was pretty uncommon and they charged a premium ( around $100.) for the replacement.  A more common one could probably be substituted with a bit of work, but I just replace that one and cleaned it up as a spare. 

[luvrbus]

That looks like a D2A governor the best I can see cost around 50 bucks rebuilt, fwiw they have different models of the D2  


good luck

[Singing Land Cruiser]

R U Yerning yet? Hope you are safe. M&C

[happycamperbrat]

you need to get you some run up blocks and suspension block so you can do stuff like that in a pinch. never know when you might be on a desert highway 100 miles from the nearest town with no cell phone service and have an airline blow or something like that. it would be a shame to end up stranded somewhere over a minor issue you can take care of yourself.

OMG!! I had this EXACT same thing happen to me after owning my bus for just a few months! Long story here, but I ended up sleeping in the desert in the heat of summer and walking a couple miles in the HOT. It ended up that it was an air line the PO had tapped into in the engine compartment. He had a hose clamp on it and the clamp had worked lose just as I was cresting a 10 mile long steep twisty grade!!! Brakes were GONE, everything GONE in an instant! The mobile mechanic used a hearing scope thing to find the leak

[eagle19952]

You might (after all settles down and you have solved your trouble), consider putting a remote hosing system and centralized point to relocate all of your tank(s) safety relief valves and air tank drains,this way you would have visuals and not have to worry about getting under your coach for these frequently needed inspections.
Just a thought,safetyfirst.

[technomadia]

That sounds like a great idea, eagle!   We're looking forward to getting to the BCM Rally and taking the PM course to learn all sorts of good stuff, and up our confidence in handling as much of this stuff as possible.

We've now had the bus 3 months, and I can't believe how far we've come.. and how far we have left to go

And we could not have done it without all of you. Thank you again.


We stopped in Page, AZ and the NAPA Truck Parks place didn't have the safety valve in stock.  We lubbed up the valve, as the maintenance manual said should be done frequently - and decided to move on.  We're stopped in Monument Vally, UT for the evening (gorgeous!!) and had no problems on the way here.  We will be calling the truck shops in Farmington, NM in the morning to see if any of them have the parts and can help us.

All our best,
- Cherie (and Chris)

[Busted Knuckle]

Cherie & Chris,
When calling the shops in Farmington ask if they know Doyle Castle or simply ask them if the owner owns a bus.

As said before almost ANY truck shop can work on a bus. But many of them don't like to because almost nothing on them is easy to work on. So in that respect I like to find other busnuts for recommendations on who they have do their work in a  certain area. That way your sure to get bus friendly mechanics.
Now farther more if your bus is doing OK since lubing the safety valve. You might just go ahead and forge on toward Chattanooga on yer way to the rally and use the hands on time of the maintenance class to replace them.
Lust a thought.
  BK 

[Rick59-4104]

 I second making up a set of run up ramps...

Rick

[technomadia]

Unfortunately... we continue to have problems this morning, and are currently stuck in Monument Valley. Found a bus friendly shop in Durango to head towards, but at current time - we can not get the bus to reach pressure.  Suspecting it's related to the valve on the governor.   Just tried lubbed it up, and crossing our fingers that we can get on the road to Durango.  Afraid we're just not feeling confident enough to make the traverse to Choo Choo without at least some basic maintenance first.

Check our new thread on that:

http://www.busconversions.com/bbs/index.php?topic=21735.0