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[birdarchitect26]

I wanted to start a topic in order to find people or merely "someone" close to me with a similar project to discuss ideas and maybe trade advice "in person" or just for shits and giggles

Name: Jay Morgan
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Age: 33
Bus: 1973 MCI MC-7 Challenger
Progress: 50%
Current Status: Fixing fuel tank/ framing/ plumbing


Please feel free to use this thread in order to do the same! 

Happy Coaching

J

[Branderson]

I wanted to start a topic in order to find people or merely "someone" close to me with a similar project to discuss ideas and maybe trade advice "in person" or just for shits and giggles

Name: Jay Morgan
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Age: 33
Bus: 1973 MCI MC-7 Challenger
Progress: 50%
Current Status: Fixing fuel tank/ framing/ plumbing



Please feel free to use this thread in order to do the same! 

Happy Coaching

J

I probably wouldn't be much good at advice b/c I'm still very much a newb learning but we have almost the same bus.  I've been trying to find a rally near me in order to network and learn more but haven't been to one yet.  I will have my bus for 2 yrs in March.


Name: Brad Anderson
Location: Fort Benning, Georgia (really i'm across the state line in Alabama but I work at Benning and people know that more)
Age: 43
Bus: 1974 MCI MC-8
Current Status: Replacing fridge and saving up for a paint job. 

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

Jay,

You really should subscribe to Bus Conversion Magazine.  There you will get tons of ideas of what other people have done.  Each month we feature a bus conversion to ponder over to see how other people have converted their buses.  The magazine is what help support the Forum as well. 

Gary

[lvmci]

 hi Jay and Brad, and all you lurkers who haven't taking the plunge yet, I got my first bus conversions Magazine from Gary Bennett at B&B in Las Vegas, and answered the questions that I had been thinking of on my own, for many years before. The magazine and then this forum I learned about from it, BNO, we're the few things available and still is the best resource for Learning and directing you towards all the options of a bus conversion bus nut, lvmci...

[Van]

Hi Jay we are right around the corner and over the hill here in Las Vegas, cmon over for some coffee some time

[Zephod]

I'm in lexington South Carolina


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[ol713]

   Hi jay;
       Just curious, what kind of fuel leak do you have?  Is it the
       tank it self or do you have the Aux tank leaking?
                                 Merle.      (MC-7)

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

Hi Jay we are right around the corner and over the hill here in Las Vegas, cmon over for some coffee some time

Coffee?  You always bring out the beer for me Van.  

[bronson]

Jay, I am not exactly right around the corner but about 25 miles from Cincinnati. We're located a few miles north of Mount Orab. Have an 84 mci 9 for 4 years and a 96a3 prior. Would be glad to trade ideas and meet up sometime.

[DoubleEagle]

I'm North of you a bit, in the Dayton area. I have Eagles, but these buses share many parts like the engines & trans. Do you have the 8V71 with the Spicer 4 speed manual, or Allison auto? You will find much information in the archives of this board and in the Bus Conversion magazine. In past decades there were Bus Conversion Conventions held mostly out west, but they have died off. There are still rally's being held that allow you to see what others have done. To get the quickest answer about a problem you might come across, just post on this board, you will find that help will pop up from other MCI owners.

[birdarchitect26]

Jeez, well my point was to collaborate not only myself but others. Regardless, I surely appreciate the responses!

Merle,
I just pulled my tank yesterday, the pick-up tube was clogged so I was cutting out on the hills and eventually it would run longer than 5 min or until the line had no vacuum left. I plan to possibly pull the aux tank as well, give them both a good cleaning and install a new pickup tube! Suggestions welcome.

Bronson,
We have land in Peebles we visit and camp often, a pit stop in Mt. Orab would be an easy choice to discuss bus topics and meet similar minds! I'll contact when shes back together.

Double Eagle,
I have an 8V92 Ta, I think its the HT740, but I haven't checked. Original greyhound transit, upgraded in 84' to a conversion professionally by MCI, so it has great good guts!
Dayton is a stones throw, I'm in West Chester. I take flight lessons up there at Wright. I would gladly drive er' up next time and we could shoot the chit!

Thanks all,
Jay

[Prevo]

 :-[I been a lurker on here for longer than I can remember,  not that I'm  full of knowledge but I have learned more off this site than any school could teach me,  I bought my 1st coach in 1993 it was a 1978 MCI5C , 6/92 turbo with the 740 Allison,  It had a John Starr paint job &  looked almost  the same as JC'S bus on the outside, it was our pride & joy then we got the idea that we should have a 40 footer.  Found a 1996 Prevost XL with series 60 Detroit  & the love affair started all over again that was in yr 2000 now 18 yrs later & 100,000 miles later is is still my 1st thought when I wake up in the morning.  It is a Bill Kingston conversion could not be more satisfied.    Now back to the subject of story,  My hometown where I made a living was Republic, Washington, retired in 1993, & been a snow bird every year since, spend about 4 months in Republic in summer & 7 to 8 months in the foothills of Yuma Az.  its been great

[lvmci]

Hi Prevost, nice to have you, Tyke, I didn't know that was you,  are you gonna make it to that dam rally? lvmci...

[buswarrior]

Here's two clubs, with lots of dual members in the great lakes basin.

CCO - Converted Coach Owners, been around almost forever.

GLCC - Great Lakes Converted Coaches, and FMCA chapter.

Who has contacts? I am remote from my resources...

Happy coaching!
Buswarrior

[Prevo]

Yes Tom we sure plan to be at dam rally reservation are made  should be there .  tyke