HT740 slipping

[luvrbus]

Good job JC now you are dressed for the party and no party to go to

[lostagain]

LOL Clifford! The weather is nice here now. But I have to work the harvest the next six weeks driving grain trucks, so no going with the bus anyway. And it doesn't look like the border is reopening soon, so we might not be coming South this winter. Oh well, I'll have lots of time in the shop...

[luvrbus]

LOL Clifford! The weather is nice here now. But I have to work the harvest the next six weeks driving grain trucks, so no going with the bus anyway. And it doesn't look like the border is reopening soon, so we might not be coming South this winter. Oh well, I'll have lots of time in the shop...

If you toss the old 740 I will buy the oil pan from you ok

[lostagain]

OK. I will ask the transmission shops if they'll give me any money for it. If not, it'll go in my scrap pile.

[lostagain]

The moral of the story is:

1: HT740 transmissions aren't bullet proof, as is the myth believed by many bus nuts. They are very robust, but wear out and break in time, like anything mechanical.

2: I am so lucky that I wasn't stranded a long way from home when it broke. It would've been $10 to 20G to have it fixed on the road. It would've happened half way to Florida, as this is where we wanted to go to help our son move. We didn't go because of Covid border closure.

3: it was a big job. Good thing I had the time.

[dtcerrato]

Glad it worked out for you as far as a convenient breakdown...
We know all too well what it's like breaking down far from home...
We're never really alone as there's always this & other support groups that have a way of lightening the load.