Another Project and Another Cool Tool

[Joe Camper]

Here is what I was up to last week.

http://prevostmotorhomes.ning.com/forum/topics/caliper-bushing-replacement

[Busted Knuckle]

Yes Joe it is very nice to be able to help & learn from each other as we work on these old coaches. What one doesn't know another does and so on.

Also always neat to find new tricks & tools of the trade that the others have learned or built!

By the way unless he's closed up since I was last there (long time) there is a Crosly dealer on Brown Street in Paducah, KY next door to the old Sill's H-D dealership (sold out and is now located off exit 11 on I-24 and called 4 Rivers H-D) and Redline Racing.
But since I don't go to Paducah very often anymore, and they moved the H-D dealer out closer to me I hardly ever get down to Brown Street anymore!
  BK 

[Joe Camper]

On the MCI we quickly learned to locate the split on the inner steel collar of the radius rod bushings. Then drive a small long tapered punch into that split as far as you can an it spreads it plenty enough to get things moving off.

Port-a-power and a com-a-long also played a part. Air dryer also needed to come out to get the upper rods on the steer axle.

This project was loomin for a while but was not too bad.

Also the outer round plates that bolt up need to be ridge free on the backside or they will not get tight enough. We had ridges on all of ours he had new ones and we machined the old ones to new if anyone is contemplating this job you may have them.

[Busted Knuckle]

Joe I can tell you from experience he will think it's a new bus with the quality of the ride it will have with replacing those parts! We did the same to ours several yrs ago and everybody that has rode it since could not believe it was a 1985 model as good as it looks & rides!
  BK 

[Rick 74 MC-8]

Buch is a great guy and very good at fabricating
                                                           Rick 74 MC-8