Cool project bus

[skihor]

Not mine
http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/4036219973.html

[Iceni John]

Someone on CCJ is familiar with this bus, but he's looking for a shorty 30-foot Crown that he can hotrod with a Big Cam Cummins  -  this one's too big for him!   All the glass and the engine's distributor may be worth the asking price alone for someone who already has one, just to keep as spares.   Someone else on CCJ would be all over it if it were a tandem 40-footer  - there's just no pleasing some folk!   I wonder how hot it gets inside on a sunny day?

John

[TomC]

Yes-unique bus-lots of windows equals lots of potential leaks. Hall Scott-how do you keep that running without parts availability? And about 4mpg? Good Luck, TomC

[Iceni John]

Yes-unique bus-lots of windows equals lots of potential leaks. Hall Scott-how do you keep that running without parts availability? And about 4mpg? Good Luck, TomC

I've heard that the distributors are the only part of a H-S that ever need to be replaced regularly, and they're now as rare as hen's teeth.   The rest of the engine is pretty tough  -  it's said that their blocks were cast from high-nickel steel, almost a stainless steel.   There's a junk yard in Riverside owned by an old guy who evidently cannot get rid of anything, and he has half a dozen old H-S Crowns there, each of which is missing its distributor!   4 MPG would be good  -  2 to 3 could be more common in school bus use.   Oh for the days of cheap gasoline!   Mind you, drivers could make an impressive long flame come out the tailpipe to thwart tailgaters behind them  -  turn off the ignition, pump the gas pedal half a dozen times to flood the carb, turn the ignition back on, kaboom.   If they did that too often it would blow the exhaust pipe and muffler apart, then they had some explaining to do when they got back to the yard.

Yup, roof windows will inevitably leak  -  the old Bristol/ECW buses I rode in many years ago in England leaked so much through their roof windows that some passengers put their umbrellas up inside when it rained.

John   

[DaveNCari]

If distributors are the only problem.....I have an answer.....

Electromotive ignition.....a distributorless system using a coil pack and a pickup wheel...

Also has a programmable advance curve.....neat stuff.....

Not cheap...but if lack of a distributor is what kills these buses.......

There it is.....

Dave

[Jeremy]

If distributors are the only problem.....I have an answer.....

Electromotive ignition.....a distributorless system using a coil pack and a pickup wheel...

Also has a programmable advance curve.....neat stuff.....

Not cheap...but if lack of a distributor is what kills these buses.......

There it is.....

Dave

Yup. I have a Megasquirt system on my Range Rover and from reading the forums on the MS website you wouldn't believe some of the weird and wonderful old engines people have 'Squirted. Reasonably cheap too given that it's all open-source rather than controlled by a manufacturer.

(And a propane conversion to reducing the running costs of that engine?)

Jeremy