BCM Classified Ad Alert: 1993 Prevost XL40 in Cambridge, NE

[lostagain]

I see a lot of young people buying MCI Ds and other models, and building conversions on Facebook bus pages. They don't frequent old fashioned bulletin boards like this one. 

[luvrbus]

Did the young couple that bought the bus in Tucson and drove 5 hours to Flagstaff before the engine blew find help yet JC she was looking last I heard 

[Jim Blackwood]

The idea of rebuilding a diesel engine is intimidating if you haven't either done it or seen it done. So that's a hurdle to get over somehow. My preference was to avoid it entirely by finding something that would not need to be rebuilt for a long time. Maybe longer than I would ever drive it. That's a pretty good challenge but possible, even within a budget. Not that I couldn't or am afraid of it, but added to the rest of the build it makes the whole prospect too long and expensive. So that was step one. Getting the wife on board was the next near impossibility but she's beginning to come around as the interior begins to take shape. Concepts of cost is another big deal. Doesn't really help to continually say deep pockets are a requirement I think, and not strictly true anyway. Yes there will be big expenses, notably when tires and batteries come due for example and those have to be planned for, but for $20K total it's possible to compete with a travel trailer I'd say. If you can do your own work.As for the mileage, stopping by the RV sales office and looking at a conversion van we were told it "would probably get about 8 miles a gallon". Wouldn't a DL3 compare favorably to that? Just asking as I have yet to drive mine off the property. I used to own a 4x4 that got 11mpg, so how much worse is 8?

We tend to hear the choice is between 2 strokes and integrated electronic controls but it really isn't. There is a sweet spot in between those with the '90's DL where you have the good series 60, the B500, and a minimum of electronics. Those are going out of service, the prices are right and the market is depressed. A good time to buy all in all as it won't last forever. I got my '96 for about $6500 delivered from Connecticut to KY and consider it a real bargain as it had a fresh engine. If I had to bail I could sell the engine for what I have in the entire rig so far. That makes a good platform to build from. It was not perfect of course but perfection is the enemy of good enough.

Jim

[luvrbus]

60 series are good engines they last a long time compared to the older 2 stroke engine.parts are cheaper for the 60 series now compared to a 8v92. Lol with the masks and CV-19 getting parts from a DD for the 8v92 you get on a  waiting list or buy the offshore crap ,I still haven't gotten over the sticker shock for 2 camshafts for a 8v92 from DD

[buswarrior]

Opening the engine has always been project failure for a busnut, financially and effort wise.

Planning on doing an engine in the project borders on insanity.

Please pay your server now, no tabs allowed...

Happy coaching!
Buswarrior

[luvrbus]

BW so true that is what I get,they come in crates with parts missing   

[Dave5Cs]

And big cardboard Boxes As i remember....

[luvrbus]

And big cardboard Boxes As i remember....

That was a first Dave 

[windtrader]

I do see more activity on FB but still a sliver of the overall chat in the RV/van conversion world. Some activity better than none.

[luvrbus]

I do see more activity on FB but still a sliver of the overall chat in the RV/van conversion world. Some activity better than none.

99% of the buyers for buses on F/B are making the bus a home not for RVing or causal use

[windtrader]

99% of the buyers for buses on F/B are making the bus a home not for RVing or causal use

Very interesting. so it's more the tiny house fad that is looking at converting. I wonder how many old school busnuts trying to sell their bus have considered directing the sale of their bus conversion to this crowd? Surely, seems like a lot more potential there to find a buyer