Finaly Bringing her home,No really I am !!

[lou432]

Windshield covered in bees that I just spoke of, and a picture of Hartford Connecticut that I sent to my youngest son that's 30 when we used to do the same trip every year and a car and Batman had just started its new movie series we said we were going through Gotham City LOL and his eyes always got big :-) so Hartford Connecticut has always been Gotham City to us :-)

[lou432]

South of the Border :-)

[lou432]

Okay some of these got all messed up I'm not going to even question what went wrong or how I'm tired I'm hitting the sack! Thank you all very very much for being along On my journey! Good night and God bless exclamation

[chessie4905]

Drove by our church last night. Across from it is a wetland part of farmers field. The peepers were so loud, you could hear them even with windows closed.

[lou432]

A few years back I owned a piece of property that has six acres of wetlands and ponds and I had to play my music loud at night while I tried to sleep to drown the sound of the papers out. At that point I wanted to shoot every one of them LOL!
  Picture of the red parking and emergency brakes placard.
If it had been a snake out of the first 10 minutes I got in this bus :-) lesson learned!

[DoubleEagle]

Good picture of the placard, I should print it out and put it in my own 84 Eagle. My 75 Eagle does not have that style brake and I can release the parking brake before 100 lbs. and without using the foot pedal. I know it is for safety, but it seems to be a nuisance at times, and it sure wasted your time in Georgia.

[DoubleEagle]

A few years back I owned a piece of property that has six acres of wetlands and ponds and I had to play my music loud at night while I tried to sleep to drown the sound of the papers out. At that point I wanted to shoot every one of them LOL!
  Picture of the red parking and emergency brakes placard.
If it had been a snake out of the first 10 minutes I got in this bus :-) lesson learned!

Glad to hear that many people remember those spring peepers. I did not think of them as an annoyance, I just thought about all those poor creatures that were so happy to be out of that deep mud for the winter finally getting loose to live anew. Sort of like dreaming about getting a bus, and then finally getting it on the road! (Can't accuse me of getting off-thread now). 

[lou432]

I'm on my Droid phone and until I touch on the picture I can't read the words ,is the photo really good on your end ?
  5 hours of my time, but boy was I relieved when that's all it was! :-)
That would certainly be confusing to me when one coach it doesn't needs to be done that way and you get in the other and it does.
Darn peepers,and thread jackers !! :-)

[gumpy]

As two mornings I woke to her listing hard on that side and would not start because of low oil sensor and had to have coach-net air me up twice.

Hmmm, I don't recall there being a low oil sensor on these buses. Low oil pressure, yes, but not low level.

Maybe it was an option and I've just not run across one. Regardless, I would think it would be tied into the safety shutdown system,
which means the bus should still start, although if there is air in the system, it might then shut down when you release the start button.
You would also be able to bypass it by disconnecting the wire at the sensor. That is, if you can get to it.


Additionally...
I do see that the MC8 manual shows an optional low oil level sensor tied into the shutdown system. It still should start and as long as you hold the start button in, should continue to run. The caveat to this, though, is that the fuel pressure sensor and starter cutout must be operational or you can burn up the starter or grind the starter drive and flywheel.

I'm also surprised that the oil level would change enough to cause the sensor to register low oil simply by deflating one side.  If it really is due to low oil level, I suspect you may need to calibrate your dipstick.

[lou432]

Thanks Craig, that gives me other things to consider. I know the three days I spent at Arcadia two Christmases ago she listed pretty good and she crank and stayed running the next morning.
  First time I encountered it was the second night I stopped. And then again the third night. She continued when I got her back home. I haven't attempted to start her for 2 days now she appears to be aired down and fairly level. I'm going over this morning to see how she acts.
I thought it was just a safety feature show the engine would not get damaged if it was not enough oil.
Please Describe the calibration of the dipstick?

[gumpy]

The first thing you need to do is determine if there is, in fact, a low oil level sensor. It would be located in the oil pan and would have a couple wires coming off it (one for temp, one for level), I believe. Cliff or someone else can correct me on this if I'm mistaken, because I have not actually seen one of these on a Detroit, but it evidently was an option on some models.

If you need to calibrate the dipstick, it's easiest to do it when changing oil. Fill with proper amount, run to fill filter. Let it all run back down and then mark the dipstick. I think there were a couple different oil pans available, so you'll need to know what the proper amount is supposed to be. Someone else will have to help you determine that because again, I don't know enough about the different oil pans.

[lostagain]

The level should be 1" below the block to pan joint.

JC

[buswarrior]

One thing you might take off the list:

Clutch adjustment

You description of it engaging at 2/3rds sounds right, the pedal is supposed to engage high in a commercial vehicle, a couple inches max from the top position.

And that's all the push you need.

Happy coaching!
buswarrior

[lou432]

Well that's a relief :-) wasn't sure the adjustment on the clutch needed to be done. But again I'm familiar with the coach itself, who knows!
Craig, yeah I'm questioning that oil pan sensor as well although I'm not around the coach 2 figure it out yet. She sat  for 3 days and aired down equally all the way around but still had low oil light on and wouldn't continue running after 30 pounds or less. So I aired her up through the air outlet underneath the driver seat  checking oil and oil was almost a gallon down. Added oil But once I aired up in all situations she would continue to run and not shut off so I thought it was a sensor??

    And to add insult to injury I discovered a broken window in the back that I'm pretty sure I did when I was ten point turning Virginia in a parking lot and backed into some . I will attach a picture the glass will definitely have to be replaced and the little information I have I'm guessing I can get replacement glass for it? And the front windshield leaks so I'll need new rubber there and some other front flat glass on driver side and door as well along with rubber seals for the door my assumption is I can get aftermarket or OEM? .
But didn't see the hole in the glass until last evening when I was topping off the radiator with not quite 3 gallons. I know one thing I need and that's a ladder.

[lou432]

1 more picture.