Grease and oil removal

I have to date, Pressure washed the engine after purple power solvent application, used two cans of foaming engine cleaner and rinsed with " Hudson" sprayers to remove the dissolved grime, and a second coat of foaming cleaning degreaser with another rinse down of water. The final result being more cleaning required, this engine is a grease pig. I am worried about the amounts of debris an oil slick that it has produced in my driveway and in the storage lot it is in. The old owners ran this bus until the leaks coated everything with oil and debris until the clean up is monumental.

Alternator oil lines

After spending some quality time with the alternator in the bus. I managed to remove one of the two oil lines that supply lubrication and cooling to the alternator.

 After dis assembly and some clean up you can see how serious the hose was. One end gave up easy but the other put up a fight.  After a short trip to Aircraft Spruce here in PTC 1 ft of Aeroquip 303-3 hose @ $5.85 with a 3000 psi rating should last another 31 years.

I cleaned up the old fittings and re-assembled the hose. Now to remove the other hose and install this one.

Flat tire problems

In the quest to resolve the below situation.

 I purchased a 60/1 gear reduction crank capable of "Tons of torque".  Looking at the Lugs they are marked L8 I could only get them to pop and move slowly until I started cranking clockwise now I have most broken loose. They are Left handed Thread. I have managed to crack the powder coat off the brace leg of the tool.

Yesterday I removed the tire and attempted to seat the bead on it to no avail. Today I took the tire to a tire shop and they couldn't deal with the tire either. A customer of mine that maintains large tractor trailers told me to bring it by and they set the bead and inflated the tire in less than 3 minutes. The down side is there is a hole in the sidewall of the tire and it's JUNK  First estimate for a replacement it  $460.00.  This beast has 8 tires!!!

 With the assistance of my Diesel generator I used my air compressor to break loose most of the seats from the tracks with my butterfly impact wrench.  The generator will be moved into the AC condenser bay in the final build.  Today it heated the coach with a ceramic heater and powered not only the air compressor but my charger for my battery drill. for ~2hrs of run time it only used ~1gal of diesel.  It will probably use more under full load. I was amazed at how quiet it was just sitting in the basement not in a quiet box.

Seats and OIl leaks.

After two hours working on "The Last Resort"

I have all but one seat loose.

 It seems like there is a lot more room when the seats are racked along the walls.

 I pulled up the covers under and in front of where the rear seat was and found some oil leaks.

 This is a view of the supercharger coupling I need to clean it up to find where the oil is coming from.

Progress today

I started making some sense out of this tangled mess of wiring and weeding out some of the circuits.

I think I may have found the problem with my speedo.  I found a pushed connector in one of the junction blocks in the wire run to the wheel pickup.

 I would take it out to test it except I still have this to contend with!!!

Yesterday I received my new torque multiplier. Three planetary gears stacked on each other claiming to have "TONS" of force. All I can get it to do is Crack each one of the lugs then heat generated by the movement locks the nut on the stud again.  They will come off eventually but LOTS of work will be required. The good news is that a new Harbor Freight store will be opening soon in Fayetteville and I will be able to buy a air/hydraulic low profile jack to put under this thing.

I fired up my generator and used the 115 volts to run a pancake air compressor to power a impact gun and get some of those filthy seats loose from the mountings

Introductions

Yesterday I took my Brother and his wife to meet "The Last Resort"  Susan had a fun time playing Ralph Cramdon at the wheel both think it's neat but a lot of work and yes it is. My sister in law Dawn had fun as well but was the only one to get a picture behind the wheel.

Another part Procured

I have been going around on what type of heat exchanger I would need for hot water in the bus. My thoughts were liquid to liquid from the Wabasto heater I have.  To keep the Wabasto from over heating the water in the exchanger I would need a thermal valve of some type to limit delivered temperature to below scalding plus the exchanger.  The valve I couldn't find a quick source for so I set out to find the exchanger.  Most everything I could find was in the $240.00 price range or higher.  Then on an extensive eBay search I found ...

This unit is a marine hot water tank, 16" in diameter and 31" in length. The heat comes from Engine,Wabasto, or 110 V.  It holds 13 gal of water and that neat knob thing on the front is the thermal limiting valve I needed.  The valve uses hot water from the tank and supplements it with cold water to reduce the temp below the adjusted temp for use by the hot water system.  In short no burning and the 13 gal turns in to 23 to 30 gal of usable hot depending on how hot the tank is.  All for around the same cost of the heat exchanger.