I have been watching you guys work for a long time, I appreciate your attention to detail when it comes to vehicle safety. it’s frightening to see how many of these heavy duty vehicles are rolling down the road with lack of proper maintenance.

Thank you for posting this great video. It really shows how many maintenance/repair shops are sending unsafe vehicles out on the public roads. Then the owners paying these shops have no idea the work is criminal shouldn't be able to leave the shop. It's a fact that your honestly helping educate everyone by leading by example. Sadly not many people can afford even one of the old busses. I'm old and like the old mechanical vehicles even though the new ones are driver friendly.

It's never fun seeing forbidden glitter flowing out with the oil. Could you imagine the carnage if there wasn't a magnet at all...that one was definitely doing its job well. Seeing you fix other shops screwups for whatever reason sure is reassuring when i see these beasts rolling down the road. It just sucks for the owners with the money laid out and so forth. Thanks for doing all you guys do 🙂

Thanks for video of eclipse Scott. From Africa.

On a positive note, you guys did a fantastic job rebuilding that engine, it looks great and sounds great!!! For that matter the whole vehicle is really looking nice, hopefully its in the home stretch as far as repairs go and the owners will get a lot of enjoyment out of it!!! ❤❤❤

Bus ownership is a good starter for those interested in owning an aircraft...

I owned the very last builr American New Look Bus manufactured by GMC at the Flint, MI factory. It was built in March 1977 Having served as a city passenger bus in Wausau ,WI for more than a quarter century it was still completely original and ran pretty decent but needed work over the ten years I owned it Yes it was a money pit and I finally sold it to a man in Lodi NJ who had a bus collection. And yes I took a substantial loss but I have to admit it was a blast to drive to car shows

Great videos as always BGM. It is because of your channel, long ago I installed two oil pressure gauges on my Cummins. One on the block side and one on the filter housing side. Oil and gauges are way cheaper than $2000 tows and $9000 engines.

10:30 You know you're having a bad day when the magnet on one of your drain plugs looks like an anime protagonist.

Wow he needs a bigger magnet in that diff... Great video, as always, feel for the owner on this one.. Great job on your end, no matter what. ✌️❤️😊

you may want to hang some heavy mil plastic/poly behind the tool box/workbench area, then the wall wont get dirty anymore and the plastic can easily be changed. could also spend a boatload and put plexiglass there, so it's cleanable, but that would buy lots of disposable plastic sheeting. 🙃

That bus needed alot of help, alot.. glad you got ahold of it. i hope he drives it to get his moneys worth..

Love to videos and knowledge!

With all that metal think I would also want to see the gears in the rear

Glad Scott got better 🙂

Huge bus ! Mike from Missouri

I drive entertainer coaches for a living, Prevost xls and h3s obviously . even brand new Prevost break down constantly, and anything older than a 2014 is going to be a real money pit, they are buses its what they do.

You should try the air hammer to get the conical washers to come loose.

So much time is wasted on removing the split collars on the axle flanges. When they`ve been on for a few years they don`t come off as easy as those ohes did. Then somebody in the shop volunteers to help with the sledge hammer and smashes the studs causing another nightmare.

I've always wanted to buy an old school bus and turn it into a camper but these are making me reconsider

There's almost part numbers on the stuff on the diff magnet.

Been a subscriber since you were mobile!

Beautiful bus, I just got a 1983 PT40, not road worthy yet, it runs great but needs work. I wonder, with that much metal in the gear oil, what the gear teeth look like...

No shortage on bad shops!

Who would expect owning a full-on bus NOT to be expensive? I tow a 17’ Casita fiberglass trailer with a diesel Colorado and think that’s expensive. And: new brakes on ONE SIDE? WTF?

A new metal flake paint color

Another whackamole bus - whack one problem and the next one pops up 😞

keep the clips coming

In 1970, gold was $35 per oz and median income was $8730. In 2022 median income was $74,580. Gold is $2,363. Using gold as a reference of value 2363/35=67.5 times as much. $8730X67.5=$589,275 just to break even, The fake dollars are almost WORTHLESS, and the vehicle repairs are cheaper, in value, today.

Wow, A lot going on.

NASA would like you to share that 'sparkling' footage to simulate deep space travel.

It always boggles my mind how a shop can do a brake job yet ignore the absolutely destroyed shock absorber.

How much does a hub bearing cost, excluding labor?

Ooh pretty oil

and after all that you have to fill it up with $5 diesel, which must be expensive every time.

Morning

How did the previous mechanic not notice the worn wheel bearings? Looks like just smash it together and cash in the money for the repair. Actually the differential might also be out of adjustment with that much metal flaks on the diff plug. Just feel bad for the owner cause it's like a never ending problem for him.

I have a bird in tree making a sim call as what you have near your shop.

I’ve been considering replacing my air bags in my 05 American Heritage they still look good but what’s your opinion on when they should be replaced I’ve only got 70k miles on it

How often does this happen? Someone purchases a bus, starts dumping money into it just to realize it will take much more money than anticipated. Then they decide to pull the pin and sell the bus as is?

If you pull the axles to tow, how do the bearings get lubrication ?

So what did you actually do for that bearing, just adjust it and put it back in? Video didn't say.

How do you get all the metal out of the diff and axle tubes before installing new wheel bearings? Don’t want the same thing happening again.

Aren't the wedges on axles just great. When your hitting the axle to pop the wedges hit it like owes you money

Are there ever concerns about the bearings in the differential when the glitter is present?

These are luxury vehicles based on commercial vehicles. Being expensive is part of the equation. On the other hand, being commercial vehicles means they’re designed to be serviceable.

This ol gile seems to be becoming a money pit because of shoddy work in the past, hope his dream vehicle gets straightened out.

i can telll you right now based off what I see with the gauge doing that its the oil pressure sending unit fault the gauge sweeps that's a good sign I have had cars do this key on all the way to right that's a oil pressure fault on the sending unit which means the gauge works fine just the oil pressure read head on the unit is bad

bus ownership is expensive....no waaay!!!!

This bus has not seen regular yearly maintenance ever . Whoaaaaa!!! Just repair whats broken , owners then wonder why about poor reliability and big bills LOL

too many sparkles in the gear oil and coming from there equals expensive $$$$.

Those fixings on the studs early in the video seems like a poor design to me..... Must have been a good reason though?

Great video The yellow brake shoe looks very worn on one end Are they made like that ??

I'm now being able to recognize a poor (bad) maintenance job - when I see one

Broken motor homes = death by $1000 Dollar bills

What a shocker. Indeed how many of these are flying down the highways in this condition with drivers with little or no professional driver training?

The issue of cost was always going to catch up eventually. The industry has done its best to convince potential buyers that these things are recreational vehicles with all the fancy paint jobs and sparkly bling when in truth they are just jacked-up commercial vehicles with the same costs nailed to them. There is a school of thought that there should be a similar bond system brought in by governments to ensure that owners can actually finance the maintenance costs incurred yearly to ensure these things remain in a safe condition bringing them into the same oversight category as trucks and coaches. Watching a lot of your videos and the horror stories they reveal plus the efforts you go to to make them at least borderline safe at times only serves to add weight to this idea.