The eight 2013 MaxxForce 7 diesel engines we purchased for our fleet have proven to be a royal pain in the …well you know how that phrase ends. After five years half of the diesel engines needed to be replaced due to being totally worn out. All of them were repaired / replaced under warranty… Continue reading 2013 MaxxForce 7 Diesel Engine Performance Update
Once the engine block is cracked on any engine you’re out of luck. Can it be fixed? I wouldn’t want to take a chance because of the heat and pressures that goes on during normal operation. In our case the cost in U.S. dollars would have climbed close to $50,000 dollars Canadian. The shipping from… Continue reading Scrapping 2008 Mercedes Diesel Engine Cracked Block
In 2005 Thomas bus and Freightliner came up with a new model called the C2 which is a conventional school bus with new technology implementing smart switches and multiplexing to help components and modules communicate faster and more efficiently. The smart switch is a resistor that has it’s own separate resistance reading. When the smart… Continue reading Thomas School Bus Smart Switches and Multiplexing
In 2013 we purchased eight International school buses with the MaxxForce 7 V-8 diesel engine. Knowing now what we didn’t know then would have effected our decision to go with these models. Out of the 8 engines 4 of them had to be replaced due to excessive low compression. There is no way to rebuild… Continue reading MaxxForce 7 Diesel Engine Compression In Coolant Repairs
What would we do without diagnostic software? Absolutely nothing…well nothing productive anyways. It would be the blind leading the blind not knowing what to do or where to go next. Sure you could start guessing and changing parts …expensive parts in most cases but not knowing for sure if what you’re doing is going to… Continue reading Mercedes Diesel Engine Diagnostic Software
I do a quick tour of our garage on occasion to show you some of the jobs we do on a day to day basis. The jobs are common with a brake job, coolant leak and a water pump leak etc. Actually the reason I started blogging back in in 2006 was to show the… Continue reading School Bus Garage Repair Updates and Why I Blog
I’ve heard of the rocker arm failing on the maxxforce 7 diesel engines and when I got a call from one of the drivers saying they were driving and suddenly had a power issue with a very rough running engine the rocker arm issue was on my mind. The bus limped back to the yard… Continue reading International MaxxForce 7 Diesel Engine Miss
That’s right a tow truck or in this case a trailer with a winch. The tow truck driver admitted he likes using the trailer because of the time it saves. Once hooked on to the axle a winch pulls the bus on to the trailer with very little else to do compared to the conventional… Continue reading School Bus Power Steering Oil Leak Needs Towing Company
A blog post about a radiator seems over kill but there is a story here that needs telling. When I get in to work the first report I usually get is there’s a bus with a problem. This particular bus was an out of town unit that lost a large amount of coolant. The run… Continue reading Radiator Replacement IC School Bus
At first you might think a video about a diesel engine fuel tank cut in half sounds pretty boring but sometimes the simple stuff can become complicated. I would like to share one of the strangest problems I have ever experienced. A 2005 Freightliner school bus with a Mercedes diesel engine quit on the road… Continue reading Diesel Engine Service Call Fuel Tank Issue
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