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Don
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Date Posted: 01/ 26/ 10, 2:02pm
In reply to:
Alan Stifelman
's message, "Rebuilt diesel engines" on 01/ 1/ 10, 4:33pm
It’s simple. At first a millionaire owned the bus. He just threw whatever monies the mechanics advised him to throw at it. In time he lost interest and sold it. The second owner, not quite as well off mostly did the same, but perhaps skimped a bit especially later on. The third owner and so on didn’t have the same financial resources; perhaps not so religious about service. Perhaps a family member inherits the bus. Somewhere along the way the bus mostly sat for some 5 or 10 years, not continuous but it sat; the coolant became acidic, and wore at the engines inside. Now someone comes along and wants to run the bus, only the bus has been horribly and unintentionally abused. But now the bus is being push, and the engine is worn as if it has seen use typical of an engine requiring overhaul.
Personally, I was never really sold that a bus with low engine hours and miles was necessarily a good thing. I’m not suggesting that a bus with 700K miles is the best either. On my first bus the odometer was at about 87K miles, 2800 hours (dead hour meter). It really didn’t matter to me if that was 87K or 187K, both numbers could be argued as good or bad on a 1980 BB. But buyers wanted to hear 87K when I went to sell it. Very few buyers are serious… If they don’t think, and with all the warts exposed, “Wow, that’s for me…!, it probably isn’t.
Unless you’ve known that bus for years, there is really no way to know how it was used. And like my current bus, as little as I use it, unless I keep the fluids clean and address issues as the first arise, it just racks up the miles just sitting there…
Regards,
1987 PT40 8V92TA
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