Mountain Driving with 1995 42', 42,000 lb. Blue Bird

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Leroy,
I had to pry my windows open. I sprayed a little WD40 on the track now they open
fine. I also keep a hammer in the bedroom just in case it is needed.
Howard Truitt
Camilla, Ga.
86 PT40

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> From: "Leroy Eckert"
> Date: 2007/06/26 Tue AM 09:02:46 EDT
> To:
> Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Mountain Driving with 1995 42', 42,000 lb.
Blue Bird
>
> Stephen:
> Will try the wax idea.
> Leroy Eckert
> 1990 WB-40"Smoke N Mirrors"
> Niceville,FL
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stephen Birtles
> To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 7:54 AM
> Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Mountain Driving with 1995 42', 42,000 lb.
Blue Bird
>
>
> Lube tracks with paraffin wax a small amount goes a long way
>
> If you really worried about escaping from the bedroom through the window
> a spring loaded center punch will make the window disappear with one shot
> it is tempered non-laminated glass and will crumble
> One good piece of equipment on any emergency truck or vehicle usually
> located in rescue worker's pocket for fast access along with seat belt
> cutter
> Stephen 77fc35
>
>
> --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Leroy Eckert"
> wrote:
> >
> > My windows in the bedroom are the same way. I have lubed the track
> with limited success. I keep a small sledge hammer in the bedroom jic.
> > I posted back in April a potential major source for fire. I have
> removed the source from my bus. The freeze heaters on my coach burned
> a hole in the water pipe under the night stand while in the infield at
> Talladega. The event did not trip the circuit breaker. Flooded the bus
> also. I am glad the water was in the line and the pump was on! Or???
> The reason for the failure was two of the wires were touching when
> they failed. That is not allowed per specifications. I still do not
> know why they operated at 85 degrees. In any event, they are gone
> now. With hydronic heat, there is no real reason to have them.
> > It is not easy to do and inspection of these wires as they are
> encased in insulation covering the water pipes. However, if two of
> these wires are crossed or get together from movement over the years
> the result is inevitable.
> > Kinda off the original subject but very important.
> >
> > Leroy Eckert
> > 1990 WB-40"Smoke N Mirrors"
> > Niceville, FL
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ron Thompson
> > To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 7:01 AM
> > Subject: RE: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Mountain Driving with 1995
> 42', 42,000 lb. Blue Bird
> >
> >
> > Brad,
> >
> > Man am I glad you jogged my memory about that bus fire during the
> Houston evac. I remember seeing that thing burn too. What a tradgedy.
> >
> > Yes, you are right about a fire on a coach being a serious matter.
> I was just thinking about what I would do if I was in the bedroom and
> a fire broke out in the galley. There is no door to get out. I tried
> the windows in the bedroom and you would have to have a pry bar to get
> them open. I don't think they have ever been open so they are stiff as
> hell. Going to have to lube them to get them moving again. A little
> WD-40 will do wonders. I notice too that the window latches are very
> difficult to release. One of the windows I had to go get a screw
> driver to get the latch to release. All of the windows are stiff like
> that. Is that a usual thing on these Blue Birds?
> >
> > Thanks again Brad.
> >
> > My best regards,
> >
> > Ron Thompson
> > Waller, Texas
> > 1995 Wide Body 42" BB
> > Detroit Diesel Series 60 470 HP
> > Kubota, 4 cylinder, 1681 cc.
> > Phone 936-931-2802 land line
> > cell..713-295-0119 Cingular
> >
> > brad barton <bbartonwx@...> wrote:
> > Ron,
> > One more ramble and I'll quit.
> > Marty is right about heat. A dragging brake on a tour bus
> evacuating nursing home patients from Hurricane Rita in Houston, blew
> out one time on I-45. The driver didn't understand English, so he
> continued on after the tire was changed. The brake heated up again
> even in stop and go traffic. The wheel became red hot and caught the
> rear of the bus on fire. The driver failed to notice until portable
> oxygen tanks used by the patients began exploding. The bus turned into
> a crematorium for 24 of those patients. I'll never forget watching the
> bus burning up live on TV. Also, I left my magnetic retarder on by
> mistake in Flagstaff and nearly caught my 84 Bird on fire. I burned
> through the air line that operated the driver's seat slide. Imagine
> smoke coming from under your coach and you're struggling to get to the
> extinguisher with your seat next to the doghouse. Fire on a motorcoach
> is almost as serious as fire on board an airplane. Brad Barton 00LXiDFW
> > bbartonwx@...
> >
> > To: WanderlodgeForum@...: martingregg598@...: Tue, 26 Jun 2007
> 00:32:18 +0000Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Mountain Driving with
> 1995 42', 42,000 lb. Blue Bird
> >
> > Ron, if you have a Allison HT-755 five speed with a retarder, I
> have know advice, if you have a 1995-42' you should have a Allison
> HD-4060 and a DD series 60 with a 3 position Jacobs engine brake.
> Jacobs's brakes close the valves and turn the cylinder into a
> compressor creating braking horsepower, each position adds more
> cylinders. I haven't driven a 95 in the mountains but I have driven
> over a lot of the passes in the Cascades, Montana, Idaho and so on,
> but I can't imagine that if your in the right gear at the right RPM
> that the engine brake won't hold it back. For me with a less effective
> Pac Brake, it is 4th gear at 50 mph at about 2400 rpm's on a 6% or so,
> on a steeper grade it's 3 gear at 35-40 mph and I almost never have to
> use my air brakes. If I am in 4th and it starts to run away, faster
> that I like, I use the brakes to get the coach down to the speed that
> I can select the next lower gear. If the Jacobs brake doesn't hold you
> back, maybe there is something wrong
> > with the Jacobs brake? As for the "Drum type" air brakes, if you
> have been on the road for a time and the ambient temp. is hot, and If
> you ride the brakes for a long period of time the drum can expand away
> from the shoe and you lose your brakes. With some real bad luck you
> could heat the wheel up so hot that it heats the tire up and
> blowout.Marty95 BMC 37Kennewick Wa
> >
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