ENGINE COMPARTMENT.
I somehow misplaced the information & photos I had of this area. I only have a few photos which I am sorry about. I wanted to show you how I pulled my engine out of the bus bay with my lawnmower and the engine sitting on jacks that I did not strap down on 4 jacks. Anyhow when I pulled the engine out it rolled off the fixture I was hauling the engine with and what a freaking time I had bringing this engine back upright all alone with a 2 ton engine hoist. What a time I had and I took so many stupid chances, I got it back up but, I stopped working on the bus for a week to let my anus heal up. This also happened when I went to get my new engine from Ed. Brenner’s house. What a time 2 of us had getting this engine back up then and on my trailer to bring home. I never want to go through that again either. IT is so, so easy to lose a limb if not worse doing a project like this alone and even with another person can be overwhelming when something like this happens.
I have a few photos to show you, my engine bay entrance door is open and all rusted at the hinge area and in most of the framing as well as the actual door. There are photos of the bulkhead in the back of the surge tank area that was disgusting. I just put a frame of small tubing on the bulkhead and put new sheet metal on the new frame. With a little paint, she looks a hell of a lot better.
While working on the back of my bus and in an area I made a new access door to the surge tank there is a number written under the skin I removed (31563), I play this number all the time on the lotto in different variations BUT, I have not won a darn cent yet. About 15 years now trying!! To make a lot of my doors and anything taking sheet metal I had to use the old flintstone method of bending metal between 2 pieces of angle iron. It worked for Fred, why not me.?
I made a small oil waste reservoir for the bottom of my engine with a puke tube in it and hopefully I am catching any oil leaking down from the blower etc. We will see, I just want to prevent any oil leakage all over the ground etc. and hope this works.
Last of all I showed photos of my newly tested engine put back into the bus engine compartment and she looks pretty good, all painted up and all. She tested well, now I have to hope and pray I have a good maiden voyage with it and no problems at all, (Wishful thinking).
If I find those other photos I talked about I will repost them for you to see, it is interesting as I remember. Enjoy the photos.