[Vwdiesel] bus engines

[James Hansen]

A C7 series Cat engine (around here anyway)  Your EPA may not like it, 
so your new ones in the USA might be hybrids, with a Flintstone Drive, 
who really knows.

Apparently cummins or cat is available.
Here, they use the Cat, mostl likely because Cummins service is harder 
to come by locally, whereas there are a few factory authorized Cat 
service shops.
Lookee:
http://www.blue-bird.com/products/school/vision.php

-james


Stephen Kraus wrote:
> Does anybody know what the newer school buses carry? They seem to have NO
> trouble on hills and I've never seen them break down.
> 
> On 3/3/07, David Cook <vwdieselbunny at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> --- James Hansen <jhsg at sasktel.net> wrote:
>>
>>> some point in stock trim.  The 466dt can pull it's
>>> guts out all day and
>>> not melt that I know.
>>>
>>> -james
>>>
>> The bus I drove the last three years had that engine.
>> Compared to some of the newer busses, it was dead
>> reliable.
>>
>> The only problem was the trans was geared for more
>> city use than anything else, it would outrun all but
>> the newest of busses (mine was 12 years old) up till
>> it redlined at about 55-60.
>>
>> However, I had to take it on long highway trips
>> occasionally.  I'd just pull the manual throttle out
>> all the way and go.  The engine would go full bore for
>> well over an hour with nary a complaint.  If it had a
>> newer 5 or 6 speed auto, it would have been just
>> awesome.
>>
>> I was really chagrined to see old 45 parked in the
>> back as a spare bus this year though.  :-(  They
>> bought a whole bunch of new busses.
>>
>> All that to say that the 466dt is a heck of an engine.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>> David Cook
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>>
>>
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