| Author |
 Topic  |
|
asnowsquall
Senior Member
USA
172 Posts |
 Posted - 11/02/2007 : 05:35:21 AM
|
quote:
Originally posted by LBDboater
Why do you need 4x4? Unless off-roading, you probably won't need it.
I live in Vermont and we get lots of snow. I've got a picture on my hard drive at home of a 4x4 bus thats just a little bigger than mine. I'll post it at some point. Its cool and ugly at the same time.
Could just stick it on a duece in half chassis!
|
 |
|
|
asnowsquall
Senior Member
USA
172 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2007 : 5:16:34 PM
|
Imagine a plow on this bad boy...
 |
|
|
|
LBDboater
Advanced Member
USA
279 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2007 : 7:36:10 PM
|
| I know for sure that all of our snow plows here in VA are 2 wheel drive, rear wheel. If anything, I would just want the auto chains or maybe a traction sander. 4 wheel drive is a little overboard. |
|
|
|
Peter
Top Member
USA
1057 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2007 : 02:33:50 AM
|
| They have snow plows in Virginia? Does it ever snow more than 1/2" at a time there? |
Spicer is nicer. |
|
|
|
asnowsquall
Senior Member
USA
172 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2007 : 06:30:46 AM
|
I've got a cousin in VA and there have been times the past 2-3 years where they got more snow than us here in VT. That said 4 wheel drive is never overboard in my book on a plow rig. Let see...weight of diesel drive train on front end + the weight of the plow... Why not drive the front wheels where most of the weight is? Unless, like a plow dump truck you have a sander with a bunch of sand for weight in the bed. Besides it may get kinda expensive if you need to find someone to come pull you butt out of a snow bank because you don't have 4x4 to get yourself out. It all doesn't matter because it sounds cool, but this 4x4 bus with a plow isn't likely to happy. Notice the word likely.
This is how I talk normally right before I try to buy something. |
|
|
|
busgeek++
Advanced Member
United States
253 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2007 : 07:08:52 AM
|
Also, 4x4 is good for mud, and those days when you want to go down that dirt road in the pouring rain to avoid traffic.  |
Buses are not a way of life, they are life |
|
|
|
IC RE 1629
Top Member
United States
5097 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2007 : 08:43:36 AM
|
His bus is a small Blue Bird bus. That bus above is an AmTran.
Give that bad boy a slick paint job, chrome wheels, and you'd have one heck of a ride... |
|
|
|
asnowsquall
Senior Member
USA
172 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2007 : 12:05:40 PM
|
| Blue Bird mini or shorty? Not my Amtran 4x4. yet. |
|
|
|
asnowsquall
Senior Member
USA
172 Posts |
Posted - 01/18/2008 : 05:56:36 AM
|
Wired the trailer lights on the bus. It already had the reciever. Going to use the bus with a car dolly to go pick up a 1998 VW Beetle thats about 110 miles away. Road trip with my daughter. Whole family is excited. New generation, new Beetle.
Women was driving the car and hit a bump, the oil pan hit the ground and tore a hole in the pan big enough for my hand to go inside. She drove it a block to the stealership. They siad $500 to put a pan on and see whats condition the engine is in. I picked up a used engine with 42K on it for $400 for "insurance". The pan is $200 anyways. Got the car for $800. 64K, original owner with a clean undercarriage. Bus should pull it easy. Wish me luck! Beetle pictures here: http://asnowsquall.smugmug.com/gallery/4167008#243456309
 |
Edited by - asnowsquall on 01/18/2008 05:58:22 AM |
|
|
|
asnowsquall
Senior Member
USA
172 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2008 : 9:59:21 PM
|
I love my bus. What an awsome machine! Very solid tow rig with all kinds of torque. So handy.
Engine mover:
Car mover:
Handled the 216 miles roundtrip like nothing. Getting about 10 mpg so I need to work on the veggy conversion.
Got the car in the garage. Pulled the chunk of metal off the pan and patched it with fiberglass just so I could fill it with oil. Started good, just had a little ticking in the lifters for about a second. I may have lucked out. Will install the good pan and see how it goes.
Already got the stickers off, car will buff out nice. Family is about as excited as I am.
Videos here:
http://asnowsquall.smugmug.com/gallery/4194719#245125649 |
|
|
|
dem84skeeprollinup
Top Member
USA
888 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2008 : 10:18:59 PM
|
If you like that Amtran, check out some of these...
http://www.tulsatruckmfg.com/Pages/buses1.html
I'll take the lifestar and the fs-65 at the bottom please |
Do the world a favor and bring back GMC and Ford conventional chassis......
 
|
|
|
|
asnowsquall
Senior Member
USA
172 Posts |
Posted - 01/20/2008 : 1:22:53 PM
|
Wish my handycap door was in the back.
Nice.
|
|
|
|
Topic |
|
Buying a 1989 Bluebird Shorty with DT360
