The Breakdown Thread

[Shannoncvpi]

16 hours ago, YoungBusLover said:

I saw that bus this morning burning blue smoke could mean a multitude of issues. More than likely either oil or coolant is burning. The bus runs just fine, I had it not to long ago. A lot of Flyers from all blocks ranging from 1000 - 2029 burn oil from time to time. 

Oil seals are bad in that bus that started happening to my crown vic I had if I left it running idling for a while then hit the gas it would blow blue smoke 

[Shannoncvpi]

16 hours ago, YoungBusLover said:

I saw that bus this morning burning blue smoke could mean a multitude of issues. More than likely either oil or coolant is burning. The bus runs just fine, I had it not to long ago. A lot of Flyers from all blocks ranging from 1000 - 2029 burn oil from time to time. 

Yea the oil seals or the valve covers when bad my crown vic started doing that after idling for a few mins

[YoungBusLover]

3 hours ago, Shannoncvpi said:

Oil seals are bad in that bus that started happening to my crown vic I had if I left it running idling for a while then hit the gas it would blow blue smoke 

More than likely if that's the case how much longer would that bus be able to run like that before the engine itself goes bad?

[Shannoncvpi]

1 hour ago, YoungBusLover said:

More than likely if that's the case how much longer would that bus be able to run like that before the engine itself goes bad?

It can go for a while it depends on when the motor wanna go all its doing is leaking oil noting really to worry about

[YoungBusLover]

1 hour ago, Shannoncvpi said:

It can go for a while it depends on when the motor wanna go all its doing is leaking oil noting really to worry about

Now if it were coolant then it would be a different story.

[Shannoncvpi]

16 hours ago, YoungBusLover said:

Now if it were coolant then it would be a different story.

Yea cause it would run hot or it a be a crack in the block it's just the seals or gasket went bad I thought I had a blown head until I got to school & me & teacher found it I needed valve covers & oil seals 

[TGP01]

4368 broke down on Wacker today. snapped a pic, walked down to Randolph and saw a wrecker headed in the direction of 4368.

[TGP01]

It also might be worth mentioning that 1759 was blowing smoke today.

[Shannoncvpi]

13 hours ago, TGP01 said:

It also might be worth mentioning that 1759 was blowing smoke today.

It's been doing that for a while was doing it when I drove it when I K it's just oil seals or valve covers leaking 

[YoungBusLover]

#8047 had the worst possible place to breakdown this morning while working 63rd. Seems like it may of stalled out or had some transmission malfunction under the viaduct at 63rd and State and eventually was towed out after 30 minutes of sitting there blocking traffic going EB. 

[artthouwill]

3 hours ago, YoungBusLover said:

#8047 had the worst possible place to breakdown this morning while working 63rd. Seems like it may of stalled out or had some transmission malfunction under the viaduct at 63rd and State and eventually was towed out after 30 minutes of sitting there blocking traffic going EB. 

Absolutely bad.  Once you go under the first viaduct east of Wentworth, it's a wrap.  Cars might be able to make a U turn between viaduct, but that's very risky because the center pillars make it hard to see cars from the other direction and a lot of cars don't use their headlights through that stretch.  Buses can't tur around at all and the viaduct is to narrow for both directions to share.  Obviously the worst viaduct is the one that has the railyard over it.

[Shannoncvpi]

13 hours ago, YoungBusLover said:

#8047 had the worst possible place to breakdown this morning while working 63rd. Seems like it may of stalled out or had some transmission malfunction under the viaduct at 63rd and State and eventually was towed out after 30 minutes of sitting there blocking traffic going EB. 

Yea it's hard to do a straight u turn under there & that's messed up but funny lmfao

[Shannoncvpi]

7955 broke down on 79th & Ashland 1220 it's follow had to redo the video do to copy rights from R Kelly   

 

 

 

 

[YoungBusLover]

#7937 was declared a tow off of the 79. Saw it earlier broken-down as well. 

[Shannoncvpi]

47 minutes ago, YoungBusLover said:

#7937 was declared a tow off of the 79. Saw it earlier broken-down as well. 

Dam 

[Shannoncvpi]

4116 broke down on Roosevelt & desplain this morning 

[Mr.NewFlyer1279]

right after belmont #4370 started smoking from the articulated joint and emergency stopped seconds after. it did get off LSD at fullerton

[Shannoncvpi]

8105 was being towed back to C as I was driving to my route today

[Erin Mishkin Jr.]

42 minutes ago, Shannoncvpi said:

8105 was being towed back to C as I was driving to my route today

8105 isn’t a Chicago garage bus

[artthouwill]

1 hour ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said:

8105 isn’t a Chicago garage bus

May not necessarily be a C bus, but if it's the closest garage to where the breakdown occurred, and C has the capability and the parts to fix it, why tow it across the city?

[Shannoncvpi]

2 hours ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said:

8105 isn’t a Chicago garage bus

I know bit it was going into C from the back tow truck was parked there eout talking with another worker

[Erin Mishkin Jr.]

2 hours ago, artthouwill said:

May not necessarily be a C bus, but if it's the closest garage to where the breakdown occurred, and C has the capability and the parts to fix it, why tow it across the city?

Kedzie isn't far from Chicago garage

[artthouwill]

9 hours ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said:

Kedzie isn't far from Chicago garage

Like I said maybe Chicago was closest.   Why pass a garage to get to another garage?  Of it was something major, it would have been towed to SS.

[Bus1883]

16 hours ago, artthouwill said:

Like I said maybe Chicago was closest.   Why pass a garage to get to another garage?  Of it was something major, it would have been towed to SS.

I was wondering that too, if another garage has the same fleet as the assigned garage the bus was being towed to then why not send that bus to a nearby garage to get it fixed instead of having it being sent all across the city so that they can fix it with same parts they fix their buses from maintenance when it comes to one fleet?

[Shannoncvpi]

8 hours ago, Bus1883 said:

I was wondering that too, if another garage has the same fleet as the assigned garage the bus was being towed to then why not send that bus to a nearby garage to get it fixed instead of having it being sent all across the city so that they can fix it with same parts they fix their buses from maintenance when it comes to one fleet?

That does make sense to do