Dodgy Gearboxes Problems

[andy126128]

moderm b uses gust arnt built like the old leggengs eny nore

[BassGoodForTheSoul]

I love where that guy rocked in his seat at 1:13!

[djoska87]

Warning at 2:00 sounds like a volvo when there's a problem with the battery

And as for them old Allison AT545s on Breadvans... they're all as bad as each other!

Screaming, and slipping, especially from 1st-2nd-3rd

[LVideo1000]

The Excels and Darts get the smell of burning rubber in them when being thrashed and/or going uphill. Will have to get a video! Some of them do have some serious gear problems!

[lfstweak420]

Common cure for the W3Es in the O405 in Singapore for driver is to turn off the engine, start it again, it works most of the times i've been on one

[superbracey]

"Yuh knackered are yuh?" He's thinking, bo**ocks, I've got to walk the rest of the way!

The bus drivers must dread seeing you at the bus stop, camera in hand! Lol. A sure sign that the bus will start playing up!

[nlty2000]

what? did the tranny die at 4:07?

[jaggass]

allison gearboxes are rubbish. they make horrible noises and sometimes doesnt want to change gear

[jack253]

The drivrs probs noticed yeah filming on the bus and through i stck in gear for a while lool

[6V92TA]

sounds like that transmission's on its last leg. Most American transmissions do the "Slip" alot when either on a slight hill or fully loaded. They'll normally slip from 1st to 2nd gear and always slip goin into over drive. The tranny that slips the most is the famous Allison VR-731s and some Allison HT-740s and 748s.

[ren197]

they only have harsh gears when the throttle potentiometer is not set correctly hench harsh gear changes or especially with voith diwa3 boxes in b10s tridents ect turbine brake solenoid failure in the gearbox

[jasonpolaris]

The gearbox of M232VSX (Volvo Olympian w/ZF) must be terriably went wrong.. at least i can hear the terrible "ding..ding..ding.." warning sound of Volvo is sounding...

[jakelee16]

ZF gearboxes are great when they are working fine, but sucks totally when they fail. Feels as if being pushed by an asshole. I've taken before a Leyland Olympian 3 axle which got a stucked gear. The gear was stucked at gear 2. The driver had no choice but to lessen the trottle, then try again, but failed. Then he has no choice but to drive on, the engine was revving at almost max when it suddenly changed, a loud thud and hard kick felt.

[darrowby1972]

I like the "death chimes" going off from 1:39 - lovely stuff!

[scorpia12345]

i was on a coach coming back from france last year and we came off the eurotunnel at dover and as we wre going up the ramp back onto the motorway. It was having great difficulty getting up it with smoke pouring out the engine. We stopped and every time it reved up a load of smoke came out of the engine.

[SPTSuperSprinter156]

That Mercedes bus towards the end must have had a braindead driver because anyone with a brainstem would have known something was wrong as it finished climbing the hill, given it was on full thrash in a low gear.

Honestly, incompetent people in a job irritate me.

Great collection of videos by the way, love the bus ones.

[video47]

Thanks! I knew there was a problem with that breadvan, but when the driver pulled into the stop and I said the gearbox was knackered he said it had been doing it all day like that. Never mind, it was only a silly breadvan lol! But there was a smell of burning for a while before it all blew up. I had the camera ready lol!

[darrowby1972]

Oh i dunno - i`ll bet he was patted on the back by fellow drivers for getting one more nasty little Vario off the roster for a few days.

[herseem]

@SPTSuperSprinter156 :Can I just point out that, as a bus driver, reporting gearbox problems is often a completely fruitless exercise. Because of the expense of gearboxes many bus companies don't actually replace a gearbox until if fails on the road. So drivers become resigned to driving them as they are.

[djoska87]

@SPTSuperSprinter156

Incompetent gearboxes irritate me!

I'm not suprised driver of said bread-van acted the way he did and banged his foot to the floor. He'd probaby had enough for one day!

When you get lumbered with a shit bus for a day with a known fault, and bugger all gets done about it time and time again, then you kinda want the thing to blow up so that something gets done about it!

I had to drive a bus today which kept dropping cogs- therefore I'm having a rant :-D

[SPTSuperSprinter156]

Buggered up gearboxes seems fairly common in those old double-deckers. When I was in school we used to have manual transmission double deckers which were alright, then swapped for automatic ones. They were TERRIBLE! They'd quite often shift up to 2nd or 3rd gear and then immediately slam back into the previous gear, jolting the entire bus and its passengers and thrashing the engine. Not only that but they smelled, leaked and looked horrible inside and out.

[jaggass]

did W194CDN loose its drive?

[video47]

Probably, the driver had to take it to the next bus stop.

[jaggass]

allison gearboxes are rubbish

[craigybus1]

You can hear the dashboard warnings going in the Lothian Oly..Driver should have stood the bus and awaited a recovery team...Idiot they were for driving it.

[ThisIs2009]

that end one was over-revving really really badly!

[bearchoirfan]

As I might have said, those 12m Citybus Olympians in Hong Kong have dodgy HP500 trannies.

[hamsterbus]

Yep I've got a dodgy ZF 4HP500 gearbox on a volvo B10B bus. It's in the video response section on this video page.

[BriWayne]

we used to have buses like these

we have the beastage that is enviro 400's now =D

[loveheartagrammetal]

Ahh the m232vsx in edinburgh sounds like a few opf the lothian buses i've been on in the past which have had terrible slipping.

Also been in simmilar sitution as the merc in one of the only times i've been on a merc bus round my area and had to wait for a replacement bus to arrive which was a optare solo

[hamsterbus]

Some slippy leylands for starters with some dodgy ZF gearboxes to follow and the grand blowout of a Merc 814 Breadvan. I've got a dodgy ZF on a B10B N523WVR with lots of overrevving in 1st. I've manged to burn a clutch out and scrapped the vechicle soon afterwards.

[video47]

You just reminded me, I should have included my clip of CZ06EAW a Voith Volvo B7TL, I knew there was a Voith example to include!

[60791]

Also like the warning buzzer-I was once on one of the First Volvo B10B striders when it hit a bump at near 50-that came on and the constant buzz one (sounds a bit like on the olympians when there's a lack of air in the system) came on-whatever it was can't have been that bad as as soon as we stopped they both switched off!

[video47]

Was on a Dart going down a hill and the warning buzzer came on, what low air???? Thats a bit worryinbg given the natural incline, inertia, and the fact we needed air for te brakes to work lol!

[60791]

Haha yeh had that on a First Huddersfield Dart as well-and one of their lances when there were more of them!

[ren197]

if the air drops brakes come on it requires air to release the brakes hence a driver cant pull away with low air

[60791]

Another great video! I remember once been on Arriva Yorkshire Lance 805 which had a really badly slipping gearbox-it didn't get past third throughout the whole journey and as soon as it finally managed to get up a gear it had to come down again to stop! The noise from the engine was fantastic!

[paxmanvalentaboy]

i love 1:45 where the volvo warning buzzer was on.

can you tell me more a bout the mercedes bus

[video47]

The Mercedes was banging into second gear, making terrible noises as you hear, smell of burning oil noticed by passengers, then it just went out of gear and crawled to the nearest bus stop.

[fontheking5]

Pos Mercedes in the end

[fontheking5]

Not funny , i recall some of those problems myself , many auto cars i have riden has had problems

[class153]

Excellent Video as usual mate