Forbes Soaring Bus [my 60 bus]

warb · Post by **warb** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 5:21 pm

haha, lend me your bus dave, ill give it a treatment!..

rack as off, no need to lug around a gas bottle just yet, may need it for a gas heater in narooma tho!..

lobus · Post by **lobus** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 5:23 pm

I forgot Narooma on me little calender! Shite, better fix that one.

DubbinDan · Post by **DubbinDan** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:16 pm

Huge fan of the Forbes bus mate...but it's going to take me a while to get used to the front plate being on straight!

MrScooter · Post by **MrScooter** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:34 pm

hey Ryan, is it just me or have you finaly straighten up your rego plates? oh i like the green lights, mick

warb · Post by **warb** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 8:03 pm

cheers for that, yeah stomped on the plate to flatten it.. its back to being bent up now... here are some curtains.. lovely!..

frenzix · Post by **frenzix** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:46 am

beerdoc · Post by **beerdoc** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:50 am

Bus looks great Warb

Did you get a DSK Mug????

warb · Post by **warb** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:04 am

thanks mate, nah not yet, ill keep my eyes out

Dottie the bus · Post by **Dottie the bus** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:16 am

Nice bus mate. Are you from Forbes? How did you come across this bus. Real nice find. Just curious cos my girlfriend grew up in Forbes. Good luck with the bus.

kombino · Post by **kombino** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:31 am

its in the start of the post dottie... man that avatar is freaking me out! Any chance of a scale down, or is it just me. Who is that dude?

Dottie the bus · Post by **Dottie the bus** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:38 pm

kombino wrote:its in the start of the post dottie... man that avatar is freaking me out! Any chance of a scale down, or is it just me. Who is that dude?

Yes read that just wondered if he was from Forbes and how he found it.

Never heard of Dave Hill From Slade (so here it is merry christmas)? To scale him down would be a great sin. Deal wih Dave.

warb · Post by **warb** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:09 pm

found it on a gliding trip, the rest is well, history.

put some dials in today, went for a thrash to see how hot it it actually runs, after 30mins sat here, is that about right?..

no show · Post by **no show** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:50 pm

that looks about right, your motor is a 1600 isnt it , do you have an external oil cooler?? if you fit one of those merc ones steve uses your temp will drop around 25 degress, my 1904 with a cooler doesnt get over 83 degress on the hotest days..
but yeah i think around 100 to 120 is fine but anything over that you might want to slow down to cool down

warb · Post by **warb** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:14 pm

cool dude, no cooler yet, just 1600 dog house, plenty of advise from steve on installing the sender etc..

cassa · Post by **cassa** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:31 pm

Ryan mate I push 120-135c on really hot days like 40-45c+ ambient when I drive to melbourne in late november every year in the 356. I find that as long as you change the oil every 1500-2000 miles and whenever you have given it an extended thrashing at high heat with fresh oil like on my melbourne runs, all seems to be o.k. Hope this helps mate.