2413 is ready Doctor........

Hoping that the engine change would happen kind of quickly after myself and PJ got 2413 from "around the back" at the yard - gave her a wash and hoped...
Christmas came, then holidays and there were a couple of other things needing to happen first- the weekend just passed it was decided would be THE weekend it would happen

Mother nature had other ideas..........

After a very dry December and January this happened

Rain rain and more rain, however ever the optimist I thought maybe, if I go up, we might be able to make a start and the forecast was for 'morning showers' this was after Friday was meant to have showers and yeah it was cloudy, but not a drop of rain. But the rain seemed to keep on falling all Saturday......

Where my buses are, yes there are sheds, but they're full of other stuff, the transplant has to happen in the open - for that you need a nice dry day.










Then next day, it was wetter than the Saturday, but nevertheless, at the end of the day, we went around the back, to jump start her, seems she has a bad bad case of fuel fungus, hooked up the jump batteries and nothing, took a pump prime and some other mechanic trick to get her to kick over......
So we're replacing the tank with a clean tank that came out of another mark II Merc obtained from Veolia (they've all been clean so far!) Also looks like I'll have to do 3069's since Waverley is notorious for having fuel fungus issues - if 2413's tank is able to be cleaned out with no hassles, I'll use that, however 3037 had similar fuel fungus issues and the tank from it was not worth salvaging. Failing that, there's a tank under 'the shed'.

Got her around the front, then I went to open the nearside rear hatch and it fell apart on me! The frame had rusted out.
Another diagnosis - the viscous fan has had it, apparently the engine's been cooked a few times as well (I put that down to yet more shark jumping!)

A few photos from yesterday

2413 beside former m/o 8175 then 1039 MO fleet number 172 at Busways, which saw service in South West Sydney before being transferred to the North Coast where it was withdrawn from - now it operates charters

2413 makes it's way down the driveway, for the second time since arriving in 2010

Through the lake

Up on blocks

Face to face with 1184, whose own heart transplant happened at the end of last year

Next weekend I'm at work, so hopefully the weekend after - the engine on the right below, will go into 2413 - the one on the left will go into 1930 eventually