I know this is an older video, and I've watched it before. But, I keep coming back from time to time. You see my dad used to drive a Dodge truck here in Australia, same engine (actually 318) and same gearbox ( perhaps the ratios may have been different) but same shift pattern (with 2 speed diff). Truck was a Dodge AT4 660. From memory 20-21 foot tray out back. I used to ride in the truck with Dad as a youngster. And linstening to the sound inside that bus is exactly the sound I remember inside the truck. I'm talking approx 33 years ago. I remember dad only using 1st if loaded otherwise always started off in 2nd. Thanks for putting this video up, hope the bus is still good. I'd love to be able to restore a dodge in memory of Dad one day.

3 things about THOSE old busses. 1.Much more character, 2.EVERYTHING manual...except making the bus go [no Flintstone type running thru the boards.. ha ha] 3. MANY of those were GAS..but that even in the late 40s started to be replaced, but slowly..GMC in fact used "D" and "G" subdesignations for buses.."G" for "gas" and "D" for diesel..Later, in c.1969, gas buses out, "8" and "6" used..[This school one is a Dodge as ID'd in title, don't know if THEY used those fuel designations.:)]

Ahh, that rings a bell. I remember peeking under some of the buses I mentioned and seeing "New Process" on the builder plate. This was in 1987 or 1988, btw.

The 361 sounds great. It's a shame that Dodge didn't get deeper into the bus market. You just didn't see many Dodge School buses. Dodge got out of the medium duty chassis and truck market in 1974. But they made RV chassis for Winnie Bago up to 1978 and then Dodge made the dumb decision to drop the 440 and 400.

@mtheis85: I checked RockAuto a few days ago (since they sell parts for some of the older GMC/Chevy medium duties now), and it turns out the NP542 (one up from the 541) was an optional transmission on a lot of them. So it may well have been that one I remember hearing!

Translation of the last: 8 and 6 used when GM swtiched to disel only when it finally became totally outdated for a heavy vehicle to use gas, replacing the mid "G" or "D" with the cylinnder number, but that's for another video about another conpany. Since the one in the pic was a Dodge, again unsure about the model code there.

I worked for a bus company and they had Dodge mini buses on van chassis. One had a 360 4 barrel with a Thermoquad and it quit running. You could remove the air cleaner lid and it would run. As soon as you put the lid back on it would quit, even without the filter. They gave it to me to fix because I am a Mopar guy. The problem ended up being a clogged EGR passage in the intake manifold. It was so bad I had to cut the belly pan rivets and chissel out the carbon.

Thanks to the description I find it is a five speed with emeergency low..neat.

Hoping my 68 Wayne Dodge sounds like this one.

I'd willingly go to school if I got to ride in that!

Whoa, what transmission was this? I remember riding on old GMC buses in grade school that had a third gear just like this one. (Also, the Clark 455 sounded like that, but probably because 3rd was the same ratio.)

Chad's 1974 GMC Ward school bus has a transmission similar to the 1966 Dodge, with 1st gear being an Extra-Low or "Granny Gear" aka "Granny-Low", And 1st gear on Chad's 1974 GMC bus is not synchronized either, He made a few videos of him driving his 1974 GMC bus in his fields by putting the camera on a tripod in one of the seats, He said that when driving the GMC bus on the road, That you'd normally start out in Second gear since First is not synchronized.

Sounds like my brothers same transmition.

This was back in the day when buses were buses. As you can tell at 1:18 the start up in 1st that school buses almost sounded like streetcars starting up. I did like the engine sound it made if you did use that gear though.

Wow. 30 years is a pretty good while to hang on to it. Was the bus bought as a retired school bus? Oddly, I wish you still had it too, but ,maybe the new owners will appreciate as much as you did and post some videos of it for us "old bus" junkies.

@mtheis85 Surprised that it can handle synchro-mesh.:-)

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A five speed with granny low--was top gear an overdrive?

Nice. Could you show some pictures? I could never find info about the bus, or pics. Sorry its gone, what happened? :)

what's it got a 318 H.O. truck engine? pretty cool.

The shift pattern is 124R -35-- which after 4 years since I first saw this was kind of interesting after all-low low 1 AND reverse get a position on far opposite sides with no gear below.

@ronaldrime5286

5 жыл бұрын

Steve Carras When I was a kid, a '78 GMC bus I rode had the same pattern. Wonder if Dodge and GMC used the same transmission?

Do you know what engine the bus had in it before the 361? Or not?

THIS was SYnCRHONISED? A BUS transmission? abou4 4 gears, I would tihnk those were (like verything form big rigs to Greyhound GMCs and MCIs) were monomesh.Anyways,nice to these stick school buses again.:) Rode a Chevy Apache [1965-1970], and later Crown and Ford.

Must have been a pain in the ass to drive.

Did you have to double clutch?

@mtheis85

Жыл бұрын

Nah, the gearbox was synchronized except for first gear.

time for a 440 xD

361 cu in V8??

What make was the bus body?

@dustynreid5204

4 жыл бұрын

It looks to be Blue bird

gotta be a new prosess transmission!

Clark 5 speed.

LOL, first, WHOSE kids...and he doesn't even OWN the bus anymore [sold].