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Posted by CapitalCruiser on Tue Jul 5 09:44:16 2011, in response to Re: LIB Accident, posted by BigBusDriver on Mon Jul 4 20:39:00 2011. We had a Gillig Diesel crash into the back end of a Nova and then into a 4 foot cement/iron pilon in front of the old train station in albany. Cause extensive damage to the front, front door area and rippled the entire floor from front to back. Damage exceeded $50,000.00. The bus was sent out to a NJ Bus Rebuilder and it came back good as new, over a year later. It was tested for over a month before being placed back into service. The buggest time consumer is getting parts. None of the bus rebuilder stock body parts, as some are specific to each vehicle, have to be ordered, made, shipped. The deconstruction of the accident damage is probably the second most time consuming thing, as each part has to be removed in sequence, tested, repaired or replaced, then then if replaced, a new part again has to be ordered. THe final reconstruction isn't as time consuming as parts and deconstruction, but, it does take time. Gillig buses are even more difficult to work on as they are basically a body on chassis design, meaning they sit on a central load bearing frame, then the body is built around it. The Gillig Phantoms are even worse because they are a full body on chassis design, and the body sits on a frame similar to a truck frame. Orion's body is a unibody (Monoque-spelling is off, I'm sorry) whereas the center body is mounted to 2 subframes (front & rear) for load bearing, therefore not sitting on frame rails but rather 1 complete frame. |
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