WE BOUGHT A CHEAP FLOODED SCHOOL BUS IS IT RUN & DRIVE?

hey hey welcome back to Nico brothers and we bought ourselves a school bus yeah it's not a Jeep you know I came here trying to get a flooded Jeep and I'm walking out with a big old yellow bird School Bus did not see that coming but whatever you know that's kind of fun that's kind of how it you know crumbles kind of thing and where you end up with a running draft school bus and now we have a big old Adventure ahead of us to get this thing back to the shop about five hour five and a half hour drive probably closer to six hours it's gonna take us but let's check it out let's go over and see our price that we got this for and what we picked up foreign so we definitely have a road trip in front of us it's going to be an adventure but let's just go around and check out what we got I mean there's a flood line right there but hopefully it's below our diesel fuel line it's yeah oh yeah our Phillip tanks right there should be good yeah it should be good I mean it looks like it got a little mud on there but overall it's looking pretty good I checked underneath nothing too crazy hanging out I mean the drive shafts in this thing the other ones were tooken out right the tires are looking really good you know got the inside Tire we've got full of air outside Tire full of air so yeah I mean this thing's a diesel right so plenty of power going on it's got 100 miles like 100 100 000 miles on it kind of thing I don't know what this is a little cabin in the back blocked who knows Keys though but the back of it looks good uh we'll have to double check the lights on it make sure all the lights are working the brake lights turn signals but I'm gonna be following you behind so it's let me go there should be good let's keep walking I wonder why it's called the Blue Bird when it's all yellow I think it's a company that makes it oh that manufactures all this stuff but the tires are looking really good we can still sell those right kick those tires pretty good I mean I don't know if I want to sell them I'd you know maybe convert this thing into something we're gonna stop sign you know oh yeah that is crazy is that illegal just drive around the stop sign like that I mean it's not school it's a service you know we've got batteries two Good batteries from 719 so not a couple years a couple years ago what about this compartment what's this compartment I could open it I can oh wow look at that look at that control board so this is probably all the lights for all the stuff the solenoids and fuses and everything's looking good there's no crazy corrosion yeah that's kind of where we want to make sure water to get into and so the next thing we'll do is probably pop the hood open yeah check our fluids besides radio let's pick the other one thank you foreign [Music] engine oh yeah it's got turbo in it should right it's got a turbo oh yeah oh yeah look at that engine Big Boy turbo uh radiator fluid what about that cap right there check the fluid in there is a fluid in there yep got fluid looks good we got air filter box right there um looks like the oil filter was replaced in 2018 Michael it's been a couple years yeah just depends how much they've been riding these things I don't know if they've been in commission or not or maybe that's a fuel filter yeah but gearbox looks like it's got some grease in it power steering fluid looks good not too bad nice have you found a dipstick yet oh there's a turbo look at that turbo right there yeah big old turbo big old turbo got a big generator we got a nice belt water pump yeah a new belt looks good make sure we got it here's the other fuel filter I think or something 2018 so it's it's been sitting it's been sitting yeah I mean we pay a little extra for this one because it is a run and drive like all the other ones I've seen are not running drive but by the end of it if you try to haul one back that's not running dry back to the shop you're paying I don't even know how much thousands probably Grand or maybe a grand right so this one we actually picked up for a grand thousand two hundred was the winning bid yeah so I don't think it's that bad it came out to be like 1600 bucks after fees and everything like that so yeah not bad I mean a little more than the other ones but the same time like I said it is running drive and we just drove it out of the yard so and it cranked right up the batteries are good that's that's pretty good so we get it home for about the same price it would cost to get a non-run and drive home and this one is already working so I think we're the green so let's go ahead and drive to the gas station Let's test the lights first make sure those are good but yeah let's do it all right here we go driving a school bus first time warm it up and get it done there we go guys our first part of the adventure is over I am here at the gas station gonna top it off honestly it drove okay I heard it smoked a little bit you know probably getting all that little water out whatever out of the pipes but no big deal we're here we didn't go that far but basically I said get some fuel in it then we'll drive again a little bit test it again make sure everything's good and yeah slowly make our way back to South Carolina in this adventure and this Bluebird yellow bird whatever you want to call Old School Bus all right let's get some fuel get some snacks and hit the road all right guys kind of bad news um so we're at the gas station I was ready to go get some fuel and then also the bus isn't starting we think our starter went bad so we called around a bunch of places and we actually were able to find one at O'Reilly's so we got a starter went to Harbor Freight got a bunch of tools over there show you later and basically we're gonna try to replace a starter because now it's just clicking don't even spin over so I think it's a starter maybe we'll just be the hammer first see if that works but we had no tools no nothing but the Adventure Continues hopefully get this started I'm back on the road all right guys so about four hours since last time we spoke since we got the parts there is the old starter as soon as we got it out I tipped it a bunch of water just poured out so there was full of water I even noticed it good call and we're luckily thank the lord we found another starter so it's it looked like a different housing but it bolted up nicely so hopefully it'll start and I hope it'll spin over so let's see what happens I mean we're stuck at the gas station for a while but this old starter as you can tell me a bunch of water this thing is flooded yeah that's nasty but we're almost done with the new one we plugged it in about to do the last wires right now and see what happens all right guys here we go such a beautiful sound oh wow that cracked right what a difference before I was like ah thank the Lord wow huh let's clean up and let's go home we better this gas station way too long really big shout out to BP for being cool with it we just changed the starter in the gas station parking lot but yeah should I turn it off put her number turning off wait no no more turning oh man guys what an adventure we had it running starting nicely but then we had actually a bad lighting connection because some of our grounds were missing oh but now it's good so we have all our snacks we have a six hour drive ahead of us because we're gonna go slow yeah people are going so it's been a long long day it's like two days put together but hey I'm just gonna take it easy and head back to the shop and hopefully get there safely oh let's hit the road [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] there we go guys made it back to the shop oh thank the Lord nice nice and easy wow what a drive but hey we made it the school bus the big blue yellow bird is here back at the shop that's about five and a half six hour drive which took us about eight nine dude we actually had to stop we had some water in the transmission and water in the rear death had to get that flushed out so we had to find the fluid good thing we had two cars basically I was on the bus driving to the other car go get the stuff swap it out blah blah blah that took time for sure oh we made it back now what are we gonna do with the school bus I don't know enough for today then we're gonna go home I'm exhausted but maybe just come back clean it up and see what it looks like after a good wash and cleaning and then determined to go what to go to deal with it later maybe take all the seats out and transform it or I don't know leave some comments below what do you think we should do with this thing all right all right guys it's the next day let's get this thing cleaned up and see what it turns out I mean right now it's definitely seen better days probably been sitting there for a long time and we went through a crazy rainstorm got flooded out see all the green mold and stuff on there but I'm sure it all wash out and I'm sure it'll clean up you know looks like a lot of Cosmetics on it so get rid of that water line clean up everything especially these stairs you can see a little bit of mud Caked Up on there we'll get this all cleaned up this school bus is gonna be good again a lot of potential for something I don't know yet but let's see I wonder what's behind here all the wiring and stuff so that's all like you know where you're sitting I guess I don't know sign seeds but yeah get some purple power pressure wash it clean it up this thing's gonna look good again hey but we made it back I'm just so thankful for that no more breakdowns that was crazy as soon as you drove out boom starter goes off then after that transmission that could have water in the rear differential flush it all out we got we got back to the shop though so that's good let's do a little before and after and there we go guys school bus is washed and cleaned honestly definitely a huge project took a lot of time but it's looking good much better all that green moss is gone the color kind of came back to it it's nice not bad I'd say cleaned up nicely overall like I said minor scratches dents on it man that was definitely a journey getting this thing back to the shop like I said first time school bus driver but hey you know you live you learned and it wasn't that bad figured it out and got this thing back to the shop man definitely washed up nicely there it is let's check out the inside steps are looking much better going on to the inside pretty basic I mean simple setup a bunch of wire buttons and stuff here playing around with them kind of figure out what most of them do the driving back is actually really cold but then right down the bottom that's your little heat valve turn that on my little blower and yeah hot air I wasn't cold anymore surprisingly it's again there this seat is actually pretty comfortable not bad I mean it's got the air suspension it's a little lump support that blows up with the side of the button you know all connected to the air system not much going on over here nice little rear view mirror to yell at your kids in the school bus there's a camera it's pretty cool but the TV's gone I guess they just take those things and they're all the seats I actually wiped down a couple of them you could tell they actually cleaned up nicely so this is the after so that was my before and after just a simple wipe down so these are not bad condition not even ripped or anything I mean who knows if you need to see it so I'm not gonna waste my time wiping all of them just saying that they can be cleaned they look pretty good nice since we replaced the star listing actually starts up really nicely [Music] cranks right up and beeping for my air to build up so basically once the air pressure goes up then I'll be able to close the door and yeah I get rid of my air brakes place on my buttons think it's this one no yeah a little stop sign yeah buddy I don't know about that front bar it'd be kind of cool to get that going too my lights are on so service door [Applause] hit a button open close pretty sweet is definitely fun not sure what that does not sure what this does some kind of Lights I guess on top uh I don't know pretty cool so man there's that big old diesel engine surprisingly not that much power out of these things there's not a lot of horsepower but I guess you're not trying to go fast on a school bus the weirdest thing is we check the transmission fluid before we drove out the level was good everything looked fine driving driving driving it says Service trans I was like what the heck will you check it out and it's all milky so I guess then it mixed with the water inside the transmission so we had to pull over flush it it was like late at night we had to spend a couple hours in our car until the morning and then get some more fluid transmission fluid is hard to find and then we still had to flush it again and again but it was good cleaned out and probably still going to do another flush just in case but the same thing I was like man I'm checking my transmission fluid then I check my rear differential fluid same thing there's some a little bit of water in there I don't know how it's separated and then we're driving it mixed so definitely an adventure guys so if you're gonna get yourself a flooded School Bus definitely watch out double triple check all the fluids and you know just sometimes it happens that you can check it it's still going to have issues we thought we had water in the fuel but actually was fine there was no water in the fuel line so that was good oh just happy to be home all right guys so my honest opinion by the school bus not bad a little worse than I thought but the same time we got home so that's that's what matters would I buy another one maybe if the price is right I mean I still think they're worth money there's still a lot of good parts on it and there's still a lot of potential it's not worth just to scrap it throw it away you could do so much to it if you put you know take the seats out making to a nice little camera we put some hammocks in it I mean whatever Asana hot tub there's a lot of fun things you can do with them for sure and we got it for really cheap so it's still running Dry still going nice but unfortunately it's all the time when for this episode leave some comments below if you want to see some more crazy flood bills that we buy randomly if we would like your feedback you guys let us know what you want to see and we'll try to go that direction but hit that like button make sure you're subscribe catch you next time foreign [Music]

Channel: Niko Brothers

Views: 169,429

Keywords: flood, flood car repair, flooded cars, flood car restoration, water damage, salvage water damaged cars, salvage water damaged photos, copart, copart flood cars, copart water flood damage, copart flood car repair, salvage title car, salvage title to clean title

Id: V0ltn1_1gl0

Length: 18min 14sec (1094 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 08 2022