[MrE]

Better late than never, I guess... I was lucky to get my 4th back surgery late last month. Idaho is in crisis care because of covid, but hospitals are able to make exceptions to elective surgeries and my neurosurgeon was able to get me scheduled. Still in recovery and receiving physical therapy at home, but hope to be able to travel to Missouri later this year and fetch my motorhome.

The motor is in and running with a fresh rebuild. The transmission is installed, worked flawlessly in the donor bus. They're currently not communicating correctly over the CANbus. The fellow that Mike contracted to do the wiring apparently doesn't know electronic components very well and he doesn't have anyone else to help him.

I bought a Range Rover that I've set up for flat towing. My goal is to load it up with tools and drive it back to Missouri and figure out the wiring issues. I've got the Cummins Inline/Insite hardware/software to reprogram the ECM from the Denver Transit 280hp to a 2000 Wanderlodge with the ISM ZF 450hp. I have the BlueFire adapter and an Android tablet loaded with the software to run it to monitor the driveline on my trip home. I've also got a tool to capture all the CANbus signals just in case the BlueFire program doesn't capture everything necessary to get the engine and transmission communicating properly. I'll also have a yet to be purchased programable body control module (BCM) to communicate with the ECM (engine control module) just in case the multiplex system from the donor bus was doing something that I haven't predicted.

Below is a picture of the manual device installed to replace the hydraulic fan motor.