Where can I buy parts for a Blue Bird bus?

Only Blue Bird and our 250 affiliated dealers can identify and provide the same high-quality parts that were used to build your bus. Whether you’re replacing brake pads or rotors, crossing arms or stop arms, a heater motor or a seat cover, a window or a bumper, your local Blue Bird dealer will have the correct parts in stock.

Where can I find the Blue Bird service manual?

For newer manuals please visit Blue Bird’s Vantage website. Use Bus Lookup to find your unit. Under the Reference tab you will find the Service Manual button. Click the Service Manual button to get a list of available manuals.

Where do Blue Bird car parts come from?

Parts are typically shipped out the following day for dealer stock orders, or the same day for customer unit-down orders that can be shipped next-day air. Parts are manufactured at Blue Bird’s parts manufacturing plant in Fort Valley, Ga., and by some of the most respected brands in the world.

Where is the VIN on a Blue Bird school bus?

If you don’t know your body number, it is usually located inside the bus above the windshield on the Body Data Plate or you can use the VIN. If you are unable to find your unit in the Vantage website or have any questions regarding manuals for your bus, please contact one of our Technical Support Staff.

Where is the radiator on a Thomas pusher bus?

For instance our Thomas pusher buses (rear engine) have a transversely mounted radiator and charge air cooler. In other words it’s mounted sideways on the passenger side of the engine compartment.

When to clean out radiator core on pusher buses?

The scenario is usually when the bus is climbing a grade and the ambient temperature is around 25 to 30 Celsius. What we have planned for our pusher buses is on a regular basis clean out the radiator core without having to remove it from the chassis.