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Memories for us old truckers

kshansen

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DMiller said:
Beat me to it and did not see yours til mine posted. Did you have good luck with the ones you worked, we had nothing but grief.
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Guess I would say no worse than any other of the various engines. One of our plants had an H400 like the one in the picture, but without the big hitch set up on the back.

Forget who diagnosed the "problem" but Norm and I got the fun job of replacing all four heads on the 1710 one night after they used it for a full day and we had to have it ready to run for the 7:00 am shift the next day! About the biggest problem was when we started doing the valve an injector settings. Something did not seem right and then we remembered that for some reason Cummins decided that the right and left banks of the engine were determined by standing at the timing gear end of the block NOT THE FLYWHEEL end. After that the tune-up worked much better!

Another 1710 we had was in a genset. Believe it was a stand by genset from a hospital or some such application. Boss got a hell of a deal on it second hand knowing it had a problem with a cam bearing at very low hours. It was obvious as the paint on the outside of the block looked burnt right near the cam bearing.

Stripped the block and had a machine shop bore and sleeve the cam bearing boss back to standard and replaced the cam on that bank. Hard to say why it had failed but with the low hours always assumed it was an assembly problem, maybe put in and partially blocked off oil port?

Forget the hose power of that one but know it was very low as it was a non-turbo engine and also low compression engine for a diesel. It must have been designed to have preheaters running all the time for emergency start-up applications as if it was even a little chilly the night before it needed a sniff of either to get it to light off good. If someone just cranked it hoping to get it fired up then gave it a shot of either it would pop the flex pipes off the manifold when it did start.

When we first got it together we had the Cat dealer, who had a large load bank trailer, come out and load test it and it had no trouble making full load rating of the generator. Just always thought it was wrong engine and genset for the application. Don't recall if they ever let us install the propane fired block heaters we tried talking them into, problem with gensets for a quarry is they are often expected to run where there is no power to power electric block heaters.
 
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One thing about Lampson Crane's--"MR. ED" big mover you guys didn't notice. I was waiting for someone to jump on it. Other than a Kenworth late model cab {It's built by Lampson}
Notice the front hub.

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Truck Shop said:
One thing about Lampson Crane's--"MR. ED" big mover you guys didn't notice. I was waiting for someone to jump on it. Other than a Kenworth late model cab {It's built by Lampson}
Notice the front hub.

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I saw the late model cowl and the one piece windshield, but the hub didn't register. It was strange that it didn't have 6 spokes with double clamps like "LANA" had.
Now I think I know why the old small cab KW has disappeared...
 
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The frame and suspension on MR ED looks to be recently built not redone. I think this rig was from scratch possibly or sort of. But I have to red tag MR ED, one wheel nut does not have full thread:D
 
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kshansen said:
Wishbone? I'm having a bad headache day today so can't think what the wishbone is? Had a few loaders I wish I never had to deal with at times!
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The bucket cylinder was mounted between the front of the loader and a wishbone between the loader arms. The bucket could roll over and the best way was to hook the bucket edge on some thing and back up other wise you could tear something up trying to get it back.I put a 855 400 in a 190 Hough to resale. I told the first guy about it and before i could stop him he blow i hose. Next guy to try it out i told him about it and gave a little demo on how to wright it if it happen he pulled the clevice off the cylinder.
 
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You would ask that, I was about to check the drives out when the security {gourd} showed up and I forgot to look after shooting the breeze with him. But the rear suspension
was a Big Six/Camel Back style. Now about that red tag!
 
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