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    Help identifying Unit Dragline and Shovel

    Man I will go along with the makeing shure the racks aint stuck. Nothing like a GM winding out into oblivion. An experience one wants to have only once in their life time.
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    Need advice is it to cold to work in 25degree weather,bout to freeze!

    It's all about where and what you're used to. To most of these guys from way up north thats just a balmy day. Down here if it's 25 most of the state is shut down LOL Lord help us if there is actually ice or snow. I got children grown who have only seen snow here twice in their lives.
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    my 1989 580k wiring nightmare

    Not shure what the factory meant them to be. Have seen them used as turn signals and as action/running lites. [Warning when machine is running/moveing]
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    PC50 not shutting off?

    How is the wireing going too it.
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    Magic in a can

    Bee's wax works quite well as long as you do not get whatever yer takeing apart too hot. Crayloa brand crayons work real well also since they are still made of bee's wax. Keep a box in my tool bow all the time. Gotta admit I have received a few strange looks when people see them crayons in the...
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    Nexiq IQ

    So ok mebe I need to modify this to what scanners will work on the newer computerized heavy equipment. Only factory specific or is there some qeneralized aftermarket one that works on many of them.
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    Nexiq IQ

    How well does the Nexiq IQ scanner work on heavy equipment besides trucks.
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    98 volvo vnl w/fuller rtx tranny

    Tried that once, it's just moore trouble than it's worth, and I don't have nuthin stout enough to pull the engine out with.
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    98 volvo vnl w/fuller rtx tranny

    Thanks for the reply. This is a USA version with a 90Bbl Vacum tank gonna all be on the floor. And yes me poor joints ouch an back. The mounts unfortunately are on the tranny, the support pins sit in a cradel with a cap. The engine has to be supported with one jack, the tranny with another...
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    98 volvo vnl w/fuller rtx tranny

    I am fixing to pull the tranny to change clutch. The one with the mounts on the tranny that the pins sit in a cradle. Now I was taucht to crib up a bottle jack on the engine and remove the mount caps and jack engine and tranny up until the pins clear the cradle. Then seperate the tranny. Now...
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    580CK Advice

    You need to check for a voltage draw. When volts get around 11 volts cpu gets freaky. Below 10 volts it shuts down completely. You need to isolate what is drawing the system down and fix it first.
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    580 super k manual

    I am partial to the BFH method myself. Occasionally combined with the VICTOR WRENCH judishously applied of course.
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    Case 207D engine oil & water mixing

    I think even the naturaly aspirated hand an intercooler even if it didn't have the external oil cooler.
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    Future 99 Corridor

    Being a flat land boy. what the heck they do with all that dirt????? Find a flat spot somewhere and build another mountain?????
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    Case 207D engine oil & water mixing

    A head gasket will put water in the oil but not oil in the coolant radiator. Thats probably a heat exchanger or some cover that has both water and oil passages.
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    electrical system fault

    Lately I have been running in to a situation on the 04 to 06 International 7000 to 8000 series trucks with no start situations. Light on consol elect system fault. When scanning have no codes for engine, but all have some kind of ABS code, not always the same one. All fuzes and relays test...
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    Lasers for Dummies

    Just think for almost a hundred years this was all done with only a transit, chain and rod
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    Case Engine Side Panel Latches

    What is the actual length, width and thickness. Some older Int. and Pete trucks used similiar
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    580 super k manual

    I have a 580 super k manual I will be glad to share info out of if needed
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    usefull site link

    I see I can't post in the link forum so if it is allright this is another site usefull to those power stroke owners. http://www.powerstroke.org/forum/
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