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  1. Muffler Bearing

    Hi Guys!

    Over a year ago I signed off because I was going light duty. So I still fix diesel's only they are in Fords and Dodges instead of CASE and Freightliners. I really miss HD, every time I hear the purr of a jake go by outside I miss it. I think I'll probably just do light duty while my kids go to...
  2. Muffler Bearing

    Indicators you need to slow down

    I just left my 3/8ths stubby ratchet on some truck at some point recently. That's like a cop leaving his gun somewhere. I'm in a fleet situation where trucks just pull up and I try to fix them. I gotta slow down and focus. I bet everyone has their little performance check they do.
  3. Muffler Bearing

    Reusing zip ties

    We can't get any big zip ties, all out of stock. So I keep cutting old ones and trying to reuse them if they're long enough. I'm pretty sure this is how the Mad Max world gets started
  4. Muffler Bearing

    a cool tattoo

  5. Muffler Bearing

    well I'll be...

    ...charge air can enter a perforated hose and travel through the material to the edges. I just sprayed soapy water to look for leaks and these bubbles are coming out of the boot edge, not under it.
  6. Muffler Bearing

    Info chain

    Hey gang, In this time it might be it might be useful for active techs to connect with Troubleshooting and repair info. You can put me in there for CASE. And I mean current machines, I'm not looking up 1845 wiring. But if you've got check engine lights and legit problems and you can't get to...
  7. Muffler Bearing

    Catastrophic Failure...is truly as bad as it sounds.

    I had never tackled a pump failure on a backhoe before. Now I'm on my third one this summer. I always understood the concept, but the reality is so much worse. Literally, the metal gets almost everywhere. Every cylinder has traces of metal, the tank, the oil cooler, lines, valves, cartridges...
  8. Muffler Bearing

    Excerpt from my Novel POW

    Hi Guys, since you're the forum I spend the most time on, I figured I should tell you I wrote a book. When I was big into snowmobiling I always thought the perfect crime would be to rob something in Aspen CO and then getaway by snowmobile back to Crested Butte CO. So I build a story around that...
  9. Muffler Bearing

    Any Pictures of interesting Hardfacing designs?

    I was just thinking about this dying art. Does anyone still have a machine with an intricate design on a bucket or edge? I'm looking for an image I could include in a book I'm writing.
  10. Muffler Bearing

    A Lot of Wire

    I'm gonna admit, I'm not super motivated for this after a long weekend
  11. Muffler Bearing

    Messing with a bad parts guy

    Hey gang, I searched and didn't find anything on this. We recently hired an awful parts guy. He can't tell metric from standard bolts in bins and hasn't ever heard of cross referencing filters. I think he lied on his resume and now everyone involved in hiring him is too embarrassed to admit it...
  12. Muffler Bearing

    Worn Sprockets

    Has anyone seen teeth so worn they break off? A coworker told me he's seen teeth with a razor edge. Just wondering what the extreme limit is :)
  13. Muffler Bearing

    Weird Stuff I learned about Hammers

    I just took an Atlas Copco hammer class and found out some stuff I had never heard before, maybe this is common knowledge, but not to me. 1. If a hammer is greased improperly and grease gets between the piston and the tool, the impact can actually inject the grease into the metal! 2. If a...
  14. Muffler Bearing

    Atlas Hammer seized accumulator

    Anybody ever dealt with one of these A/C SBC410II hammers? I cannot get this accumulator assembly off. I called a dealer and they said, just pull the four bolts and knock it back and forth with a hammer. This one is NOT moving
  15. Muffler Bearing

    Free up frozen brakes/drums with alcohol!

    Have you tried this? I needed to free 4 trailer brakes frozen to the drums. I grabbed a mallet and pry bar and as an after thought, a bottle of air brake anti freeze/alcohol. I just splashed the alcohol onto the shoes, it ran down between the bottom shoe and the drum, and on the top it kind of...
  16. Muffler Bearing

    On the Road

    So I waited for the first week of cold weather to move out of my comfortable shop and into this beauty, so far I'm loving it!
  17. Muffler Bearing

    New Job, a little nervous...

    Well fella's tomorrow I'll hang up my hat as a mixer fixer and take a mechanic position with a Freightliner Dealership. Flat rate, factory certifications, the works. I'm going to start swimming with the big fishes. My evenings will now be filled with training programs but I'll make sure I find...
  18. Muffler Bearing

    Air System Diagnostic Tool

    Hopefully this will be news to at least one person on this forum. But this is the most valuable tool you can get for diagnosing air systems on a heavy truck or some old loaders and such. To use it you remove the 1" fitting on the air compressor outlet and screw this adapter into the metal flex...
  19. Muffler Bearing

    If you stretched a hydraulic hose?...

    Yesterday I watched a guy unhook airlines and electric , pop the 5th wheel and start to pull the tractor away from an end dump trailer. I was yelling louder and louder as the hyd. line got tighter and tighter, but he stopped in time. So I was just pondering, "what would let go first"? and I...
  20. Muffler Bearing

    How many paramedics should be on hand to change a lightbulb?

    at least he's not on the top rung
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