crane operator
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You won't mind if I pull a Truck Shop level ten inspection on your trucks will you. lol
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That's not even funny, not even a little bit, - well maybe a little bit, but don't wish that on me.
You won't mind if I pull a Truck Shop level ten inspection on your trucks will you. lol
Truck Shop
Don't worry... He cant write tickets.That's not even funny, not even a little bit, - well maybe a little bit, but don't wish that on me.
This is why I prefer single frame rails on a truck. A good 3/8" 120K rail is much better than rusty double rails.But I betcha he knows those that CAN!! Old Pete I was driving is currently OOS until the owner gets a write up from a mechanic as to viable or not. I noted rust build up deforming the upper frame flanges under the 5th wheel slider plate, the plate itself was deforming upward and enough could not get it to slide to full back for use on a Bullrack. The STL DOT is Supposed to have ALSO seen that and decided he has 30 days(a week or so ago) to get it to a shop and have evaluated after which the report goes to States Brown Shirts. Upper flanges were depressed around a quarter inch at center of the corroded region, the slider plate up close to the same.
Don't worry... He cant write tickets.
I knew I shouldn't have gone spouting off about gauges. It turned a little cold and snowy here, so I had to hustle and get the Pete that's grown roots in one of my shop bays booted out the door, so I can have the cranes we need tomorrow inside.
Wouldn't you know it, the only gauges that work in the stupid thing is the air pressure and oil pressure. I don't think anything else even wiggled. I didn't run it long enough to see if water temp came up, but no tach, no speedo, no voltage, no nuthin.
If you come over and write anything up- you're fixing it!
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Add some more of those chrome thingys and see if that helps.
Seriously, I would check grounds and the ECM feeds for loose/bad connections.
I see an out of service issue on that Pete.
Oops I didn't realize it was an elderly Pete. Check the ground cable on the left front cab mount and the electric gauge feed power.ECM? ECM? The white pete is a 1992, with a 3406B, I hope ECM isn't in its vocabulary. Or is there some sort of cab module that controls the gauge package?
Always a optimist aren't you. Junkyard says six turning and four burning- heck I got 6 pistons moving, and if the back brakes are as rusted up as I think they probably are, I can work on the four burning....