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Long day, drove 250 miles round trip to replace a coolant hose to compressor on a Series 60. The one between the backside of compressor and engine block.
Have to remove intake manifold to get at it, at least the intake is quick to remove. 23* outside today.

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[rzucker]

Long day, drove 250 miles round trip to replace a coolant hose to compressor on a Series 60. The one between the backside of compressor and engine block.
Have to remove intake manifold to get at it, at least the intake is quick to remove. 23* outside today.

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Mine was out in the field replacing the coolant lines to the engine oil cooler on a D9N, half of it was kneeling on the tracks and the other half was sitting in the dirt underneath. At least they scraped the snow off for me. 17* here this morning. Man, stuff goes slow in insulated everything, really sucks when you have to take off the coat to squeeze into a tight spot.

 

[Truck Shop]

That makes my job sound kind of wimpy. That's the trouble with large iron you can't just drag it into the shop when you want.

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[rzucker]

Yippee, I get to go out tomorrow and change the cutting edges on the dozer blade of the same D9. I cheat... tack weld a lift eye on the blade and use the crane to lift them on. But the real fun begins keeping the air going to the impact wrench. at this time of year I don't go through reels or use quick couplers and as much as I hate air system anti freeze, it keeps the gun going.

 

[Truck Shop]

Speaking of air, we just installed another compressor and tied it to the pressure switch of the existing compressor. Now have 60 CFM for shop air.
Been wanting that for a long time.

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[rzucker]

Speaking of air, we just installed another compressor and tied it to the pressure switch of the existing compressor. Now have 60 CFM for shop air.
Been wanting that for a long time.

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Good deal. I'm an air hog, If I have to wait for the pressure to build back up I get peeved. It's really amazing how much air a simple die grinder can use when you are grinding out a crack to do a weld repair, let alone a good 1" impact tightening 33 1" plow bolts. The compressor on my truck is a V4 2 stage with an 18HP Briggs V-twin engine. It gets the job done.

 

[Truck Shop]

With 60 CFM and pressure set at 160, we can run two 1" guns and L S can change tires plus air up tires at the same time. And the compressors don't
get the chance to build allot of heat. Both units are wired 480.

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Love this time of year. Snow and ice scags all over the equipment, a pond forms on the shop floor in no time. Drivers dragging chains in the shop with
eight crosslinks broke and the rest looking like shrapnel. Busted windshields, quarter fenders and flap hangers tore all to hell. And tires full of chain links.
Life is good!

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[rzucker]

Yeah, I've been having my share of outside fun... The guy that never changes air dryer cartridges and never drains tanks "cuz it's got a dryer" Took 2.5 hours to thaw him out. The guy from Cali that shut his truck off full of San Diego fuel, The farmer that parked the truck in June and want's it going... NOW... And frozen brake shoes. Cant people learn "drag and dry" and park with the brakes charged??? :bangh
Rant off... I feel so much better now.

 

[rzucker]

Today's fun was an older Case 821 loader with air over hydraulic brakes. It built up enough water in the air tank to split the tank when it froze. The owner never had a clue that the air system needed draining. I just shake my head.

 

[JasonG]

I had a 94 that I forgot had SC summer fuel in it.
Went to start it in upstate NY in February, yeah, it sat until that afternoon when it warmed up.

 

[Truck Shop]

Yeah, I've been having my share of outside fun... The guy that never changes air dryer cartridges and never drains tanks "cuz it's got a dryer" Took 2.5 hours to thaw him out. The guy from Cali that shut his truck off full of San Diego fuel, The farmer that parked the truck in June and want's it going... NOW... And frozen brake shoes. Cant people learn "drag and dry" and park with the brakes charged??? :bangh
Rant off... I feel so much better now.

Every winter it's the food service trucks that give us the most problems, those companies don't prepare for winter. Frozen air dryers, batteries and starters never fails.

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[Truck Shop]

The winter of 88 I towed 11 gelled up trucks from the Rye Grass rest area east bound. It was -23 with a 25 mph wind. What do you think the wind chill was?
To pull the fifthwheel I had to winch 5 of them backward to pull it. Tie the wheel and winch them out from the trailers then pick them up from the back end
and head for Yakima, every shop in the berg was full up and then some. I had cut the fuel in that tow truck 50% with stove oil, plus it had Arctic Fox tank
heaters, insulated fuel hoses, a foam sock over the fuel filter and a weather front. I serviced the air dryers every Oct on those tow trucks.

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[rzucker]

Yay... got to spend the day inside today. Welding a fill hopper on an old semi tanker that hauls, ahem... liquid cow doo. I should have just done it outside, shop stinks and so do I, off to the shower.
Oh, next job is rebuilding the bucket on the same dairy's frontend loader. And it ain't been scooping gravel.
I get all the fun jobs.

 

[Truck Shop]

You know RZ I think you and I are the only ones on here. No one else wants to post any old truck pics or talk about anything. Everyone just sets back waiting for
someone to post about a problem their having with their equipment. Then they will say something other wise they couldn't give a damn. I wish there was no
place on Heavy Equipment forum for people to post truck/trailer related issues. It would force a good percentage of questions over here. Sheeple.

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[rzucker]

I check in here every day, and I know what you mean. But it is what it is and It's great that Steve gives the 2 of us a place to hang out.

 

[Steve Frazier]

I've actually been trying to figure out how to have the HEF truck forum bounce people here without having to register here, I haven't come up with it yet. I do appreciate you both keeping things active, I really expected this to take off faster than it has. For what its worth I check several times a day to make sure no one is ignored. I've been away from the industry for quite a while which unfortunately doesn't leave me with much to add.

 

[rzucker]

I've actually been trying to figure out how to have the HEF truck forum bounce people here without having to register here, I haven't come up with it yet. I do appreciate you both keeping things active, I really expected this to take off faster than it has. For what its worth I check several times a day to make sure no one is ignored. I've been away from the industry for quite a while which unfortunately doesn't leave me with much to add.

Hey... I'm just happy you created both these forums. That had to be a huge job in itself.

 

[Truck Shop]

Hey... I'm just happy you created both these forums. That had to be a huge job in itself.

And I agree to that But I wish people would use it more because Steve did go to allot of trouble to create it for their benefit.

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[JasonG]

Don't feel alone.
I just don't have much to add, or someone else gets to it first.