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  2. I think Mechohaulic is on the right path here. I believe it is a "Variable Resistance Ground" system. The better the Ground, the higher the gauge reads. I am assuming the truck has a separate gauge that is not part of a instrument panel with a circuit board. I am not familiar with Superliners. Would love to have one someday though. I had similar problems on my "93 CH613. This is what I did to troubleshoot the system. It sounds like you did a continuity test on the wiring from the gauge to the sending unit. If you have "0" Ohms resistance, the wiring is good. The gauge likely has three pins on it. Power, Ground, and Signal. The Signal pin would be the wire returning from the sending unit. To test the gauge, remove the gauge from the dash and connect 12v to the Power pin and ground to the Ground pin. Then momentarily jumper the Signal pin to the Ground pin and the gauge should read Full. If not, you likely have a bad gauge. To test the gauge and wiring, reconnect the gauge and disconnect the plug from the sending unit and momentarily connect a jumper across the two pins, the gauge should read full. This means the wiring and gauge is good. To test the sending unit, reconnect the plug and physically move the float up and down, the gauge should respond accordingly. I removed the sending unit from the tank, it was easier for me to work on it. If all of those check out and it doesn't read correctly, I suspect there may be a mismatch between the sending unit and the gauge. My fuel gauge only reads to 5/8 full on a full tank. Sending unit from Mack and Fuel Gauge from PAI. I suspect there is a mismatch or calibration issue going on. I was lucky enough to get a complete wiring diagram from my local Mack dealer, it was very useful in tracking all of this down in the truck. Hope this helps and Good Luck. The truck looks awesome!!
  3. Yesterday
  4. Mixer mounted up, need to tighten mounting bolts and hook electrical plugs, hydraulic pump, water tank rebuild the mixing auger for the back... (worn from use, not collision) I'm also chasing an ABS code that is bugging me. Right steer abs cable ripped so I put a new sensor in, but still have a code. Gotta get this truck ready for inspection!
  5. i completely forgot i was driving one of these back in the back in the 70s part time hauling crushed cars from beverly auto wrecking to some iron yard,,too long ago to remember,,but i do remember i thought it was a pretty cool ride,,,straight flat bed...bob
  6. thanks for that...too bad about the hired hands...bob
  7. thanks,,,,i was wondering myself,,,,what that was for....im sure it will be rite handy...bob
  8. I've scrapped old air compressor tanks. They need like a min 12" hole cut in them. I've scrapped old fuel tanks from vehicles. I cut them into square pieces and then no one knows they were tanks.
  9. highly possible. I think there is even one that is just a straight stick with a sensor in the stick.. I prefer the ones with the arm and potetchiometer... Sorry about my spelling..
  10. Yup cumbys coffee. I was going to weld d rings to the bucket but I saw this on the Vevor website, d rings, grab hooks and a 2" receiver 4 bolts and done.
  11. First things first,keep your mouth shut and cut them up and off to the scrap yard they go.No one the wiser.
  12. I think I have at least 3 different style sending units on my fleet.
  13. Was a qualified fireboat pilot when I was at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Fire Dept- we had a saying: If you don't have power to the screws and rudder, you can't argue with the tide, current and the wind!
  14. This terrible news for all, I don't know anything about ships, boats, tug boats floating in a inner tube etc I do imagine that once you loose power the current takes control and pushes you about however mother nature wishes the current to flow Easter is going to be very different and a sad occasion for a lot of families now The whole situation is terrible Paul
  15. FWD Thx for the radio info. Explains it all. I saw another clip that said they declared a Mayday with just 90 seconds before impact so quick action on PD in stopping traffic when they did was huge-no cars went in water just the poor souls working. Had this been a DOT crew they probably would have had radio contact but contractor crew-doubtful.
  16. Joey, does that mean you’re ready for the short bus it’s a horrible mess but every news clip I see they do not bring up that construction crew at all. I don’t know what’s up with that. Maybe you fellas heard something about them. I’m sure they’re all gone drowned That just sucks big balls to get it while you’re working… bob
  17. Can a ships controls especially steering be controlled remotely? Why would they program something like that in? Unless it was a case like mutiny on board the ship I don't see how it could be a terror attack. Interestingly this isn't the first time this ship has struck something, unless that's more common for ships than I realized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Dali
  18. not sure what happened. I am off today as well. I’ll take it. Finish up what I started yesterday… yaaaaaaaaaaaaahoooooooooo
  19. Just saw a video he just posted four hrs ago. He was headed for Baltimore before the bridge fell. Now they are at anchor waiting ten miles away from the bridge. .....Hippy
  20. Stevie said the truck had an overdrive transmission in it, so I'm thinking 5th. gear will be towards the dash anyway.
  21. I see now, I don't know why I didn't catch that, it clearly shows two bridges and the Key Bridge was a single bridge. It was labeled on Facebook as the Key Bridge collapse. I'm going to delete that post if I can.
  22. Here is a link to the radio traffic of the Baltimore City Fire Dept- they were initially dispatched for a "car in the water." This is 90 minutes of radio traffic that has been compressed to about 40 minutes. From a Fire Service Standpoint- these guys all remained calm, cool and collect in the face of probably the biggest incident any of them will ever face in their careers.
  23. Here is a link to the MDT Police Radio traffic, it's about 2 minutes long. You can clearly hear one officer has traffic stopped, and says "When someone relieves me. I will drive up and get the road crew off." But then it happened. Can you imagine how that officer feels now?
  24. My lines actually go up the side of the ram and over the frame rail and along side the inner frame rail where they come out behind the front quarter fender to the pump
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