Mack Technician

Looks like forward momentum is being made by the State Supreme Court.

The argument by the Republicans is being favorably received. The court is questioning how a State Health Secretary could make a mandate intended to be enforced under penalty of law. It side steps the rule of Legislators who's authority it is to write laws to be enforced under threat of penalty. Therefore our Health Secretary, Andrea Palm, has "Redefined herself" to a legislators position and is spontaneously writing her own laws.

4 hours ago, mackey58 said:

Less problems with out em6 than the ai 400

Give it the fix...…..Un-AI the engine. It would have been a good time to kick it off when you resealed the leaking manifold.

Look on the top of the valve cover. No chrome tag?

Cheap LEDs will cause that. Does it do it with the lights all off?

13 hours ago, HarleyD said:

Is this a decent dump truck motor?

👍🏼

I’d probably take a look at the air sensor in the manifold area, around/ in front of, your feet. 

If it’s been out, and under load, it would have purged air lockup. 

I’m assuming it wasn’t run until now? This is the first time you ran it after the repair?

🤷🏿‍♂️ 

bleed it.

See if it goes away. 

Careful with ether, she could become an addict. 

He had lines off and got air in the system. Bleed the fuel lines inside the head and not at the EUP’s. CCRS are difficult to clear of air, more so than the good’ol E-Tech. 

Head bleeding means some fuel will well up in the head ports, you just have to live with it till it weeps out. 

8 hours ago, Freightrain said:

They are shutting down ER's and hospital wings due to no patients.   I'm thinking they are too afraid to go because of Covid.   Are more dying at home?  No information there.  

Or is it all the "Oh, I have a paper cut and need to go to the ER" people not going and that is the reason for no one being there?  I'm sure there is a percentage of people that have no health care that used to go to the ER as their only option to get medication for a cough or headache.

It works opposite up here. Our local hospital pushes everything through the emergency room for extra revenue. 

I had a bearing chip in my forehead for a couple months and needed it out. The hospital wouldn’t let me come in without an emergency room charge. Had to drive to a different city. 

Austria did a study. As of March 29th they lost 110 people to cardiac arrest where, in each case, the person was having all heart attack symptoms (designated as “preventable cardiac death”) but didn’t call for emergency help or go to the local emergency room. The thought is people are afraid to call 911 because of Covid. 

The country lost only 86 to Covid. 

Pop it up, trim the rim circular on the widest part of the rubber bell, draw the freed center piece down, use a good ✂️ scissors to cut up vertically to free the line@thru-holes, reinstall outer shell. Should loosen up the shift nicely. 

Oh heck!...Did you knock out the stick’s  double walled shift boot in the cab floor!?!? Forgot about that. Those are trouble makers for shift, Mack had us cut them out (existing ones) and they quit making them double walled. They meant well, to reduce noise and heat transfer, but they were so stiff it caused shifting issues, especially up here. It would hit -25 and guys would have the sticks return to center neutral on their own while driving. 

Performance & satisfaction before loyalty, swap it.  

If you know other T3 trans are doing better for a buddy, and you drive it and agree yours has an issue......I’d pull the trans top cover and polish the spalling off the shift shafts. Not a terrible job to undertake and costs virtually nothing in soft parts. Maybe I can get an amen on here, or maybe others haven’t had it, but anyone who rebuilds a number of these knows how choppy and pitted the fork rail wear-outs can get. 

Do one thing for me though?......please, give T3 a proper funeral for all her hard work. May need six good Pallbearers or four fairly stout good ol’boys to lift the trans. Find out where Wild Dave docks his 14’ fishing boat and dump her right into the driver’s seat. Burial at sea. When he extracts the boat from the lake bottom the trans needs to say “FREE BOAT ANCHOR” spray painted across the side. 

On 4/29/2020 at 10:13 PM, 41chevy said:

All my life, I have dismissed paranoids on the right (the U.S will embrace communism") and the left ("It can happen here" -- referring to fascism). It's not that I've ever believed liberty was guaranteed. Being familiar with history and a pessimist regarding the human condition, I never believed that.

But the ease with which police state tactics have been employed and the equal ease with which most Americans have accepted them have been amazing to say the least!

People will argue that a temporary police state has been justified because of the allegedly unique threat to life posed by the new coronavirus. I do not believe the data will bear that out. Regardless, we are closer to a police state than ever in American history.

"Police state" does not mean totalitarian state. America is not a totalitarian state; we still have many freedoms. In a totalitarian state, this rant could not be published, and if it were published, I would be imprisoned and most likely executed. But we are presently living with all four of the key hallmarks of a police state:

No. 1: Draconian laws depriving citizens of elementary civil rights.

The federal, state, county and city governments are now restricting almost every freedom except those of travel and speech. Americans have been banned from going to work (and thereby earning a living), meeting in groups (both indoors and outdoors), meeting in their cars in church parking lots to pray and entering state-owned properties such as beaches and parks -- among many other prohibitions.

No. 2: A mass media supportive of the state's messaging and deprivation of rights.

The New York Times, CNN and every other mainstream mass medium -- except Fox News, The Wall Street Journal (editorial and opinion pages only) and talk radio -- have served the cause of state control over individual Americans' lives just as Pravda served the Soviet government. In fact, there is almost no more dissent in The New York Times than there was in Pravda. And the Big Tech platforms are removing posts about the virus and potential treatments they deem "misinformation."

No. 3: Use of police.

Police departments throughout America have agreed to enforce these laws and edicts with what can only be described as frightening alacrity. After hearing me describe police giving summonses to, or even arresting, people for playing baseball with their children on a beach, jogging alone without a mask, or worshipping on Easter while sitting isolated in their cars in a church parking lot, a police officer called my show. He explained that the police have no choice. They must respond to every dispatch they receive.

"And why are they dispatched to a person jogging on a beach or sitting alone in a park?" I asked.

Because the department was informed about these lawbreakers and they must be dealt with.

And who told the police about these lawbreakers?" I asked.

His answer brings us to the fourth characteristic of a police state: Informants told us.

No. 4: Snitches.

How do the police dispatchers learn of lawbreakers such as families playing softball in a public park, lone joggers without face masks, etc.? From their fellow citizens snitching on them. The mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, set up a "snitch line," whereby New Yorkers were told to send authorities photos of fellow New Yorkers violating any of the quarantine laws. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti similarly encouraged snitching, unabashedly using the term.

It is said that about 1 in every 100 East German citizens were informers for the Stasi, the East German secret police, as superbly portrayed in the film "The Lives of Others." It would be interesting, and, I think, important, to know what percentage of New Yorkers informed on their fellow citizens. Now, again, you may think such a comparison is not morally valid, that de Blasio's call to New Yorkers to serve a Stasi-like role was morally justified given the coronavirus pandemic. But you cannot deny it is Stasi-like or that, other than identifying spies during World War II, this is unprecedented in American history at anywhere near this level.

(As an example my friend Klaus jumped the Berlin Wall when it was first up. He told me he had to leave his wife and son  behind because one or the other said they would turn anybody in who tried to leave. They would've been paid in extra food.)

We are dangerously on the tipping point now.

About #4 (snitches) I was listening to public radio and they were doing a whole session training people “what to do about others who aren’t complying with distancing and other mandates”. 

Leftist radio spends the first half the day trying to establish Trump as a fascist and the second half training citizen pinko police the application of regulations and how/when/where to report their neighbors to the states authorities so they can be mini-fascist minions. You can’t make this stuff up. 

If not for Click & Clack the Tappet Brothers repeats and Garrison Keillor’s legacy they’d be doing pop can drives to stay on air. 

I’m on the fence with Don’s handling of Covid. He’s hasn’t been a complete Cov-idiot like some governors, but he certainly hasn’t taken a Libertarian approach either. He could have kept his opinions to himself on Georgia’s reopening. He’s still the only viable option for November at this point.

Despite his shortcomings, His policy decisions are excellent. Pence has been schooling him on attracting Christian conservatives and it worked. Trump can’t properly pronounce half of the 66 books, but he keeps showing up in the right place at the right times to mispronounce them to a cheering crowd who’s flattered he even gives a damn enough to try.

Wisconsin Republicans will be taking King Evers IV before the State Supreme Court on Tuesday to knock out his stay home order. I’m throwing $25 into the kitty. If Republicans win I’m sending 💰 to Tom Tiffany as another gift of thanks for his campaign. They knocked down Tony’s attempt to block our April election, they’ll beat him this time too, hopefully. 

Are the other trucks deep in the rears? Mid 4’s?

Larger displacement engines may tend to have a lower number on the rear, in the upper 3’s, because they can. Mack had to go mid to upper 4’s because of AI torque issue. The expectation was your going to rev the heck out of it because of it not having low end torque. They say so in the AI engine manual...page 18. 

“The changes are more extensive and visible for the AC engine which is used in linehaul applications at governed speeds, than the AI/AMI engine which is used in vocational applications at higher governed speeds.” They saw how crumby the low end was. 

The further into 4 you go the tighter the shift becomes especially on the low range. The number of MPH gained by in a 4th gear may be 4mph @4.64. The same 4th gear may gain 6mph when the diff is 3.86. The lower your gain the harder your shift. 

Ex- take your overdrive trans and drop a 3.86 diff in and your top speed gain from 1300 to 2000 RPM is 32 MPH.

take the 3.86 rears out and drop in a 4.64 and now the 1300 to 2000 RPM OD gain is reduced to 27 MPH. 

You may have tight shift windows, esp on the bottom, esp loaded going up a hill with a short span of gains between shifts. 

Macks a challenging shift. I have to move the Log Dogs stick pretty fast to get my grabs with the 4.35. 

The deepest ratio Roland had between modern trucks he was scoping was a 4.10 ratio. 

If your skipping groups of gears loaded then you’ve overcome the need for a deep rear end when you modified the engine for more HP and torque. 

25 minutes ago, david wild said:

Geez my engine brake works great, 98 not E tech ??

Your saying Mack transmissions are terrible, but those cheezy V-Mac II engine brakes are the bomb???? It's entirely possible you got the three relay retrofit my co-worker was going to patent. Play with the radio volume while your engine braking, does the loudness of the jakes go up and down too?

Guess my only question is did he light it up and let the sirens scream. Be hard not to. After two months of stay-home the whole neighborhood likely needed a hit from the defibrillator anyway?

31 minutes ago, Glensts said:

I have a 97 e-7 427 drop in Mack crate motor with the high volume lower psi oil pump.  We noticed no difference in the Jake from the original engine.  It still sucks.  They aren't good jakes in those years.  We also

have the factory butterfly valve in the exhaust pipe which will double the performance of the jake, so its just poor instead of sucky.

If you get all 6 banks working you probably still won't be happy but its better than nothing

What He ^ said.

My supervisor at the dealership had the best idea I've heard so far in terms of how to fix the issue. He was going to put in a third relay for the jakes and make it control on/off air to a 10PSI regulated valve that in turn dumped the light PSI to the brake system. Then he was going to install a digital recorder on the same circuit that played a loud jake noise over the speakers in the cab.

Don’t you go crying on me Mackey. The positive libenergy Calvary is coming to heal your broken heart 💔. 

For the Democrat this will be a stellar year. Greenhouse gases are predicted to be reduced by 8% from the release of Covid-19. This will pave the way for AOC to get into office and declare global warming a national emergency. In that case she will be able to control our economy as a political “idiot savant” dictator with incredible dance moves. 🎶 💃 🎶 . Add to that thousands of Covid victims who won’t be breathing and polluting this earth with their deadly carbon dioxide breath and even Chuck Schumer may start to tap his feet a little. 

One more positive for a Democrat. Trumps willingness to hop on board the Corona crazy train may cost him the presidency........IF Biden hasn’t lost his ability to tie his own shoes by November. 

Remember when Republicans kept shutting down the economy because Obama was “spending too much money and running up the debt”. Don’t see much of that going on. Seems like not a fiscal conservative to object? Instead we’re shutting down working tax payers, bringing in no personal incomes or tax revenue, and blowing the top off our debt ceiling. Nearly everything Trump did is wiped clean by Covid and the tariff war. 

How’s that for a pinko eye dryer? 

North Fond du Lac man accused of using stolen underwear to set fires

FOND DU LAC COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY) - A North Fond du Lac man is accused of using stolen underwear to set several fires in the county.

Michael L. Miller. Photo: Fond du Lac County Jail

Michael L. Miller, 43, has been charged in Fond du Lac County with 27 counts--including arson and possession of child pornography.

Details of the case were revealed in a criminal complaint obtained by Action 2 News. Miller, who was officially charged in Fond du Lac County Court today is being held on $200,000 bail.

MARCH 19

On March 19, at about 3 a.m., fire was reported at a vacant home in the 200 block of N Military Rd in Fond du Lac.

MARCH 20

Several fires were set on March 20.

Investigators responded to a fire at a home on Lakeshore Dr. in Fond du Lac County. An 88-year-old woman was in the home. Smoke detectors went off and she was able to escape. Investigators determined the fire had been lit on the outside near a window.

Three other suspicious fires were set that day in the Village of North Fond du Lac.

A vacant mobile home on Meadowlark Ct was damaged by fire.

A vacant home was damaged on Clinton St. Investigators said the fire was similar in origin to the one on Lakeshore Dr. Men's underwear were found at a back window.

In the 700 block of Maine Ave, a woman's bra was stuffed into the furnace exhaust PVC pipe. A child's swimsuit was stuffed into the intake PVC pipe of the furnace. Both items were lit on fire. The fire damaged the pipes before it went out.

SUSPECT IDENTIFIED

North Fond du Lac Police were able to identify Michael Miller as a suspect. He had known ties to a resident on Maine Ave and a resident on Meadowlark Ct.

During an interview, Miller admitted intentionally starting fires in the county, according to the complaint.
"I don't know what his motive was for targeting the specific homes, but there's no known connection between the homes and the suspect that I'm aware of," said Fond du Lac County Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt.

Officers examined Miller's phone and found "thousands of images of pornography." Some of those images were identified as child pornography.

Sheriff Waldschmidt adds, "My understanding is he didn't take any of them or admit to taking any of them, but in either a case, a child somewhere in the world has been victimized by this an another reason we're happy to have this person off of the streets."

"Miller stated that he was wearing women’s underwear during the interview and he buys the underwear at stores. Miller further stated that the underwear he used to light the fires was taken from laundromats," reads the complaint.

Ultimately, Miller admitted to setting 12 fires between December 2018 and April 2020. The complaint states he knew details about the fires that were not made public.

On April 28, multiple charges were filed against Miller in Fond du Lac County:

POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY - 5 COUNTS

ARSON OF PROPERTY OTHER THAN BUILDING - 1 COUNT

ARSON OF BUILDING - 11 COUNTS

FELONY CRIMINAL DAMAGE TO PROPERTY - 4 COUNTS

BURGLARY OF BUILDING OR DWELLING - 3 COUNTS

FIRST DEGREE RECKLESSLY ENDANGERING SAFETY - 3 COUNTS

Miller is being held on a $200,000 cash bond.