Mack Technician

I think our shuttle truck driver was still feeling the Super Bowl party. Appears some of the ripples aren't going to pound out.

The lightest we’d run is 10W-40. We can park 75% of trucks and off road equipment indoors so we generally use heavy oil, mostly Mobil 1300 15W-40. All 4 of our D13's are running 15W-40.

“New America” cont.....

I’m at a CPR and first aid training today. We train on CPR dumbys. One guy said, “hey, why are these things wearing shirts?”. They never had shirts in the past. The instructor said a person (thankfully not from our company) complained about them being naked. It was a national complaint/issue they had to comply with. 

Cant make this stuff up, it’s an armless plastic chest attached to a head! No doubt the same person watched the Super Bowl half time show last night and began shaking uncontrollably at Adam Levine’s bare chest. 

The baby CPR dumbys had to get full onesies. Nearly tore it....Took me five minutes to strip the damn thing off cause the babies arms don’t bend and you have to see the LEDs underneath. 

11 hours ago, HeavyGunner said:

I wish I could find the article our weekly news paper had in either '09 or '10 on our winter temps that year. It was an incredibly cold year. It was so where around 100 days the high was never above 0 and it listed all kinds of interesting stats like that about that winter. I honestly thought I was going to have to buy an ext main that year for my ice auger. My hands would hit the slush about the same time the auger would bust through. We lived, but didn't make national news on escaping near death from winter. 

Are you sure your not thinking about 2013-2014 winter? That was the year LP, if you could get it here, was selling for $6 a gallon. We hit 80+ total days touching subs. 

Wikipedia “Early 2014 North American cold wave”. 

I’m surprised, guessed you would be on quick-punch, thin ice, river system pulling trout and not needing an extension for your auger.

Your a gentleman Heavy “G”.

When I started the car I plugged my ears and ran back in the house so I couldn’t hear the 45 seconds of oil-less death clattering.

4 hours ago, HeavyGunner said:

What the media won’t do for ratings. Polar vortex pffft what a joke, same as “gale force winds” Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas are in a polar vortex with gale force winds almost weekly. Pump it up, make it bigger and scarier than it is and you’ve got quality news according to the media. I had -16 twice last week and we didn’t have to declare an emergency, send the national guard in or close down schools. We just went to work like usual. 

Ahem...cough....ah, forgetting anyone....

She bottomed at -31 last night...but who’s counting backwards. Not beg’in for pity since I-Falls, MN only cancels school at Zero Kelvin.

15 hours ago, MACKS said:

Set em straight MT..

It's all in jest, but really? Put it right under a hose cluster?

Found it...……. page through this one Mike, good help for power drop outs even if your not seeing a 9-2.

52-sb221032.pd.pdf

3 hours ago, fjh said:

Yup good call Tech ! The grounds and connections at the block and  starter are a good place to go as those could have weakened that first relay to start with !👍

Somewhere I have (and you'll remember) the 9 page Service Bulletin Mack wrote during those years. A page by page on restoring chassis ground/distribution connections. Probably a garbage can full of star washers left the back door of the dealership.  

Better chance the relays are not the issue. Did you clean and check the chassis grounds. 

It’s the Twin Cities, nothing can shock the conscience and as 41 says...she was a first choice to represent.

When I can avoid the Minneapolis airport, I drive the extra distance to Chicago.  Every other MSP African woman working the desks, security and logistics will be wearing Muslim garb and just as many Muslim male employees in casual wear. That’s my choice, I’m that guy who doesn’t want the pilot wearing a shirt that says “I (heart) Allah”. Without prejudice, any faith that embraces suicide as a means of instant salvation makes me react. 

Sounds like you don’t have an oil sensor which would explain why the gauge is redundant and inop. 

Leaky studs are often a removal of exhaust manifold, removal of lower studs and replacement + thread sealant. The upside being lower studs will not be seized into the head(oily), the downside being your going to snap a couple of the upper studs which will be seized into the head(bone dry). 

On 1/23/2019 at 11:12 AM, steeler said:

Update......found the problem. The fuel line that goes from filter head to engine had a brass T fitting in it with a small line running to the after treatment fuel pump. I replaced the line with a new one and they didn't drill all the way thru the fitting. Parts defect. Sure is aggravating!

Good find!

Gesundheit....

Dig the “Free food, we care so we share” hippy bus. It’d Kinda make you wonder if what your eating got tenderized by the bus wheels the day before? 

3 hours ago, Mackpro said:

We had a few export MP8’s pass through heading south to catch a boat to South America. I took a lot of pics and I think I posted them here. No egr and plain old school exhaust manifold with a regular old turbo on it. They did have the big exhaust brake thing behind the turbo that Volvo used to put on their D12 engines. 

They are doing it to VOE (volvo off-road equipment) also. For the sale to a non-conforming country they will install a strip-it kit and software package. To have it done you need to have your bill of sale, port-of-call paperwork, etc, all in order. There is one specific group doing all conversion work. It's a captured, factory, procedure.   

Parts man could tell you with just vin. CCRS = leak free injectors. No return line plumbing (from head) for fuel leakage from injectors.

"Old rust free" is the challenge 'round here.

Listened while I cleaned the garage last night. Final 45 minutes trail off pretty far...…… into kids and Idaho? But the first hour is a real interesting. Cusses like a sailor so a good outside project.

If a guy was really conciencious, above the line, concerned, for what his engine is doing........ get the wife a new kitchen scale for Christmas. Throw your centrimax on her old kitchen scale after your oil change. Write the normal (carbon loaded) weight on the scale as your baseline. When you see the weight going up you have engine issues. Dirty injector, blowby, etc.. 

If you’ve never chopped one of your old centrimax open, do it for curiousity. Looks exactly like a big zinc-carbon battery inside. Black, dry, carbon clay.

IMO- get rid of it. All of the guys I know running those kind of set ups have been skin flints (not driven for a “green”, waste oil free, Earth) trying to stretch their  oil changes past a natural interval. In fact, if I had the choice of two, id buy the one without it. The Centrimax is perfectly engineered to remove the AI engines high soot. If a guy checks his oil samples, has a tuned engine, changes the centrimax each round and follows factory intervals you end up around 3% soot and a healthy engine. 5% is max per Mack. 

On 1/20/2019 at 6:38 AM, Vladislav said:

Wow!

Jason, I had no idea of the things being such interesting at you. Was thinking you was doing the same as the East Coast relaxing crue which had no snow since the only storm in November. Yes, your forecast is right, -5C outside at the moment. Quite comfortable for the season and the least point we had so far was -18C for just a couple of days. Nearly 40 cm of the white stuff is laying on the ground though and no one time of melting since it showed its presence in November.

The heater is not planned to the R since it's future is seemed as a sun bathing lady, hidden in a garage for a non-show season. But the divider lockout will be on duty.

Nicely done! I can smell fresh, wet paint when I stare at it. Is that the locker you bought from over the pond? Love the JDeere green.