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Welcome Jim. This IS a great site to learn stuff. Wide diversity of people and Mack experience.
Run it. Do oil sampling to see how much metal is on the move inside your engine, don’t want an inspection hole in engine block. Blowby is legal in 50 states. Water is condensate or evaporation of coolant, oil test will verify if it’s only condensate.
Knock the chrome covers off EUPs on right side. Make a 3” jumper wire. Start cold. Short out EUPs one at a time to see which hole won’t wake up cold.
A tune up with injector tips is a cheap refresher if you can do most of it yourself. Takes minimal knowledge and a good book. If you rebuild, those parts are good for reuse..... so no loss. A free engine manual download is available for OEM engine rebuild and procedures.
Go to search window and enter “makeshift manometer” and you’ll find my directions to build a blowby gauge. That will give you a solid number if you want one.
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No heavy equipment destruction this round, but worth sharing.....
Guy shows up to go fishing with my brother-in-law. Has a Frabill soft-top portable fishing shack strapped to the back of his vehicle, on a receiver rack. It's folded down and bell sled base contains two 12-volt Vexlar batteries charge for business. It also contains four small propane cans charged for business. Rest is just equipment, the total of which is $1K to $1.5K in electronics and equipment.
Everyone is fed'n'bed, dreaming of Lake Superior trout flopping on the ice. Middle of the night, about 2AM they awake to the sound of “boom” with a flame reaching 20 feet on occasion. Neighbor said he woke to his dog barking, saw a fire at rear of the vehicle and then the first of four explosions. First blew the hold-down straps off and launched the Frabill chassis onto the lawn. His equipment and shack were ripped apart and burned by the propane bottles. The Suburban was splattered with blobs of melted plastic, but otherwise did surprisingly well.
The fire department chief was called to investigate and ruled "foul play", then recanted to "no evidence of foul play" and then finally to "cause unknown"...…..? Only energy source was batteries, but the vehicle was sitting still for hours?
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Need to start with the simple causes like fuel pressure low(test), boost leaks(smoke? High pyro?). Codes? Malfunction light?
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21 hours ago, mowerman said:
Not bellyaching just sharing winter in Reno,,,,,see we got shitty whether here as well sometimes,,,,bob
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Imagine the kids work fast to enjoy it before day breaks.
It’s a slop-fest up here. Got 5” of snow last night and 8 hours of rain. Was pushing it with the 660 Griz in four lock and stalling out. Like pushing 500lbs of snowman corpses all balled up.
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On 1/4/2019 at 3:01 PM, 41chevy said:
A 12 oz can is 25 cents with 5 cent deposit no tax. $2.98 plus 60 cent deposit for a 12 pack 12 oz bottle is 49 cents with 5 cent deposit.
https://moxie.myshopify.com/products/moxie
They (company store) are sold-out of product today? Coke is 5 months in on purchase...….they are able to market well enough to create scarcity and others collect $5.04 a can for it?
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This should get you home...……. Attn: Relay 2 distribution flow.
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10-4, look past high tech solution, record what components are being effected during the power/voltage drop-out event and work backwards to what they commonly share in PDM.
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9 hours ago, 41chevy said:
Photo taken in Maine Lobsta and MoxieHauler
Good little piece of insurance. If the price of Amazon’s Moxie supply hits $6 for a 12oz (from the current $5.04 a can) folks may start rioting.
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7 hours ago, Dani said:
Where's speed sensor located at?
Lay under your engine bellhousing and look up the side of the bell. Are you getting an active code?
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Think I may have found a competitor...….
Chevy 41, HOW MUCH DO YOU MAINE-ITES MAKE ON THE SALE OF A BOTTLE OF MOXIE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If you can find a bigger Amazon rip-off I'll give you 20 "likes".
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6 hours ago, 41chevy said:865 or the 866 V8 the cab and hood are raise up about 3 or so inches. The dog house is low enough that the heater clears it. Turbo fits under the doghouse.
This is Yoos brothers U700 engine photo.
Wouldn’t want to know anyone who owns one out of fear of being asked for help replacing a head.
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23 hours ago, HeavyGunner said:
If you remember the amount of irs employees ballooned an astonishing amount right after Obamacare was forced into action. Got to arm all of those agents.
Obama weaponized the IRS to stall out Tea Party groups applying for tax exemption..... phase 2 was shoot them if they got tax exemptions.
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22 hours ago, theakerstwo said:
The noise has a big factor but its all in your head.What good would they be if you could not hear them.I have thought about the telman electric brake but its so heavy and pricey
I drove a Telma once, behind an E9. Headlights go dim when you power it up, but those things really did it. The variable resistance lever was slick.
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Crazy.
Suppose the modern day bootlegger in the hills of Tennessee may have night vision, bump stock and body armor.
You’ll recall in 2013 the department of Homeland Security purchased 1.6 billion rounds of ammo on top of what they had. A good portion of which were rounds not able to be used in war due to no full metal jacket......but could be legally used on citizens.
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Let's not argue. I think we can all agree on this...…
If your in a mid 90's PLN...…... With just the factory Jake, well adjusted...…. you will be able to decel on a mountain pass so long as you are Bobtail and you hit a large elk that is jammed under the steer axle skidding like a big, bloody meat wheel chock and your running against a 30 MPH headwind...… the speed control will be perfect.
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My mentor at the shop told me he had a design for a PLN jake assist. It used the jake relay power-out to apply 10 PSI to the truck air brake system with a solenoid operated valve, then magnify the exhaust noise with a mic piped into the truck stereo system.
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On 12/29/2018 at 4:48 PM, sllimec47 said:
How about similar issues on a 95 454 E7? (both heads work just not effective)
The PLN like yours never produced much brake force on their best day. It was more of an engineering issue, not a mechanical issue.
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Pull an engine oil sample to check for high iron or coolant. Folks like to unload the truck when sampling goes south, especially on auctions where you don’t have to look the buyer in the eye.
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you have an active fault.
There is a thread in the middle of this engines page, about 12 ahead of yours. It says “2000 e7 427 hi idle”. I have two code listed which cause the 900 RPM default.
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Is it going to a specific RPM and holding or just wandering all over?
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For the same reason Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hasn’t been executed........
They give them time to find flakey girls who want to be their correspondent prison girlfriend, for injected cocktail drugs to be outlawed, a chance at getting insanity sympathy, to drag it out and drive up the cost of capital punishment so they can argue against it, to work on the book deals and so they can appeal again and again to find a mistake, juror impropriety, sympathetic liberal judge, or other loop hole to free them when the whole Earth knows they smoking-gun-did-it.
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You out west? Assume MO= Missouri?
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You won’t over-work the engine. You will be dropping out of the top hole more often and losing some of your low crawl.
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chicken lights for the mack truck
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Always wondered why they called them “Chicken lights”.
Google say chicken thieves were stealing chickens off trucks while they drove slowly through dark, unlit streets of cities. Drivers hung lanterns on the sides so they could see what was going on.