Mack Technician

Nice line-up! Get me on that tea cup ride (pic 2).

If I was complaining it would look like this "That old bat is suck'in water out of an Arizona stone!!".

3 hours ago, Underdog said:

Most jobs it's time to file your papers long before you turn 80 years old... 80 years old plus a brain tumor? Definitely time to retire. I guess it's pretty hard to jump off that Congressional gravy train.

Makes you wonder why? I'm not certain, but do ponder if his wife gets a bigger payout if He dies employed. Don't even want to think that would be a factor, but consider Bud Dwyer. Still got that news conference video stuck in my head to date (and "Hey man, nice shot" song). He wouldn't let himself go to jail and he knew his goose was going to cook so he stood in front of a TV audience, declared he would not resign from office, had his assistant hand him a mystery envelope, pulled out a .357 and punched a hole in his palate. Ends up he secured a 1.28 million dollar death payout to Mrs. Dwyer by doing it before fully convicted. Bends my mind, the most selfless, and simultaneously selfishly greedy, act committable.

What year truck? 3-1 is failure on exhaust temp sensor. 7-3 is speed control set switch shorted to voltage.

Never a wrong time to pop the valve covers and take a look at clearances.

Never mind.... after last nights debacle. McCain must be in legacy mode.  

10 minutes ago, TDBach said:

It's not my place to judge.. however I do raise an eyebrow every now and then  

Just judgment enough to discern.

Last year we had a local fellow come to church, at late evening off hours, with a handgun to kill himself, possibly others too. Pastor saw him get out of car and tuck the gun so he locked the front door till guy agreed to put his gun back in the car. Let him in, talked him down and had the health care people come and get him, but didn't tell white coats about the gun.

Got the guys parents to confiscate the gun. He went and visited him regularly. See him around now, he is doing OK. We have our eye raisers too.    

6 hours ago, TDBach said:

I'll stick to oldMacks, tractors, and cattle... or I'll need to get a pair of hip waders because the crap is getting deep ha!  

So I went to church on Sunday morning and a woman brings her 7 year old son in.. dressed in a dress.. girls flip flops and a shaved head.. his name was Christopher..  I would like to know what people were thinking... his mom said "he's transgender".   What the he** 

in farm country?   What is the world coming to? 

 

Sounds like a great opportunity to minister to the people! Church is a home for the sin sick. We are always hoping for folks in spiritually difficult circumstances to come in through the door........but we mostly just get our regulars.  

13 hours ago, Mackpro said:

I believe the  T300 series can handle anything but we had a MP10 605 destroy a T318 last week. Good thing it was under warranty. Never seen a counter shaft in the back box break in half before

Popped a forward snap ring off our 05' T318L synchro last month. We bought a shaft retaining plate and I was able to fish the junk out of the front box. Was feeling confident so I had told the boss, before we bought, to avoid T200 cause you wouldn't know if the rear output mainshaft was upgraded. What a jinx, we got 7K miles on it and "pop".

Have they come up with any other rear shaft improvements since 2010 (other than the high torque output shaft for cummins)? I don't see any.

2 hours ago, Mackpro said:

The 300A uses 736GB419M . The 375A uses 736GB419M2. The AI400 also uses the M2's. The AI 427 and 460's use the M3 injector 

Mpro, Your like an intellectual Swiss army knife.

On ‎7‎/‎20‎/‎2017 at 9:20 AM, Bigjohn4300 said:

Btw the trans in this truck is a 4500rds, not a 3 series, that model, in that year truck, was available from Mack behind the 427 and lower ratings, but the 300 and 375 versions were supposed to be mapped for best performance behind the allison.

FYI

If I can throw out a suggestion, I recommend the group I use. Mike has his own recipes for Mack injectors. He services two Mack dealerships, one Mack independent and the owner operators. They turned around lots of angry, disappointed, AI engine customers for us. K & S will charge you $85 w/$50 core (plus soft/hard parts) instead of Rochester's $165 w/$100 core.

K & S got on the Mack modification map when they built the fuel system for Red Eye Express. It was a CH sleeper with a ridiculous amount of horsepower. A guy I went to tech college with was working at Cummins, Wausau, when Jimmy Stewart brought the Express in to run the dyno. He spun out too much so they told him to come back with a loaded trailer. He came back with a loaded trailer and still broke loose. At the Chicago Mack North American institute, where we factory trained, the teacher used the truck as a talking point. If Stewart was an honest man....he was reaching 10-11 MPG when he pussy-footed a load.   

I asked Mike about your set up. He would want to know the OE injector part number of the current 300HP engine and the OE part number of the injectors you would use for a 375HP. The only advantage Rochester is going to have over K&S is in the 460HP upper stage. Mike associates with Brad, at Rochester, and says they are tooled to push 460 to upper limits via honing technique.  

By design and plan they don't go with stages. If you pull into some shop with one cracked injector "stage so-and-so" they don't know who's stage is what or customized to what-where-who. If you lose an injector Mike can align you to your closest injection vendor for a specific replacement tip.

www.ksfuel.com

13 hours ago, carlotpilot said:

real iceie  situation

Ice see your pun and raise you one!

1 hour ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Some white guys are so fragile... Almost like snowflakes!

That's soooooo cold..... get it! "Snowflakes" "cold".....never mind. 

We had to dump our pension, it was redundant, I'll never see it cause of my age. No taxpayer $ here either. We chunk wood into paper with 400 union workers and an engineering group. Every month we clear 7-10 million dollars above the red at our facility. Corporate is very fat and very happy and we like it that way. We are also "right to work". 

2 hours ago, Mackpro said:

The FBI Crime Statistics must be racist.  13% of the US population causing 52.2% of murders. I'm not a racist but what can you say? Where I live I'm more worried about the white cracked out meth users . 

Well put! I'm mostly worried about diabetes and uncommonly delicious cheese. It's killed most of my family members. The majority of the people in this forum are likely suffering from the same First World Issues like "truck driver butt".

As a Constitutional Conservative, Christian, United Steel Workers member, Gun toting conceal carry, straight/married, father of 5, white guy with stay home wife,  who likes his union ........... I have no friends in this argument.     

Rejection never gets easier ....

Dude, I'm hugging you and singing Kumbaya together right now....

One of the things I love about America.......there is a place for mourners and for solution-driven people.

If Minnesota dumbed down it is likely rooted in it's conservative roots(no pun intended) being chopped at...They have(had) a rich history of "getting it".

Plus they have better fishing than on that side of the border, unfortunately. Pig Walleye in Leech Lake that will flip your ice shack onto it's side.      

Minnesota Crime Commission, 1926 -

 "Every baby starts life as a little savage. He is completely selfish and self-centered. He wants what he wants when he wants it: his bottle, his mother’s attention, his playmate’s toys, his uncle’s watch, or whatever. Deny him these and he seethes with rage and aggressiveness which would be murderous were he not so helpless. He’s dirty, he has no morals, no knowledge, no developed skills. This means that all children, not just certain children but all children, are born delinquent. If permitted to continue in their self-centered world of infancy, given free rein to their impulsive actions to satisfy each want, every child would grow up a criminal, a thief, a killer, a rapist."

12 hours ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Your trying to race bait this tragedy, it ain't about race- Minneapolis has a dysfunctional police force. Used to listen to the scanner when I lived there, heard one officer shoot another officer who was working plainclothes. Heard another officer shot in the station, not sure if he shot himself or another officer shot him. They also had a crash with an officer behind the wheel plowing into a crowd that was watching a parade and killing two, later found that the officer hadn't driven the vehicle before and mistook the gas for the brake.

I grew up in a town of 1,000. The local Tech institute would send new graduates to train for one year under our police chief, he was outstanding as a mentor. What an annual nightmare. They tried to minimize trainee damage by sending them to us and it was chaos. On Monday morning there was a line outside our police chiefs home...people complaining. He would rip up whatever ticket you were willing to approach his door with.

It was common for immature rookies to go out drinking, socializing, dating and getting stupid with the local "20 something's" then go out to satisfy social vendettas while on the clock.  Same thing was going on in Crandon, WI, only that ended with the officer killing 6 over a dating issue.

PS- we were all white

Looks like a simple observation to me.

"According to Fatal Encounters, the database created by former Reno News & Review editor and journalism instructor Burghart (which tracks all deaths resulting from interactions with police), a total of 1,388 people were killed by police in 2015, 318 (23%) of them black, and 560 (40%) of them white."

Exhaust calculation. Working over justifications.

E7-12ltr running 1,680RPM @ 32 PSI boost creating 1,070 CFM exhaust @ 5PSI max (theoretical fixed) head pressure......

Exhaust size     exhaust speed (feet per second)      differential

1"                                         2,592                                              baseline

 2"                                          708                                                  366%

 3"                                          309                                                  229%

 4"                                          184                                                  167%

 5"                                           121                                                 152%

 6"                                            82                                                   147%

21 hours ago, thom2and said:

Where can I get a copy of this "bulletin"? I would like to know where to find all the grounds.

This is accurate for repair.

Cluster fix.pdf