Underdog

Hahahaha. I am like 15 minutes from cane bay. Next time ya head out this way let me know! And yep... I'll be like that cop in Tennessee trying to spy on violators. ( I own a diesel repair shop and work on a fleet of trucks exclusively macks) 

No photo evidence, but about 20 years ago, I visited a customer in West Elizabeth, PA who had a Mack E6 Powered Michigan wheel loader.

I am not

Underdog,you got that right! Every bridge in New York state is marked a foot low except those in the city ( we mean it![emoji16] ) are those rental cars?

ok im going to say a lot of things here some may be related some may not be. 
 
starting about 2 months ago my truck started barely charging, about 12.8 volts. figured the alt shit the bed, drove about an hour up the road got a alternator threw it on still wasn't charging, found i was getting charging volts at the alt but not the gauges or the battery, jumper cable from the alt to the frame no change, from the body of the alt to the battery it started charging after a few hours of cleaning every ground wire i could find without finding the problem, ended up running a heavy gauge wire from where the alternator grounded to the truck frame to the negative lead on the starter, no issues with that for at least a month, following that my starter went bad, changed that still no charging problems
 
my truck has developed a little bit of a occasional low rpm low throttle position hesitation, it will occasionally stumble a little bit at less than 1/4 throttle at low rpms like when going threw the low gears slowly pulling away from a stop, occasionally i will see a small quick puff of white fuel smoke when it does this, it seems like there might be a slight loss of power when it seems to be running normal but i cant say for sure if there is its probably not much but it seems like maybe a little less power, i was thinking might be time for a new injector unit pump or two, the truck will occasionally throw a injector code on #3 maybe 2-3 times a week it will pop up for 5 mins and then go away. its done this for a long time, without any ill running issues what so ever. also not necessarily any where remotely at the same times that i can tell that the truck is running any different. it will also seem to idle a little rougher than normal from time to time. fuel millage hasn't seemed much different, i am averaging 5.6mpg and i run 96k lbs loaded every load. 
 
another thing iv noticed is sometimes my boost and oil psi gauges will fluctuate a couple psi with no change in sound/operating condition. like say holding steady rpm and throttle position pulling hill. i have kinda noticed this for a while never put much thought into it
 
now for the strangest thing its done, today i was dead heading about 150 miles to pick up a shorter load, i lost my first stage of my Jake break oil psi running at least 5-7 psi lower than normal. for givin rpm/oil temp. figured i popped a plug out of the end of the rocker shaft again, being i was already committed to the load and i didn't really have time to stop and pull a valve cover and still make it threw the port of entry into Canada before they closed i just decided i would pick up the load and then check it out later. it is a short mile load any way and would put me in a location with more services available if i needed to try to get anything to fix it. it was also did its new low rpm stumble a few times on the way up empty
get there to load have to wait for another truck ahead of me to load, so i shut the truck off and am poking around pull the pass threw plug off wiggle some wires plug it back in, get loaded take off and everything is normal again oil psi normal jakes working normal, never stumbled once i didn't see anything that looked abnormal or out of place. i can't see how the pass threw connector would change the oil pressure. but it has me wondering if all my problems might come back to a bad ground or a chaffed wire or something, i cleaned every ground i could find when i had the charging problem. but never did get it charging without adding a additional ground cable.
 
what are your thoughts?

Here's a picture of my chop chop top Volvo with a big load leaving JFK airport NYC... Better make damn sure you're 13'6" in the city!

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I need that in my yard. I would loan it out to anyone who wants to buy it for me.

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On a E7 there is two oil pans of same size.One uses a thick rubber gasket and the other one uses a paper gasket and bolts are different size          so they will not interchange.

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Greg,
Thanks!  Makes sense about a larger pan.  Do you know if the same pan fits both the E6 and E7?  I do not remember specifics about the oil pan when the E7 was developed.  I looked in my parts book and it lists only one pan.  I checked some other E7 spec sheets and they all show 33.5 qts. capacity.  Perhaps it was a dealer installed item or installed by Martin's.

Around that time period Mack had 2 different oil pans, one with about 34 qt. capacity, and the ESI deep pan 52 qt. I think with the E-tech late '90s they did away with the deep pan option. I thought it went away with the centri-max, but apparently not, Ken. My '85 has the big oil pan with 3 spin-on filters.

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3 hours ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Then how come Hillary has never been charged?

See my previous post about Obama. Hillary enjoys the same privilege with a favorable media. Tell the same Lies over and over and over again and it becomes the truth. The media used to love Donald Trump also, until he ran for president as a Republican. Double whammy... He ran against The Chosen One Hillary Clinton.

3 hours ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Helps that he got to fire the head of the agency investigating him...

I'm sure you wanted him gone during Clinton's email investigation.

4 hours ago, DailyDiesel said:

I guess we'll wait and see. Hopefully I am proved wrong.

Hopefully level heads will prevail. I would like to see the media practice your patience.

3 hours ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Because she hasn't committed any crime.

Neither has Trump. Unless having 2 scoops of ice cream is a crime.

7 hours ago, DailyDiesel said:

So you both don't consider it a red flag that a sitting president requested that an active investigation into his administration be stopped for no other reason than he said so?
 

I would like the New York Times to produce the evidence. Most of these hit pieces originate with undocumented sources. James Comey has not produced the memo in question yet. If Trump said that to Comey in February, why wasn't it a red flag to Comey at the time?

3 hours ago, TS7 said:

Impeach for what? Draining the swamp. A lot more need to go, soon.

The media sees smoke and they are trying to invent a fire. Except the smoke is the dust kicked up from spring cleaning in Washington. It is no longer business as usual and the establishment doesn't like it. Ironic how 6 months ago Democrats wanted Comey's head on a pike.

I'm not sure if the last two posts are sarcastic or not.

Foot valve is siezed. There is a steel plunger in the aluminum pedal base that could be stuck, preventing the brakes from releasing. Take it all apart and clean it and grease it.

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6 hours ago, Dirtymilkman said:

Yawn

Exactly... I don't see much different compared to the 2015 Volvo I drive now. Did anyone else catch the reference in the video to the steering wheel?!? Volvo calls it the "human/machine interface". We are not human anymore, only part of the machine. Soon we will have chips with barcodes in our necks.

He got frustrated when he couldn't get the clip on... I thought he was going to call for his mommy to come and help. Looks like big man still lives in his parents house.

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