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JoeH

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  1. Everything bolts right in.  Steal the VIN from the donor truck so you can get new air bags and shock absorbers.  The airbags are threaded if I recall. You grab it and spin it to get the bags out.

  2. I converted a 1988 RD690S to air cab.  Literally found a 2002ish RD at a junk yard and bought the rear mount assembly. You need the exhaust stand/crossover bar, 2 brackets inside the frame rails that the shock absorbers bolt to (one bracket on each side) air bags, a plate that bolts to the underside of the cab, and the bolts that thread in from inside the cab.  There's a leveling valve as well in that assembly, I think we tied our air supply in from the line going to the seat. Bolts right in, makes a world of difference on ride quality.  

  3. Are your studs stamped with an L? Pretty sure my truck with Budds is right hand thread all around. I'd have to check on the steering axle. My 1979 has left hand thread on one side on the steer, with stud pilot rims. Rears were converted to spoke hubs in the 80's when we bought the truck. They're all right hand thread.

  4. 11 hours ago, Mark T said:

    Guy where I live here has a E Tech (pre self destructive EGR)   He took it to a diesel repair shop because the EML was on (truck ran fine)  He wa stold the light wa son because it needed 6 unit pumps and six injectors. Then they told him they needed @ $9000.00 for parts before they went ahead with the repair. He questioned them and they were adament the codes were coming from both the unit pumps and injectors themselves.  This wasn't a Mack dealer, and that was because they gave him every excuse why it'd be weeks before they could even get it in.  So now it's been running around with the light on for a couple mounths (lol)  Personally, I think the old girl needs an engine harness, point is this is one more of countless examples of what truck repair has devolved into.  

    Please tell him to run the blink code test and figure out what the codes really are....

  5. On 2/8/2024 at 7:26 PM, dieselpowerstroke said:

    So it seems they are willing to hillbilly my new injector lines to make them seal to the cracked nozzles. Like, really?  But also he said afterwards, they would just slobber oil slightly down the side of the head and

    Is anyone else scratching their head as to how you get an oil leak from fuel injector lines mating up to the injectors?...

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  6. What I don't understand is how taking off the injector lines cracks the nozzle cup down in the injector bore. Granted I've never had to pull injectors myself, but shouldn't the injector and thus the cup be locked into place by the injector retaining bolt(s)?

  7. I know what you mean, these old dogs are great.  We have a 79 r686st that we've about worn out, and a 1980 or 81 dm686sx that's been relegated to yard duty.  A little mechanical know how and these trucks will last a long time.  Having several of the same trucks pays tremendously with spare parts and know how on repairs.

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  8. I'm sorry you took the differential out of the truck unnecessarily, that's a chore and a half. Taking the body off too is a other chore and a half.  Last one we did we jacked the front axle waaaay up, and pulled the whole axle housing out from underneath the truck. Then did same to the front.  Our truck bodies aren't easy to remove, and the truck ate a bearing which busted teeth off some gears, so we decided to swap differentials to get a better top speed than 48mph...

  9. 51 minutes ago, elm said:

     I don't see how fixing the wheel seal will fix the main problem of oil leaking from top to bottom.

    It's all connected. Oil is flung up top by the gears down below. So oil is "circulated". There is no problem on your axle other than a wheel seal. Fix the bad wheel seal, then find a way to tilt the axle housing towards the replaced seal so that oil from the pumpkin floods the wheel bearings.  Top up the pumpkin and you're done, good to go.

  10. Oil is splashed up from below into the top housing... As Joey said, on initial fill you hit the top housing and then bottom, but after that you only check the plug on the back of the axle housing. Oil should be to the bottom of the hole.  You keep putting oil into the top, and it keeps draining that oil to the bottom because its not low up top.

  11. Only logical reason not to use our own energy sources would be a long term strategy to burn up everyone else's energy first so we're the last ones with energy reserves. But I have no clue how far out that plan would have to be thinking. 100 years? 500 years? By then we'll be drilling for oil on other planets, if there is any. Can't have oil with no carbon...

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  12. Being a Vmac III, with cruise control off you should be able to hold the set/Decel button for a few seconds to trigger the lightning bolt to flash out a 2 digit code. That 2 digit code would tell us what the problem is.

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