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Keith Browning

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Finishing up an engine overhaul on a 30-ish year old John Deere 450C side boom crawler dozer, just said goodbye to a very well preserved 1980 GMC Brigadier grain truck with a remarkably clean and leak-free Detroit Diesel 8V71. '05 Dodge in the yard, towed over from the dealer, customer is pissed because after hounding them for an overheat concern for a year apparently it needs an engine, and with 2000km over warranty it's customer pay. It'll be interesting getting the whole story on that one.....

Oh ya, '02 Freightliner M2 with a Cat 3126, supposed to be just regular PM (from the most irregularly maintained fleet), but also needs an ongoing overheat/derate to be diag'd, and now the starter crapped out, blocking a bay door, at 4:30 Friday.

What else....finished scaring the crap out of a guy with a '95 K-W T800, needs somewhere in the neighbourhood of 10-15K to fix everything from front and rear suspension, alignment, transmission and mounts, engine flywheel housing, and it'll still be a miled out rattly truck with one foot in the grave.

Can't wait to see what comes in next week, as the local auction yard had their spring machinery consignment sale yesterday. Supposed to have two different Ford medium duties come in for major engine work sometime, I'll have to get my cloning device working again so we can duplicate ourselves and have a night shift. Or not.

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I'm surprised Dwayne hasn't jumped in here..... Currently, he has an 06 with a DPF delete on it.... Last I saw, he was checking crankcase pressure....

 

Over to you, Dwayne......

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I have a 90 model year cat challenger 65 with a puked trans. Just got done ordering parts and we are at 8000 bucks. No labor on the bill for R&I or recondition trans yet. The customer will be happy. Not sure why he is fixing it. It is only about a 10,000 dollar tractor. I guess a bill for 15,000 is a lot less than 325,000 for a new one.

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Brad.... the DPF delete in Dwaynes bay is an 08.... and it's going to get gnarly....

 

This weekend, I set out (in someone elses bay) to install a new stereo in my car (my loving bride calls it 'her' car... but she is also convinced that they keep putting the wrong name on her paycheque). I invested a bunch of time fabbing mounting brackets - and then I found that the wiring was a mangled, prefucked mess.... $400 for a 'used' stereo? No, thank you.....

 

Gnarly is becoming a way of life......

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We ran across our first delete a couple of days ago. The guy took baby steps though and it looked like this......

 

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As soon as he put this on the mil came on with p2002. The dealer sent him packing.

 

He came back with full on delete, straight piped from the down pipe to the rear bumper. Mil light on again with lousy fuel mileage and the clutch burned out of it.

 

This situation is an interesting one to follow.

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A Caterpillar 10 spd powershift. It stands about 4 feet tall and 2 feet wide. Weighs in at 1,700 lbs(750 kg for our canadian friends)Takes 20 hours to remove, 35 hours to rebuild, and 20 hours to install.

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A Caterpillar 10 spd powershift. It stands about 4 feet tall and 2 feet wide. Weighs in at 1,700 lbs(750 kg for our canadian friends)Takes 20 hours to remove, 35 hours to rebuild, and 20 hours to install.

Pfft. That's NOTHING.

 

I did a transmission pan gasket on a 2004 F-150 last week.

 

That's right. I said it.

 

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What kind of fixture do you mount that thing in? Or the big concrete slab known as the floor?

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It is a state of the art piece of machinery it is made of concrete and rebar and it has heat in the winter. Yeah its the floor. I somedays wish that I was working on a little bit smaller stuff. I know I have moved a zf5 spd around a bit by hand to get things lined up. At work I have a 5 foot pry bar I use to massage things into place sometimes. Every job has its good and bad. I have a buddy that works at a mine in wyoming and the stuff he works on is two or three times the size of the stuff I work on.

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2009 Expedition with only.............get this....... 11543km's. This is a rental unit that was up in Red Earth. Customer complaint is stalling and a no start. Get this.....It stalled when they got out to clean off the fucking headlights. Posted Image All I can say is that it takes someone really fucking special to treat a vehicle like this. Posted Image

 

 

 

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I give up. I can't get these farkin photos to come through for the life of me. Keith, could you please help? Even Jim doesn;t know why I can't get them to come through. It has to be my freakin computer or the way this thin views it.

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Dwayne... you should have stuck around...

 

Upload the pics using photopost... once you have the pics up, look under the pic - see the box with the URL of the pic... see the box under that - the one that says "copy to clipboard" - click on that... you may have to temporarily allow this action...

 

Go to your post and click on "enter an image" 4th icon from the left above the text entry box... paste your clipboard into the box that pops up... done deal.

 

Yes - that's sinful... yes that's a lot of mud... no, it wont be the last time you see something like that... welcome to the Great Canadian Arboreal Forest.... Young uns... you shoulda been here before they paved the highway to Red Earth Creek. There was about a 5 km stretch near Nipisi - any time it rained even a little, there was a couple of D8s and a 4WD tractor to pull vehicles through the "hi-grade".

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