Jim Warman Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 It all started, actually, the week before. A 5R110 in a 550 picker truck. Symptoms and test results lead me to believe one thing and I dove into the trans confident I would see what I expected to see.... At this point, I assumed problems with the low reverse clutch and the low reverse OWC (six months ago, this truck had a PTO line chaffe through and it ran to the point of "don't move" from oil loss. So, in all confidence I dove right in to the low/reverse clutch... which is fine.. The forward clutch, however, is a different tale. over 1/2" clearance on the clutch pack and looking close at the in pan filter (this is a late build trans) the filter medium is sucked up into the neck. I don't understand how this truck could even move under its own steam. Couldn't cost cap it but.... converters are "no stock Milky Way galaxy"... I get a reman... And it is remans that trouble me.... A 6.0 complete installed in January comes in with a miss... I diag a #7 injector and another tech shows me the gibbled O-ring on the old one... obviously damaged on initial installation, it took this long to become a problem. We installed a new O-ring on the old injector and reinstalled it to rule out any injector cup concerns... we looked at the cup with my See-Snake and didn't see anything.... but I get anal sometimes... Just before that one.... another FQR installed just 200 kms ago. Hydro-locked.... oil pan overfull... #6 injector is installed finger tight (new Canadians can always find work at mechanical rebuilding shops... they accept minimum wage quite happily... it's more than they ever got in southeast Asia or the Philippenes... I am sorry if that statement offends anyone). All of these are work trucks.... while we are dealing with these concerns, these people are not working.... Just to put the icing on the cake..... a local RCMP cruiser struck and killed a pedestrian while responding to a call. Standard practice in any fatality MVA is to inspect Vehicle A to determine if the vehicles condition had any affect on the event. While inspecting this cruiser, my fave SA asked "How can you do that all the time?". "It beats the hell out of what I had to do when I was on the fire dept.", sez I, referring to picking up victims with a shovel.... "Oh... I found him..... Wow.... I found some more of him....". But... truth be known... every time you do one of these, it steals a tiny portion of your soul.... Irony... the car was roadworthy at the time of the incident... but I did sell a rear brake reline and a maintenance 2.... Lifes a bitch...... and then you die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Meanwrench Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 I kinda feel some of your pain. When there is a major trauma call, ambulances have to come in to the shop to have moldings and mounts/plates taken up off the floors in the patient compartment. You can imagine what ends up on the floor!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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