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double postI give it a thumbs up for preventing frame cracks at the steering box mounting.keydl

The wandering is usually helped with a little more caster setting, if you run 2lane most of the time set a little more ( 1/9 to 1/4 deg )to one side. IIRC the drivers side. Set up right with at least 3/4ths of the sidewall air pressure in the tires and the toin set to the min spec - 0 Deg I think I usually use 1/64th to make sure that it does not go toe out from road dynamics.Caster will not normally show up as a wear problem, it will be a complaint that the wheel does not want to return to straight ahead or it wants to drift to one side, if it pulls different problem, but a general driftyness in the foward mode is a sign to check the caster with care.Toe-in - they will go nicely down the road with an inch of tow-in, ( lots of tire and other wear and a lot of fuel to cut the rubber off the tires but good mannors ) but toe-out on the toe-in measurement will usually make a ditchfinder that will unpredictablly dartCamber incorrect setting will make the tire wear as a cone, smooth but tapered across the tread, toe-in will do the same but the edge of the tread will be sharp on one side.Toe-out measurement checks the steering arm angle, the arms should converge at the wheel base if extended with a line. A pair of lines, hooked on the grease zerks of the ball joints and the steering arms should be measure the same on both sides, bent spindle or steering arm will have a different measurement between the two lines. The last check on the rack where it is measured with degree turntablesIf the wheels are wanting to go straight the pitman arm brace won't make a difference in steering BUT it will relieve the strains on the steering box mounts from 4wheeling.I give it a thumbs up for preventing frame cracks at the steering box mounting.keydl

I would use a differential pressure switch to trigger the gas switch because the air filter can change the inlet pressure. The air cleaner monitor is a ready made access point and the intake manifold connection for a boost gage would be a good choice.Injecting in the turbo inlet would seem a good place for mixture but many have leaks so I would go for the bottom of the tube at the outlet of the charge air cooler. A welding regulator is going to be constant volume at the pressure but the ratio will change with the engine speed. While you may share the cab with a 20# cylinder to dial the regulator for the best setting, the cheap solution for not sharing the cab is probably 2 regulators staging - first on differential pressure and second on engine rpm.I would leave a pipe plug for a third regulator with a N.O. switch for a power mixture added to the other 1 or 2 working on preset controls.A piece of 3/8's steel tubing bent 90 deg with the air flow should work for a nozzle and a 3/8ths compression fitting drilled for the tubing to pass through, using a 4 foot piece with a rubber tube to the body and back to 3/8 steel tube to the gas valve.A 20# tank strapped to the seat base so that you can reach the valve and a towel to lay over it will prove that you want to run the equipment, but for the long term no hassle setup a dot tank and steel lines. The 2 trucks that I ran with propane came with hose for all lines, but as they showed wear they were replace with steel patterned after Gleaner combines - Short loop of hose for engine movement/vibration and clamped down steel for all other connections.One source of regulators for this project is welders that have a regulator that does not hold close to the exact pressure, they will often part with them for about 2x scrap price. They don't trust them for fine work and they have an excuse to buy a new one so the spare is new. I have been on both sides of those deals. If they run diesels they will be interested in the project so make a copy of the assembly and parts book that you can leave with them.I think that you will know within 40# of propane that you will have results that will prove that it will work at low volume with good results where the rest pretty much seem that power is the goal over econmy.I wish you the best of luck and serendipity.keydl

Before I bought a new one I would clean up the top of the tone ring teeth and the face of the sensor, probably with a file and a little caution. Then I would compare the clearance with the working one, there may be mud on the mount. If a business card locks under the sensor it is close. Check the face of the sensor that reads the tone ring for crack or distortion from impact. With new wheel bearings, it may have been hit when the old ones went outThe other thing is to get the grounds shinny and cover with grease on all the parts or soak them with paint to stop corrosion.The careless and poor of sight ought to stop reading and avoid contaminating the brake fluid with a petrolium product.There is a little lube pump , for gear oil I think, that works well for pumping the brake fluid back from the wheel. Remove the fluid form the MC and with a new clean bleeder screw fill the MC by pumping from the wheel. It backflushes the abs valve and when the fluid is proper looking, move the new bleeder to the next wheel and start over. No-sieze can be used on the threads of the old bleeder if care is taken not get it on anything but the threads, same with the inverted flair nuts with care to keep any trace from the inside of the flair.keydl

Well the daughter is up to Sandpoint now, they were complaining about 5 ft or so for the winter. Don't know what they would with an 80 mph wind to go with....my kind of luck, I would be visiting and have to scoop the snow off the roof in the wind.keydl

I manage a couple of lawn crews, the keep the weeds beat back on a couple places for the parking and observation on the crews.O of the things I do is give up 5 gallon of mix gas when they work, the 2cycle is synthetic 100:1 listed oh the label. It is all mixed at 100:1 and has caused no problems, even in an old chainsaw that wanted 16:1 mix ( cast in the housing ), it was free because it used spark plugs - 2-3 a working day - had since his dad took it to the woods. Would not hit on ether, but a new plug and some cranking with a drill and it started, serviced the points and it started easy and ran well. Been working at 100:1 since 2000.The owner is willing to buy 5 gallon a working day and the 2cycle on the job should be just under 2 gallon so all that is not used goes in a vehicle tank - have not heard of any problems, not sure any of the crew would make the connection if there were any problems. The stuff also feeds the 4stroke motors with no problem, but I got one to run on kerosene, my mistake.keydl

One of the posts put it as ' not allowing diesel without particulate filters ' and to include reefer unites and APUs.There are no widely avail filters yet, and more drivers are doing the same that they did for NY - most want $50 extra to cross the bridge. A lot of small outfits just don't take freight to CA. The fellow told me to 'cheer up, things could be worse ', so I cheered up and , sure enough they got worse.keydl

Federal standards came in 67, the first step was 72 when they retarded the cam, (easy fix - last years timing set ) that cost quite a bit of fuel mileage. &@ was the year that CO came in and posted a sheet on the bulletin board that promised to fine any mechanic $2500 for making a car run right above 3500 ft elevation. That is not the actual words, just the translation. I moved one of my tool boxes that day and the other 20 days later and built jigs for a diesel school.The smog got very rapidly worse and a lot of the blame can be laid at the door of the state employees, they did collect some money from some of the best mechanics and most of them moved on. Dad just dropped tuneup - sold the scope and posted a copy on the front door. And looked for heavy mechanics. He also found a side line that made more money - renting little jap motorcycles -= 65 cc 2strokers. Had a couple of hundred, kept 2 on service trucks, mostly because people could not mix fuel. We drug them back from Salt Lake, Great Bend, Lincoln, Gallop and most of the places in between. Got to the point where a seized jug and piston took less than an hour. But these things trailed a little smoke that offended some folk. And the mayors son borrowed a drivers license that was close, and then went out and broke his leg. So in less than a month it would be unlawful to rent a motorcycle for use on Denver's streets. One of them came around to gloat and save dad a pile of money, in a couple of weeks he would have bought new bikes for next year, as it was he closed out 2 weeks before thanksgiving and paid most of the crew through New Years. He slod tools and stock through summer and when there was a low enough volume we moved it to the garage at the house and he pulled the building down and loaded it and the parking lot out to Jefferson County, beat the tax deadline by 3 days, going down to the courthouse to certify that the lot was planted in grass, fenced and mowed. Had pictures of the mayors son in the Post the same day for some other stupid thing.So for more than 10 years the local government employees thought that greasemonkeys were not needed for Denver, that non of the people that they ran out with their fines and hassle were needed, until the fed EPA branded the place 'worse than L.A., and the manufactures developed (under protest ) altitude compensation.Hopefully they will do as CA did and the pre emissions cars had a need of positive crankcase ventilation and not much else, so pre emission light diesel trucks in good to excellent condition will be worth more for not having the emissions hassle.The way I see it is that the road draft tube needs an oil seperator and to be fed to the intake and NA diesel need more air and altitude compensation. I had the Isuzu to Denver, it smoked from around Amarillo at better than 20%. It does not need 100 HP but if it had air and 60 HP it would work well in hill country so it needs a supercharger or a turbo with just a little turn up on the fuel. Same with the 6.2 and the 6.9 - a good oil seperator on the crankcase vent and an increase in the air to stop the smoke. Same with the MB 240D, the patterns are out there for the turbo equipped engine that came later.Changing the value system to make bringing an old light truck up to spec a fair deal for the owner won't be easy. I liked the no tax deal on propane in the mid 70's for converted equipment. Then $800 with careful shopping would convert a gas to propane and the engine would make 300k or more to the second valve job, the first was to convert it. Good deal in the state but the laws out of the state are a mishmash, FL wants a $128 sticker for the first gallon.keydl

Because Cummins tolerates WEO, I expected to get the same mileage - the drain oil to substitute for a gallon of #2. That is the way that it worked in the mid '70's relocating scrap with a 350 small cam Cummins and a MD Toroflow. Much less crap in the drain oil.O well it subs for $24 paint if you want black.keydl

You notice the weather didn't happen all at once? I might have got discouraged and left.O, I did, went for the winter in FL. The winter of '79 when nothing happened.keydl

Well the gallon of Rotella syn that I ran through the tank made 0 difference in the cost, add the gallon to the pump reading and the fuel mileage dropped.Dollars for miles within a quarter. But the drain oil was free I will go back to painting fences with it.keydl

I think hat you are set to 'read' online and need to find the preferences and set to 'download from the web'. There also should be a delete feature for each email and a select all button.I am on Firefox, but komposer and Opera had the same choices. Opera 4? had a choice to limit long distance of dial, download and hangup on schedule, and you could stare reading with the first. If you were fast, replies were qued and out before hangup.keydl

Where was she when I was single? Oh.Finally someone that will DO and not think that they will get full credit for saying nice things.I talked to a code enforcement type, he said "people deserve nice houses" and failed to notice that because of what he did some people had NO houses.From this vantage point the state trooper not only needed fired but a 3 year 'vacation', we will see how the 'investigation' comes out when she is off campaining.You see the panic on the part of the lamestream media? They might have someone that will make it clear that questions of the 'when are you going to stop beating your wife' type can be held up to ridicule. And should be. And that press credentials ought only go to those that are not mentally impaired, wheather it is drug induced or mental illness.keydl

I remember the high plains after a blow with some snow, '49 there was maybe 6 in of snow and a blow for 4 days, the drifts went to the powerlines with nothing in he field. Late spring '78 had about 1/4 in of snow with a 3 day blow ( wind went above 90 mph on Thur evening and shut off promptly at 11:30 Sat night ) observed gusts above 120 and felt worse while trying to sleep.Sun morning to Wed am dead calm, very unusual for the valley, normal is 20 mph wind. Drifts 25 foot high behind every power pole, plumb level with the top of the house with a wind channel about 30 in wide all around the house except for the space to the shed was packed tight. Out toward the chicken coop the snow got down to 2 1/2 foot and back up over the chicken coop. Over toward the shop there was not a snow flake but the shop was drifted in same as the house. the combine, grader and loader were just color streaks in the drift. Every tuft of grass had a drift behind it but they just sublimed and left no moisture.It was nearly all gone when the power came back on a week later. Same week I went to FT Morgan and ran through a couple of plowed spots that had deep drifts, I stopped to triangulate one - plumb bob and square gave 90 foot - the other 3 times as long and a little deeperIn '70 I was headed out CO94 to Wildhorse and it was a day after a 2 day blow with 4 in on the ground, it had slacked to ground blizzard about 3-4 foot high. From the truck I could see the fence posts most of the time and I saw this red&black snow ball run up behind so that I almost missed the power line going into the snow. I got stopped without balling snow under the truck but the snow ball turned out to be a Firebird with T tops and he floated out far to far, it took 10-20 min to precisely locate the car so I could help him out. I backed about 3 miles to get to a road cut that was blown clear to turn around and go back to the shop. The wrecker spent all day out there. I quit for the day and went the scenic route the next day.If you plan for about 1/3 more volume and ramp slush to freeze an elevated road you can push a lot more in the same space than if you push it up as a wall. Another thing to do with fluff snow is insulation, berm it around the house. It shuts off the wind infiltration and keeps the frost off the baseboard when the weather gets cold. Of course hay and straw do better and with plastic tarps keep just as well.Or you might do what Grampa did - when the railroad finished the grain hauling they would layoff or transfer some people, He always volentiered for S Texas and they gave him Corpus Christy, so he would put out the fire at Bucklin and winter in CC. Come time for spring wheat he was back at Bucklin and on the recall list.keydl

Another part of that plan was to set up on the supermarket to catch the ones that never got to the freeway. set mirrors up all over and park the van on the other side, unmarked so they would not know to coast past.keydl

I think that a copy of the tests that thedieselplace did is here, 2cycle at 200:1 ( why that ratio? ) met the min spec with raw fuel.When the fuel is delivered the driver is supposed to add the material spec'ed by the brand so the fuel meets Fed spec. Now when adding lubricity to the fuel with 2cycle is it straight line addition, does it graph a loop or is it catalytic?. It takes at least 4 tests to really have a clue - a guess, double the guess, double agin and 10 times guess - if they graph straight you have a well founded guess that addition will work wonders. If it is catalytic the graph is a point.That is the reason that I advocate that if someone is going to start with 2cycle on an unmolested engine and they pick up fuel tickets with the odometer reading on them that they start at 1/4 the currant recommend for the first 1k miles and increasing for the next 1k miles followed by 1k at 1 oz per gallon.The results of adding a gallon of WEO were not as expected, using the numbers on the pump the mileage was the same but when th3e extra gallon was added the mileage was down. I run Rotella syn, it does not burn well when you add it to a hot fire, but it does eventually add a few BTUsSome places that would take a week to dokeydl

First month without a sunspot in 100 years, the cycle does not go lower than zero. The article on Drudge said that there were 3 other times - but made no mention of how crude the measuring equipment was. Same weather as last year, just a little more of it. You might want to tie a rope from the wood pile to the back door :)keydl

Look for the coin in the retracter roller.keydl

I recall reading 350 for #2 in '90 on some bodies parts counter sheet for the run up to the first part of 'those things stink' and some chemist told them that it was the sulphur. I notice that the smell is different on the ULSD. But the people in the offices are the direct representative of God, they can't be offended by smells that they don't like.keydl

Not much interested in collecting the gross polluter. just throwing work/money to their friends. You ever run through a 'light check' in CA? I think that they quit in the late '60s, just go out and stop a road to check lights, wipers, horn, pedal clearance and of course paperwork.keydl

Chrome is a hard material and not very slippery, cast iron rings are a specialty for racing and other problem applications, moly rings are a little higher priced, the kind of perk that you would expect in a high priced engine ( maybe ).Chrome color on the rings means that, they are not quite so shinny after use and when the chrome wears off the cast iron color shows - I am not aware of any engine new from the factory with cast iron rings.Molly rings are black and turn over during assembly with less effort, the last 300 Ford that I put togather had a little difference on the cam and a 2 deg key for cam timing and molly rings. In just under 2k miles the fuel mileage had come up about 2 mpg form 9.1 to 11 on a ton truck. I replaced the engine because the front main was shimmed, all the bearings gaged out with plastigage except the front. Feeling poor and needing the truck I bought 2 sets of mains and shimmed the bearing and got a core to rebuild so I could just swap engines. The molly rings were $15 more but I think that came back in fuel savings in 4-5 months.keydl

How many times have you changed the trans fluid? A relatively large part of the late model automatic trans problems are caused by adding the wrong spec ATF for make up, adding additives and running the fluid just a little to long. The local trans shop advocates band adj at 30k ( he expects them to show by 60k ). Full load for a dry trans is nearly 3 gallon and you get about1 gallon out of the pan when adjusting the rear band so a full change would be 4-5 gallon of +4 ATF mixing well between gallons. Honda advocates 4 changes when the trans fluid is mixed with non Honda rated fluid, same situation - no drain for the converter.Might take notes and ask for spelling on the cause of the problem :)keydl

The sunspot cycle, Farmers Almanac, the heavy fur coming up under the guard hairs on rabbits - all point to a cold winter.The traditional percipitation patterns will be la nina for whatever reasons that they shift when the temp changes W of So America.I have to go back to look at the current sunspot activity - last I looked the change over to a new cycle had happened but then - no new spots. This is not normal in the last 6 cycles.keydl

Diesels are much cleaner than gas - at the time that I had access to a 3 gas machine the numbers were on the order of 10% on 2 of the 3, unburned fuel and CO - NOx were about 1/2 of gas. The procedure was at idle and 2k rpm and at 6k feet elevation. That and the low number of diesel is why they were excluded in most of the air pollution legislation. I don't think that they gave consideration to the generally better quality of the people pulling wrenches skillset when writing legislation or the 1/4 million miles that most will make with only a valve adjustment. That they chose optical methods reflects the differences because a bad smoker will often pass gas requirements for pollution. The Cat 3208 in an F700 passed on a 4 gas after a smoke ticket with no changes and was signed off with the printout attached for the state to clear the fixit ticket. It just smoked white until it had a load on, I kept a winter front on it year round, other than pulling out of Chandler, AZ in the late summer. I pulled into town about 10 am and the thermometer on the bank was reading 113 F - that afternoon it got hot and the truck did not have A/C. I took the next A/C course that the shop had avail.:)If they really wanted to limit vehicle pollution, they would set up on the side of the road and read with infared across the road at 2 spaced locations to identify the vehicle and do a pipe sniff 'for cause' and failing both, write a fixit ticket. The tools will fit on a motorcycle but parking would be needed for the sniff test. A visual for stupid tampering might be included but CA's requirement of ALL original equipment pollution be present is likewise stupid. As new equipment comes along better stuff can be retrofitted for less pollution. CA used to set up light checks where they wanted to see the lights work, the wipers. the horn and the floor clearance of the brake pedal. Fixit tickets had no tax attached, make the repair and show it to a LEO or have it signed off at the shop that fixed it.I will have to look at the current pollution limits, gas and diesel are not published in the same news article, but it is now a curiosity. We sold the diesel course at Denver Automotive and Diesel College as the coming thing with the early 70's pollution legislation.keydl

They pay for those 4 gas machines and then use an optical comparison for diesel? There are some things that they do not want to become general knowledge, that diesel is far lower in most of the advertised bad stuff than gas and neither are run on a dyno at full power. There the difference ( at factory settings ) is really shocking.keydl