My Pete rebuild

[Nostalgic]

(03-27-2021 )Chamberpains Wrote:  You've been noticing that with freight too? Grab it while you can. If it's short lived then you got some while its here. If it's a true economy busting at the seams to get going then you're in front of a massive year and ride it comfortably and enjoy what I assume is much needed relaxing and efforts put else where... and so goes the life of a good O/O truck driver.

My fear is $5 fuel and the bottom dropping out of the market with $1 freight posted that gets covered immediately. Doesn't matter much, old Joey and the agenda is destroying the dollar as fast as possible anyway.

(03-27-2021 )Chamberpains Wrote:  As far as the A/C deal. Did you have to unplug anything on the truck to hook up Insite for monitoring? ELD? Maybe you unplugged something that is causing interference and making the cab controller glitch.

The only thing I did was disconnect and spray some amsoil metal protectant on the plugs for the high pressure switch @ the compressor and the fan control solenoid. Was it possible the contacts were bad? Or a funky corroded or broken wire made a connection after disturbing the harness? Either could be true, which is why (if the economy supports my trucking endeavors in the near future) I plan on replacing most of the external wiring harnesses regardless.

(03-27-2021 )Chamberpains Wrote:  Other than that, can you use ESA to monitor what the CECU is demanding on the system. I never got a chance to use that program so I'm just guessing what it might be able to show you.

ESA is very limited on what it can do. 99% of it's functional ability is gauges. You can test the gauge, and turn them on and off, or monitor the gauge data and change the backlight and brightness on the info panel (I finally changed the economy meter display to not encourage driving @ 1200 rpm lol).

But the limitations are annoying. I found a chime sound in ESA called tinkerbell that I wanted to use for my trailer dump valve. Not annoying, but something to remind me it's on. I dug through the harness in the dash and tested all of the "alarm" inputs, but none were for my tinkerbell sound, and I haven't found a way to reassign a sound to an input.