| Many questions |
| 04-18-2020, (Subject: Many questions ) Post: #18 | |||
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RE: Many questions (04-17-2020 )TruckerRalph Wrote: ... Based on a truck, as you have described, at the end of its service life from neglect and low-rpm abuse ... My thoughts would be -- Not being able to work on it is a bad recipe. ... your income would likely fair better as a company driver. A Person has to be able to work on their own equip in this modern world of trucking if they want anything to show for their efforts. (04-17-2020 )TruckerRalph Wrote: ... Perhaps relying too much on "the guy this and the guy that and the shop this, and the shop that"? That is the death of many trucking businesses. You end up giving too much money away on putting out fires, never really getting on top of your problems. And WHY THE HELL CAN'T A PERSON PULL THE VALVE COVER IN a TRUCK STOP PARKING LOT!??? -- I DO IT ALL THE TIME.. HELL I WORK ON MY TRUCK ALL THE TIME IN A PARKING LOT -- ITS CALLED ---- TRUCKING!!! DITCH THE COMPANY DRIVER MENTALITY-- YOU OWN EQUIPMENT NOW-- GET WITH THE TIMES AND REALIZE THAT YOU NEED TO WORK ON IT AND INVEST IN THE PROPER TOOLS AND EQIUP. YOURSELF IF YOU EVER WANT TO HAVE SOMETHING YOU CAN BE PROUD OF! * PULL the valve cover off it and inspect the overhead cams, and perform a complete overhead valve adjustment while you at it. * REPLACE EVERY GODDAMN SENSOR ON THE ENGINE THAT IS STILL PAINTED RED, ESPECIALLY THE INTAKE, EGR, AND EXHAUST SENSORS --- IF THEY ARE STILL FACTORY ... IT OBVIOUSLY HAS BEEN SEVERELY NEGLECTED!!! -- < ALL RED FLAGS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SEEN BEFORE PURCHASE. COMBINED that with the horrible 1500-RPM LIMITER!? - ANd a 9-speed? - Those are red flags for any truck, especially a used one. Makes me wonder how tall the rear ratio is too. Another red flag. WITH THAT 9-SPEED, YOU SHOULD BE SHIFTING IT BETWEEN 1500 and 1900+ RPM'S WHEN PULLING ANY KIND OF HEAVY LOAD OR GOING UP ANY KIND OF HILLS!. it being locked down to low rpm's like that is torture on the engine and shortens its life significantly. You never mentioned the rear ratio of the truck ... or what kind of freight your hauling with it or other specs much. Soinds like it also needs to have the 9-sped converted to a 13 speed. - The kit is only a few hundred bucks or so and can easily be installed from what I understand. People and fleets alike are notorious for neglecting the hell out of their engine/truck, knowing they will get rid of it at half million miles or so. ... and the next person ends up with the headaches, wonder why it will not run right and it ready for an inframe so soon. Sounds so far like you purchased exactly this kind of nightmare type of truck. ... now you had best go out and buy some damn tools, adapter, laptop, etc. and get to it! You would not buy a used house with 60+% of its useful life gone already and not expect it not to not be run down and the roof not leaky? -- Why should you think a truck would be any better? - You do realize that you decided to buy a truck,.. not having any place to work on it... and likely purchased a fleet-spec'd abused piece of equip,.. not knowing what a nightmare it could potentially be,.. and stacked the cards against yourself quite badly. -- Not a good way to start out. Hopefully you will now realize this so that you do not keep making mistakes. It is actually hard to buy used equipment these days that is even half-way worth a damn any more because of horrible fleet-spec'd trucks and abuses beyond insane that only allow the truck to make it barely thru that warranty, then get dumped into the used market, severely neglected. - Sounds like you may well have chose one of them that fits this bill to the "T". Hopefully you will not be the typical story seen on here time and time again -- The one seen here by a hundred other people just like you that ended up buying a severely abused, neglected piece of equip because they could not look past that shiny paint job, never looked at the engine insides, nor considered its horrible spec, nor considered the fact that you will have to learn to work on it yourself if you want to make it out here in this over-competitive market, etc... . and in less than a year later ... wondering why it started pushing coolant out of the top of the resiviour (blown head gasket) then wondering how your going to afford the $20,000 to inframe it. * Repalce all the red sensors, anything more than 250k miles old on the enigne and ite emissions systems including DPF sensors, etc. - go thru the whole thing. * Pull the DOC and DPF cans off it, take pics, post them here for ipinions,.. then take em to a stealers$it that has proper machines and have them baked out, de-ashed, and flow tested. * Replace the Doser injector if it is old. Clean from soot and carbon buildup otherwise. * Pull the valve cover and inspect the overhead cams,.. and do a complete overhead adjustment. * Get or make some block-off plates front and back of turbo, and pressure test that whole engine to 40-psi. Fix all leaks. * go thru the rest of the truck and replace shocks, air bags that are dry-rotted, re-torque all the rear axle bearings, etc. etc.etc... do all of the maint that is required for a truck at the 10k,20k,50k,100,250k,500k interval according to its actual maint schedule + make a full inspection report on it. -- Here is a full maint schedule for a prostar. Print it out and do all the stuff on it up to the mileage of the truck. make sure its in tip top shape. Even tho its for prostar, most of it would apply to any truck ... http://rawze.com/forums/showthread.php?t...0#pid26680 * Install boost gauge while your at it.. start learning how to drive by it. * Get an inline-6 adapter, even if it is a chineesium one off e-bay. Perform tests, etc. do forced regen, etc. to ensure the system is completely healthy. Also remove that gear-down protection bulls$it 1500 crap off it while your at it, then learn to drive it properly. -- Ask yourself "What would Rawze do to this truck if he ended up with it?" -- You think i would have driven it one damn mile without doing all that stuff and a whole lot more?-- There is a reason why i am very successful as an owner-op. It is because I know damn well by now that a truck that is not in tip-top shape, nose to toes, inside and out, will not make money, cost you headaches and excess fuel, and lay down on you in the middle of goddamn nowhere, especially if there is any excuse for it to. User's Signature: ->: What I post is just my own thoughts and Opinions! --- I AM Full Of S__T!. | |||
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