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Workin hard round the yard.
5 years ago
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Well, things are moving along, keep paddling!! I tried the cam sensor on the truck, I could not get my giant paws in there to get it loose. There is a local guy, he specializes in ford diesels by choice, he has a few special home made tools for removing the sensor by shearing it off, cleaning the bore and then extracting it. He charged less than it would be for a tow to his shop by the local tow company, he had it banged out in about an hour and a half including a new sensor from Ford.
My digging has gained some speed. I picked up a grade laser, a nice used unit but it allows me to check the grade from the cab while digging, takes just a few seconds instead of dig, clear the trench, install ladder, go down with level, pipe, shovel and rake, fiddle with grade if possible to get it on the money, else mark any high spots with a rock, remove everything from trench and try to make small downward adjustments, repeat the measurements.
My farm engineered solution has a hand held laser detector screwed to a piece of rebar that's c-clamped to the dipper stick and the laser set at a 1% up grade, I'll check the pipe still before adding stone and its staying the same few inches right above the bottom of the trench. Still rassling with the unemployment office and not making much gains, might have to give them a call this week.
A hurricane is coming up the coast and we're forecast to get at least 2 inches of rain, that'd make a mess of my trench so I'm going to try and haul ass and get things moving a lot faster before it comes.
My digging has gained some speed. I picked up a grade laser, a nice used unit but it allows me to check the grade from the cab while digging, takes just a few seconds instead of dig, clear the trench, install ladder, go down with level, pipe, shovel and rake, fiddle with grade if possible to get it on the money, else mark any high spots with a rock, remove everything from trench and try to make small downward adjustments, repeat the measurements.
My farm engineered solution has a hand held laser detector screwed to a piece of rebar that's c-clamped to the dipper stick and the laser set at a 1% up grade, I'll check the pipe still before adding stone and its staying the same few inches right above the bottom of the trench. Still rassling with the unemployment office and not making much gains, might have to give them a call this week.
A hurricane is coming up the coast and we're forecast to get at least 2 inches of rain, that'd make a mess of my trench so I'm going to try and haul ass and get things moving a lot faster before it comes.
Catofmount
~catofmount
you filthy animal! those 7.3 cam sensors are a pain in the tail if they get stuck. dealt with them many times. only use a dealer sensor not an aftermarket. I miss doing the snowplow dance at cons lol
panzier
~panzier
OP
Someday my fragrant friend, someday!
Tiptoe
~tiptoe
Yea, I made my own tool for those bastards as well.
panzier
~panzier
OP
Yeah, I tugged and wiggled and it felt, like it was going to break, I made the call, drop it off, apply max horsepower to the excavation job. The bill was surprisingly small so there is that.
We spent half a day replacing a circuit module on an engine generator because it was far back inside the machine and there was simply no good access. We needed someone with long skinny arms and dextrous raccoon paws but all we had was us. Had we been able to get at the thing we'd have had it replaced in half an hour.
panzier
~panzier
OP
Those are the worst designs, clearly service techs had no input on the construction.
couger
~couger
Ah yeah i have arms like most folks legs... I have felt the pain of having to gut. A rig just to get a single dam thing in or out.
If we'd been able to take part of the EG apart to get at the circuit we would have. Sadly, it was attached to the side of the windings and the housing around it was a single folded piece of metal that enclosed the whole winding assembly. The only reason we knew it was field replacable is we talked to next level maintenance and they explained, accurately, what a pain it was to get at the thing.
