What if it Snows?

Song number 4 on that particular recording is banned.
It is the song that shall not be named.

 

Got a call from an old friend today. I’ve known him for 25 yrs. He taught me a lot about Trucks. Seems like yesterday, We were hammered down through the Chicago Loop. Brings up a lot of good memories. Fanatic about his Trucks. Never wanted to stop, unless he got a bug on his windshield. Then we HAD to stop. So he could clean it off. Lol.

 

Well, nothing to go get at Memphis.

Probably a good thing, too. I'm still parked in the receiver's staging yard with a massive coolant leak near the DPF, coming from somewhere I can neither see nor reach.

I have a funny feeling this is more than a "Love's road call", and this is gonna end 12 hours from now with me riding the hook to Dallas Volvo, and if I'm lucky I'll be at a Holiday Inn Express swinging at piñatas on New Year's Eve, instead of still sitting in this drop yard, running out of cold cuts and waiting to hear back from dispatch.

I'll keep y'all posted......

 

The only one thing need coolant in DPF area, the DEF injector. Coolant lines and quick connect fittings are plastic crap.

 

If your in Memphis area I know a road service guy there that does good, if anyway possible he’ll get you back on the road

 

this Lttle platic elbows that get brittle from the heat and snap. One broke on me at the WY/MT line on I25. Parts were dealer only anf from there every thing was "we'll get it to the shop tomorrow". When mine broke the heat took out the water pump. So added an extra day of down time.

 

I trust you know that the pouring feature of the bottle can be pried out. Helps for those of whom are more (cough, cough) endowed

 

Thanks for the suggestions, guys.

I was racking my brains about coolant lines to the DPF/DOC area.

I got a call back from the TM, who is an ex-trucker and generally mechanically inclined dude.

Turns out that the in-transit heat lines for the trailer run over the top of the aftertreatment assembly.

Furthermore, they are plumbed into the coolant via the cab heater core circuit.

This is not totally obvious at first glance.

Turning off the heater core valves stops the leak.

I learned something new today.

I've asked them before about a shop manual for this truck, to no avail.

Anyway, back up and running, probably stop at Nick's Catfish and Barbecue tonight.

Driver gotta go.........

 

It's always you 7 foot tall mofos critiquing the opening diameter of pee bottles.