Why you do enroute inspections

Good chance that the tractor was part of a deck set when it was delivered by the forwarding company. Part of the process is to bust the wheel seals and take the rear axles out. The problem is those rear seals don't get sealed properly by the dealers after delivery. If I were to guess I would imagine those threads have been weakened during the process. This should be a warranty issue. I can't tell you how many new vehicles I have seen over the years that have either leaking wheel seals or clear evidence of past leaking.

 

That's a steer axle.

 

Nope Mopar

 

Ahhhh LOL!!!

 

They were a premium truck until the introduction of the FLD and their pursuit of fleet sales.

 

Celozzi Ettlison commercials led me astray in my youth.

 

I've seen a lot of decked tractors where the steers were removed to avoid contact with the driving tractor's tandems in order to keep things low enough to get to the dealership with out bridge/tree contact.

 

"Where ya always save more money!"



That baby-blue suit is... somethin'

 

So have I. He was talking about pulling the axles on the drives.