Muck Boots 'n' Slickers - Life of a Livestock Hauler

It come on the hook. He called me 2 months ago said he had problems in Amarillo. Lots of white smoke lost all power and intense knocking. So I tell him it’s got a cylinder full of water don’t try to restart it as it’s hydro locked. He of course immediately confirms I’m right cause he’s already tried. Rents a toter and goes after it. Then partially tears it down and decides it’s beyond him.

Now to preface this it had been white smoking and missing on a cold start for 100k of its last miles, at least maybe more. It just kept getting increasingly worse. It had developed blowby but wasn’t blowby it was actually antifreeze in the oil boiling out in the form of steam. However it never became enough to make the oil milky. His mechanic “buddy” convinced him I don’t know what I’m talking about and a bad injector was causing his smoke. And being honest that suited me cause I was trucking every day when all this started and wasn’t gonna fool with it for any amount of money. My only advice to him was fix it asap. It was not a the damage is done situation. When I was pulling it down after I got the injectors out of it I barred it over and had a 10ft geyser shoot out of #6

those fire rings were both toward the front of the engine had #4 went to the rear it would have had 2 dead holes as the compression would just swap back and forth. Them both being toward the front has a significant meaning in the damage assessment


My ol Dad had this sayin went something like pay me now or pay me later either way doesn’t matter to me.

 

Well, I finally got a chance to tear into my heap…
I have said since this started the noise was coming from #3… When I get the Jake housing off of 3-4, this is what I see. Then this.
Thankfully I was able to fish the lower piece out.
It was out of the socket on the cam follower, sitting down in there at an angle.
Thank God it hadn’t jammed…and got spit out the side of the block.
I don’t think it is any coincidence that when I ran the overhead after the other shop had run it twice, #3 injector was WAY too tight. It took over 140 inch lbs to loosen the adjuster, and it should have taken 90-95 inch lbs.

 

Great looking truck! How did she do?

 

Happy July 4th.

The day that owner operators work on their old trucks, then shoot fireworks in the evening to celebrate what they accomplished.

 

That's pretty much every day , except for the fireworks thing.

 

I usually crack a celebratory beer!

 

Ran great for the most part! Got an EGR code a number of times, think that will be addressed directly, A/C decided to leave the chat as well, but overall, I’m happy!

 

Ready fer an early mornin.

 

It was a bad day playing fleet mechanic 3 hours to install S-cams just one axel on a trailer. I said I would take an overnight trip to springhill TN. A couple of days dealing with idiots should make the tool box look more friendly