Truck break down stories

I did not actually break down because I was able to drive another 33 miles after the air compressor quit. By watching the pressure gauge and avoiding the brakes, I made it to a truck stop. The trailer brakes began to drag as I was backing into a parking space, but I was able to drop and bobtail to the garage. The shear gear on the accessory drive was slipping. They had one in stock.

 

I was going to NY from NC and in Martinsburg Va I pulled to the ramp to sleep .In the morning I started my engine to warm up than I shaved eat little cake and took off, my truck moved 10 yards end engine died.try to start no luck.called road service, no luck towed to near by shop 5 hours later and lots of tinkering with fuel system finally started.$830.00 tow and labor.Left there 3 hours later midnight going up to big hill in Hazelton PA.truck quit again, called road service towed to shop $ 300.00 next morning mechanic asked me what happened I told him the all story He looked at me and opened the batterry box and pushed in the connection and it is all good/ He direct wire the stupid connection $ 30.00 Lesson learned from all this. check your batterry connections more often PRICELESS or is it? load was paying $ 1080.00

 

I'm not going to get into stories.... As they are posted around this site in various threads.

But I will make a list of my break downs in the last 12 months....

MY PETE 379
Steering gear box blew up on my in Ft. Worth Texas
Oil cooler blew up in Greensboro, NC
Transmission, clutch, & power divider were almost gone when I allowed them to repo it.

MY VOLVO 670
Cam position sensor & turbo bellow tube went out (replaced) in PHX
Air Compressor replaced in Albert Lea, MN
Camshaft & 4 injector lifters replaced in Salt Lake City
BOTH EGR valves are being replaced right now....


And these are just on top of normal maintnance... Last week I put new Gabriel Shocks and Centramatic wheel balancers on my truck & trailer

 

I thought I was smart and changed all the hoses (including heater hose) in my truck to silicone and had enough left over to do the whole truck again(except for the heater, which I can just shut the valves off to). So where did I spring a leak? In the braided coolant hose going to the water filter. I was feeling pretty silly, having enough hose to redo the entire truck except for the water filter. Fortunately, I just had to wait for it to cool down and bypassed the water filter with remaining good hose. This was coming down Jellico Mountain, felt pretty stupid overheating going down hill. It was a small leak, and it was absolutely pouring down rain, so I couldn't tell until the gauge started rising.