the attitude of the "new breed of driver"

I think they call it "paying your dues".

 

See,that is why I really like this forum.,I did NOT KNOW I can fart in public.. ####,membership paid for itself with that tidbit..What..Really?? One of the voices in my head just told me the membership is free....Nevermind..

 

I hear many OTR driver > 50 years old start having bladder problems from years of bumpy riding. New England Journal of Medicine had a story about a driver who ran a garden hose from the drivers seat to the vent window in the sleeper berth.

So if your driving down the highway and you see "yellow rain" change lanes.

 

What a CROCK of BULL.

Guy must of had a BLADDER pump installed to push it that far in a garden hose, gravity will allow it to flow downhill to floor level , but then it has to flow across the cab floor , into the bunk , then UPHILL to and out the bunk vent .

Now the hose through the floor would work.

 

On Army helicopters, it's called a relief tube.

 

Its called that on a lot of things , but hard to get it FLOW uphill regardless of what its called or installed in.

 

Thats an odd tid bit of info for you to know.

 

Not really. I was married to a Flight Engineer on CH-47s.

 

I do not see why it could not be done.

@Injun, it was also called that on C54's and C46's as well.

KH

 

Regarding plumbing the APU to the stack: I talked to the Carrier guy at MATS last weekend. Yes, it can be done. Carrier won't do it, but all it takes is some flex pipe and someone able and willing to do the work. Again, you cannot modify the exhaust from the DPF in any way, but you can either sleeve the exhaust pipe and plumb to the sleeve or you can run a separate pipe alongside the existing exhaust. As long as there is no restriction coming from the APU motor, it will not affect function in any way. You can run the same size pipe all the way or go bigger, as in the sleeve idea, but you cannot place tight bends or smaller piping on.

My idea is to have a connection welded into the sleeve (cosmetic chrome) and run flex pipe directly from the muffler to that connection. That way, if the exhaust system needs to be worked on, the APU exhaust pipe can be disconnected and the sleeve easily removed. Not only does this send the APU exhaust up-and-over, it quiets the APU noise considerably. Longer pipe=less noise output.