9+ MPG Class 8 5 Axel Trucks with Trailers

Anybody coming to the Charlotte Diesel Super Show next weekend in Charlotte, NC on October 7-8, 2011 can visit with Pittsburgh Power, MicroBlue and several other vendors will be there too.

Link: http://www.dieselsupershow.com/

This is almost in my backyard. Let me know if you are coming to the show, be good to met some of the posters on here.

 

I did not do the U-joints on mine because I felt they would not make that much difference and I could not do the carrier bearing due to it being a sealed bearing.

 

Got my truck back in the 9 mpg range. Had a bad return fuel line leak that I did not find till I fixed a bad check valve that allowed the fuel to drain back in the supply side that kept the return fuel line from leaking when the motor was not running. The FASS kept me from finding the bad check valve because it primed the motor. It would have lost prime with the bad check valve without the FASS.

2 fill ups this week at 9.44 mpg and 8.95 mpg respectively.

I still have a slight fuel pressure fluctuation problem under full throttle load for some reason. I just swapped the 150 gph FASS pump motor today for a 220 gph pump motor that did not fix the problem. Any suggestions?

 

I have plastic lines on my truck. If they weren't plastic, I would have replaced them already.

 

Today Sunday 10/9/11 Radio Show from MicroBlue to answer alot of questions you might have about MicroBlue.

Some you guys can listen to the Kevin Ritherford Radio Show today Sunday 10/9/11 from 4pm till 7pm EST on the internet with a link they provide in the chat room there right as the broadcast starts. You guys will need to sign up as members in the "Let's Truck" website: http://letstruck.com/forum

Again, go to the chat room at air time for link to listen on the net or if you have Sirius Radio, go to the Road Dog Channel on Sirius/XM 106. Alot of times it is prempted on XM for some reason, but Sirius carries it.

Call in to Radio Show to ask questions on air: 646-595-4967

You guys from Europe can listen in on the net by joining up to get internet link to listen.

 

Sorry guys.

MicroBlue pulled them and everything was fine. The back rear end that was in my truck is now in one of Kevin Rutherford's single axle Fed-Ex trucks running from Orlando, FL to Richmond Hills, GA everyweek in a relay pulling doubles. He's prelininary numbers were reported as a gain of 3/10ths mpg and they have added the MB wheel bearings since then.

Rutherford should be giving a full report on MB once they have 30 days on both the rear end and wheel bearings.

I just went to Michelin X-One 455/55R22.5 XDA Energy wide singles that I like. They are still breaking in and are noisy that seems to be getting better the more heat and cool cycles they are put through. They are very soft rubber that needsto heat cure to quiet down and get better mileage i am finding out.

It is hard to tell fuel mileage since my region started pumping winter blend diesel through the pipelines September 1st, but it looks like a 2/10ths mpg gain already that might get better once the tires are broken in more.

There is probably over 100 trucks now using MicroBlue Wheel Bearings with the 3 axle 4 x 6 guys showing 4/10ths and the 5 axle wheel bearing changes that included trailer have reported as high as 8/10ths improvement with just the wheel bearings being MicroBlued.

I have found out that Cats Construction Divison uses Advanced metal Coating Technology to make the huge dump truck cylinders last over 3 times longer.

Interesting report from Caterpillar back in 2001 about coating parts in it's Heavy Construction Equipment Diviison: http://statusreports.atp.nist.gov/reports/93-01-0055.htm


Even led to some patents on a simular process by Caterpillar: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7404841.html


Cat even advertizes this process to triple the life of those huge dump truck cylinder rods due to their Advanced Coating Technology: http://www.cat.com/cda/files/1464370/7/Resealing%20Hydraulic%20Cyli...


It might not be the same as Microblue, but Advanced Coating Technology is being used in alot bigger equipment than OTR Big Rigs.