An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

I loaded out of Morenci quite a bit. I didn’t love those loads though because we had to have air brake knob locks, and chain the landing gear down when we would go inside somewhere to shower or grab some food. Couldn’t stop in El Paso for anything other than food which was ok with me. Also couldn’t hangout in west Memphis with those either.

 

Gotta love those high dollar loads. Didn't pay me any more than I was making.

 

Post number 666 for me. Had to post again to get past that.

 

Fuel pump is starting to fail.

 

That’s my bet too. Or a cracked fuel line sucking air. Unless it haven’t been serviced in a while and the filters are plugged.


The rapid clicking under the bunk is the shore power contractor/relay coil loosing its holding power as the voltage from the generator drops as the rpms drop. Could also be a sign of a skipping generator belt, but that wouldn’t cause the engine to bog down.

 

I have a Tri-Pak and even on my previous truck that I had a tri pak on when it started to do that not wanting to start or shutting down the fuel pump was going out or had gone out. It could be something similar with the carrier. like the other two guys stated as well.

 

Well he must not be that bad, as you haven't started referring to him as "butthead" yet like you did for "Butthead 1" and "Butthead 2" in your Shaffer Thread

 

Like everyone said, Fuel pump. They are known to fail. Ozark would replace them due to age rather than waiting for them to go bad.