Costly lesson........

I pulled the pipes off and cleared all the rubber out. It now spins freely, so I got lucky there. It did come out in pieces though.

I wash it out and then spray isopropyl through it. Some guys spray diesel into theirs.

 

Well, turns out I bent the pump drive shaft also, so I also had to replace that and the end bearings and repack the pump.

Here's a picture of the twisted pto shaft.

 

Well, when it rains it pours........ Monday I spent hours rebuilding the pump and re hanging the pto shafts. For some reason, not yoke that connects to the pto shook off and got a little beat up by the road, but nothing too bad. The extension shaft then fell off a couple hours later while driving 65 mph down the highway. That one shredded the yoke, ujoint and service fitting. Lucky the shop I use had some and replaced them this morning. I'm really, really lucky it didn't rip apart the bottom of my truck.

But the costly lesson was never help out a new guy. (I'm being sarcastic)
I helped a new driver out last week by lending him a specialty fitting. We haul a lot of ISO tanks and the fitting have to be screwed on the outlet and they 99.994% of the time require a BSP fitting (fine thread, metric). Instead of using the company issued short fitting and Teflon tape, he needed to use an extension fitting. (The corrosive product just destroys the tape in about 4 secs)
It turns out the tank fitting's threads were messed up and it tore up my fitting. Yesterday when I needed to use it, it wouldn't seal and kept leaking really bad. Needless to say, I had to wait for someone to drive the hour from Chicago so I could get the tank unloaded or the costumers product line was going to shut down. It only added 4 hours to what should of been as 1.5 offload.

At least the my company gave me a replacement fitting at no charge. (These fittings are custom fabricated and can be expensive)


I'll see if I can add a couple pictures so those that don't haul tanks or ISO's can see what they look like.