Gladhand seal installation direction.. A question

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  1. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    And any easily removable lights and the crank handle for the trailer dollies.
     
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  3. Ex-Trucker Alex

    Ex-Trucker Alex Road Train Member

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    Man, we used to drop trailer in El Paso and San Ysidro bound for Mexico, and we removed all gladhand rubbers, as well as all the tail-lights. Once got a trailer back from around Monterrey filled with Mexican-made washers; there was a real bad scrape on the trailer about 8' up, looked like somebody had hit a sandstone outcrop. We got those fairly often from that same plant. Story was that the carrier in Mexico we hired pulled our 53' trailers behind their 48' trailers on a single-axle dolly over unpaved mountain roads to avoid the toll road....
     
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  4. Powder Joints

    Powder Joints Subjective Prognosticator

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    Your correct, the same guy put the landing gear all the way down till he can hear the airbags.
     
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  5. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    What if he was driving a spring ride? :biggrin_25520:
     
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