I ALMOST didn't wake up this morning

First Alert model #CO410. $42 at Screw Value. It is a digital monitor/alram. It will tell you your peak exposure level. The entire time I've had mine, my peak exposure was 42ppm. It alarms at 400ppm.

CO is CO. Levels in a house or in a truck, it doesn't matter. The same level will effect you the same way regardless of location.

I have harped on this before, I will say it again: SPEND THE $42 FOR A CO ALARM!!! Failure to do this is the same thing as saying your life isn't worth $42.

You don't know who will park next to you at a truck stop and whether his APU is working right. Or if his truck is one of those monstrosities with an exhaust at ground level....pumping that s*** right into your cab....and his engine is malfunctioning.

Another benefit: When you tell the shop you think there's an exhaust leak. Your sure there is because you know the truck and you're not a dummy. Shop runs it a while and says, "I can't see/smell/find anything." With the 410 monitor, you place it under his nose and can prove you have a leak. Now fix it, fella!

A $42 initial investment, then a few bucks each year for new batteries. Thirty seconds each six months to test the alarm and replace batteries.

You might think you can't afford it or it's a PITA.

But can your family afford for you to be gone? How much of a PITA will it be for them? How many of you take kids and grandkids with you on the road? They'll be the ones sleeping on the top bunk, right? CO is lighter than oxygen that we breathe (O2) ....so that child will be affected before you will be. It that child's life worth $42 to you? If not, how will you explain that to everybody else....that it was within your power to keep that child alive, but YOU didn't spend $42 and five minutes of your time buying and hanging a CO monitor?



Have I been clear enough yet? Maybe not. This is a pet peeve of mine from my years on the fire department. One more time:

$42 to live. First Alert CO410. It's what's in my truck.

 

*whew!*

Now that all that's been said, thank the Grandmothers your alarm clock went off when it did, Gears! That was close!



Rag3 18: Leave him alone. Or put him on ignore. We don't pick on each other for spelling and grammar around here. I enjoy Gasienica's posts and am happy he's joined us and shares his experience with us. He makes perfect sense to me.

 

Glad you're OK bro! That is a scary thing.

 

Good to hear you are ok,

If you can have a stiff pipe out of the exhaust then change to flex pipe with heat tape wrap it would reduce the chance of leaks.

I noticed a O/O do this on his and had the same problem as you did.

 

glad your ok

 

Dunno how some of these guys with weed burners sit their and idle their truck while they sleep. I woke up and had to pull away when I realized it. Same thing with some of these apu's. They shooting their exhaust under the drivers sleeper.

 

Flex pipe is much thinner material than regular pipe, especially in the joints, which is why you don't see headers,etc made out of it. It's cheap junk that is used in apu's etc so that they will fit in various applications. The proper way would be to have a regular piece of exhaust tubing bent to fit your truck.

Be aware that the length of the exhaust is critical to proper operation.

 

That heat wrap would only cause more problems as it would hold moisture and just make the flex pipe disintegrate. Heat wrap is only good when the pipe stays constantly hot and doesn't have any time to stay moist and eat away the pipe.

Seen this happen on a show car. Guy had his headers wrapped, detailed his car inside and out for winter and put it aways in storage till spring. Spring comes around runs the car for about a week and has a bad exhaust leak and couldn't build boost. Unwraps the heat rap and his exhaust manifold had holes like a rat chewed threw them.

It be best to hook it up to your truck exhaust with a check valve on the apu exhaust so your trucks exhaust isn't being forced into the apu when it's shut off. Then also have a section of the ss braided flex pipe so the joint doesn't crack between the apu exhaust and truck exhaust from vibrations of rolling down the road or start ups.

 

I think this should part of your pre -trip too, check under bunk heaters or any gas devices, do they make a electric bunk heater, i dont care for gas type anyway, i too worked in a car garage , and still have the long term effect of co, and i can smell you smoking from a 50 out, thats how senstive my nose became after i got poisned, weird and i dont smoke,

 

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