L.Wilkinson
Its an Arktos not a Sub
This is potentially the wrong forum to be on, unless I get to the thing I was going to say about my PU. Funny how comfort zones develope, going down to the general large truck forum is sort of like going into the basement when your a kid. 
However, after about a month of working OT, getting the product out there, I had occasion to be driving a unit cross country a bit today (yes, its Saturday
), needed to tare the weight on another scale, the rig being a triple, triple concrete pumper. Yes Fred, its a Mack
460 with an 18 speed, both Mack as well.
I was actually doing a bit of driver training too for one of our mechanics, came to a gentle hill (which was quite steep for a heavy unit like this one) and split from high to low - all the while describing what was happening to the other guy.
Funny thing though, I couldn't have been more surprised than if I woke up nailed to the carpet; although it seemed like an ultra clean shift, in fact I had just missed it, and with the engine purring at 2100, the momentum of the rig decayed slow enough that it took me by surprise. Chatting away, but heck she seems to be pulling really well up there at 2100 no problem.
No problem, had a couple of trucks behind me probably thinking bad thoughts, but grabbed a lower one and made it over the pass. Actually it was just a hill.
Yes, well I guess I'm stiring up the pot some, maybe more posts are coming?
I am debating in a low budget fashion the merrits of servicing my injectors (on the 1990 IDI), still original but never seen a drop of water. I'm pretty sure the cracking pressures are down evenly on them all, on the other hand it runs very well. The pump was done only once at about 100KM, but again very careful maintainence. There's my thoughts, what say you all?
Meanwhile, back to matter at hand
Lorne
However, after about a month of working OT, getting the product out there, I had occasion to be driving a unit cross country a bit today (yes, its Saturday
), needed to tare the weight on another scale, the rig being a triple, triple concrete pumper. Yes Fred, its a Mack 460 with an 18 speed, both Mack as well.I was actually doing a bit of driver training too for one of our mechanics, came to a gentle hill (which was quite steep for a heavy unit like this one) and split from high to low - all the while describing what was happening to the other guy.
Funny thing though, I couldn't have been more surprised than if I woke up nailed to the carpet; although it seemed like an ultra clean shift, in fact I had just missed it, and with the engine purring at 2100, the momentum of the rig decayed slow enough that it took me by surprise. Chatting away, but heck she seems to be pulling really well up there at 2100 no problem.
No problem, had a couple of trucks behind me probably thinking bad thoughts, but grabbed a lower one and made it over the pass. Actually it was just a hill.
Yes, well I guess I'm stiring up the pot some, maybe more posts are coming?
I am debating in a low budget fashion the merrits of servicing my injectors (on the 1990 IDI), still original but never seen a drop of water. I'm pretty sure the cracking pressures are down evenly on them all, on the other hand it runs very well. The pump was done only once at about 100KM, but again very careful maintainence. There's my thoughts, what say you all?
Meanwhile, back to matter at hand
Lorne
(for those who are interested, a triple triple is 3 steer axles, 3 drive axles - a really big, bad boy)
