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It was 15 here this morning,, and as I get older it hurts more, when I was in my 20s I’ve ran that LJ picking up trucks on I40 in the Pigeon River Gorge in Zero degree weather and hurt less than 25 does today! I used Zephyr polish on the final finish, but I also have used a couple other aluminum polish and I can’t tell a lot of difference.

Well no matter what you blokes say, it was cold for me today, the wind chill sorted me out Paul

Same here!! Been down here 35+ years. DO NOT miss the cold a bit.. I have seen -35 on the bank in Mars Hill ME when I got out of the truck to get the loading slip for my potatoes.. BUT I think the coldest I ever was, was top Loading fuel oil in Odgensburg NY when the thermometer on the rack said -26F and Lord only knows what the wind chill factor was coming across the frozen St Lawrence river!!

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I just looked at your first post last summer.. Awesome seeing that tip turbine sittin on the trailer.. youve come quite a ways since then.. 🍻

Shouldnt be metric. Do they turn a bit? The oring is probaly rusted and stuck. My 673 took hours the get them out. I used penatrating oil and a long big screw driver to work them back and forth and every so often i would pry them up and rotate the best i could. I also had to work the studs out at the same time. It sucked because i didnt ever do it before. The heads were from an engine that sat outside, uncovered..

Question of the night: Pulling injectors. Mine are "stuck". Tried giving one a smack with a pry bar and no go. Puller the best way? Do you remove the nut and thread puller on that(what thread is it?)or use the banjo threads(which seems like metric m10).

The coldest i experienced was in Rangley Maine back in early 90's was -45 degrees. I could not get into my car because the doors were frozen shut. When it warmed up to -20 a few days later, I was able to drive my sled in to town. I would cut across Rangley lake to get there. Looking back.... I would like to do that again... but I have been in N.C. 20 years, so Im probably a wimp now...

It was probably a lot colder in upper Vermont>> And Maine and upstate New York!!

Because, they know we just gave away any moral high ground, we didn't loose it, we gave it away. They are thrilled.

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For some reason I’ve got this feeling that Trump Putin and Xi have a 3 way territorial deal. USA takes control of Venezuela. USA cuts off Ukraine support and Russia takes control of Ukraine. And finally China invades and takes control of Taiwan and USA looks the other way. Iran and Greenland are just distractions. i don’t know why I have that thought but it just seems like Russia and China were way too quite when we took control of the Venezuelan government. dunno.

“I may do that for Greenland too,” Trump said. “I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security. So I may do that.” I honestly can’t believe this Greenland thing is going down. It’s actually quite embarrassing in my opinion. The rest of the world has to be looking at this in total disbelief as well. Trump casually tried this back in 2019 and Denmark told him to kick rocks. Sounds to me like ownership is not even up for discussion. If he wants to make some other kind of security or minerals deal I don’t think this threatening demeanor is going to get us very far. This country is using up whatever good will it had left with the rest of the world at a very rapid clip.

During his first term, Trump formed an Arctic working group that deepened his understanding of Greenland's geo-strategic importance—and highlighted concerns about Canada's Arctic vulnerabilities. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15471249/Trump-Greenland-Canada-Donroe-Doctrine.html

Right under the front of injection pump, has two fuel lines on the bottom of it, with two capscrews with copper washers on the top of it, take the nuts off and there is a plastic check valve under each one. You can see the top of it on the last pic. terry also a small spring on each one

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Ah grasshopper, special air drier made for Mack mechanic, not for IHC man!😄

I see the AD-IS.. thats like the one I was suggesting. The one I called an AD-6. I dont think I made up that unit number, however..... who knows ? 😄

Turns out desiccant for the AD-2 is available: AD-2 desiccant

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not exactly sure where that is. I am not a heavy truck mechanic and still learning my truck all beit it is older

Never heard of one, and the internet doesn't return any hits. is a AD-IS? that take a spin-on cartridge. there is AD-SP which is Bendix version of the Meritor spin-on and requires purge air from the secondary air tank. The early air driers have internal purge volume, so don't need extra tanks or a SC-PR valve (a check valve that allow a set amount of air back to purge the drier. With air start trucks, I wanted to make sure my air was dry. The AD-4 did that for me and didn't need a lot of baby sitting. I had 2 AD-9's fail, and I swore I wouldn't have another. One the threads in the base failed, the other the outlet check failed.

I forgot to add that those are chunks of chicken in there, picked off the boiled trimmings. I also skim the fat off the top when it cools, and use it to fry some of my meals, like burritos for example..