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Iran and Greenland are just distractions. Yup smoke and mirrors my Friends ! Keep your heads down! more to come! Duck Bob And weave! 🙄

My two cents we were pulling triple trailers 105 thousand 400 and 450 Cummins.. I never seen anyone loose an engine the 19 years I was there getting atleast 700,000 miles out of them …before getting rid of them good luck whatever you decide… Bob

Cold sucks I’m sorry I left LA. We’re its summer all year. I am not certain but I think we have mothers over here. I usually use McGuire‘s. Our new finish.

I had them stuck so bad even with a puller it ripped the the threads out of the return nut! Also had the injector sleave com out with the injector! This can happen on a 4 valve injector as well if the bottom injector washer does not seal correctly ! not more gooder! 😡

Also check the return check Tee there if you take it apart to see if the spring is broken that can cause low pump pressure ! you need bare min 15 psi to run clean at full load fuel demand !

Although I unloaded at -30F in Montana, the coldest I have worked was on US Steel coke battery in Gary, In. It was -20 or so, and the burning coal (coke) gets pushed in rail cars then quenched with water. One sec blasted with heat, the next steam turning to frost. The wind blows right off the lake. Set down a tool and it freezes to whatever you set it on. I made the repair and got out of there ASAP. Cloths got frozen,hard to move. The heat never lingered long enough to help, and the cold stuck around.

So with working with injectors, I was poking around my manual I looked at injection pump numbers. Knowing this is set at 295 HP(lowest setting), I wonder what pump number is the 320hp model? It doesn't denote anything like that. Being a gear head I am already thinking of more HP. 😲. If I knew what pump number for 320 hp version I could send pump out and tell said shop to make it to that specification. Maybe. Just dreaming.

lol way too much thought process .. fit my low grade education..let’s hope for the best bob

The banjo threads are m10x1.0(haven't confirmed pitch but likely but OD is .390). I have everything metric at work because we do a lot of metric) but nothing at home. Might buy a few bolts on way to shop and use their small slide hammer to try to pop them loose.

Wow ,,,,don’t need it but it would be right handy for side jobs good luck and thanks for that bob

Its 42F here in Ireland with wind and rain.I went out to do a little work on the Cruiseliner but its so cold I abandoned ship and came home.I think you guys are right about the age thing making it even harder to do stuff......Mothers polish was recommended to me but I cant see any difference between it and the polish I was useing and its 3 times the price!!! Paul

Talk about packed with dirt... the parts engine that i needed the heads from had mouse nests built to the top of the valve covers. I cant seem to find the pictures. The mouse urine had rusted the rocker assemblies to the point they were too pitted to use. Good luck...

Tight as prom night... 😆 Rear head looks like they have been out as different shade of color and cleaner looking. Front head they are packed with dirt all the way up to clamp. Ugh. I was hoping to take to machine shop today but may have to wait a week.

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!!