Mack Technician

Looks like circumstance just made your mind up for you. WOW, that’s a big price difference!!! At least of any part I’ve bought from them. Downtime loss can be added right to that $800 then you have the real price differential.

So what are the two prices? Mack vs PAI? Availability of PAI is better?

I’ve had no issues with PAI. Much of what they sell is simply Mack parts re-bagged. On the negative..... PAI is poorly, maybe better to say “loosely”, established. Thats how they sell cheaper. You wait, you pay freight and you may (May?) have to fight hard for someone to represent your warranty issues against PAI because there is no one. The store you buy the PAI part through has no major stake in PAI. I wouldn’t want to get in a warranty battle with PAI over a major component failure. They have nothing to lose because they’re a fluid. They have no store front, no bricks and mortar. They are like a bricks and mortar parasite part industry. Everybody around here uses PAI as a side hustle and rarely have stocked a single part I need. I order my parts three weeks to a month in advance to get free shipping. If we get a coop order with other customers the dealer hits a minimum order requirement for a free shipment. You have to use their parts catalog to find your own parts so you better know what your looking for since there is no vin referencing. If your wrong guess who pays the ship back? A dealership has an advocate who is paid a salary to be your warranty lawyer. Some of your $120 hourly rate is going to him, like a retainer fee. A good warranty guy, who maintains relations with the district rep can do a lot of good toward getting policy adjustments made in your favor. Thats how PAI sells cheap, but decent quality, parts. positive..... Its just a fuel pump, you could fix it on the side of a road, it’s probably Mack rebranded, it has a filter on both sides if it dies young so your motor and $5,000 worth of downstream Bosch parts are safe, you’ll save 30%, you know your OEM part number so using the PAI crossover is simple, if you are installing it yourself Mack might (might?)still give you a run-around for warranty...so could as well have used PAI.

Website says they are now up to 700 sodas. Teriyaki Beef Jerky flavored soda..... jury’s out on that one?

If its a 2-3 code for the truck its the intake Air Sensor. The ECU sets the code when the intake air sensor signal voltage goes below 0.4 volts for more than two seconds. If the signal voltage returns, and is between 0.4 and 4.5 volts, for more than 2 seconds, the light goes out and the code is inactive. Check your sensor. It should be..... 9,300 ohms at 32 degrees F (set in fridge) 200 ohms at 194 degrees F (in oven)

My buddy's son is still in seat warmer mode. I sold Dad on the idea of picking up a CV713 for the woods and lowboy, he bought one and likes it. First born son protested because he wanted a Pete 379. "Why" asked Dad. "More visibility" said son. We all had a pretty good laugh at his expense. Hard to score Facebook points in a CV713 was the bigger issue.

The Moxie congress, Lobster dinners with the Freemasons, Moxie comedy, Parades and live entertainment !!!!!...…… My bucket list just got two lines longer. Something cultural about that hometown scene, family friendly appeal. If it was Wisconsin they would all be drinking beer, nothing against it, but they wouldn't celebrate a cultural icon like a soda with history unless it had liver teasers in it.

So now what? We need Farmers Brewery Root Beer in the East and Moxie in the middle? Bandit and Snowman got bootleg Coors from Texarkana to Atlanta. Guess that puts you in the Smiley Face M917 and me running blocker in my "Friends of Jesus" Dodge Caravan?

Forget i’m Preaching to the CV choir. 😁 Anything’s possible. Your running ultra low sulfur diesel in a truck built before/or around when “dry” fuel was introduced. No telling to what degree they engineered it using new lubricity standards for post 06’ equipment? Be curious to see what you find......

This is my AI book. Pipe a 1/4” airline X 1/8”NPT into the port closest to my thumb (but at front of engine ) with a 0-100 gauge. It says supply and return, but you know that doesn’t matter since they discontinued the center oring on the EUP. Either port works. They run a drill through the entire length of block and cap both drilling’s on each end with 4 Allen pipe plug.

My thought too, but not kidding. Those systems don’t make shavings, they make microns of free agent debris. If the filings are in the secondary filter they would have to have come out of the fuel transfer section however. signed, Union Prick 😋

Don’t mess with a lot of engine rolling. Make sure filters are still full. Crack a line on output side of lift pump. Place a plastic garbage bag on tank opening with hands sealing bag to opening. Stick air nozzle in and pressure fuel through pump and fasten line while your flowing fuel. Should be able to operate the hand primer for rest of operation. Crack fuel overflow valve and turn engine over to confirm system has flow. Crack all lines and position throttle full fuel, make sure shutoff is positioned for run and crank. Should be fuel, otherwise Theakerstwo scenario may be playing out.

Gets worse. Old fella at work was telling me a story about his son-in-law. Son-in-law worked at the prison, Black River Falls Correctional. They brought in an LGBTQRSTYBlah blah-whatever person. The person was in the middle of Hormone treatments to become a woman and had some reconstruction already underway. The prison system was forced to complete the surgical procedures and hormone treatments to finish the job. Oops, now he’s a girl, can’t stay here for the sake of prison rape. Get another judge and put her in his own block till we figure something out. The whole thing is madness.

One of those events you can read and watch documentaries about, but won’t fully comprehend unless you jumped out of the landing craft. Over memorial weekend my mother-in-law read to the family out of her dad’s journal and letters home. Both of my wife’s grandfathers were in the Iwo Jima invasion. One was on the water in the USS Brush working sonar during the escort and bombardment. The other was Marines Infantry in the invasion. They certainly were a great generation. The Marine Grandfather made a comment about cranking a generator radio for two hours straight while they were calling artillery. He was losing strength in his arms to keep it going and his replacement was apparently KIA. He told his commander he needed help. The commander said “take him (wife’s grandfather) over there and shoot him, then find me a replacement”. He kept cranking. Eventually the horn operator made a bad artillery call and was pulled. Grandad was told now to call artillery and keep cranking. Seems like they were young, full of piss’n vinegar’n fight and too immersed in the middle of complete chaos to think about how dangerous it was.

Shocks the conscience...This thread makes me want to bring back punishment laws of the British middle centuries. While I admit, hanging someone till near death, reviving them, pulling their intestines out and chopping them up before they bleed out is cruel and unusual..... it’s a bigger deterrent than 3 hots, a cot, exercise programs, conjugal visits and guaranteed health care. There is a constitutional middle ground we are ignoring. Seems like it’s a hard choice to carry everywhere. I respect folks who are willing, but that’s a lot of work and discipline as a daily regiment. I’ve only had to draw on unleashed dogs who are false-charging me and that’s stressful enough, especially in a public place. I’ve got it locked down....Get in front of the kids, hold your gun low right w/laser on Mr.Cuddle’s brisket and put your left arm out horizontally as a doggy treat. Guarantee somebody is going to sue you if you pull the trigger on their “cute, little, harmless, he’d never bite anyone”, 70 pound pit bull. My neighbors brother had some high dollar, pedigreed, dogs. A weepy, puss eyed, stray cat kept coming over and eating in his dog’s dish. One day he walked outside with his golf club and tee’d off on pussy cats head, missed the golf ball....got pussy’s head. Snowflake saw it and called him in, class C(or D) felony. The laws protect sick cats as well or better than most of the victims on this thread.

Wouldn’t that be something! My vote is Oshkosh. Holed up at home today.....forgive me if I’m chatty..... Writings on the wall.....”We need money” I got an E-mail from our district Volvo rep two weeks ago. Volvo is dropping free Prosis subscriptions next month. He sent a chart to me that had a graduated ramp of cost relative to how many specific Volvo models we own. By the time you get to a Prosis subscription that can cover 10 or more different Volvo models your hitting $2,000 dollars per year. That’s getting right down to business coming off a free subscription and not including the Tech Tool subscription you also need. Cat is a real darling to their customers, much more so even than JDeere. You buy a piece of Cat equipment and they send a mechanic to inspect it once every three months for two years, a free (purchased) service, free road call. Road tech would hand me the list and say “If you want a quote call us, or “this is how I recommend you fix it”...”any questions before I go”...etc. They provide a low cost software subscription that does everything but break a “lock-up”. Lock out=you dummy, the ash load is 140% and your still driving it, now you need a code to unlock it. The day they delivered our first Cat loader they had an IT guy installing our Electronic Technician before the salesman left the front office. Volvo restricts the ability to do any machine calibrations. When it was brought up in debate the Volvo rep said “its for your own good, your calibration settings are being preserved in a main frame. If your machine gets hit by lightning or your modules fail Volvo will have all calibrations that have ever been made and will load them directly back to your machine”. The hole in the story is that we are on the main frame, at our shop, with our TechTool. It opens to Volvo “central system” every log in, we had to install WiFi in our building specifically to run it. In fact it took 5 months to get Prosis installed securely because the Corporation’s firewalls considered it too deep of a working connectivity to an outside entity. Complaining aside, all in all, the cost per hour is low with VOE. They have some chronic issues, but so far are relatively cheap fixes.

The bolts riding the debarker conveyor look like 8’. My guess is that grapple works well on longer saw cut bolts. Lock screen on 15 seconds. Chain has 7 links per lamination at 1/4” thick. So 14 total, pretty heavy and they bend laterally less than your average bike chain. Can also see the bolt on lead wear edges@15. Those are slick. It use to take our guys 4-6 hours to remove and weld new lips on. Liehberr changed over to those and we can do a set it 15 minutes. Constantly digging against concrete to pick sticks so hard on them. Before you got three weeks on a set, now you go three weeks, flip them over and refasten. Added one extra week of usability. Like Liehberr does, they create something slick and realize it. One side of those bolt on lips cost $1,300. So $2,600 per month just to keep wear lips on the bucket. Plus two stud kits at $75 per. Our machinists built them for about $250 per side with man hours. Liehberr price gouging goes overboard sometimes. Just yesterday I ran out of Liehberr OEM fuel filters. Thought “shoot, I’ve never used a NAPA fuel filter on this engine”. I sometimes use a NAPA for first stage(primary), but never final stage(secondary). Too much $$ downstream of the final fuel filter to take chances. I’m ok if a transfer pump gets a spot of dirt, but not the high pressure system. I ordered a replacement filter from NAPA because we couldn’t wait and, hey, look at that....pulled a German made Mann Hummel out of the box. Talked to my rep and he told me “Oh yeah, Mann Hummel bought Affinia(Wix) a while back”. NAPA is vending the exact OEM Liehberr fuel filter($62.56 from dealership) for $22.00.

Liehberr sure has a broad mind for inventing new mouse traps. Dig that forward protection articulating up with the bundling blade lowering to push piles. Grapple has a narrow, high, basket for stick stability. It wouldn’t work in snow country with one wheel hydrostatic drive. Even on concrete. In our world frozen wood would slide through the narrow jaws and you wouldn’t be unable to clean up the dropped pile. Operator could call for a swing boom operator to pick up stick mess during the day, but at night he would have to stop operations and clean it up himself with a different machine. The L180HL we use now has self-closing sequenced hydraulic tongs that lock the wood into the grapple upon jaw closure instead of a free-weighted chain like this Liehberr. Still lose a grapple full now and then.

Never heard of it?

Did you figure this issue out or still chasing?

"Speeches Boss, Honestly, I just gave a bunch of really good speeches". Hillary and Bill made $153,000,000 for speeches in 15 years..... AKA-Pandering for political favors via grossly overpaid speeches.

The “R” in the dash is inside a branch circuit which goes from fuse 42 to the back-up switch then splits. One split goes to the dash. One split goes to a fork-split into reverse power relay and back-up lights. Chances are a bad ground or failing bulb. These dashes are notorious for bad grounds, but usually you have a lot of stuff going wrong in the dash, not just a bulb flicker. Oil pressure for the engine is all being calculated off a single 3 wire sensor lined into the ECM. ECM is sending that info on a J1939 CAN line to the VCU and dash. If your dash is agreeing with(simultaneous with) the shutdown you could be experiencing a sensor wire rub/break between the sensor and the ECU. You still need the manual gauge installed during a drop-out event to make certain it’s not something of a real threat to your engine. You prove it’s not a real pressure loss then have the dealer shut off your “protection shutdown” feature temporarily till you get it fixed. It’s unsafe to have unwarranted engine kills. And in case it's running poorly as a 2006 does...…..click on...

I'd guess his up-time is off the map in comparison to the final tier 4's and some carriers want to hire him...…...especially since he will do East Coast.

I'm zooming in on the DM with the 4 tier front hitch thinking I was going to read the plaque...…..in Flemish!!!! What were they tethering 4-ways? Cool Pics! Not to hijack your post, but I'm throwing one in. Pretty unit sitting outside our shop this morning.

Good, install the sensor and you will have exclusive rights to wiring into it. Pay attention to whether you want normally open or normally closed.