Popular Post Joey Mack Posted September 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 20, 2021 I have been chasing a poor running '05 C.E.G.R ASET for week's while doing other repairs to the fleet. It acted like a bad lifter... I checked everything, there were 3 EUP codes, so the owner had me replace all EUP's, Injectors, and Fuel lines.. It ran better but was still exhausting "Eye Burning" rich exhaust... I loaded the new version of P.T.T. into a New laptop, and tested everything I could,, everything I was doing including PTT was pointing at #5... I ran the valves....twice... fuel filters etc. We sent it to Mack to have them do a compression test, because our shop doesnt have the tools. (we ordered them)... Mack says #5 has 100 PSI compression.... so today I'm pulling the heads... the last thing I removed was the intake manifold, and guess what???????????? Ive only been doing this 23 years,,, and this is first for me.... W.T.F.? I can laugh at it now, but trying to explain to the owner that I'm stumped! before I found this was a bit stressful... Of course no-one will fess-up about leaving a rag in the intake and cranking the engine... 🙃 4 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/68215-i-cant-believe-this/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onyx610 Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 Lmao! That’s amazing…🤣 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/68215-i-cant-believe-this/#findComment-480240 Share on other sites More sharing options...
theakerstwo Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 I saw that one time with a cat.When who ever found it some one had at the paint shop let a hand full of paper get into one port like that.I think the paint shop had maybe some of the engine apart. 2 Quote glenn akers Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/68215-i-cant-believe-this/#findComment-480242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Mack Posted September 21, 2021 Author Share Posted September 21, 2021 damn.... this one went to paint 2 months ago with the hood off, ??Hhmm.. jojo 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/68215-i-cant-believe-this/#findComment-480243 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1965 Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 I’ve seen rags f’up a lot of things over the years 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/68215-i-cant-believe-this/#findComment-480250 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onyx610 Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 How long do you suspect that was in there? Haha. Good thing it wasn’t “forgotten” pre turbo. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/68215-i-cant-believe-this/#findComment-480251 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 As my would say when we were kids "I guess Mr Nobody did it again" I have rats shelter in the air cleaner inlet of a IH tractor over night on a bad drought year Sucked them right in tight as a fishes ass There was bums and noses pressing on the element It took me a few hours to find this simple problem Paul 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/68215-i-cant-believe-this/#findComment-480264 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjh Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 Not the same! but a similar instance , We once had a fellow that was doing head gaskets on an engine ! Went to to do the valve set on the engine and an it came up semi hard on cyl 3 after some investigation with a screw driver down the injector hole found he had left a rag on the piston ! Just a tad embarrassing ! At the time we had a very aggressive boss that tried to push people on time quoted job you know! PUSH PUSH PUSH! We also had a guy leave the little plastic cork in the turbo oil feed on a 3406 980 loader honest mistake as two different guys were doing the job ! But Shit happens ! took out two turbos before finding the plug! 🥵 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/68215-i-cant-believe-this/#findComment-480272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayseed Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 I've seen a similar thing happen to My Father 35(or so) Yrs ago. But it was picked up within Minutes of It Happening though..! Quote "Be who you are and say what you feel...Because those that matter...don't mind...And those that mind....don't matter." - Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/68215-i-cant-believe-this/#findComment-480273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Ike Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 My brother, father and I shared a 1975 Pontiac Catalina as a beater/"station car" (park it at the train station so your nice car or truck doesn't get torn up) in the 1990's. Car was a beast and surprisingly quick for a smogged motor (400ci). Anyway, we were doing some routine maintenance on it and my dad's Mercedes 300SD (also a beast for different reasons) one weekend. When I went to put oil in it, the oil would spill out of the fill cap in the valve cover. It was painstakingly slow to get a quart of oil to go in. Finally got fed up and pulled the valve cover only to find an old t-shirt jammed in there. After reinstalling the valve cover, filling with oil and starting the car, the reason for the t-shirt became obvious. It was there to quiet a bad valve or lifter. Didn't bother us, in fact it was kind of amusing to pull into the Chappaqua, NY train station in the mornings with it making all that clatter much to the displeasure of all the snooty commuters. We were a white collar family that never lost track of its blue collar routes. That $500 car lasted us 5 years until I did a neutral drop in it one saturday night and tore the linkage on the transmission up. Quote Ed Smith1957 B85F 1242 "The General Ike" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/68215-i-cant-believe-this/#findComment-480279 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vmac3 Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 Wow just wow. I've seen turbos eating rags, but forgot in the intake??? V Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/68215-i-cant-believe-this/#findComment-480282 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Joey Mack Posted September 21, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 21, 2021 at one point I had the c.a.c. out of the truck. My guess is one of the body shop people put a rag over the c.a.c. pipe and then mabey someone else jumped in and fired it up... But still no-one is speaking up, of course all of the other guys don't speak english very well... just glad no one is chewing me a new A-Hole... The heads are at a machine shop getting a valve job... It's all good..... Joey 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/68215-i-cant-believe-this/#findComment-480286 Share on other sites More sharing options...
theakerstwo Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 It happens Quote glenn akers Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/68215-i-cant-believe-this/#findComment-480289 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtymilkman Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 A "mechanic" at the local mack dealer here left his little flashlight in the timing gears on a mp8. That didn't work out well. 1 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/68215-i-cant-believe-this/#findComment-480341 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Onyx610 Posted September 23, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 23, 2021 7 hours ago, Dirtymilkman said: A "mechanic" at the local mack dealer here left his little flashlight in the timing gears on a mp8. That didn't work out well. That got a hell of a lot more expensive then a rag. Haha 2 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/68215-i-cant-believe-this/#findComment-480351 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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