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Hey, might as well get it off my chest: I wasn't even aware that I (or anybody else here, for that matter) owed you any explanations or solutions to your problems with your HMMH.
Perhaps wrongfully, I thought that this forum was meant for its members to share information (on a voluntary basis) about our relatively rare vehicles, and also to inquire about solutions to problems we run into - but in a polite rather than demanding fashion.
And I may very well be wrong about this, too - and since you are supposedly too busy to take a picture or two of the terrain you travel over, it makes it trickier yet to guess - but it does seem to me that you are forcing your FLU10344 to do things it wasn't meant to do.
Keep in mind that HMMH stands for High Mobility Material Handler, and that it is not named HSMH. The "S" in the latter standing for speed.
No, as far as I remember, I have not read any manual about how the HMMH should be driven, and when the lockout is supposed to be used. But I strongly suspect that it's not meant to be used over rough terrain, and especially at speed. Doing that just doesn't make sense in my mind.
But then, I also thought that the forks could be pinned down to help get them into positions they wouldn't easily go into when loose on the hinges. Never would I have thought that they would be used to enable high speed driving. Well, alright, if I was taking fire, I would also speed up, but I wouldn't worry about bouncing forks under those circumstances.
And while I'm barking up the wrong tree, I might as well add that I think it's a distinct possibility that your bad battery went bad due to...yes, speeding over rough terrain. Sulfation combined with jarring can do that to batteries.
Surely you know what FLU stands for, and most likely you've also heard Freightliners being called Freightshakers. You're just taking that nickname to a new level.
Alright, I'm off my soapbox, and will refrain from interfering with your quests for speed and suspension lockouts again.
Perhaps wrongfully, I thought that this forum was meant for its members to share information (on a voluntary basis) about our relatively rare vehicles, and also to inquire about solutions to problems we run into - but in a polite rather than demanding fashion.
And I may very well be wrong about this, too - and since you are supposedly too busy to take a picture or two of the terrain you travel over, it makes it trickier yet to guess - but it does seem to me that you are forcing your FLU10344 to do things it wasn't meant to do.
Keep in mind that HMMH stands for High Mobility Material Handler, and that it is not named HSMH. The "S" in the latter standing for speed.
No, as far as I remember, I have not read any manual about how the HMMH should be driven, and when the lockout is supposed to be used. But I strongly suspect that it's not meant to be used over rough terrain, and especially at speed. Doing that just doesn't make sense in my mind.
But then, I also thought that the forks could be pinned down to help get them into positions they wouldn't easily go into when loose on the hinges. Never would I have thought that they would be used to enable high speed driving. Well, alright, if I was taking fire, I would also speed up, but I wouldn't worry about bouncing forks under those circumstances.
And while I'm barking up the wrong tree, I might as well add that I think it's a distinct possibility that your bad battery went bad due to...yes, speeding over rough terrain. Sulfation combined with jarring can do that to batteries.
Surely you know what FLU stands for, and most likely you've also heard Freightliners being called Freightshakers. You're just taking that nickname to a new level.
Alright, I'm off my soapbox, and will refrain from interfering with your quests for speed and suspension lockouts again.