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Rubber parts as in , cab bushings, sway bar bushings, hoses fuel, oil, plastic air, Orings in everything. cab lift pumps, cab lock, selector valves for the cab, tire, and kneeling manifold
my maintenance does not start from zero and i always turn off the main breaker. Must be something wrong with your internal battery that stores the memory, all the units I have bought never had the batteries hooked up and sat in storage for 10 years and were still only a day off and all memory...
Getting ready for Winter started a little early tonight. Car Accident took out the power for about 3 hours. after about an hour i decided to break out the 1040 as i have never had it hooked to the house. 30 minutes making up a power cord and got it hooked up. As it wasnt 100 degrees or -30...
Driving daily does not mean its is good condition, i am 2 years in and still replacing parts on a 1997 that has 5000 miles on it. lots of age on these trucks and all the rubber parts are just old. be prepared to spend about $500 a month for a while
Its not that major to remove a panel or two on the ask kit. You will want to learn now anyway because sooner or later you will be working on the unit. even with 18hrs i would say sooner these units are pretty old. mine has 118 hours and doing the battery modification right now
I worked on the 531 some more today. i realized that a brass bushing in the end of the starter was broken and that was the original noise i heard clanging around. so i looked in the tm and it told me i had to remove the generator from the engine to change the starter which i was not about to...
So as expected things did not go well. i tried heat, easy out, welding a nut to the stud, everything i know of and ended up with an off set wallerd out hole, so like my solution or not this is it, i am going to cut off the head of an m6 bolt and jb weld it in place and use a nut on the outside...
I work on a lot of mep 531a units and it is very easy to break the fly housing cover bolts. I like to replace the rubber vibration dampeners when needed, but the one i am working on has a pre broken bolt. I tried last night with channel locks as enough is sticking out to try and spin it out...
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