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I took a 6tl battery with a badly deformed terminal to a battery shop. They cut it off flush with battery top and using a mold the size of the complete battery terminal, melted some lead and poured it into the mold. Let it cool off, removed the mold, dressed it with a file, charged me an...

The chainfall is hung from the top cord which is in compression under load but the entire truss is assembled with "pierced steel plates" or gang nails that do not do well under additional unengineered loads. This is a recipe for structural collapse. Suggest an arrangement that does not place the...

Reference posts 9654 and 9656. Yes the switch is by the hydo-vac. The trucks were built with hydraulic stop light switches but I have seen examples that were MWOed to air operated switches. The stoplight switch operates both the service and blackout brake lights, but only one at a time depending...

Reference post 9514 and alternator bolts: the little dears have to be checked for tightness periodically as they have the ability to vibrate loose when driving. One falls out, the other breaks, alternator falls off which kills the water pump and there you are.

Wipers not working ? See if you can get some air tool oil as used in impact wrenches into them to free them up. [parking brake inop ? If the shoes are not completely wasted you can take up the slack at the transfer case end of the brake cable by loosening the jam nut and taking up on the "acorn"...

Reference tires and tubes: check with any tire mechanic and you will be told to put NEW tubes in NEW tires. As tire age, they stretch or become slightly larger than when new. The tubes, being soft rubber, stretch too. Put a larger than new used tube in a new tire and it will be too big, so when...

I had a commercial truck with an air dryer which was fortunately fitted with an electric heater. If it is above freezing at the end of the day, water will collect in the ejector valve and freeze it open. The solution is the start the truck so the heater works, melts the ice and allow the valve...

Not to be a spoiled sport, but compliance issues ort lack thereof become a problem when hungry lawyers are circling and your collector car insurance carrier is balking at paying the claim.

As poster 9201 is obviously a man of experience he would know that the feds in their infinite wisdom have defined a commercial vehicle (CV) as a property carrying vehicle RATED for over 26,000 pounds GV or GCW or a passenger carrying vehicle occupied by more than 16 people including the driver...

Reference post 9196: the CDL standard is a federal thing and is supposed to be nationwide to prevent the drivers from shopping around for the state with the easiest test. New Jersey, for instance, did not have a classified licensing system until the CDL appeared in 1992. The government also sets...

To determine eligibility for a CDL the crime fighters go by the design weight which is displayed on a plaque usually on the driver's door frame. You cannot register the truck for more than it is designed to carry, but "under registering" to beat the CDL requirement isn't going to work as...

Working with tube tires at home is not an insurmountable problem. Many commercial shops will not do them as few have been fitted to commercial trucks for the last 20 years and many tire mechanics have never seen one. Also most shops will not mount a tire that is over 10 years old. An impact...

bought another one (my 4th), checked all the fluids, l.ots of grease and WD40 as the PO never went near it with a grease gun or oil can, replaced gearshift knob and hood safety catch, installed correct nuts on spare tire carrier to secure spare so I can use the tools for the truck to get the...