From fire truck to MTV

[MatthewWBailey]

Finally got the last bucket of ATF, I think this was the 3rd try from amazon....I feel bad from all the deliveries that failed due to damage. I imagine huge spills of ATF all over the floor of vans.
My method was to disconnect the return line from the cooler, this proved a little difficult as my adjustable wrench flexed more than I liked. Local hardware store had every size except the 1.5" needed, same with multiple auto stores. Needed a trip to harbor freight
Initially pumped out 5 gallons (ran in neutral till it sputtered out the return-that thing flows fast). Then I pull transfer drain, pan drain, cooler outlet. Oddly the cooler outlet drained a lot and for a long time.
I put 10 gal of transend in and ran it in gear till bright red pumped out, this was about 11gal in the drain pan
Checked level and went on a drive, then drained another 5 and put in the last 5 of transend. The siphon tube worked awesome.
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Son was sad he missed it so I had him start draining the engine oil. Didn't even drop the plug in the bucket on his first try! (I dropped a bolt and drain plug into the bucket during the trans flush)

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nice. when I did mine I had already had the oil cooler out (to get to the oil pan) and flushed it manually in a bucket. I used a 1.5" box wrench that's a good wrench for backhoe lines.

 

[aw113sgte]

Not a bad view from our most recent trip!


Have figured out how to remotely interface with the Arduino controller using common radios. This way I can control anything remotely the microcontroller has control over -which is nearly everything. Only have non-harmfull options available to control for now but if I go to an encrypted system I'll enable far more control.

 

[Lostchain]

How are you sending commands? Keying up the mic?

 

[aw113sgte]

How are you sending commands? Keying up the mic?

Sending DTMF tones with radio keypad.

The receiving radio has its speaker input fed into a tone decoder, that spits out a 4 bit code for the Arduino to read. For transmission from the truck, Arduino is connected to microphone input and a tone can be generated. The radio has vox enabled to detect and transmit the tone/tones.

 

[Lostchain]

Sending DTMF tones with radio keypad.

The receiving radio has its speaker input fed into a tone decoder, that spits out a 4 bit code for the Arduino to read. For transmission from the truck, Arduino is connected to microphone input and a tone can be generated. The radio has vox enabled to detect and transmit the tone/tones.

That’s pretty sweet! Are you still able to use the radio for voice communications as well?

 

[aw113sgte]

That’s pretty sweet! Are you still able to use the radio for voice communications as well?

I could, it's just a standard radio, the DTMF tones are already built into the radio so it makes it quick and easy to get up and running. In theory I could have an Alexa device or something similar in the habitat, and command it over the radio as well.

 

[aw113sgte]

Did this a few weeks ago, but always disliked the pushbutton light controller. The manual one is so much easier to use. After a few weeks of use I definitely won't be going back!

 

[MatthewWBailey]

Did this a few weeks ago, but always disliked the pushbutton light controller. The manual one is so much easier to use. After a few weeks of use I definitely won't be going back!View attachment 932989

Lol you don't like pressing "enter" every time?

 

[aw113sgte]

Lol you don't like pressing "enter" every time?

F no. I know some like the pushbutton, but not this guy.