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Alcon: Have you been able to resolve the following problems you'd mentioned in your 10 January posting? I've inserted questions/thoughts (which may or may not be plausible) for a couple of your questions.
- "Running - the truck ran OK coming home, plenty of power. But there is something wrong with the throttle/governor/injection."
- Opcom: Not yet. It is going to go to the diesel shop. First we have to unload the box except for some tools and the spare. That will happen tomorrow unless the rain is too hard for moving the goods.
- "Starting - I am not so sure we got the suspected air leak fixed because after the truck has been off for 30 minutes to an hour, it has to crank forever to start. It is cranking like a mad dog now that the temp is warmer."
- Opcom: I think this has the same cause as the running.
- "Driving - one or more wheel/tire assemblies is either out of round (suspected) or out of balance. The truck does the bouncy thing at low speeds and this smooths out at 50+ MPH. For all I know this may be normal."
- Alcon: Could this be due to a tire being under or over inflated?
- Opcom: All are inlfated to 100PSI. Maybe that is too much, but it is within the rating of 110PSI at which each tire can take 17500 lbs at 55 MPH.
- If the problem went away once you'd traveled some miles or when you'd finally reached warmer weather, and if you found that one of the tires had been under-inflated, could the problem have been due to a temporary flat spot on the tread or a bulge in the sidewall of the tire, which, due to the cold temps we'd been experiencing during the re-buiild had formed a temporary "set" of those physical conditions(flat spot, bulge) of the tire until such time as the tire had warmed up and was properly inflated?
- Opcom: It appears that there was no change in the behavior even when close to home where it was 50 degrees and the tires were as warm as they might get. Pulling off the hghway, stopping, and pulling back on repeated the problem. The tires did not overheat at all.
- "Steering - it is pretty touchy and wants to over-steer itself. It's as though the chassis moves then the truck tilts and follows it in such a way that the original steering movement is increased. Maybe a toe adjustment? too much tire pressure? I don't know. It is very exciting when the road is narrow and a 18 wheeler is passing. If it were a van or big car I would think "sway bars" but I don't think that can be done on straight axles."
- Alcon:Could this be due to the increased height of the larger tires' sidewalls?
- Opcom: Maybe. I will ask the tire shop gurus.
- "The generator covering and mount."
- Opcom: No progress yet.
- "The RADAR."
- Opcom: No progress yet. The weather here has not been cooperative. Rain mostly. The box does not appear to have major leaks as in dripping on the goods, but it will be dealt with this summer after it is good and dried out.
- "Loading an ATV."
- Alcon: Brian and I are working on the problem of how to safely load and unload your spare tire and 4-wheeler utilizing the lift gate. I'll keep you posted on what we come up with.
- Opcom: I am grateful going forward!
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