how about a Oklahoma,AR,MO,KS,TX,+IA GTG thread?

[Hinerman]

Thomas do I need to bring my welder to keep your splitter in the game.

It wouldn't hurt...

 

[Hinerman]

The city knocked on my door today. They told me I had a water leak, my meter was running and it was on my side of the meter. I checked the house and started checking the yard. The leak is in the area of the meter so I pumped the water out and sure enough my meter was running like crazy so I shut the water off. Plumber is coming out tomorrow.

How did they know I had a leak? It wasn't running in the street so nobody would have called them.

 

[Workshop]

The city knocked on my door today. They told me I had a water leak, my meter was running and it was on my side of the meter. I checked the house and started checking the yard. The leak is in the area of the meter so I pumped the water out and sure enough my meter was running like crazy so I shut the water off. Plumber is coming out tomorrow.

How did they know I had a leak? It wasn't running in the street so nobody would have called them.

They monitor water usage. They might have seen that you were using water like a restaurant but it's a private residence.
Same thing happened to me once.

 

[Workshop]

Question is- are they going to make you pay?

 

[Workshop]

Something similar happened to a house across the street. Water line split under the house. Turned a 4 foot crawl space into a built in swimming pool.
Fortunatly, they didn't make him pay.

 

[Workshop]

Stove was taking its sweet time getting going this evening.
Couple of sticks of hedge took care of that.
Now it's starting to warm up.

 

[Hinerman]

Question is- are they going to make you pay?

They told me it is on my side of the meter so it is my responsibility.....so yes, I have to pay.

 

[Workshop]

Looking at a Ford 3000 diesel tractor with loader. Engines been rebuilt, so they say.
Getting oil in the radiator but none in the oil. Is this a major deal? Or fixed relatively easy?

 

[Workshop]

They told me it is on my side of the meter so it is my responsibility.....so yes, I have to pay.

That sucks.

 

[moparnut88]

Looking at a Ford 3000 diesel tractor with loader. Engines been rebuilt, so they say.
Getting oil in the radiator but none in the oil. Is this a major deal? Or fixed relatively easy?

That 3000 is a good tractor had a friend had one. Was really good.

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[Hedgerow]

Looking at a Ford 3000 diesel tractor with loader. Engines been rebuilt, so they say.
Getting oil in the radiator but none in the oil. Is this a major deal? Or fixed relatively easy?

Likely a head gasket. I would run away from some other fool’s problem.. but I hate working on that *s-word..

 

[Hedgerow]

If you’re game for a project, they were a solid tractor..

But old and crude..

 

[Dub11]

The city knocked on my door today. They told me I had a water leak, my meter was running and it was on my side of the meter. I checked the house and started checking the yard. The leak is in the area of the meter so I pumped the water out and sure enough my meter was running like crazy so I shut the water off. Plumber is coming out tomorrow.

How did they know I had a leak? It wasn't running in the street so nobody would have called them.

When my water heater blew out the bottom they showed up the next day or the day after asking what was up. And this was a couple years before the wireless readers were installed

 

[moparnut88]

Looking at a Ford 3000 diesel tractor with loader. Engines been rebuilt, so they say.
Getting oil in the radiator but none in the oil. Is this a major deal? Or fixed relatively easy?

Just dug on google it suggested a bad oil cooler in radiator. I hadn't thought about that earlier. I'd start there then suspect head gasket or head.

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[Workshop]

I sent him a message about trading.
We'll see what transpires.

 

[Workshop]

Just dug on google it suggested a bad oil cooler in radiator. I hadn't thought about that earlier. I'd start there then suspect head gasket or head.

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Would it be possible to bypass that cooler and put on another, external oil cooler?

 

[moparnut88]

Would it be possible to bypass that cooler and put on another, external oil cooler?

Yes just like a transmission cooler

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[Workshop]

He said he'll consider my trade offer.
This could be interesting.

 

[countryhog]

The next thing I would try is rotate the tires front to back. See what that does.
He could try increasing camber on the drivers side, but no more than 3/4 to one degree positive camber final adjustment.
Keep in mind camber is a tire wearing angle. Too much is bad. It's better to increase castor on the right wheel. Castor is not a tire wearing angle.
When I did alignments I always shot for factory specs unless special circumstances.
Generally I would set drivers side at 3/4 degree positive camber and 1/4 to 1/2 positive right side.
Castor at about 1 to 1 1 /4 positive passenger side and about 3/4 positive drivers side.
1/8 inch toe in. Wider tires require more toe in.
Steering axis inclination can be a problem that needs to be checked, too. Also check the thrust angle and compensate for it.
Also, it's proper to replace ball joints in pairs. If you do 1 lower, do the other lower also to keep things matched.
With the above being said, vehicles built in the last 20 years or so Don't have the capability to adjust camber and castor, mainly cars. They have an "operating range" that the factory says is "satisfactory" and the only thing you can do is set the toe-in. (I say that's BS.) Companies do make specialized shims and ball joint adjustors that can be installed to put things back to where they should be.
I really enjoyed doing alignments. Everybody else in the shop thought it was dark magic. But it's really fairly simple.

Thanks much
This is a young guy so doubt he’s got much real-world experience. Says it would align better with new tires; i say swapping front tires with same results puts the lie to that. He also said the machine compensates for normal road crown.
May have to find another shop

 

[67L36Driver]

Just dug on google it suggested a bad oil cooler in radiator. I hadn't thought about that earlier. I'd start there then suspect head gasket or head.

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Radiator pressure is about 14 psi. Engine oil pressure is 30-60.
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