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Was digging through my photos and thought you guys would find this amusing. Several years ago, my rig started making an odd puffing noise, that I eventually realized was compression pushing out the relief channel in the head gasket on cyl #2. I started pulling things apart and got the front head...
A smaller YouTuber that I follow had the button fall off his hydraulic head and made a video about repairing it. He did some decent camera work and I think its worthwhile viewing.
I decided to start a new thread instead of adding more to the enormous dual circuit threads already in existence. Also, these ideas are not new. I came up with them, then did some research and realized they've already been done, even at the OEM level, just apparently not for deuces.
Please...
Hopefully dropping the heads back on my 1D/ TD in the next few days...
Is there a consensus on doing a re-torque with the new style gaskets?
Is this a "wet" or "dry" torque?
Thanks guys!
Looking around on youtube today and I happed to come across a video of an old, and admittedly very modified duece still working in what I think is Vietnam. (could be wrong, im no expert in Asian languages!) The highlight of the video for me was a decent look under the truck showing what looked...
I took a quick look under my truck the other day, and it looks like the modulated air supply to the trailer gladhand comes off the airpac, not the master or valve on the pedal system. Is it safe to assume then that a hydraulic circuit failure on the truck could also potentially stop the booster...
Hello all, this post should reveal that I don't know much about the background of these trucks...
Since I've had a fair bit of time to look at things lately, between this site, google and my own truck, I noticed that there are minor variations in some of the controls in the cab of these trucks...