EC's Going For It

[Electric Chicken]

Nevermind. I researched the 395 LHS. Its a steer that looks nothing like these so they're just well dressed recaps. Probably the same dingaling tread wrapped around it as the rest. They'll blow too.

 

[Electric Chicken]

As the saying goes "not my circus, not my monkeys"

Long as it survives my leg, good enough.

I wouldn't run recaps on my own outfit.

 

[Electric Chicken]

For a while there 99% of our chassis had fresh virgin radials whether they were factory new or refurbished to new.

It seems like we've reached the timeline where there have been enough replacements so tire reliability is back to square one.

 

[Electric Chicken]

It also makes me question whether I still want to be doing this.

 

[AK7]

Much to my surprise they're Goodyears. Usually you get whatever variant of Linglong Dingdong on a rusty wheel. Not saying these are top line GY but still (I don't know anything about them).

They even brought out the torque wrench.

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Has got to be Photoshop. Lol

 

[Electric Chicken]

How my day started. I haven't found where its going yet but on the day cab it turned out to be the EGR cooler when it seemed to just disappear. Its not in my oil, it never overheated, its not on the ground, and its not anything obvious like a hose. I'm not even gonna fug with it. It's going to the shop.

I had my first suspicions about a week ago when I had to add about 1/3 gallon. Today it took 1.5.

 

[Electric Chicken]

If it really is the EGR cooler it would explain the roughness under load lately. Day cab did the same thing.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Riddle me this: how can you have any kind of coolant leak or loss with a system still being under pressure at operating temperature?

 

[Duck]

Riddle me this: how can you have any kind of coolant leak or loss with a system still being under pressure at operating temperature?

Because it hasn't leaked ALL of the coolant out yet.

It's under pressure simply because it's being circulated through all the passages in the block, through the thermostat, the radiator, etc. It takes pressure to push it through everywhere it's gotta go, fast enough to cool a hot engine. That's what the water pump does.

Even when the engine hasn't even warmed up yet.