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I read an article recently I believe on a caterpillar forum about the old Cat D7. They first came with the oil bath air cleaner and when the turbo chargers were added they went to the paper filters. According to the article engine life was greatly extended with the paper filters

Son in law has 2018 F150 with 3.5 he had bought from his father,always serviced and well taken care of. At 120,000 miles the transmission goes. Takes it to a well respected transmission shop to get a rebuilt. They install first rebuilt and won't even let it leave the shop since it was apparently is junk! Order another and all is fine til about 400 miles when transmission began doing all kinds of weird shifting. Made it home and saw the small boat he was towing covered in oil. Hauled it back to transmission shop to have it checked out. They found the oil cooler line was loose but said his problem was he ran the truck too low on fuel!! 25 miles to empty. They told him there is a service bulletin to not run the truck at less than 1/4 tank fuel??? Didn't say much about not getting oil cooler line tight! Was there actually such a bulletin?

My sons were at the auction and came home with a few small things and had visited with some of the locals. One said he doubted if some of the tractors had ever seen road gear since all they farmed was within a mile. Family seemed to be buying some. Guy said a cousin wanted the 544 so when it came up he told auctioneer ten thousand and there were no other bids.

My TD15C trunnion balls are getting pretty well shot and new seem very scarce and expensive, The aftermarket ones available for Cat machines seem pretty reasonable, but don't know if any would be same size or not. Anyone ever got anything else to work or found a good source for the original?

I can tell you a real horror story about buying trucks online or auction houses. Son was browsing ads one day from one of the large farm and construction auctioneers. I think the truck he saw was about 2014 F250 diesel in Florida. The pictures were taken by a real con artist with any rust spots covered or not in the picture. There was a video of the truck driving around the lot. Thinking it was a rust free Florida truck he put what he thought was a low dollar bid and won it. He made payment and had a buddy who wanted to fly down and drive it home if son paid his expenses. Then he got the title. Michigan title with last dealers name on it from Michigan. Called the last title guy and said he had gotten rid of the truck because it was rusty and ran like crap. Someone drove or most likely hauled it to Florida and put it on auction site. Now all kinds of red flags were showing up, but it was a bit late. Told his buddy to just forget it and he would have it hauled home. Buddy pretty much begged him to let him go after it and that he could get it home. Could not be that bad he said. Long story short, buddy drove it about couple miles from auction site and it ran like crap and began to overheat. "Buddy" bailed and still wanted expense paid trip and son still had to pay to haul it home. Truck is a rust bucket and engine was shot. Still setting in shed. Auction company said tough luck and seller blocked his phone. Expensive lesson.

We have had probably a dozen transactions with Weber Salvage over the years and never a problem. Good to deal with.

I have been told by some Big Yellow wrench guys that the first thing to do with a drain plug like that is to give it a big wack with a big hammer !!

My parts washer is an old 35 gallon barrel cut in half length ways with four legs and a bottom shelf. On the bottom shelf sits a five gallon bucket with a at one time popular replacement parts washer pump mounted to the bucket and a plastic hose going to a remote oil filter bracket, with some cheap PH8A car filters,mounted to the legs. From the filter a hose to some fittings mounted to the old barrel and a flow thru parts washer brush. Have a drain in bottom of the barrel that sticks up a bit so the worst stays in the bottom of the barrel and some plastic pipe and hose from the drain that goes thru lid on bucket and back to pump. Not safety approved and was a quick fix at the time but still works pretty well.

My luck. I looked at their coverage map and the area I need it probably has no coverage

Anyone have or use a satellite phone? The good ,bad and the ugly. Spent most of the afternoon on some remote farmland with a blown tractor tire. No cell service and probably never will be, don't believe cb or fm radio would get out thru the hills and just looking for something to make that emergency call when things go bad. Seems like if something is going to break or quit this is where it happens. Its seems if we work in that area we check often to see if things are still going. Getting spoiled with all this modern stuff and too damn old to walk too far and I suppose smoke signals are frowned upon these days!

We have two 1840s. One in shop right now getting wheel bearing replacement with cab slid forward. The fuel solenoid replacement looks a lot better with cab forward and someone more flexible than myself. The other 1840 has been doing a random start and run for five seconds then stops and after five or fifty attempts will again start and run fine. Been thinking may be fuel solenoid is weak but haven't checked into it much yet. Checked on price of solenoid $125 for case item and aftermarket $12-35$. With all the replacement fun the OE might be the cheapest!

Go to topic listingAfter visiting a couple parts places and having some machine shop work done last week I told myself the price of beef is not near high enough!!

Was rebuilding an old jeep 4cylinder and had a newly reground 10 under crank to install. Looked at bearings and yes make sure to line oil hole in bearing shell up with holes in block ect. Decided to go do chores and finish later. Came back and finished install. Fired engine up later and man it ran sweet with great oil pressure for a while. Then it started to knock. Not possible I told myself, got great oil pressure. Finally pulled the pan, ya one bearing shell in wrong. The 10 under crank became a 20 under!

I not sure there is much pasture land available for beef herd expansion. In this area most of what used to be pasture land has been converted to row crops or if it comes up for sale its bought by deer hunters and won't see a cattle herd again. For right now it is probably more profitable to pasture marginal crop ground.

I have used the jump and carry jumper packs probably the last 10-15 years. Seems after about three years they get weak. Usually no problem starting any of our gassers or diesels until it gets below zero and then bigger is just better. Had a couple of the little capacitor type things in the past that worked O K in warm weather but would not expect much from one at -15 on a diesel sitting outside overnight. Most work well on a warm sunny day,but in the cold bigger is just better.