[AT] Getting water out of a gearbox
charlie hill
charliehill at embarqmail.com
Wed Jun 3 18:41:51 PDT 2015
Ok guys, check my math I did it in a hurry. 32.6 inch diameter tire divided
by 12 =2.71667 feet diameter x pi equals 8.54 feet (r) circumference.
5280 feet in a mile divided by 8.54 equals 618.267 revolutions per mile x
250000 equals 154,566,744.7 revolutions.
$280 divided by 154,566,744.7 equals .000002 dollars,
Where am I wrong? It's possible. My HP12C uses reverse polish notation
after all.
Charlie
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Offiler
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 8:01 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Getting water out of a gearbox
Me too, same number, but I figured Charlie must have meant per revolution
rather than per mile!
SO
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> On Jun 3, 2015, at 7:36 PM, Doug Tallman <dtallman at accnorwalk.com> wrote:
>
> Charlie, my basic math comes out to .00112 dollars per mile. Not as much
> of a deal you thought it was. :-) Doug T
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>> On 6/3/2015 6:31 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>> hmmm after doing a little basic math it occurs to me that in 250,000
>> miles
>> that
>> bearing has turned on the order of 150 million revolutions. At $280.00
>> that
>> works out
>> to a bit less than $.000002 per mile. I don't think it owes me anything.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: charlie hill
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 3:41 PM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Getting water out of a gearbox
>>
>> Yep the sealed bearings are a bit of a mixed blessing. No maintenance
>> necessary but
>> NO maintenance allowed either.
>>
>> I do the same thing. I recently replaced the belts on my truck. They
>> weren't broken or completely
>> worn out but were showing signs of wear and they were old. Did I throw
>> them
>> away...NO. They went
>> behind the back seat!
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Thomas Mehrkam
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 2:21 PM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Getting water out of a gearbox
>>
>> One of my gripes is putting sealed bearings in the front hubs. Mine have
>> 280,000 miles on them. Seem fine when I check them but I am sure they
>> are
>> running on borrowed time.
>> If they were the type I could pack with grease I could check and repack
>> then. I would likely have a spare set of packed bearings in a zip lock
>> in
>> my tool box. Just in case.
>> I have a pair of prepacked bearings with every trailer I own. And extra
>> fan
>> belts in all my vehicles. Cost's nothing the fan belts are old good
>> ones
>> taken off to put on fresh ones.
>>
>> I have been saved more than once by these old spare parts.
>> One Christmas holiday my daughter and I were driving the 2500 Suburban
>> from
>> Houston to South Padre. My wife and InLaws were at a Condo for the
>> holidays. I had to work and left early in the next morning
>> About Warton. 1.5 Hours I lost power steering, Power Brakes and
>> alternator.
>> I stopped and the belt was shredded. It seems the power steering pump
>> bracket broke.
>> I put on the spare belt. It would not stay on because of the bracket. I
>> spotted a coil of barbed ware hanging on the fence next to me. Thank
>> goodness for ranchers that believe on keeping old wire hanging hanging
>> around for emergency fence repairs. I borrowed a short length and wired
>> to
>> pump bracket so the belt would stay on.
>> I went into town and found small welding shop and asked them if they
>> could
>> weld it. They claimed it would not hold. The bracket was too hard. They
>> said there was a Chevy dealer in town.
>> The dealer did not have a bracket but they ran a truck to Houston about
>> 10:30 AM every day for parts. It was about that time. He said he would
>> order the part and have it by 3:30.
>> One time the dealer did good. Got the part and got us out by 5:00 Pm.
>> The
>> service manager even loaned us his car so we could go to lunch.
>> Made it to south padre after dark. It was late but we were able to
>> salvage
>> the holiday. Come to think of it all dealerships are not ripoff artists.
>> I
>> was not even disappointed with the price. This was 1996 or so.
>> From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 10:17 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Getting water out of a gearbox
>>
>> I had an interesting experience this past Friday. It could have been
>> bad and very expensive but it turned out well. I guess that penny I
>> found
>> heads up in the yard Friday morning was a good omen.
>>
>> I was headed to Maryland. On I-95 just south of the I-295 exit I started
>> getting
>> a bad front end vibration. I took an exit hoping to find nothing worse
>> than
>> a flat
>> tire. Not so. I couldn't find a thing that looked out of place but I
>> knew
>> that the
>> right front hub (4 WD 2006 GMC) was running on borrowed time. The left
>> side
>> was changed out about 3 years ago and the right side had over 250,000
>> miles
>> on it.
>> I grabbed the top of the tire and snatched on it. Sure enough I felt
>> about
>> 1/8" or so of
>> slack. There was nothing to do buy keep going. No where really to get
>> it
>> worked on.
>> This was at about 3pm on Friday afternoon. I made it nearly to
>> Fredericksburg Va. when
>> I ran into a traffic delay for about 3 miles of stop and go. Every time
>> I
>> started I had to
>> apply too much throttle and I didn't need to touch the brake pedal to
>> stop!
>>
>> I limped to the next exit, still tied up in traffic, and got off. After
>> pulling into a parking lot
>> I searched on my phone for the nearest AutoZone. Not that I'm
>> particularly
>> fond of AutoZone
>> but I knew a few things. There's one most everywhere, they loan tools
>> and I
>> happened to know
>> that they carry that hub in the Timken brand. Sure enough there was an
>> AutoZone store less than
>> a mile from me. I found it, went in and explained my situation. They
>> had
>> the hub (1 in stock) and
>> they had the tools and it was ok to work in their parking lot but they
>> didn't have jacks or jack stands
>> to loan out so I knew I'd have to buy what I needed. I asked if there
>> was a
>> local shop that could
>> do it now, do it right and not rip me off. The commercial accounts guy
>> picked up the phone and
>> made a call. I heard him say Amigo, '06 Z 71 Quattro Quattro front hub
>> NOW? The parts man
>> said he can do it now. I said how much. He asked. The answer came back
>> $100.00.
>> Mind you this was at 4:15 pm on Friday. I told him yes.
>>
>> I bought the hub for $180.00 and they had their parts runner girl escort
>> me
>> to the shop.
>> When we got there Jorge was waiting in his one bay shop in a single slope
>> metal building
>> that housed a detail shop and other similar small businesses, each taking
>> up
>> a bay or two.
>> Jorge is about 50 I'm guessing. He spoke English well enough for me to
>> talk
>> to him. He apologetically
>> asked if I could wait 5 minutes for him to start to let it cool. He
>> offered
>> us bottled water which
>> we declined because we had our own. Just a few minutes later he went to
>> work. He was fast and
>> clearly knew what he was doing. I watched him work from a distance. I
>> didn't want to make him
>> nervous or make him think I didn't trust him but I wanted to make sure he
>> was doing it right. He did.
>> He did all the little things that some mechanics wouldn't bother with
>> like
>> making sure he straightened
>> the slight bends he put in the dust cap that covers the axle nut when he
>> had
>> to pry it off and putting a
>> bit of anti seize grease on the new lug studs.
>>
>> In about 45 minutes he was finished. I gave him the promised $100.00 and
>> thanked him. He gave me his
>> business card just in case something wasn't right and I needed to call.
>> (He
>> knew I was passing through
>> and wouldn't be back otherwise). I thanked him again and was gone.
>>
>> I just wish Jorge was in my town because I'd gladly use his services. I
>> could have changed the hub myself and
>> would have if I had been at home but not for $100 bucks. With my bad
>> knees
>> it was worth every cent of
>> 100 bucks to have him do it and do it right.
>>
>> Yes this is my tractor hauling truck (obligatory tractor reference).
>>
>> If you are ever in Fredericksburg VA and need a good mechanic find the
>> AutoZone near the 17 Business exit (first US 17
>> exit going north) and ask them to tell you how to find Jorge Auto
>> Service.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> C
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