[AT] Rant and stuff

[Cecil Bearden]

Greg:
I have the same problem.  here with getting parts or trying ot get 
someone to work on anything.  If I can't do it myself, It just does not 
get done.  My f150 that I had a used engne installed in a year or so 
ago, is finally running right.  I spent over $3000 on getting the engine 
installed and then the a/c working right, then the flex plate cracked.  
I was using a small independent shop, but the mechanic who was working 
on my truck was wanting the old engine for his own, so he did not check 
out the engine that was in my truck, and just stuck the new one in 
without the salvage flex plate that had been banged around.   Then, the 
a/c compressor clutch was bad, so for another $200 they installed a new 
one. Total, $1800 and I furnished the new engine.  3 months later the 
engine making a bad clicking noise that sounded much like an A/C clutch 
dragging, A/c was blowing cold air.  Same mechanic installed a new 
compressor and some new hoses $800..  When I picked up the truck, it 
still made the same noise....   He said just drive it........
I took it to a transmission shop where it had to sit for a week until 
the guy could get to it.  He is an older fellow and has one helper, he 
is a little slow, but good.    He found that I had a broken section on 
the cross member under the tailshaft.  He left it outside so I could 
come by and take it home and weld it.  I brought it back at 8:30 am next 
morning and he and helper had it on lift looking at  flex plate.  It 
appeared to be a small crack...   I picked it up later that evening.  
$650 with new updated plate.   If I had driven the truck, I would have 
been stranded.  With my back I cannot walk more than 100 ft at a time 
and then I have to have a cane...
a month later, a fuel injector plugged. I installed 4 new ones and 
changed the fuel filter.   2 weeks later same thing and again changed 
fuel filter.   I made a trip to the other farm with the semi and had my 
wife follow me in my f150.  An injector plugged and it  would not run 
with the A/C on and it was a warm day... I had enough!!  Ordered a new 
fuel tank from Amazon and another set of injectors.  When I dropped the 
tank it had 1/2 inch of gravel in it.  I changed the filter again 
installed new injectors, new fuel and it is still running fine.  I now 
wonder if maybe my old engine is not so bad, it just needed fuel 
injectors and maybe a new lifter...

The stealerships are the worst places to take anything.  If they cannot 
hook a computer to whatever, they cannot do anything.... The "mechanics" 
are just kids out of a tech school who never had any idea how to really 
repair anything, all they do is change parts.  Sometimes the new parts 
are bad also..........  I spent $3500+ at the new Holland dealer on my 
TS110 on a mis-diagnosis. I am still working with the problems they 
created.  I have to bleed the fuel system if it sits longer than an 
hour.  They lost the hood brace and a new one is over $200.  The fuel 
gauge quit, and I had to buy another windshield wiper motor since they 
installed the wiper arms wrong and burned out the wiper motor.  I also 
now have a noise whenever I reverse the shifter...

I want to say thanks to Bo Hinch and NCWayne ion the YT forum for the 
help they gave me on my Ingersoll compressor.  I got it running right 
this afternoon.  Short version of the story is the unloader actuator 
diaphragm was trashed.  When I finally got it apart, I searched for a 
truck air brake diaphragm.  Finally cut a diaphragm out of a piece of 
10inch dia PVC discharge hose.  It works fine now...

Sure feels good when they finally start working.......

Cecil in OKla




On 5/18/2016 2:06 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
> Night before last I was in my office and heard something like a truck in
> the driveway, a while later I heard it again and went out to check. It
> was the air compressor in the shop running; during the summer months I
> don't shut it off. Anyway, last year I installed a water separator in
> the air line for the compressor and it has a hard plastic sight tube so
> you know when to drain the water. Well, that tube split and air just
> gushed out. The separator is rated for 250 lbs. and I run at 175 so
> pressure was not excessive. Yesterday I stopped where I bought it; it is
> like an auto parts store but they sell heavy duty truck parts. The guy
> at the desk knew nothing but he did the right thing and called the
> distributor who said the part was not available separately but you had
> to buy the assembly for $55. I didn't really believe him because I
> though I remembered a parts list in the instructions. Also the
> distributor said the parts would be special order. When I got home, I
> told the wife and she took the numbers off the assembly and in less than
> 5 minutes she had a parts list printed out for me. We called about 4
> yesterday afternoon and gave them the part number. Not only was it
> available, but they had it in the warehouse and it was here at 8 this
> morning for $11. I said something about their distributor but got a
> dirty look  so said no more as I can see that the fact I could have been
> out $50 means nothing to these workers. I am getting so sick of people
> not doing their jobs. I don't expect miracles but I expect people to do
> their job; no more no less. I recently sold all 3 of the IH 715 combines
> I had. A guy wanted them to run in the combine demolition derby. I
> basically got junk price but they are gone. One was a parts machine, one
> was my soybean machine and the third was for wheat and corn. When last
> used a year ago the soybean machine had a straw walker go out and the
> bearing ripped a hole in the side of the machine; When doing corn, that
> machine had some heavy metal over the cylinder come loose. I never was
> able to get it out and would have to remove the feeder house and
> cylinder to get at it. My intention was to fix them as I have most of
> the parts either new or used but decided they were in such bad shape I
> would fix one thing and two would break .  Just to give you an idea, on
> the corn combine, the engine manifold is cracked and in cold weather had
> to run it half choked to make up for air leaks; both elevator chains as
> well as all the sprockets are bad; all of the straw walkers are shot;
> the tailings auger is bad; the air cleaning fan is all bent, and the
> transmission jumps out of gear twice each time across the field. The
> diesel 715 has sat out for over a year and started fine (they had extra
> batteries with them). The corn 715 was in the shed all  the time and I
> wanted to run it to save possible mishaps in the shed. I had charged the
> battery (I have it running in the fall to take off the corn head. It
> turned over good but did not start. The fuel pump did not sound right so
> I had them bang on it with a hammer. After a while the pump took off and
> it started right up. That lousy fuel again, as it was a year and a half
> old and had made the fuel pump stick. Last night they came  after dark
> to get the  parts machine. I had removed one drive tire as well as other
> parts. I thought they would tow it but they wanted to try and start it.
> 6 or 7 years ago I drove it home 17 mile from where I bought it and
> parked it behind the shed where it has stayed. They put a different
> drive tire on and drained the gas (the whole yard smelled for hours even
> thought they put it in a pail. They put in new gas and a battery and it
> did nothing but cranked if you used a screwdriver on the starter. They
> tried tying all the wires under the cab together; all the fuse stuff
> underneath was rusted off. I gave them a bunch of new wire and they went
> direct from the battery to the fuel pump and backfed the ignition . It
> took about three good shots of starting  fluid and away it went. I never
> thought it would run again. They headed for home with it about midnight.
> It froze again last night as has been the case lately. It is to go into
> the 30's again tonight and the corn is starting to come up. In the past
> 2 weeks we have had several record or near record lows. One gets real
> tired of this in a hurry.        P.S. for the combines a year ago I
> bought a Used IH 1440 axial flow combine which I used last year and will
> be my machine for now.
>
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