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it is not to my knowledge an "ultrashift" but it is the main output shaft at the rear that we are focusing on there

First and last time that trucks ever been towed.

i loved the 444, it was a very good motor to me

doesnt it always happen that things break right after you fill the tanks full?

i agree, luckily i have a twin to it that the only difference is that it is blue

agreed :)

In my heart I love my older equipment, they were built different, they feel and operate different. I've had that purple truck for over 400,000 miles, its been good, and its had its bad moments. It will not be going to a scrap yard or sold atleast for now, im going to use what i can to bring life to a couple other projects ive got. the biggest issue is simply that the wear and tear on the motor and rear ends means that to actually make it a solid truck again its more than just a transmission, i would need to overhaul the motor and the rear ends. and that just isnt financially feasable for me, but i can use the frame on another build, and the cab is identical to another truck ive got that has some body damage from acts of nature. so parts will live on, but that unit as itself just has hit the point of being sacrificed

@Pirateshiplabs it's a tough decision for sure! You will always remember the last mile you drove it! I worked on a horizontal boring mill for years with a fanuc 15m control, and the day came that we pulled the plug on it. It still ran good but the company replaced it. I still remember moving the Y axis down to a certain point so the riggers could pick it up. My dad was a trucker for many years . His last truck he bought was a new 1998 kw T600 with a 425 cat, he ordered it with drivers side hand crank and passenger side electric window because he figured he'd wear out the electric motor on drivers side, and passenger side, a little hard to roll the window down if not electric. He put over a million miles on it and got a million mile hat from the cat dealer. One time he had a warranty issue that was out of warranty by one day and they wouldn't cover it . They said the warranty is 5 years, not 5 years and one day. I know it's tough right now to make money trucking, hopefully with our new president, everything will turn around. We are slow at the machine shop I'm at. But I think in January February we will be going bonkers as everyone will have new 2025 budgets. Take care, and stay strong!

Your welcome!

Is that the ultra shift 13 speed main shaft speed sensor?

loving that energy!

Then you know well the feeling I was talking about 🙃

@@Pirateshiplabs 100% man 100%

Thank you!

I thought about putting potatoes in, but I smoothed it off for winter rye

to thus point, if it helps you out, i have found i can make the O-rings out of the sidewalls of a tire using a dremil, and if you look at the video i released today (10-26-24) i found that it is not too difficult to cast the part from copper or brass, and to thus point i have not had any issue with the copper one cracking, havent tried the brass one yet, but i was thinking it would give me some cheap shiny things under the hood :)

you missed the point then, your first time doing something is never perfect.

what sort of engine? what type of vehicle is it in? how many miles/ hours are on it? i can certainly try to point you in the right direction, some generic answers without more knowledge would be fuel filters, air filters are always a good start for ideas

Thank you, i will keep after it. not only was there an educational value, but it was fun. can't deny i love the way an old diesel sounds

Long story short, many years ago my neighbor lady sold me the disk I had in for 20years and I moved so I took it to her daughter, I gave it to her and said it was her dad's. I will never forget the look on her face😊.

my thoughts exactly, and im always on the hunt for the next experience.

thank you, i appreciate your energy. :)

nah, just took a little extra time to level out, but i have already sorted that out, the damage took about one week to fix. not nearly as bad as one would have expected.

Its a life goal of mine to be more of the optimistic mindset, after more than a decade of looking at the glass half empty it was pointed out to me how miserable it felt. It wasnt easy or overnight, but i found little joys, even if many would consider this "work", watching things grow with your hand involved is very therapeutic.

a 7 or bigger would be fantastic, i just havent managed to get my hands on one yet, the entire "field project" is more of a hobby than a career so it is very budget focused and a 4 bottom was readily and cheaply available, upgrades will have to be slowly aquired over time.

its a priority for myself aswell, i have since this posting addressed that, behind the dash/gauge panel was a big ole rats nest (literally). and that was why a handful of gauges aswell as the ignition did not work at the time of filming. however, i did get the tractor for free, so I was not about to complain to much about the lack of maintenance or the broken things of the last 15 years of it not being used. that story will be in the next clip of tractor play.

that would be hilarious, however call it hobby. never lived near a city, just also never had the opportunity before to do "country things"

I'm at your mom's house and she told you to stop trolling and get your own ass back home to the city

:)

Thanks for the tips!

in a humorous way, since the time of this posting, ive learned everything is out of adjustment.

at this point ive disced about every direction lol

freely i will admit i had absolutely no idea what i was doing, however, I feel I've learned a whole bunch really quickly

Remember if you learned something it was a teaching lesson if you keep doing it over and over then it becomes a mistake😆 nobody wakes up and knows how to do everything.

thank you!!! we plan to freshen it up during the build over winter, had a little trouble getting the right paint but we may have it sorted out now. :)

;)

It is not the only piece of history being saved either, i like equipment that is simple and easy to work on, as a result, around the "farmyard" there are a handful of other older units i am working on, but "running" is not a word i can use for many of them as of yet

@@Pirateshiplabsyea not many of em are runnin as I could tell but at least some are

agreed, cameras really dont actually solve too many issues

Preach it :) i do wish i would see more people be better, beautiful actions and good hearts make me happy

Thank you, its a happy moment in time, and I'm planning to share some of the highlights from this with all of you.

it had a second axle but i had the chop it off the put it under a heavy object during my move, money is always a bit short so i couldnt buy one for the purpose i needed, so i looked around and found the second drive axle off of this knowing the restoration wok will commence over time

Loving the way you think :)

that was a generous and helpful action on your behalf.

maybe that is why ive been such a downer on the industry lately :/ but i cant say thats all the fault o thier own, where is a person supposed to learn the old way if nobody has any examples to teach with?

You are absolutely correct, I'm 70 and I was running 48 states as an 0/0 at the age of 23,in a 1977 white road commander cab over. Have a good day

Thanks!

Thanks for the thumbs up! Brightens the day to see it.

the last three years have been a decline in general as far as profit vs cost as the cost of tires, fuel and oils are higher, and the average rate per mile has been on the decrease. so yes, poor timing there. However, what i was mainly getting after is when i was an owner op, running one truck, my time investment to monetary pay out, so lets say dollar per hour was higher, as the was one truck to maintain, and a company i was leased to took on the majority of the paperwork. so my dollar per hour was better. the startup is always tough, which is something that i dont feel is generally talked about enough. nobody told me how many times you gotta hit your head against the brick wall before you "win" so to speak. many drivers i had talked to who were independant had been in it over 15 years so they mentioned the most recent 10 years (which sounded not easy but reasonable) and neglected to mention the first 5. as a company driver, you hop in a truck, you drive, you go home, the company handles all maintenance and paperwork (invoicing, payroll, ifta, etc) so you are either on the clock or you are going home. if you pull the trigger and run the show, you generally end up doing the book keeping, dispatching and such at one section of the day, you might go out on the occasional run here or there, but keeping drivers happy is a 24-7 on call job, if one of my guys blows a tire at 3 AM on a sunday, i answer the phone, if i got someone who hits a deer at midnight in iowa, its time to load up the gear and head on a roadtrip, yes, i am aware inmany cases like a blown tire it is obviously more economical to use a tire shop, so i dont have to go on that adventure, but someone will still need my payment details. so in a long way of saying, dollar made for me personally vs my hours invested i was more profitable when it was just me. that is not to say there isnt joy to be had in my little community, because i absolutely enjoy those i work with, its a joy, its a lifestyle so to speak, but it isnt nearly the "dream" i had previously believed monetarily speaking. which may have been naive or may have been because i missunderstood or was mislead, but I am attempting to show the good, bad or just simply how a guy feels on a random given day

@@Pirateshiplabs very well put! I hope you get thru to that "easier beyond the start up" part soon! I didn't do trucking but I did do managing and having a good team is so important, if you have that already then you are already a step ahead of most!

being as i have found no evidence of a primer pump of any sort, fill the filter full, and fire it up, usually within the first 10 seconds of running it does a little cough and then goes just fine. its been over 200k miles worth of maintenance with no issues thus far. in my experience, cummins motors are not nearly as particular as cat motors about being truly "primed"

thank you

Thanks boss!

always a joy to help, If theres anything you run into on the cummins feel free to ask in a comment or shoot an email, if i have an answer to the problem i'll do what i can to show an answer

thank you so much, the plan is to pretty it up all the way down to a new frame, but until that is ready I cant help but to play a little during the process

@@Pirateshiplabs ✊️

indeed