One of our member’s sent me this troubleshooting story:
“The company I worked for had invested in a complete overhaul of the engine on an older Mack truck, sleeper version in otherwise poor cosmetic shape. In addition, they were the proud owner of a mechanically poor, cosmetically good Mack in a non-sleeper configuration. The decision was made to do a … Read more
Jason from California (not his real name) wrote me this:
“Brendan, I wanted to share with you a troubleshooting story and how your techniques helped save my service department $15,000.
We recently did a complete tear down and rebuild of a CAT 988H wheel loader. After many months the project was completed and the machine shipped to the customer. A … Read more
Ed Bailey, Bison Steel Inc., got and read The Hydraulic Maintenance Handbook and used the know-how within to deal with water contamination in a hydraulic shear. The oil capacity of the hydraulic tank was 300 gallons (1136 litres).
Initially the oil was circulated through water removal filters. Six filters were used but this only took out some of the water. … Read more