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steelsoldiers · 11-08-2009, 21:14

It was a beautiful day to work on the truck! The sun was shining and there was a nice breeze all day.

The first thing I did was go rob some more parts off of the A2 parts truck. I needed a brake wedge assembly and a set of shocks. Once I was done fighting that mess I went to work on the front brakes on my truck. I got both of the wedge assemblies, the actuators, the fittings, and the air lines installed. After that, I installed the front shocks.

I spent about 20 minutes drilling a hole in the pivot for the transfer case shift linkage. It was rusted solid when I got it, but I have been working it back and forth with Kroil. After I got the hole drilled I started shooting Kroil in it over and over. Once I get it moving smoothly, I will tap the hole and install a grease fitting.

I also swapped out the muffler. The whole bottom had rotted out of the one on my truck. That made it tough to work on it with the engine running. The new muffler went on smoothly and made a big difference in sound and smoke direction!

Jason Peecook showed up about the time I was starting to work on the muffler. He was picking up some stuff from John and stuck around to lend a hand. We retrieved an 817 dump to slave my truck off. Once we got it started I crawled underneath to try and track down the air leak. After disconnecting several air lines under the truck, I was able to isolate the leak to the rear relay valve. It won't stop dumping air out of the vent line. We hooked up a gladhand air hose to the 817 and I used a blow gun to blow out the valve over and over. It still just kept blowing down. I used the blowgun to pressurize the brake system on my truck and at one point the expeller valve on the air dryer opened and it dumped a bunch of water out of the system. At least I know that it works.

I messed around with the relay valve for about half an hour. It was starting to get dark and Jason had to take off for Richmond. I decided to just yank the valve and bring it home with me. The air fittings came off really easy, but the two little rusty 5/16" bolts about killed me!

I finally got those off and packed up my stuff to head out.

I am going to split the relay valve open and check the guts out. I am guessing one of the valves is corroded and is stuck open.

No, the truck didn't move. I was tempted to try, but my throttle linkage is still rusted solid and I couldn't build any air pressure to get the spring brakes to release. Maybe next time!