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Ok. I would like to know a bit more about this assessment of yours, if you are willing to indulge me. 1) Are you talking about a measurable difference in temperature, or a theoretical difference? 2) To what do you attribute the one side of the differential doing all of the driving? 3) Why are...

The problem with adding the oil there is that although it probably would, it might not make its way to the cylinder.... it is a closed system, where flipping the switch lets the air fill the cylinder, and releasing the switch lets the air come back down the line, and out through the switch. I...

Ah! I was afraid that you might be making that mistake. As long as both wheels aren't slipping both right and left axles drive equally. -Chuck

Ok, I'll bite, why will the right rears be a little warmer than the rest? -Chuck

You really don't have to worry about hydraulic lock in an air compressor because, unlike an internal combustion engine, compressors don't have a compression stroke where both valves are closed. Any liquid that fills the cylinder will just squirt out the exhaust valve and into the air tank...

The reason you need to remove compressor crankcase oil from the air supply is it gets wet from the water in the hot compressed air, and emulsifies. It typically looks like mayonnaise in your water separator... not a good thing for the metal stuff down the air line. Because the compressor feeds...

Tom, wouldn't you think that perhaps the 5th gear breakages are related to the 2nd gear idler's tendency to seize onto its shaft? -Chuck

First, do you remember a conversation we had about deuce transmissions, and GL5 vs SAE40 or SAE50 motor oil? Your observation with the filters is some of that hard evidence you were demanding of me. The EP additives in gear oils, such as GL5, behave more like a liquid grease than like a motor...

The SAE number sequence between gear oil and motor oil is not sequential. SAE30 motor oil is somewhere between SAE80 and SAE90 gear oil. Here is some info from the chart in Machinery's Handbook: Viscosity in Centistokes at (100F/210F) : Motor oils --------------------------------- SAE 10W =...

The standard ether setup isn't supposed to supply ether unless the ambient temperature is below something like 35F. -Chuck

Paul, Here are a couple of sites that discuss water and its abrasive qualities on the injector tip: Why use diesel fuel additives? Do diesel fuel additives really Work? How and Why ! - Truckinfo.net Seven Steps To Clean Fuel - East Tennessee's Caterpillar Dealer Extreme Fuel Extenders There...

Stanadyne, etal are talking about the clumps of water that form the "particles" in the oil/fuel. You can think of it this way if you like, rain drops are rather large particles of water, but a mist or a fog, are very small particles. Water doesn't mix with oil, so the droplets stay as separate...

Adding abrasive improves the performance of a water jet cutter (at a lower pressure), but a high pressure water jet will cut steel without any added abrasive.... it is all a matter of speed. Water in high pressure hydraulic systems (like an IP) is abrasive whether or not you choose to believe...

Bear in mind that all air-packs need the oil, but not all have an oil plug. On those newer air-packs without the oil plug, you have to either uncouple one end the "J" tube, and give it some oil, or uncouple the air inlet tube from the air pack, and give it some oil. Those "J" tubes that don't...

All deeds are recorded by Liber and Folio. That is simply Latin for book and page. A "No Trespassing" sign is the only talisman you need to stop the police from casually crossing your property line... assuming that anything will stop them. Your brother's invocation of the UCC code is really...

Yes, water is that abrasive. It is so abrasive that high pressure streams of water are used to cut through steel plate. The water jets for doing this are made from special ceramic, sapphire, or even diamond, depending on the jet size and application. A little research on your part should...

We talk a lot of wanting the government to be fiscally responsible.... this is an example of them trying to do so. Their right hand is buying HMMWV trailers, and their left is busy selling them. It looks like for once their right hand figured out what their left hand was doing. -Chuck

Interesting... I spent about 2 hours last night trying to get to the root of the water in fuel issue as it applies to C-I engines, and I came up with "theories" that traveled in two different directions: The fuel additive companies (Stanadyne, etal), and the engineering textbooks on my shelf...

In a hydraulic system, like a backhoe's, water is really bad because it is much thinner than the hydraulic oil, and droplets entrained in the oil go rocketing past the seats on the control valves, and take a bit of seat material (usually steel) along with them... think: water jet cutting...

A curious thing about pneumatic tires: On average they put just about the same pressure on the ground as the air pressure in the tire. [Note: It is not exactly the same because the tire carcass is pretty strong even when empty.] -Chuck