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Decided it needed to be taken out to work out any bugs. 20 miles of back roads and 15 miles of highway and 5 back roads on the way back. win some... lose some. Idle seems to be a bit low... hovering around 400..Could explain the god awful racket under the hood. Getting up to 500rpm kills the...

Today was an excellent day (after work) to get some work done on the truck. Started cleaning out the toolbox that's built into the truck. Removed a bunch of the old wiring left by the fire department - need to finish that up tomorrow morning and tie the other wires back up. Busted my lip...

Gotta say some of the best money spent so far... re: ABS reader. Pointed me right to the drivers side rear wheel.. I decided to trace wiring before I messed with the ECU/controller... and .... well... Knowing how small agencies are when it comes to decommissioning emergency vehicles...

Found the elusive Haldex ABS code reader .. and put it to work. Took 30 seconds to find the reported issue.... Now I gotta look up the ABS manual and see where that corresponds to and check wiring.

A full truck greasing (including bearings) should use most of that tub.

Leaking as in not holding pressure when being used. Buy 35LB pail, it's a lot more cost effective.

I looked at those, but I want a 'buy once, cry once' tool. Lots of so-so reviews, or 'used for 2 tubes and it leaks now' kinda stuff..

Also, 35lbs of goo showed up... It matches the Milwaukee M18 grease gun that came earlier in the week. (Not mine, same thing)

I've been looking at reefers since I just re-priced insulation - and it looks like it's gonna be cheaper to BUY a reefer van body than it would be to insulate the body I have. Go figure. So, I was concerned about ventilation, since reefers are buttoned up pretty good. ChatGPT to the rescue..

Exactly. The replacement bolt also seemed to 'grab' a bit better as well. It's possible whoever tightened it stripped a little of both, and the new bolt with new threads helps. I still didn't trust it by itself, which is why I put a nylok on it.

Forgot to update the other day.. 5/16-18 stainless through bolted with nylok. Worked like a charm. Zero issues and took 30 seconds.

God I love the TMs. Pull up Part # with NSN. NSN gives me the following details... AAJD THREAD CLASS 2A AAJF THREAD DIRECTION RIGHT-HAND AASA THREAD LENGTH 0.489 INCHES MINIMUM AND 0.519 INCHES MAXIMUM AASB FASTENER LENGTH 0.600 INCHES MINIMUM AND 0.630 INCHES MAXIMUM AASK HEAD...

I think I'm gonna get a slightly longer existing bolt, since it's threaded all the way through (I think) and nut it on top.

As usual, things don't go as planned. Getting the pan back up went pretty easy. Putting the dipstick tube back on? Holy crap. That was an exercise. Went to go do the final tightening of the pan, and realized one of the bolts just spins in the hole... It's stripped... I'm guessing that was...

Dropped $$$ on Transynd. Got it in, ordered trans filter, O-rings, etc. Gather up materials... Crawl under the truck....notice a bit of a light oily film on the trans pan, indicating a small leak somewhere. Pull drain plug. Looks like they put dex3 in there but didn't complete the switchover...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W5WQJ39 Liquid goes in the tank. Use air compressor to pressurize it (I do 120 PSI), then dispense until empty, or needs more air. I use arguably the smallest air compressor in the world with it... has a 2 gallon reserve tank, and it's enough to fully charge the...

All done. Buttoned back up.... only thing left is to wait until trans filter gets here... then do trans fluid. If you don't have one of these air driven dispensers..... get one! All 3 5 gal buckets are gone.... and the dispenser is about 3/4 full... after refilling 3x...

Front axle similar to center axle. Other darker tinted gray fluid, nothing out of the ordinary. I think I picked up at least 20 new mosquito bites, though.

transfer case next instead of front diff.... it was closer... 🤣 Dark Grey almost black... not a lot of sludge on drain magnet but enough that I needed to wipe it off. I think it's safe to say this truck had nearly no maintenance by the FD that owned it. No wonder they got rid of it...

Center axle more of the same but definitely darker fluid, and more material on plug. Also different style drain plug. These things sure do take a while to drain. I hope I'll have enough time to tackle the transfer case...