Mrs Mack

Hey Werk, I bet your backbone & knees Don't Miss doing Brakes...!!

Nor my lungs.... Or my left hand from missing the punch to squash the rivets.... Yes we did it by hand back then.... Huge right arm and a sore left hand was normal for me

Nick named "Lightening"

cobbadog wrote: Nick named "Lightening"

Never strikes twice in the one place.

It gets like that after you've done 1 or 2 full triaxle trailer relines in a day... 4-5 hr's per trailer

I had a small air hammer ...used to do the ally rivets in a few seconds ....

Well a change of plan happened the next day

I woke to find a parcel waiting for me at the gate, my relay valves had arrived

So I'm having breaky and the phone rings and a fella from TNT is at the gate and has a parcel for me
It turns out it's my compressor

Well before I pull more apart I'll start putting it back together

Takes me to lunch time to get the compressor and power steering pump attached to the motor
And the rest of the day refit all the other stuff and shorten and refit hoses

It's a heck of job to man handle a compressor back into place, not so bad for some muscular young mechanic in a proper work shop

So I made a lifting eye if sorts and got a small ratchet strap tied to it and up and over some bar work and air cleaner pipe work and lifted it into place and quickly tied it off

Dunno why I didn't do this earlier instead of swearing going crook at

So all that stupidity filled in my day, glad Im not getting paid to do this

So today I fitted a relay valve, yeag simple
Pulled the air filter off the gearbox and it was full of blackness
I already had the seats out by this stage so thought I will change the filter and throw some air and see how it shifts now

Not expecting it to be fantastic I worked the switch back and forth and after 10 minutes it started to get a clunk back to the shift


I decide I best pull the lid and make sure as I almost there

And it was fine so I was pretty happy about that so will chuck it back together tomorrow

It's a bit of stuffing around pulling the lid on the transmission but easier than pulling a fuel tank off and dropping the box out

So once the seats and the special custom floor was opened up it didn't take long to pressure clean the top and lift the lid off, it will take considerably longer to get the lid back on

Any how, the bolts were all still tight and the oil pumping compressor was the cause and my poor maintenance has forced the issue


Paul

Its always best to work smarter than it is to work harder. Good thinking using the strap to lift and hold, just like a bra.