Recent content by dieseldoctor1

LMAO whoooo hooo when I have a senior moment I have a good one. Hey all you guys are smart enough to know what the old codger meant. Have a great night everybody!

LMAO! I am definitly old school! In my ways and my age LOL. But just like that old school thought of not changing auto trans fluid, some others have made and saved me a lot of money. Like "A man that takes all the work he can get, gets all the work he can take." Guess that's one reason my 2004...

Not lucky at all! American auto trans will last better if you don't change the fluid UNLESS you overload and overheat them. New fluid put into a trans that has been overheated is a guaranteed failure because it will unbond the clutch linings. Trans builders, repairers, etc. don't want you to...

I sit here reading all this feeling good about the Dream Van. 963,000 plus miles with no drive train problems. Still has the original transmission fluid in it with none ever being added. Fluid is still as pretty as when new. But will have to admit between 850,000 and 925,000 I spent about...

I have a van so this doesn't apply to me but if i did have to crank a landing gear up and down I would get a 18 volt Dewalt driver/drill and make a special socket to fit landing gear input shaft. Remove hand crank and modify so I could slide it on in an emergency. I have a heavy duty farm dump...

the Dream Van keeps on rolling. Expeditors Dream Van - Expedite Trucking Forums Dream Van - Expedite Trucking Forums Just passed the three quarter million mile mark last week and the engine has over 16,100 hrs on it. Original engine, transmission, and rear end. Engine has always used...

People are always asking me what we haul. I tell them we have hauled everything from a van full of one hour old baby chickens to a tombstone. Buggerist looking load was the cutting rotor for a coal mining machine. About seven feet long, three feet in diamemter and had teeth all around it...

The dream van (2004 E350 5.4) now has 666,958 miles on it and the engine and trans are both original. In fact the trans fluid and filter is original. Change engine oil somewhere between 100 and 200 hrs. By the way the engine has 14,397 hrs on it. Engine has always used a quart of oil about every...

Thanks to all you guys I know it is not Sirius's problem. I was at the J in Perrysburg,OH last night and they didn't have an antenna but the nice young lady clerk went in the back and pulled a base (mounting bracket) out of a new radio kit and let me take it out to the truck to try. It didn't...

My Sirius radio has been going off and on for weeks now. Like this morning it wouldn't work ( aquiring signal) for several hours then worked for a few hours and now is not working. Is anyone else having the problem or is my radio going bad? I know this should be in teck forum but there are more...

Another update on the Dream van. It now has over 641,000 miles on it. Had to spend some money at about 634,000 miles. A strip of metal about 3/8" wide and two inches long and about .080 thick peeled off the surface of the right front brake rotor where the pads wear. Looks like it may have been...

From my experience with a bulldozer that was submerged overnight, I would advise scrapping the truck. I disassembled the dozer completely down to the bare main frame and flushed and scrubbed every part before reassembling. Replaced every bearing and seal. Result: had bearing failure after...

RE: Panther's Macro#8 should be given a humane dea I agree that marco 8 is undependable. The milage and maybe the average loads per day are helpful. I remember the good old days when there were people in relocation. They weren't perfect but much, much better than marco 8. I liked the way CTX...

LDB Out the door at the dealership I paid approximately $33,000. I figure installing the bed system, shelves, air bags and related equipment, etc to be about $2000.00. As I have said before, I make my van pay for itself in 36 months and I knew I would be adding other features so I just decided...

The dream van now has passed the half million mile mark (503,888) and 11,047.5 hours in 41 months. Total cost per mile is $.2874. What is included in that cost per mile figure? Totally paying for the van and everything I added to it, including insulation, bed system and bed, shelves, E track and...