"THE WORST CARRIER EVER" | Our Trucking Life - Episode
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- čas přidán 4. 04. 2024
- Alice & Martin are a husband & wife team who own and operate a small over the road trucking company in the Midwestern United States. This channel has been created to share the how to's, successes and yes, failures of owning and operating your own trucking company. This is real life trucking, nothing is withheld or edited out to make it look glamorous or pretty. Make sure to subscribe so you can join in on the journey.
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The dogs watching martin work on the truck is hilarious
Lol love Alice's comment depends on what your talking about 😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣. just when he was going to start I quickly tried to look at the turbo for the rag. Alice saved the day!!!!
OMG , those dogs were watching as intently as I, easy says the man who took apart and pit back together the engine, for now i bow courteously to greatness . stay safe plz
Tip: always make sure your fill plug comes loose before draining the oil. Sucks if ya drain it and you can't get the fill plug out to refill.
Yep. It’s why I didn’t drain it, but it needed to get done anyway.
You know what your absolutely right. I probably would loosen then remove to vent anyway but being 100% honest never thought of that and I’d of been screwed..
I had ta laugh with the rag Martin, back in 79-80 I had a school bus come in that smoked out the exhaust like crazy and it wouldn't pull we checked everything and found nothing so decided ta pull the head and found a bill of a hat where the guy set his hat in the air cleaner housing while checking the filter I guess he forgot it and it sucked it into the motor burning it. Had to share with ya.😂👍🇺🇸
Haha that’s crazy!
Alice saves the day again 🎉 My goodness she's impressive 🤩🍻
I like how Martin explain things, so people know how to fix their trucks and he,s always working on something.
When I was in my 20s, I couldn't sit still for a working job I had to always move around.
Thanks for sharing and I hope you guys like the new house.
Ok Martin, mine next 👍🏻👍🏻
Awesome instructions on setting the overhead!
Good maintenance video and I appreciate your humor. Have a great weekend!
Good video of the two of you keep them coming
Great job Martin.👍👍
Great informative video thanks Martin and Alice. 👍🏼
Good job, thanks for the info!
Love the content keep it coming
Gr8 TRUCKIN TIMEZ & FANTASTIC FABULOUS FOOTAGE!!!!!!📸🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊👍🏾📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📽📹🎥🇺🇸
Great video!👍👍
Excellent
I am surprised at how little the oil flow is for the valve train when idling. I would have thought it would have been flowing more.
Quite a bit actually, cam gets priority oiling and so do rockers. It’s a high volume system just can’t see it from the angle.
Good video yall take care be aafe. Again hats off to you Mr martin always doing your iwn rebuild and maintenance.
Great content, and the birds singing in the background was cool maybe spring is finally here🎉❤
I think next week lol.
Martin, you`re a very good and thorough mechanic. I was wondering if you`re self taught, or ever worked as a mechanic, or with one. You seem to know a lot more than an average DIY`er. Very impressive!
Self taught. Thank you
Great video
Love watching you guys vids always refreshing
Boom! Nice job martin and good save alice
You guys rock 😊😊
Martin you are one smart operator. How to maintain your trucks Enjoyed the video.have a great day.
Looking forward to you on the road videos, I relive my time on the road with your videos, Martin is a smart guy fixing your equipment like he does, a good thing, but I like your on the road adventure s too. Hope you get back to this format soon.
Fun to see your video today - hello from Jerry in UT
In tight spaces like that where I can't get anything to tap on a bolt to loosed it, I use my air chisel with a hammer head in it - works pretty good.
Love these type of videos, Martin. Just and FYI, I do a lot of repairs on Motorcycles and off road quads, etc. I bought a Battery-Operated Liquid Transfer Pump from Harbor Freight, for 13 bucks, and it saves on the carpal tunnel syndrome, if you know what I mean. Keep safe, and look forward to your next post! Ged Bless.
Yes I agree, I just didn’t wanna drive the 20 minutes lol. I do need one.
@@TruckingTogether LOL I do not blame you. But it works really well. As many times as I tell these people to drop the things off with little fuel in them, they don't. pumping 5 or more gallons form the tank to a drum by hand pump sucks! LOL. Thank you for all you do.
Whatever
Way to be on top of things Alice.👍 Nice save with the rag in the turbo
She saved that one.
@@TruckingTogether could you find something else to serve that purpose which wouldn’t be as much potential problem and might be more obvious, like a PVC pipe end cap or such?
Possibly John. But that’s to much work
lol.
Great video y'all ol martin he was testing us about the valves to see who would catch it lol great job martin your the man brother always on top of things hats off to ya o yea do t forget the rag lol
Hey Alice…looking forward to your next driving gig. Grab a gear, let’s go!!
Hello 👋 Hey HI and Howdy Y'all
Intresting cool.
representing st francis, i like! it only few towns away.
I missed the part about which transmission you were putting gear oil in 13 speed by chance? Did you have any small metal particles on the drain plug magnet? Really good information on the valve adjustment.
12 speed endurant Eaton
Alice for the turbo save ❤
What a great video. There’s nothing more I can say about Martin on how great of a mechanic you are. Were are both the same way as I like it a little loose also. Too tight and the Jake’s start screaming, smiles. Through it all you two are so down to earth regular type folk. How you think and act creeps into most of your videos. Always brings a smile on my face as I usually can hear Alice chuckling in the back ground. Or is the first one out of the two smiling. She’s a keeper for sure. Yours are the best videos out here. Thanks for posting. Have a great and a safe day. Happy trails to you’s..D..
Hi Alice and Martin
Ready to go.😊
Thanks Martin be careful drinking pop top drinks outside i did that once and had bees in the drink be careful ok
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u guys r a cool couple
Take care of your equipment and it will take care of you ... for the most part!
did you reuse your rocker arms, they are very scratched for new if they are,(rollers), the reason for valve clearance is that when a engine is at max power the heat stretches the valves, take the intake pipe loose at the air cleaner side and the turbo side clamps, pull that complete pipe off, then the air filter housing is very easy to manage,
They are original and the rollers are not scratched at all, for 835k miles the rollers are in great shape. Just normal wear.
Hey guys 👋❤️
Nice shirt in the beginning of the video!
Amazing shirt.
Martin do the automated trans have vents like the manuals. Ya got er lookin purty.👍🇺🇸
The older autoshifts and ultrashifts do, they were basically the same exact transmission as a manual 10, 13, 18 speed, the endurant doesn’t seem to have one however.
Same valve settings on my old m11
They are all pretty universal with the big C
Howdy good afternoon y'all dang am I running late today
Im so old school i couldnt drive automatic tranny my first truck was a 5×4.
There’s a reason they don’t make those anymore. I learned on one, my dad had them over the years, best day in his life was when Eaton came out with the roadranger
Awesome video, I heard an overhead should be done every 100k miles, what do you think Martin?
Leave the silencer off the compressor. Straight pipe it!!
Loud Compressors Save Lives 👍🏻
Sound like a single cylinder quad lol
When are you guys going back to truckin? When you have all the trucks in great shape? Just askin for a friend
Are you guys ever going back on the road again 😮
You never said who was the worst carrier to treat you like that.
Local reefer company out of Green Bay. They were on Alice’s truck. Rather not get into it.
Hey Martin; have you ever installed jake brake tune up kit on any of your ISX before ? My dad used to work for different engine brake manufacturing company known as Pacbrake for 36 yrs and he always bring these engine brake kit with him to do any tune up whenever any customers request one and he always works on CAT 3406B and C then cummins NTC models and N14 too before doing the 60series before he retired way back in 2006 or 2007… he started working way back 1969 when I was 1 yr old kid and I still have the pic of him working on jake brake on detroit 12V-71 and cummins 335 .
Not much to tune up on a isx for jakes, you have rockers with detent springs in them and solenoids. Don’t have Jake heads like older engines with pistons and seals. Usually when Jake’s don’t work it’s a rocker leaking oil or solenoid gone bad.
@@TruckingTogether ok I get it as it’s totally different jake brakes design not like old ones ..: I like the old ones … what about yours ?
I like the N14 and 3406E, c15, c16 engines. But my favorite is the dual cam isx. At 600hp nothing will catch it on a hill unless packing some serious hp.
@@TruckingTogether hello again , happy Sunday to all of you , for me , my favorite Diesel engines are… C15, 3406B/C, NTC400 big cam 3 , ISX (high hp), silver 8V-92(475 hp) … and for manual tranny- I like both 10 and 13 speed..: favorite tractor- always kenworth W900A , W900L, peterbilt 378, western star 4964( both short and long hood tractors ) for these tractors listed I liked day cabs and we well as aerocab (kenworth hi rise sleeper box )
Sacramento saying hello my friends I am a little late , I understand you a 100% Martin , But My friend has this 55 chev drag car and he has a Allison transmission in it and what he done he put number 2 hydraulic fluid in the transmission , they ran 10 times , then he tore the transmission down and it was like brand new and he still running it in that transmission race after race , Now on the other hand you are showing the oil that is supposed to go in that automatic transmission , this is no lie , this dude i met took number 2 hydraulic oil and stuck it in his automatic transmission a year ago or little more and that son of a gun is still shifting good and pulling good and it lowered the heat timp , I am not saying to do it. but he did it he did not care he wanted to try it and it worked 😂😂😂 In a way I kind of knew it would work, because I seen a video about 4 years ago where this dude was puting the same hydraulic fluid In his automatic dragster transmission , actually he said something and then he tried cutting it out because it was a secret I guess I do not know , but he does all of his own work to, but after 50 passes and then pulled it a part It was like new nothing was burnt in it he said nothing smelt bad , I am not saying for anybody to try this, I am saying this is what these two done 🕶. The overhead Martin that's exactly right correct and precise
This isn’t an automatic like an Allison. It’s an automated manual. There is no torque converter or clutch packs in these, it’s basically a manual transmission that’s shifted by a computer. A full automatic will use different fluid. Hydraulic oil and ATF is very similar so it should run but I’m sure there are some differences.
@@TruckingTogether Ok thanks Martin
Its been a while cant you tighten are loosin the jakes om them i run cat been forever since ive worked on cummins
Not like a cat. Much much better and actual effective engine brake. Theres no big Jake heads.
CST LINES 36 trucks. Equipment OOS rating is double the national average...🙆
#Facts
Two gallons in a transmission? 😬
That’s what the endurant takes.
@TruckingTogether big difference between the old school and the new. Wow.
Yep 1.5 gallons less than a traditional 13/18. It’s a different oiling system, think of it like a dry sump oiling with high pressure nozzles spraying on the gear stacks.
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Hey Martin How often are those trans supposed to get serviced. I have never worked on those. Dont own one.
Good video!👍👍👍
750k miles.
@@TruckingTogether thanks. Thats pretty long intervals….
Yes quite the long interval, I probably won’t go so long next time.
@@TruckingTogether as an owner operator i was thinking 250-3 . Fleet owner probably dump these trucks at 350-4 so they dont care.
Good job explaining the overhead. Most dont realize how much it matters .
Like a tune up on the race car
Is it a special tool or socket that you need for the torque wrench? do you know what it is?
To bar the engine over? 3/4” extension.
@@TruckingTogether my bad, I meant the jam nut with Allen key for the rockers. I just want to see how much the tool/socket is before I decide if it's worth it...I doubt it is. Great video by the way I'm doing my 870 off your 871 video soon.
For the rockers it’s just a 3/4” jam nut and believe a 6mm. The jakes is a 1/2” jam nut, the Allen is a small one for jakes and I dont remember, wanna say a 4mm. I honestly never torque the jam nuts, the specs are 22lb ft, I get the jam nuts tighter by hand than that. For an 870 you will want an inch lb torque wrench to set injectors.
Oh good! Another video!
Addendum - 18:33 Too loose or too tight? Depends…🤔😄
And what was that bright blue showing thru Martin’s ripped jeans? I thought he was always red?
I have some red/blue now. 🤫
@@TruckingTogether hopefully that doesn’t mean you’re going liberal…😉
No lol
@@TruckingTogether thought you would understand my humor in that..😂
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Was martin able to fix your right side fairing Alice?
I think we forgot about that 😂
On a cm870 .. does the lift pump run when the engine is running? I have a miss that comes and goes. Always when it falls to an idel..goes away when you give it fuel. Chasing this problem for about a year now and cannot figure it out... any info would be helpful...
It’s only there to prime the system, it doesn’t run full time. The gear pump on the side of the cylinder head keeps fuel supplied when the engine is running, it’s the square cylinder looking thing that is on drivers side head right above the fuel filter. If you’re having idle issues and rough running it’s likely your timing or fueling actuators, 870,871 are not the smoothest idling engines. The actuators can be tested. The gear pump can also fail and get weak. It’s bet to do a fuel pressure test with insite.
@TruckingTogether yes I've changed fueling and timming selonids.. no change in anything... its crazy it mite go a week without it missing at idel.. and then do it at every stop sign or red light. But no miss while your on the throddel.. drivein me nuts lol...sometime miss is horrible other time it very little and sometimes smooth as baby butt...maybe gear pump can cause this..
It can, I would definitely check fuel pressure.
Are you still running the VGT turbo? If so the backpressure aka exhaust pressure sensor can cause this too, it’s the sensor that gets fed by exhaust pressure off the manifold that’s in the thermostat housing. If youve never replaced it I would as that sensor can cause poor drive ability and idle issues. Also check and clean your intake pressure sensor with carb cleaner only. They won’t throw a code sometimes.
@TruckingTogether I've changed that pressure sensor..turbo speed sensor..cam sensor..crank sensor..the tube that runs to Manifold from pressure sensor is free flowing.....all new fuel lines from tank to gear pump.. passed performance test multiple times..no codes. But will say cylinder imbalance... something about fuel .... can't seem to fined and air leaks.. no fuel leaks at all.. I've also checked for low voltage.. about the only thing I have not changed is the gear pump and the lift pump..I'm Installing a class 8 165g fass fuel system right now. Hopefully this will help 🙏
No filter on that transmission? Just curious.
No, same as the manual eatons.
@@TruckingTogether on my first automatic in 39 years. It’s a Detroit and I believe it has a filter. Just over 600k no issues at all so far. Hated it at first and thought man I have made a bad mistake but boy is it nice in a backup. Enjoy your videos y’all take care.
are things going better in Wi?
considering we are doing just fine on no income I’d say so
@@TruckingTogether have you decided on something to haul or someone to contract to
Are you 2 ever going back to driving? Or are you just fixing up trucks?
this might just blow your mind… but maybe, just maybe we are fixing up OUR trucks to get them ready to go back to work.. maybe 🤔
Hey guys, we are trying to get some info on Ceva..My wife and I run team out of the Southeast to all points west...Any information would be welcome....
I don’t think they have anything for ya, we left because they lost a ton, and I mean that, of freight, cancelled most if not all dedicated lanes and dropped per mile rates for trucks running wild. They were great at once but I wouldn’t go there now.
@@TruckingTogether Thanks for the heads up...
Those automatic transmissions don't hold very much gear oil. I'm surprised. You should buy a 12.7 Detroit series 60 so I can learn more about them from you. lol
Not much to them, I’m not a big Detroit fan lol. I do like the DDEC 5 14L.
@@TruckingTogether I had an 06' 14L detroit. Bunch of EGR and that stock turbo problems. Nobody back then knew how to delete them or I would have. I've got a 2014' and 2016' gliders now with the 12.7 pre emission eld exempt now. They are ok just need a little tuning to wake them up.
They definitely wake up with a good tune, very simple and easy engines, I’ve only had one and had no complaints. The 5s definitely were a basket case egr intact.
yup! u the Man! with fresh gear oil.....woohoo! looks like everything else kept u busy!!
purrs like a sewing machine!
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Guys you cant just spend money for months now and not make any. Whats the plan? cos we care
lol we take donations. We have a plan, we’re doing fine.
I think people also forget that they sold a house in cali which is tons more expensive then where they are at now. I'm sure they have plenty to live off of with the remainder off the house. But even if not they know whats in the bank, if they needed to hit the road in this shit then I'm sure they would!
Everyone knows when you retire a lesbian coat another one just comes out of the closet!
I haven’t retired it yet Mike. It’s still hanging up in the garage for those big jobs. That nice new fancy lesbian coat is for fine dining/company experiences.
@@TruckingTogetherlolololol….