Monthly Archives: September 2019
I’m Glad I Called . . .
But I’m Still Not Sure.
After making up a bunch of Black Electrode Cords,
that were needed for orders, I put a call into Cummins Tech Support to seek more help with getting my rig’s Oil Filter Adapter off so I can replace the gasket and hopefully fix my reoccurring oil leak.
I was connected with a really nice young lady named Whitney who spent about 40 minutes with me trying to track down my problem.
Finally after leaving me on hold for about 20 minutes so she could track an ‘old-time’ tech, as she referred to him, she came back and asked if I had removed the center hose connection.
I took that to mean the center ‘bolt’ up inside the adapter.
I had wondered about that when I was looking up at it, but it doesn’t really look like it’s a bolt head, but a shaft with a locking pin of some sort. So I asked her to email me the tech bulletin for it and I’d take a look.
And now that I’ve seen it, I’m still not sure.
Looking closer I still don’t see any sign of bolt edges, and looking over the bulletin, it doesn’t see to apply to my engine. Or at least it doesn’t look like the layout of my engine.
So I’ll have to get under the rig and take a closer look, and get some close-up photos with my big camera. And I may have to put everything back together and lower the rig. When I raised it this past Monday I lifted the rig up to about the height needed to replace the filter, but as it turns out, it’s really too high for me to work on the adapter. Unless I grow extra long orangutan arms.
But I can’t lower the rig without cranking it up, and I can’t crank up without pulling the filter, putting the bolts back in the adapter, then filling the filter with oil and putting it back on.
But I may end up doing that. We’ll have to see.
Tomorrow afternoon I’m taking Jan up to Brandi’s so she can be there for Landon’s Grandmother’s day. It’s kind of a family tradition that both grandmother’s take Landon out on the day before his party and spend the day with him.
I’ll come home and then go back up Saturday for his actual party.
Really looking forward to it.
Thought For The Day:
Yeah, Banning Plastic Straws Is Going To Fix This Problem!
The United States’ contribution is pretty much lost in the noise.
sgf
I Blame Crows . . .
After coffee this morning I was outside about noon to pull my rig oil filter and oil filter adapter so I can replace the gasket.
As before the filter came off with no real problems, using this filter wrench especially sized for the large filter size.
When I do this I have a bucket ready to hold the filter since it’s full of oil. But then after taking a closer look at the adapter I went inside to call Cummins. I was told there were two bolts to remove, but I thought I saw four. So I wanted some clarification.
And I was told that yes, there were four and not two. I also asked what size the bolt heads were, and I was told 8mm. Which was a problem.
The other day while I was doing my rear brakes, I was using an 15mm, a 13mm, a 10mm, and an 8mm. And after doing one wheel I moved everything over to the other side, then came inside to cool off and hydrate.
And when I came back out my 15mm, 13mm, and my 8mm were missing, but the 10 was still there. As was the rest of my Crescent 1/4” and 3/8” drive metric and SAE which was right there too. But the only ones missing were 3 of the 4 loose ones.
We’re are the only RV’ers here, with most of the other residents working at the Texas City plants so I doubt anyone just walked by and picked up 3 sockets. And they’re no kids around either.
So I blame crows, who are known to like and steal shiny things. At least that’s my story and I’m sticking with it.
So I came in and got cleaned up a little and Jan and I headed out to have lunch at Yummy Yummy, pick up our Amazon packages from work, and buy some new sockets.
But first couple of stops, Harbor Freight, and Lowes, didn’t sell individual sockets, so I ended up at the O’Reilly’s on the way home and found just what I needed.
Then back under the rig when we got home, I found that the Cummins guy was wrong, that it was a 10mm socket. Oh well.
I had to plug together 2 feet of 3/8” extensions to get up to the adapter, but I quickly had the 4 bolts, expecting the adapter to fall off and hit me on the head. But it was stuck.
After thinking for a few minutes trying to figure out to reach it, I got my plastic mallet and tapped on it a bit, with no luck.
So next I screwed the old filter back on hoping to use it to give me more leverage to break the adapter loose. But again no luck.
So it’s back on the phone to Cummins tomorrow to see why it’s stuck. I did take this photo before I came in, and once inside I took a closer look at it,
I could see some type of screw up in here. So I’ll to ask about that too.
As it stands now, it’ll be at least Sunday before I can get back to it.
Thought For The Day:
A College Degree cost 297% more today than in 1979.
A Happy Meal costs 40% less.
One of these institutions is subsidized by the government. The other one isn’t.
asdf
