Isn't batterypop the same as electrolyte?

Really, I GOTTA' get a life!

Pop

 

Hey SpringerPop, Where did you mount your coolant filter? Tried seeing it in the pics but couldn't. Sure like your install on the water seperator, nice and out of the way.
SFV man I used to live down there still can't get used to all the changes down there since I moved north 15 years ago. I still go down there for training a couple a times a year.

 

Ron,

Look in my gallery. It's the only white filter in the bunch, a Fleetguard. See the plate it's mounted on? Look at the two nuts that are in the lower right part of that plate. These are tightened onto the two bolts that hold the left side of the front bumper onto the frame. In the lower right corner of the picture is the left front spring perch and the spring. This is all in the driver's wheel well. I'm attaching another picture to this to clarify.

The SFV gets more crowded every year. When I arrived here in 1951, there were 1/4 million people. Now, 1.5. You sure live in nice country!

Sorry we got off-topic on the battery subject.

Pop

 

Hi Springerpop,
I'm in the other valley on the other side of Los Angeles. The San Gabriel Valley. I moved here in 1954 when I was 5.

 

SpringerPop,
Thanks that helps alot. Just where does the other end of the hose you teed into go? I I shouldn't be so lazy and just crawl under and look , But just had surgery and will be. Yeah I was born in SFV in "56 and remember all the fields we used to play in, their all houses now. Stayed there until 1990 when say the Writting on the wall and needed to get my Family out.

 

LonePine,

If you take another look at the gallery, the next two photos detail what you want to know. In both of those photos you'll see the top radiator hose. You'll also see the "goes-inta" and the "goes-outa" connections. The hoses are in that plastic wire "loom" that Ford uses on everything. They thread through the space between the radiator and intercooler left end-tanks and the air inlet rectangular tube. Then they drop down to the area where the coolant filter is located.

Hello in Monterey Park,

I was also five when we moved to North Hollywood in 1951. Things sure have changed in the last fifty-some years! ;-)))

Pop

 

I have to disagree with the load on the passenger side battery being equal to the drivers side battery.

All wire has resistance no matter how big it is. That is why we electricians have to calculate the distance a circuit runs and the load that is on it. This is also where voltage drop comes from. You also have resistance in every connection, the drivers side battery has three more connections in the battery cable than the passenger side battery does.

Prime example on your truck, check the voltage on the battery and the voltage on the glow plug connector while the glow plugs are heating. The voltage from the glow plug connector will be about 4 or 5 volts less than the battery voltage due to voltage drop.

The passenger side battery is the first in line for both discharge and charge cycles, so it does take more load than the drivers side battery does. This also means the amount of discharge and charge are greater on the passenger side battery.

Dave Sponaugle....Master Electrician and Electrical Contractor.

 

SpringerPop, Yeah I saw that in your gallery, what I was wondering was the one that goes to the tank. So got off my lazy #### and went out and took a good look and see that it goes into a flange in the top of the Radiator. What did you use all 3/8?

 

Thanks for the support Dave.
I too am a master electrician and contractor, but just a shade tree mechanic. Sometimes I'm just too tired to explain it all and argue.
How's business out there in WV? I do res,comm, and light industrial service work here in Colorado and its been good, but the prices of materials especially emt and grc are insane these last 2-3 yrs. Oh well, I'm still happy to keep busy and live in the best country in the world.
I'm going to keep swapping the batts side to side. One, beacause its not that big of a PITA and Two, I know it helps.

"Electrical wiring is not a hobby. Call a licensed Electrician"

Austin

 

I used to live in Arvada, Lakewood, Westminster and Denver just off Colefax and Wadsworth. Wish I was still there, I left in 1985 to help the family clean up after a big flood in WVa and never went back.

I got tired of trying to collect my money when the job was complete, so I just do small jobs now when I feel like it. I went to work running a crew for an excavation contractor a couple of years ago. Now when he tells me about the payments are taking a couple of extra months to come in and prices are going out of sight, I just kinda chuckle and say, Been there did that.

I was digging a trench for an electrical contractor a couple of months ago. We hit a 440 circuit for the street lights that was only three inches in the ground about 100 feet from where it was supposed to be and unmarked as well. He looked at me and says, We are here to install new stuff, not tear up the old. I pulled out my masters card and told him I was just making sure the circuit was dead. He had no reply to that one, but the look on his face was priceless. Another Master Card moment if I ever saw one.

 

I've become a one man show this last year. After paying workers comp, all the tax withholdings, vans, materials and maintenance, I netted less than when I worked alone. Go figure! My main problem was finding quality employees. It seems they think they are doing me a favor working for me. I would pay $2.00 more than they would make anywhere else, give them a van and free gas when most didn't even have their own dependable transportation, fill that van with $12,000 worth af materials and tools and would still have to babysit them. They would no show without calling in, or better yet, I had one guy selling meth, using my van for his transportation.
I have found a great profitable niche that I focus mainly on these 3-4 years. I do all the electrical for one of the top 10 Trane HVAC guys here in town. He keeps me more than busy, but is sometimes shakey in his payments. It is rather unerving when you have $25-$30K floating out there and the check you get won't clear. So far though it has gone well. I can make more than enough in 8 months and heal my body the rest of the year.
The main problem is I'm 41 yrs old with " high miles" as I call it. I'm getting too old for attics in the summer and crawl spaces only a child could fit in. Not to mention the 25lb. tool belt 12 hrs a day. Got to keep the "bill man" happy though. If I had only listened to old farts that "knew nothing" as I grew up. HaHa!
All I can say to the younger generation that "knows everything" are three things:
1. The damage you do is cumulative
2.You are only as good as your word. If your word is no good... neither are you.
3. Focus on the important things in life. One hint: it's not the $$.

Thanks again for the support, and getting payed to play in the dirt doesn't sound too bad to me.

Austin

 

P.S. Dave,
I think the new NEC states that a service feed has to be buried as deep as you can get with the claw of a hammer. LOL!
Lots of lazy (and dangerous) electricians out there.

Austin

 

Well I wish it was deep enough to keep the marking tape from blowing away in the wind. But 3" cover when you are running an excavator with 6" teeth don't make much difference either way.

This is a cool job, I have a waiting list of people wanting their property torn to pieces.
Then they give me money to do it, tell me thanks and give me references for more work.

Comp is killer here with all the big coal companies the state let off the hook and now all the deep miners have black lung. So the new small companies are paying for their benifits. I have a friend that lays blocks, one of his guys hurt his back and his comp went to 48% with one claim. As far as people, well you about said it all. I bet you had to replace a lot of the tools you put on it as well. Been there did that also.

As far as money being important, the last thing I did in Colorado was work for the BN railroad. I think you have a convention center where our yard was then. Taking home about 60K but worked with boneheads. I had enough BS and then the flood destroyed my home town and surrounding area. So I left for WVa to help pick up the pieces.
I am 50 now, the body does wear out, the eyes go away, the mind gets like and old computer. The information is still there, but the hard drive access times are a lot slower than the new models.
The pictures of Katrina damage remind me of what I saw when I got back to WVa except one small detail. The rain from the hurricane that caused the flood was running down the mountains so fast that there was no debris left. Everything was just gone. People, houses, roads and bridges were just completely gone without a trace. The only thing left to know there was a house there was the water well casing.

 

Lone Pine,

I should have used 3/8. I used 1/2.

If I had it to do over again, it would be 3/8.

Dave,

I, too, was going to mention I-squared-R losses, but thought it was buried about three inches below, among the other minutia! ;-)))

We USA (Underground Service Alert) everything out here in SoCal. Covers my butt when we hit something. Occasionally it's high-pressure NG. Gas Co. ain't happy, but their own guy marked it. They fix it, no charge. Otherwise, I'd be paying for the fire trucks to roll, the police to divert traffic, etc.

Pop

 

Thanks SP am looking into ordering up all the stuff Great install on all I have looked at. All up out of way and well protected from road damage. Thanks again.
Hey what do you think about putting a filter on my 6 speed? Has cooler lines going to the radiator just like auto. Just don't know how good a pump is in there guess I could hook up an electric.