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Sep 24, 2010 | 05:57 AM

#46

sddesigns

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From: Wharton, NJ

Good Morning AR!

TGIF!

We made it through another week......

Sep 24, 2010 | 08:35 PM

#47

mechmagcn

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From: Moro Bay, AR

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Originally Posted by Old_Crow

Hey, as a side note, anyone got a hub cap for about an '82 truck layin' around. I got the side mount spare tire rack for my truck and after looking at it, decided I really need a cap on the spare. The only one I had laying around that fit came off a GMC and it looks sorta silly.
It's an outie wheel and the hub cap inner diameter is about 10 1/4".

Actually I think I have a whole set of them, just gotta figure out where they are.

Sep 25, 2010 | 04:38 AM

#48

Old_Crow

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From: Bishop, CA

I was gonna post a pic of the truck with the GMC cover but I'm too lazy to get the pic off the phone. Gotta take the card out of this stupid Vu instead of just hooking up a USB cord like you could on my old Razr.
I think I'm gonna buy a new Razr on Ebay and downgrade myself back to a phone with buttons. Little bitty touch screen keyboards suck when you're a mechanic with next to no feeling in your fingertips.

Sep 25, 2010 | 05:52 AM

#49

mechmagcn

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From: Moro Bay, AR

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Originally Posted by Old_Crow

a mechanic with next to no feeling in your fingertips.

Boy can I relate to that one

Sep 28, 2010 | 09:30 AM

#50

zhilton

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From: Claremore, OK

Last night was one of those nights I wish the FRA wouldn't have put the cell phone/camera ban in place. Had one of the locomotives in our train "loose a power assembly".

Real quick background...large locomotives that you'd see handling coal trains are either power by a V16 or V12 (depends on the mfg.)...this one last night was a turbocharged V12, producing 4400 Hp at 905 rpm. The blocks aren't cast...but fabricated from plate steel. The pistons are in a removable liner called a power assembly; and there are 12 individual heads on this thing. Any way...this particular engine wasn't the leader...so we didn't know we had problems until it shut down and set off the alarm. Walked back to figure out what happened...the oil all over the side was a tell-tale sign it wasn't going to be producing power for the rest of last nights trip. When we got to a stopping point I got to looking with my lantern and discovered pieces of the wrist pin had gone through the side of the hood (1/8" steel)...this after they'd gone through the side of the block. I know I'm morbid...but I like carnage like this!

Sep 28, 2010 | 01:50 PM

#51

mechmagcn

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From: Moro Bay, AR

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Originally Posted by zhilton

...but I like carnage like this!

Typical driver, operator, engineer who isn't running their own equipment, let's tear ir up, the mechanics will fix it

I too love to see it, makes my pay scale go through the roof

Sep 28, 2010 | 07:03 PM

#52

zhilton

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From: Claremore, OK

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Originally Posted by mechmagcn

Typical driver, operator, engineer who isn't running their own equipment, let's tear ir up, the mechanics will fix it

Sniff, sniff..

I didn't do it last night. We trade off every other trip...so last night I had it easy, but boring trip; played conductor instead of engineer. Though I have blown my share of PA out of a locomotive in my career. The one time I knew it was coming...I was order by the trainmaster on-duty to "run it".