Very classy rig. Definitely a true truckers truck. The style of a long hood 379 with a CAT under the hood is pure perfection as well as production. Trucks like this and men like us have built society as well as keeping all of society stocked with ALL necessities! I’m 53 years old now and have been trucking in North America since I was 18. It can be a lonely and thankless job but we who do it love and live to do it and we are very proud and thankful for our roll in the world. Channels on RU-vid like this one have been great for us by giving a voice and an insight to our lifestyle. RU-vid has been the best thing for trucking since the Jacobs Break was invented.Thanks for your your work and all the time spent on trucking and your great channel Brother!😎👍
Nice update thanks Matt, I mentioned about your fuel issues one other time. These CAT engines are notorious for fuel pressure problems and its a easy fix you can do yourself. On the secondary fuel filter-primer is the fuel pressure regulator its a hex plug with valve that unscrews and is not repairable so it is replaced. Often the symptom is difficult starting and loss of engine power under load which is then misdiagnosed as air in the system and you can spend many hours to not find the answer. Another clue is when you said you removed the fuel pressure gauge and the gauge was leaking.... The gauge was on the pressure side of the fuel system so how can it draw in air while your driving? As a diesel mechanic I would be suggesting you replace the regulator and tell you the engine vibration maybe from your engine not getting its full volume of fuel injection giving you incomplete combustion. Hope you read this comment and put it to consideration. Thanks for your videos great seeing honest guys doing honest work.
Hi Matt, I'm picking up a new triaxle grain trailer from the Lode King plant next week and they're giving me a tour so I'll mention what you said about having a pin to hold the lock latch on your tool box. They're pretty good with listening to customers. Won't help you with this set but maybe on the next one.
HEYYY BUDDY GREAT VIDEO ONCE AGAIN…..WOW TOTALLY AMAZING HOW MUCH WORK YOU HAVE TO PUT IN TO KEEP THIS AWESOME TRUCK IN GOOD CONDITION…. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK I CAN SEE HOW HARD IT IS …. TOTAL RESPECT SIR 🫡 AS ALWAYS STAY SAFE OUT THERE 🙏AND LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT VIDEO🤘
Good day, Callthemall!! Thanks much for the commentary walk around your truck! Boy, you certainly know a lot about transport trucks,, your truck anyway!! Used to love riding in a transport truck going cross country with my late husband. Certainly was not an easy job assisting with unloading a trailer full of furniture & such. Especially, folding those blankets they use to wrap things in, boy that gave you sore arms at the end of the day! Cheers, happy trucking & stay very safe!🥰🦅🦅
Your videos make me wanna become an owner operator. Everyone tells me its not profitable anymore but your channel seems to prove otherwise. Keep at it man
Heya, great video and good to see you back. Old girls done some fair haulin'. Im not usually one for saying how to, but i can remember having an undetectable fueling problem one time too. We did find it eventually and it was a combo of 2 things. One the fuel tank was vacuum locking and two, we blew compressed air back down the fuel line from the filter back to tank. We ended up replacing that line there was so much bug in it. So thats just a thought or something to check if you havent already. As for the green on electrics, 2 teaspoons of baking soda in a cup of warm water cleans them up good. Just paint it on with a little brush, shes beauty ! I like that terminal protector spray afterwards too. Just thoughts for you, wishing you well in a great truck. Look forward to the next vid.
Thank You for the video in Europe we hang the Moffet on the rear of the trailer, the forks and front whells go under the back bumper and load area, only the cabin sticks a bit out in the rear, therefore it got a set of rear lights, that can be connected with the trailer lights.
Good video! I like how you see little things, like some rust in the bumper. For me when i see your truck in the videos it looks like mint condittion :D
hit the rust at bottom of stack with phosphoric acid to stabilize it and overcoat with clear heat resistant clear coat for longer protection. also cABLE tie a shroud or boot wrap cut from a rubber inner tube to keep water out of trailer elec plug and maybe try place plastic or wooden special wedges in the crack where the cable gets trapped when doing jack knife turns to see if that helps.
I’ve seen a lot of guys run the air lines and electrical off the end of the truck frame , and I’ve used a 4” x 3ft piece of PVC water pipe for my bungee straps
How about mounting your power cord and your airlines over on a bracket near the curbside cab airbag? That way it's tucked up in that corner and out of the arc of the swing of the trailer. That's how it is on the 377 that l drive and maintain. It would be nice to put the airlines out from the frame to the landing gear on the trailer but you want to keep that standard so you can haul anyones trailer lickety quick. Check your local parts shop there's quite a few companies that make good receptacle boxes for the cords. There's also quite a few different brackets out there for your airlines. You might have to fab up something from existing holes or bolts in your frame but wouldn't be too hard.
Asked and answered. Thanks for the update video Edit: 15:00 is there such a thing as right angle connectors Edit2: 34:45 can you make some kind of rubber/silicone jacket to cover the starter connectors, keep the majority of the grime out
Since you own the trailers what about having your air lines and electrical cord come out the back of the truck at the bottom and connect to the trailer from underneath like some of the show trucks you see at truck shows. That would solve your electrical cord getting stuck on the corner of the trailer
I like guessing about things I don't know anything about, since the pressure gauge was letting in air and removing it fixed it 80% of the time, you might have air getting in somewhere else? If I remember right from an adept ape video, he temporarily replaced part of the fuel line with clear plastic fuel line to see if there are bubbles. problem is knowing what it's supposed to look like, because from memory some bubbles are expected and due to the pressure rather than air getting in. love your work.
re: the drivability issue you're experiencing. (i know diesel vs gas here but hear me out.) the old engine in my s10 (4.3 with ~300k miles) would run rough after working it hard (short gears running 3k rpm on the interstate in West Virginia for 20 or 30 minutes) and the cause of that was worn piston rings causing uneven compression. it felt like a misfire but you could pull off any plug wire you wanted and it would make a difference because it was still firing on all 6. if i stayed off the interstate i could drive all day and it would run pretty smooth (not perfect though you could hear the uneven compression while just cranking it). not saying this is for sure your problem because iirc your engine has been recently rebuilt, but maybe you have defective rings on one cylinder that're losing tension and causing blowby when they get super hot?
Air lines & electric at the end of your truck frame to your landing gear would help. I’ve had mine like that a long time, gotta make sure they don’t sag down when you run in snow.
Great video, always been fascinating with big rigs ever since me and my family would take yearly trips from NS to Quebec multiple times of years back in the 80s and 90s. Question, do you do many of the maintenance and repairs to your truck yourself?
Preventative maintenance and priority repairs pay back in dividends, next to your health is to keep the Money Machine going down the road! This video being recorded at home reminds me to ask how is your fire restoration coming?
Probably a dumb question, but do all the maintenance and repair costs actually make being an owner-operator worth it? I love peterbilts as much as the next guy but it seems like such a headache. Great videos by the way, keep at it
When a gauge is temporarily connected to the filter head pressure port, what is the pressure at idle, and when its revved up to 2100 when the truck is not moving.
@Callthemall, Serious question? How do you find the time to indulge in any hobbies like playing music or whatever you like to do other than trucking? From the sounds of it owning a rig like you have is very time consuming outside just the actual jobs you do. For me the hours fly by so fast each day It is like there just in not enough hours in a day to get everything done?
I don’t haha, this year especially with the house is just constant busy! I might have an hour or two every couple weeks to zone out and watch play music or something
Why do you have mud flaps on your front bumper ? Also why don't you do something with that CB radio mic ? Much better ways of hanging a mic than that .. just ask'n ..
It’s too bad you can’t your truck to Josh (Adept Ape ). He’s a cat mechanic and seems to be able to fix a lot of problems. Maybe ask him about your fuel problems
Sometimes I pick up double high cubes of brick, and my black brick boards don’t cover the bottom half, so I have to wrap them in the snow fencing. It’s better than tarping!!
Yes, but with the current Exhaust after treatment setups and other things, the repairs on a new truck are almost as expensive and the downtime is comparable too, though now you've got truck payments on top of that ;) When I expand operations and bring on more trucks though, they will likely all be new trucks with full warranty. It's enough work as it is to keep up maintenance on just one old unit!
Question: Is there any benefit to removing the mufflers from trucks, or is it all about being a low-class selfish inconsiderate asshole to every house you drive near at 3am? Especially when using Jakes.
