Great job explaining the king pin service. The camera showed the steps and you talked through each step. Hearing your years of experience adds a lot. Big improvement over the last video I saw.
I work at MHC Kenworth in Knoxville, I've been there a little over a year, do alot of clutches and input shaft kits. I've done a couple back box rebuilds on a 10 and 13 speed eaton, and one day I'm gonna have alot of knowledge like You and I'll start my own thing. Your videos serve as inspiration for that goal
@@RCGdiesel Heck yeah man. Keep it up. Watched several of your videos already. Good inspiration for an aspiring independent field mechanic such as myself
Heavy truck mechanic here 24yrs in it, really like your videos and your attitude for this hard work, you got really lucky on this kingpin! A lift x was the first king pin i had to cut out and i fear them ever since, fitting everything before install is the key, great instructions. Keep on keeping on ol' boy!
You attitude cracks me up. I totally salute you, I live in Phoenix and I am totally impressed you did this during the day in the heat. I am surprised you don't wear shorts.
Have watched several of your videos, very fascinating to see these huge rigs and heavy equipment as a "light duty" master auto mechanic that knows little about how big diesel are setup It's crazy seeing kingpins, they did away in favor of ball-joints in automotive back in the late 1950's I assume you use 20-ton bottle jacks and 20-ton jack stands Also, subscribed brother
What's happenin' brother? Just ran across your channel last week and I've been digging the content so far. Fellow mobile tech here and the struggle is real. You seem like you've got a level head things bother you much, which is pretty important in this line of work as you know. Keep up the good work partner!
Where I used to work we made tens of thousands of king pins and draw keys and ball joints. We sold to Rockwell at the time, now Meritor and Eaton. Those pins are 4140 steel, core hardened to 30Rc and induction hardened to 59Rc to a case depth of at least .080 That's a small one in the vid, we used to go up to maybe 2-1/4 diameter and 12 inches long.
That looked easy! You have golden hands under all that grease and dirt! When I had to change kingpin on my 35 year old truck, I made a tool: 25 ton bottle jack and 2 huge long u-bolts around that axle ( or how do you call that long iron beam from king pin to king pin?). U bolts are pushing the king pin from above through a thick rod ( piece of grinded down kingpin from the other side ) , and down there they are connected by a thick iron plate on the ground, on which the bottle jack stands. Bottle jack pushes the axle through a piece of thick wall pipe, inner diameter of which is greater than outer diameter of a king pin. Then I heated the axle with a torch like yours, and smacked that rod with a huge sledge hammer like hundred times. No movement whatsoever! Like it was welded inside! I heated again and again, hammered and hammered, nothing. The axle is expensive, so I took a drill and drilled all the kingpin through! Took me 40 minutes and 3 drill bits about 3/8 in your fancy inches, or 10mm. Then I heated the axle really hard again, took really cold antifreeze from a freezer, connected a small hose to that the hole in the kingpin, and started to poor ice cold liquid through that hole, while heating the axle. Took a hammer and with ten hits kingpin was out! I was so glad! As you can see, I`m not native, I hope you can understand any of my crazy gibberish, haha! Good luck!
Can you do a video that is in depth on what you need to start your business? Type of insurance, licenses needed to get, etc? Do it have a wholesale license to buy common parts or do you just have customer get and pay for everything?
Hey man, love your channel! Just about to go mobile myself. Getting my tools situated in a cargo van as we speak. Got a quick question. What do you use to quote labor hours for each h job? I know you’ve got enough experience to not need a labor guide but any suggestions?
@fathiosman7862 Im glad you are enjoying the channel! You can use Mitchell 1. I have a buddy that uses it for labor hrs, but he has a shop. I usually don't give quotes. If I do, it's high because doing mobile there are to may variables that come into play.
@traderfrompunjab11 I would love to do that, but do some research in your area to get the prices. My video are for entertainment only. I hope that you enjoyed them 😁
