Devin, it would be cool to see a sit-down video from you explaining a bit more of your own back story. You're very knowledgeable. A lot of people would be interested in how you came to be where you are today.
Everybody in the salt belt is MF you right now. Because of how easy it is to come apart . We have to do a lot of heating and beating and if we’re lucky it’ll come apart
Nice education video, thank you for all the work you put into doing them and the voice overs. Just FYI no previous video popped up on the screen. Stay safe and healthy Sir.
Love the videos! Thanks for making them. I’m a Pilot car driver and steer the trailers for the trucks pulling wind turbine blades. Our trailers tear up tires and I know you could fix them up. There is so much slop in the linkages and they don’t align them either. Had a driver blowing out air bags all the time and have seen you fix that issue. I’ll send him your info
My old freightshaker had air ride on the steer, but the leafs were a sort of stretched out looking s. Nicest riding truck ive ever had. Felt like a really big Cadillac lol
Those pins could be a real bear when they're stuck. I've had to burn a hole down through one after I split a 30 ton ram first. I always hand packed the thrust bearing before assembly.
That was very good. I have done that on medium duty trucks but I have never done my semi as of yet. You forgot to show us how much slack was in the old pin. It must have been pretty loose as easy as the pin slid out. I have an actual puller that I use . I'm not a fan for doing a lot of heavy hammering on components. Light tapping yes.
Great videos, you're obviously great at what you do and have been around the block a couple times. I work with heavy equipment regularly but pretty much never touch semi rigs, interesting to see how easy these kingpins come out vs some of the crap I've had to rig up over the years. We got desperate at one point and had to grab a 30 ton harbor freight bottle jack because our 20 ton in the service truck wouldn't push out a kingpin, when that sucker finally let loose I needed to change my pants.
Same here with how easy it came apart. When I worked in England straight out of my apprenticeship, we had a run of Bedford steering work. Pretty light trucks really but running on icy, salty roads pretty much siezed every bolt, nut and pin on them.
HEY MAN!!! im a heavy mech love your videos!! Work for the scdoe(south carolina department of education) work mostly on school busses and semis i own. Also others who own semis i work on them. Anywas love videos man keep them commong i wish you a 1,0000 more likes
Lonestar texas ranger needs a used bolt 120 sleeper on his Freightliner so he can really show out in the truck shows and take the family with him sometimes I think he already has a generator for the project
neighbor mentioned to try Barrier cream for your hands if not wearing gloves. and get some Urea based hand cream for after washing up, stops cracked fingers the best. and anyone with cracked fingers, start taking hemp seed oil. Cured his hands the best of anything the dermatologist tried
Respect 🫡 You should be showing these every week man. I am sure doing this is a ton of extra work. I am a machinist and do my own business of car wheel and balancing. I would love to follow you around for a couple months to just learn. You ever want someone to video you for free I am your man. This could be huge man no one has what you have man.
If you put a jack underneath the spindle after you remove the king pin you can slide out the top shims so the spindle can slide off easier. Aslo do you check the eyes for out of roundness if they are not snug then it would need to be bored and sleeved
Have you ever tried Tiger Tools for kingpin removal? They also other tools for other parts of the suspension? I'm still wondering where your shop is so I can schedule an appointment.
Just stumbled on you're short videos which led me to the whole videos! Sir I love it! I'm a steamfitter by trade, don't so much work on vehicles but love watching people fix things! Great content!
"Most of the time they'll just pop out." Yeah, IF its a brand new truck like that one, or IF the last mechanic used antisieze. OTHERWISE, you're lookin at some serious aggravation, the probable use of a torch with a heating tip, and possibly several hours of hard labor. I once spent a day and a half of "heatin' & beatin' " on an old Volvo trying to extract a kingpin that had been protruding 3/4" out the bottom of the spindle, due to lack of grease. Edit: Also, you really should remove the hub and brake assemblies. Yes its a bit mor work, but it also makes handling the removal and installation of the spindle safer and easier without all that extra weight on it. And, antisieze is GOD.
What are the ramifications of just running the truck bent like that? I see it quite often on these cascadias. People keep running them like nothing though. We got a brand new one where I work and the shop said eh don’t worry about it. It won’t hurt anything.
short term, not a lot long term, pretty much any articulation point is going to see cascading failure which means your maintenance cost over time will go from $$$$ to $$$$$$$$
Love the content but would someone please tell me the names of the songs playing specifically the disco sounding one please and thanks starting at around 6:13
Don't put that in your mouth, you don't know where that finger has been. (says everyone's mother). Speaking of the little finger pointer he uses for those that don't get sarcasm.
Actually with an internal bump stop they would drop down to the stop and that's that, if the bag were to blow. If the air bag is properly sized the bag gives a much smoother ride than steel spring. Also it responds to the deviation in the road much faster. That's why you see factory now bagging all the higher end trucks.
There's a channel called Curious Droid that does space and space tech and a few years ago he held sort of a vote on the single most important invention of the 20th century and a whole messload of people were all up on the CMOS transistor circuit... which is technically just a solid state copy of a prior valve tube but doesn't need all the accoutraments. Yes, the CMOS is amazing... but apparently everybody forgot about an immigrant engineer named Zerk who invented a greaser port. One thread, one hole, one ball, one spring... almost a 92% reduction in wear on equipment from failures of threaded cups, automatic greaser systems and debris entering those systems by sloppy dirty handling. Nobody steals the grease out of your zerks like they would with cups. Nobody breaks long brass lines off and sprays all the grease down the side of the boiler. Everybody knows to give the gun a little squeeze and wipe the dirty ball off the end. Greatest invention since the steam engine and vaccination. Strangely nobody really voted for antibiotics and I would happily use a spatula to keep my babbits wet if I had to choose between them and a Zerk. CMOS my arse.
It's so wild seeing how small the truck kingpins are and I kno there not small, I recently started working on roller coasters this past year and the one superman train has I think 6 giant kingpins I mean like almost to heavy to carry and the ride manufactures gouge the hell out of the price cause there's only one place in the world to get em.
We are getting ready to take over campaign recalls and light mechanical Warranty work for Freightliner at speedco! We had Freightliner reps at the shop doing their walk through last week!
