At the volvo shop I worked at we had a bucket with a bilge pump in it, luckily the radiators have hose couplings at the bottom of them and filled them up from there. Worked a treat. No mess and no air. Life’s good.
So u push the coolant from the bottom up till fills all way up and also the secondary reservoir ? How about the Egr and Turbos filling and taking the air packets out?
love the videos learn so much from you. thank you and have a great thanksgiving. ive been using the airlift from uview think i paid 150 for it couple years back and its solid.
Not to mention you don't have to pick up a heavy ass bucket spill half of it on the engine. being a short guy that's not too strong that handy invention right there makes a world of difference.
Remember the Mustang 2 the little small version in the 70s. I worked for Ford when they had a recall on the Mustang V8 temperature sensor. The sensor was right up next to the frame and all that was available was a OTC socket or a SnapOn socket to fit the sensor but you would need to take the motor mounts and transmission mount loose plus the fan shroud to lift the motor past the frame to get the special socket on the sending unit. I called Ford Service and asked them to replace one in .3 of a hour what they allowed on labor. They called back and said they could replace it in .3 of an hour on a six cylinder. I came unglued on the engineering department and told them to do it on a 8 cylinder but I was arguing with idiots and just gave up on them. I drug the torch set out and cut a crescent moon piece out of the frame. The crescent 🌙 was a little larger than a quarter then I could get my SnapOn socket on the sender. Two weeks later there was a bulletin that the V8 sending unit recall labor had been changed to 1.5 hrs. I was so pissed at them I did every Ford Mustang 2 V8 my way and clocked in and out in less than .2 of hour on each one and they called to ask how I was changing them so fast and my answer was Guess.
I was waiting on a job and talking to this guy for awhile, I said you're an engineer? He said yes why do you ask? I replied, you seem awful smart to be an engineer. He about fell over laughing and said, I know what you mean.
As a Senior fleet mechanic myself, remember if it was a easy job, every swinging dick would be a heavy mechanic.. And we all know that would be something to really complain about if there were as many truck guys as car guys. I have the SO refiller tool as well and is worth every penny. I bought the cheapo air lift HD, used it once and threw it away.... Called air lift customer service and they beat me around saying I don't know how to properly use it, so I'll never buy their junk again!!! Compare theirs Wich is cheap plastic to SO billet aluminum.... Cheap shit ain't good,,,, good shit ain't cheap!!!
I have a tool that works the same made by uview it is an awesome tool to have must have for working on big trucks having to try and carry that much coolant to the top of the motor is not fun. Uviews tool is more of a universal tool don't need all the adapters for all the different trucks and about a quarter of the cost bought mine off of Amazon
Hi Warren, do you use this on tractors aswell? Looking at buying one but wonder if it's one of those things u buy but never use? Mainly doing fendts with deutz engines.
If you take a new style truck lug it and slide over the hose you can just drop the end in the bucket and don’t have to worry about it moving around and floating up on ya. I’ve got a Matco version and the lugnut slides right over the hose perfect.
I guess that would be a great way to find a leak after your repair great video as always.. I love all you videos how you do what you do by yourself I’ll never know 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Yes they do work great to check for leaks after you make the repairs you let it sit for about 5 minutes after pulling the vacuum on the system and if it losses vacuum you still have a leak in the system
They should also make that steel water line out of stainless so it doesn't have to be replaced every five years when it rusts out. We replaced the one on my W900 last year . It was paper thin where it had just about rusted through.
@@westerntruckandtractorrepa1353 actually the inside looked good. all the salt and pretreat they put on the roads here in Ohio didnt help. rust spot probably starts from getting nicked by rocks and stuff bouncing off the road and hitting it. even if it did start on the inside, using stainless instead of tin would fix the problem. we replaced it with an aftermarket stainless pipe. Love watching your videos and am really looking forward to the ISX series. Your are a damn good mechanic. I hope You and your family have a good Thanksgiving.
So on this engine Cummins is 2250 you can't just fill the coolant bottle straight from the gallons??? I just replaced the coolant and I do not have that fancy refiller??
Mike James Good idea,but you need to make it work in reverse ,I'm going to look for a foot operated ,high volume vacuum pump and a couple of ball valves , the one I used to have for grew legs and wandered away and didn't find its way home.
All engineers should have to be mechanics first. I have the matco tools version and it sucks a 5 gallon bucket just as fast. I wish the connection to the coolant tank was like the snap on. Sometimes mines a real pain in the ass to get sealed up.
@@westerntruckandtractorrepa1353 useful everywhere looks like,and limits that climbing I used to have the gracefulness of a ballerina now it's more like a bowling ball comeing off a flight of steps,trying to get the snap on guy out to our place is like pulling eye teeth trying to get a wrench to ya were selling off our two hay squeezes , advertising them in Oregon and Washington,been with those old gals a long time you might end up working on them someday,
No where having the hay division custom worked the crew is getting old,lol so is the equipment and at it's heart it was always row crops,spuds and beans,we're keeping our hay trucks and the hay will be ours just no cutting and baling,but I'm guessing the carb laws will catch up to Idaho one day,us old timers keep getting pushed into the tech future,and good good you can't find anyone to work and anyone who does work gets held on to for dear life,two things you can't find now a day ,a good woman and a good worker,hell if ya showup your like some kind of unicorn let alone if ya actually know something and will work
Some reason I was thinking you were down in the central valley. It's good you are in Idaho, and not down there with the commies trying to force everyone out of business.
This engine, how many type of vehicles does it fit? As my da puts it "don't get paid to use common sense. They get paid to cock things up for the next person.'
While it's easy to bash engineers for apparent mistakes, examples such as that coolant tube aren't the best. Cummins, Cat, Detroit or whoever builds the engines can hardly attempt to adapt every engine perfectly to every OEM chassis option out there. With just one make and model if truck, theres likely 100 different spec options between frames, steer axles, cooling packages, transmissions, etc etc.
Yeah it is a truck part but the location of the radiator to the position of the axle probably varies a lot with difference suspensions, wheel base, axle capacity, etc. Do you make 50 different pipes or one that maybe has a good position for most configurations but a poor location for some?
Thanks for validating my complaint, with all the different models and variations from what you are saying it's cobbled together with a pipe that should have been on something else.
The rear end vent on my wife's Ford Explorer attaches to the fuel filler hose right above and behind the rear tire. Nothing protecting it from mud and water. It's right out in the open. And you can blow in and out of it like a straw. Worst design in the world. I had to change her rear end grease every time I did an engine oil change because it was always nasty. I ended up putting it inside the boxed frame rail. Horrible engineering.
