How Cool!

Hmmmm...

Great story, Don. I'd heard that Trump did a lot of things like that, unbeknown to the public. Make me like him all the more!

I wish I could tell everyone what some of these real Americans have done for widows or survivors of some soldiers we lost...Humbling. And they continue in their ways to this day

OOOOOOOOhhhhh,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Where are you while I'm gettin' killed here?

Thought you were supposed to "Protect and defend!"

Don, congrats on getting SquareD running healthy!

Thank ya...

Sourcing the aluminum for the air cleaner plenum build...

...I'm taking some hits here!

Mulch beds don't break lockers FYI...... ;D

Even a deep one?

Ya know with a bit of a hump and all covered with that awful triple ground up stuff?

A bed like that is flat out deadly!

WOW!

I think we are getting this figured out.

Code 79 is: engine hours not reporting or hobbs hours mismatch

Code 04: engine speed information missing

Code 81: Engine speed information missing

Code 84: Engine coolant hot

Code: 82: Not known yet...

Codes 79, 04, and 81 seem to point to a cam or crank sensor that broke, failed, or came unplugged!!!

So I'm getting J Deere to come have a look, and I'll change the oil and coolant again and start new again...hopefully

Now, why does the loader not raise up on Sarge???

Little Story Forwarded

In 1991, at the end of Desert Storm, a 19 yr. old US Army Cavalry Scout Private who had just spent 8 months at war sat out on a street at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. He sat there on his duffle bag with
his Battalion around him for 4 days waiting for the buses to come and take him to the King Fahad Airport so he could go home.

Unfortunately, the politicians of the day never planned for how to bring so many soldiers home after the war ended so there was a shortage of planes. Politicians are great at talking, but terrible at
doing.

Finally, the buses came, and took the young man to the airport. The planes waiting were from Tower Air. The owner of Tower Air had volunteered his planes and staff to bring soldiers home for the cost
of fuel only.  Happily, the young veteran got home just in time for Easter weekend in 1991, and spent that time emotionally healing with friends and family
surrounding him.

That Private was me.

The Airline owner - Donald J Trump.

That is why I will vote Trump. Loyalty for loyalty, respect for respect. Any questions?

Written by Ron Knouse

He's done so many good things you never hear about. They love to rip him up. What has Hillary ever done?

Don, pull some samples from the well & have it tested. I think that would be the first step, our pond well at last place that was drilled 50' into bedrock we tested it yearly. Hot tub chemicals usually did the trick to kill what little bacteria was in it.

Going to Shawn.

Here's my pleminary plan:
Pull water samples and check for depth of the water.
Assuming it isn't a breeding pool for Ebola, next clear out around the opening. THen use a grapple hook to fish out whatever is down there...hoping not to find any bodies!
Next, I am going to build a partition around it out of 6X6 PT posts laid flat and bolted together that will have a halo for a pulley/bucket and a place to mount electrical/mechanicals.
Next install a several thousand gallon holding tank beside it, install the well pump and plumbing and a solar/battery array.
I'll coarse filter the water going into the tank and then run the output through a potable filtered and a non potable outlet for tractor washing, critter cleanin' and generally makin' a mess of things.

That should do that for the interim. Later I can run a 3/4" pipe up to the casa to be able to scrub up the body parts after covering myself with dirt, dust and dirt, along with ticks, chiggers, and more dust...

Well, nice find on the "well" LOL. That may solve all the water issues you keep bringing up as now you have a source.

I like the idea of a solar pump. In fact I just lent my neighbor a little HF 12v to drain his AG pool. Just the 1/2 hose moved lots of water.

There you go blaming the machines you abuse. But I agree, something breaking everyday is not right. Probably start fine in the morning, er next week. But whats up with sarge?

With Sarge, I don't know
What makes sense is a low hydraulic fluid level. I may not have poured enough into that vast tank. Problem is the sight glass windows used to check the levels are all clouded up and unusable.
I'm going to measure and mark a stick to check the fluid level to solve that problem until I can replace those unsightly
( ;-)  ) sight glasses.

The other thing is a bad charge pump. That thing has been making a singing sound which in the hydraulic world is not a good sound. If it is going bad, then I'll have to pull it and have it rebuilt.

Could be something simple like a linkage coming loose or a snake tangled up in the manifold (again)...dunno.

All I know is that no matter how hard the devil tries, all he can destroy is my physical being. My spirit is God's alone and we already know who wins the final battle...

Moral of the story: Its all good!

The plan is for this truck to be pushing 1000 lb-ft of torque at some point before too long.  It's sounding more and more like the locker would be the way to go for long-term durability as well as insurance when I do venture into some wet grass.  All joking aside the truck only sees anything near what many of the guys here would consider off road when I take the kids shooting or hunting.  Rough farm roads/trails and across fields.   

Looking at this from a logical decision making perspective the locker is the correct choice.

The limited slip axle works great for everyday usage, and if you never upgraded torque and didn't get into a more extreme situation like, pulling something off road when you might be spinning a tire, in low range, when a souped up diesel is coming into its own, then will the limited slip be ready to answer a 5,000 ft lbs torque application.

So for the 1%-3% off road extreme duty cycle possibility, only the Grizzly will suffice. And for that reason as they say (sort of) in Shark Tank, the LS is out

See, wasn't that easy!

OK, just getting back from three days of work down at the farm.

Mission #1 was to get the bush hog blades changed out, so I started the 5500 Generec, plugged in the compressor, and it made a popping sound and started blowing smoke. The post fire inspection revealed one of the two capacitors had literally blown and shucked it's case oil all over the place.

OK, still had two hours until the TSC store 35 miles away closed So it was off to the races.

I used the wife's GJ to carry home a new Porter Cable twin cylinder 20 gal unit.

Fired that sucker up and plugged in the new 3/4" air impact wrench...and nada. I hammered on that bolt for a long time and finally realized it wasn't going to budge. So I soaked it down with penetrating oil and went off to eat some shrimp on the barbie.

The next morning the oil had done it's magic and in 20 minutes I had the new blades installed. Off to bush hogging I went. Got a field done and a bunch of new stuff cut back.

Next I pulled out Sarge and started working on the banks either side of the road. I got most of it all done when I noticed the bucket would only come up about half way then stall out.

The hydraulic oil was hot, but the converter and trans temperatures were dead center-green normal. SO I parked that, but not until I leveled a suspicious looking mound near the well.

I had feared that mound might be a burial site, but finally decided it was probably the dirt and rock pulled out of the well hole. After I got into it, I discovered some unusual grayish clay I haven't seen, so I figured that came from the well.

Now, why haven't I seen that before?? I got to investigating that well, and HOLY CRAP! That thing is DEEP! I mean it's DEEP. I'm estimating it's somewhere between 30-40 feet, as after clearing the honey suckle, I can see all the way down to something I think is an old cover. I drop a stone and it falls for awhile then "ker-plunk," it hits the water.

Now this thing is maybe three feet in diameter and lined with hewn stone all the way down. Some maniac actually climbed down all that way and dug that! Well, friends and family, I am not going to let all that labor go to waste. I'll figure out how to clean it without taking a long trip down, then set it up with some solar powered well pump and pump all that business into a collection tank.

Later on I got back to bush hogging and felling trees. It was slow going and really taxing my 66HP J Deere. So much so, I look down and see the engine temp gage in the mid red and all manner of red lights flashing. Well, I shut it down and checked only to find the radiator just packed with grass seed and dust. I cleaned it all up and went to restart and nothing...

It cranks but it won't start. Doesn't even sputter.

I have to say, I am getting a little tired of this John Deere junk! I have had very few work days where that machine made it all the way to COB without springing a leak, a tire popping off, a line blowing apart, springing a leak, having something shoved through something vital, a 3 point arm falling off (That happened today again) or some major sub assemble breaking off.

And now for the first time ever it just refuses to start, so i left it. Odd thing. All this happened when I was driving past that suspicious mound. And that's where it sits now! I threw in the towel and called it a day, I left it there.

Reconsider the Yukon Grizzly full time locker. I have been running one for years now. It is beyond awesome. A real locker and unlike the detroit locker engagement jerky business, I almost can never feel when it disengages or reengages. Just pulled a heavy trailer in 4WD a mile through muk and loose soil and rocks today. I don't think I spun once.

That's some really great work, Ken.

I definitely like it

Mix of Army and Marine decorations
He's been around a long time judging from the bottom row...

Yea, all this is good news

Still gonna be a bit slow in the development...Two words:

Spring...Farm

But I have rain and off days when I'll get on it, but for now off to bush hogging, dropping trees, and grillin' out in the wild!

You Cummins guys...What is that stumble as you rev it? From an idle, if you hit it, it stumbles along for a bit then works up some revs.

It spools pretty quickly, faster than I would have thought but it acts like a gas engine which loses vacuum when you first punch it and open 4 barrels to atmosphere

Could it be that all the fuel is pushing out to the factory injectors? I still haven't reinstalled the Marine injectors yet.

She's a purrin'!!

That's why you painted things that lycoming grey -- so you could see the leaks!  Guess there is a method to your madness (most of the time)!  ;)

Yessir, there is!

So here is the list as of today:
Green = Complete
Orange = in progress
Purple = awaiting parts
Red = not started yet/needs to be done


Square D Punch-out list
Install stainless hardware to aux fuel door, repaint mount plate
Seal fuel filler port/repair leak
Fabricate fender well bulkhead/Install air cleaner

Connect Brake pedal
Connect Proportioning valve…strange fittings??
Fill and bleed brake system

Install Lift pump
Reconnect fuel supply lines
Install Overflow valve

Reinstall Marine injectors
Relocate left front limb riser cable mount
Relocate throttle cable
Mount AC condenser
Run AC lines
Hook up AC system, bleed/charge
Figure out AC wiring to use factory switch
Install air filter to cab air
Wire up top area illumination lights
Install convoluted wire loom covering on top/exterior wires
Fabricate sill plates/secure carpet and wiring
Figure out/repair dome light
Install foot well lights
Label overhead switches
Install transfer case 4WD indicator switch in top of case (OUCH!)
Figure out/install transmission wiring from two-prong switch
Install overdrive switch…New model shift lever/switch??
Find/repair transmission leak
Reinstall fuel shutoff plate
Install momentary grid heater switch next to fuel shutoff
Install aux fuel tank fuel level gage
Connect fuel transfer pump switch from aux tank
Install 10 psi hobbs switch to H2O injection
Close off back of right fender well
Connect air intake to turbo
Hook up rear air bag lines
Replace rear taillight sockets and secure harness
Top off power steering fluid
Replace aft deep cycle battery with normal unit
Gage cluster:   
   Figure out/repair the half of the lights that don’t work
   Figure out/repair speedometer
   Mount tachometer/ hook up and get working
Build left door panel or repair and install factory panel
**Install new Silverado rear springs
**Install rear shackle flip system
**Install new front leaf spring mount on rear springs
**Fab up rear entry door to replace rear hatch and tail gate
**Modify rear topper top to a flip up design
**Fabricate rock rails
**Fabricate rear “Surprise” module
**Fabricate smoke generator
**Fab up rear folding bunk
**Fab up storage for bed
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But as the motor warmed it also smoothed out. The throttle response is very quick, like right now, urgent. Bump it and it spools right up.

I noted the kennedy fuel pumps supplied 8 psi with the motor off. Then as soon as I started it the presure rose above 20 to around 30ish. When revving it it is running above 40, but with a lot of needle bounce on the direct reading mechanical gage.

Next I installed the new, adjustable overflow valve. This valve is factory set for I believe 35 psi bleed pressure, which is more amicable to a high performance P-Pump motor, I think

So I built up the new pump with the new style fittings

I started with the new Pensacola diesel lift pump and a variety of fittings to try and figure out a better way of routing the fuel lines and mounting them