Preventative maintenance is the name of the game right now for me. Every day at 4.30, as soon as lunch is over, trucks roll in and I don my tote, equipped with grease gun and tools for checking diffs, trans, and brakes. I seem to continuously find bracing and frame bolts loose, like this one here. Not bad yet, but I could see it stressing the bolts enough to break them over time, especially with how much these trucks are moving.
Always keep a close eye on brackets, or zip-ties even, that hold air and hydraulic hoses in place. I pulled this one back for the picture, but it was at the angle shown, which helped me see something might be up.
Down to the wire, but not frayed... yet. It bothers me to do so, but I was told to just sleeve it up and move on.
Meh, just some pesky lighting issues. The guys thought the reach flashers were fixed. After I checked the truck and trailer lights, they were very intermittent. Apparently shaking the wires fixes the problem.
Take a look at that ground washer I got holding there too. It's ginormous compared to the ground stud it is fastened to, so I went ahead and changed that out too. Easy fix for a problem that wont bother us.
Today I started to tear into a rear end axle on a Case tractor with the goals of rebuilding it using parts from another one sitting in the yard. Trying to have it ready to sell by tomorrow morning. Unfortunately I wont be there until after it gets finished by another guy, but it was great to get into something.
Grenade damage of the planetary gears in the hub.
Lots of wear on the hub. In a perfect world, we would have the money and time to fix it all completely. That aint happening.
Extremely dirty work area for stuff like this. It can be very frustrating and discouraging at times to not have a clean spot in a big shop like this, but making due is all I can do.
I think that the most valuable things that I've learned so far from my experience here is what NOT to do. Cleanliness is vital, pay attention to the small things before they grow into something huge, and patching stuff up only works so long. Short week this week with the holidays, but showed up nonetheless.
Hours:
Total: 82
This week: 24
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