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Sometimes you wonder why people do what they do!!

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wagsw900

01-16-2007 18:01:31




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Just started working on a new used semi we purchased. It's a 1975 Kenworth W900A. We need another truck for a backup to the Diamond Reo. Pulled it in the shop, and started to look over it. What we found was a can of worms. It was a woods truck and it had a huge wet kit that leaked and was a back woods mounting system....welded right to the frame. Bolts that had no thread so they just welded them to hold. Old airlines that were junk still mounted everwhere. A scab job for the back lights using speaker wire. The shift handle was broke instead of replacing the used a roll of duck tape to fasten in down to the stick. What they call chicken lights all over the cab. Electrical connections hot glued together. No wires or hoses wrapped up nice either all laying and rubbing on something. If something broke they just left the old and scabed the junk in. It just makes you wonder if some people even care about there equipment. I know its old but still. A week in the shop and she be be road worthy again. I'll post some pics at a later date. Any of you have has experiances like this???

Erik

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Kklobru

01-16-2007 19:35:53




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 Re: Sometimes you wonder why people do what they d in reply to wagsw900, 01-16-2007 18:01:31  
ya wonder how they ever get anything like that thru DOT inspection. I would be ashamed to even take the truck out of the shop with all that XTRA hanging. Our KW is an 82, And still looks "original".
good luck getting things back in order.
Kk



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NC wayne

01-16-2007 18:55:16




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 Re: Sometimes you wonder why people do what they d in reply to wagsw900, 01-16-2007 18:01:31  
I see stuff like that all the time on equipment. What amazes me the most though is the "ingenuity" put into some of the "repairs". By that I mean who woulda thought you could use a "wigget" to repair the shift linkage. Even more amazing is when you know that what they did had to have taken at least two hours to do during which they lost $200 in productivity when the part actually needed wasn't but $20, took 5 minutes to put on and was aailable at the local NAPA 10 minutes away. I'll admit I've done some off the wall stuff over the years to get a customer out of a bind when they were in the middle of BFE and the needed part wasn't available, but I always got the part and put it on as soon as was possible. As for some of the things you mentioned about leaving old stuff just hanging, stuff not tied up, etc, I pride myself in what I do too much to leave a mess like that because I know one day there'll be someone like you come along and say "I wonder what idiot did this mess"...I don't want that idiot to be me...LOL

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Dandy Don

01-16-2007 18:50:53




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 Re: Sometimes you wonder why people do what they d in reply to wagsw900, 01-16-2007 18:01:31  
Wags, If I ever get a tractor that is BONE stock and as it left the factory, I"ll probably figure that it wasn"t owned by a farmer. I"ve run into alot of patched stuff, and welded brackets that held heven only knows what. And since I"ve done mostly Deeres I haven"t had the joy of any of three Bs and one A haveing a muffler put on the correct way (just cut a hole and bolt the muffler on and go)"course I always think maybe they had hay on the ground and rain a coming I hope they weren"t just lazy and sorry as hell. I could go on and on buuttttt as John T says you buy used and you get all the pieces (that they could find).
I have a friend that runs into something like you describe and he says "just another day in Paradise" Don

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Steven@AZ

01-16-2007 18:15:24




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 Re: Sometimes you wonder why people do what they d in reply to wagsw900, 01-16-2007 18:01:31  
I would say about 1/2 of the used vehicles and equipment I look at is somehow cobbled together. I really like the people that use a cutoff wheel to make a hole in the dash for their super stereo system. Cardboard headliners, like you mentioned the speaker wire for taillights or trailer wiring. Electrical connections twisted together with those plastic twist nuts or twisted and taped with Scotch tape, etc.

Tractors are great for "farmer engineering" which means using an old stick welder to repair tin or add on any "accesories" such as a two way valve welded to the light bar on an M, PTO stub welded to the belt pulley hub for hydraulic pump, starter spot welded to bell housing because the bolt holes were stripped, etc.

It's amazing to think that some of these vehicles were still on the road in the condition they were in!

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rusty tractors

01-16-2007 18:27:33




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 Re: Sometimes you wonder why people do what they d in reply to Steven@AZ, 01-16-2007 18:15:24  
And the list goes on and on. How about using 6013 welding rod to weld a structural steel member of a add on backhoe to a cast iron axle housing!!



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the Unforgiven

01-17-2007 04:28:47




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 Re: Sometimes you wonder why people do what they d in reply to rusty tractors, 01-16-2007 18:27:33  
Cool!



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