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Find out the torque specs. Use the value per service manual. Clean the rims and axle flange before you install the wheel. If you have been over doing the torque, replace the studs or bolts and or nuts. Use anti-seize compound when installing. Invest in a decent torque wrench. Life will be better...

Most definitely go see the neighbor first, since your children reside there. One of my neighbors was burning off a garden plot, and it was windy and dry that day, it jumped over on my place. A fire truck and forestry commission came and controlled it pretty quickly, as my house has that plastic...

So, are you a tech or an engineer, what do you do for a living?

Most turbochargers do not generate boost pressures until they reach a certain RPM spinning up. At idle it is not apparent.

Yes I know. I was a manager at a fleet of IH with the 6.4 L engines. Seen a lot of intakes have to come off. Also other problems associated with the EGR systems on the Cummins as well. I am no stranger to modern diesel engines with electronic control, and Freightliner runs EVERYTHING through the...

Diesel fuel produces more torque, down the long cylinder, than gasoline does, simply because it burns slower. In the tractor world, torque is king. For day to day operations, diesel is there for those that have to work for a living. Gasoline used to run in tractors on the farms 50+ years ago...

It wasn't just to atomize the fuel. It was done to meet EPA regulations without a DEF system on trucks. The is no judicious mix for diesel exhaust dumped back into the combustion chamber. In my humble opinion. This, is only following the path of the automotive world on heavy trucks and...

International worked on that a while back, the valves being operated by solenoids. They put some experimental units out there, but I don't know any more than that.

Here is some of my qualifications as to why I know.

Yes, I own two vehicles that have direct cylinder fuel injection. Yes, I very well know about direct injection on the gasoline engines. I know that the valves begin to neck with carbon deposits and can cause premature problems as compared to other systems for automotive fuel injections. In...

I fired up one of the two portable generators we have before that 13 degree weather hit us in the deep south here. Alabama, that is. Then about two weeks later we were dodging tornados.

In the industrial world they call that "wet stacking", I call it a load test.

Did it have the black death algae in it?

Why are the newer diesel engines a lot quieter than they used to be? Because some electronic engines atomize the fuel in as many as 6 times before the final event where they make the power. With different amounts of fuel. Comparing diesels to gasoline engines is like comparing apples to oranges...