generalized auto question
10-16-2008, 11:13 AM
#17
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which series? N14, ISX, ISM? M11? Remember that these trucks go hundreds of thousands of miles over rough highway and all the while rattling the hell out of themselves just by the very nature of the engine. brackets and pulleys wear out and get play.. Glad you were able to get it fixed.
10-16-2008, 12:52 PM
#19
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Only slightly related:
I used to work for a company that sold a large number of fans to a lumber drying operation. This particular fan was a propeller type with an integral cast aluminum pulley/hub. Because of dirt and sand being sucked through the fan, the aluminum hubs were being literally cut in two by the belts and the abrasive action of the dirt and sand. The fans pretty much ran 24/7, and after a few months and a couple of belt-tightening maintenances, they would fall apart.
And this was a high-quality fan, but not well suited to being near the ground in such an application. The fans were stacked one atop the other along an entire wall, and the bottom fans would fail while the top ones continued to run.
I used to work for a company that sold a large number of fans to a lumber drying operation. This particular fan was a propeller type with an integral cast aluminum pulley/hub. Because of dirt and sand being sucked through the fan, the aluminum hubs were being literally cut in two by the belts and the abrasive action of the dirt and sand. The fans pretty much ran 24/7, and after a few months and a couple of belt-tightening maintenances, they would fall apart.
And this was a high-quality fan, but not well suited to being near the ground in such an application. The fans were stacked one atop the other along an entire wall, and the bottom fans would fail while the top ones continued to run.