I'm in a bigger shop now.

310 hours for internship 

SAFETY FIRST

 

 

This week my shop crew and i have been moving our stuff from our smaller shop to a much bigger shop. Western refinery service used to make coverall buildings so they built one for real cheap. This new shop has a hydraulic room,two cranes each being two tons,welding/fabricating area. I think its a great shop. There are some bugs too get worked out " the oil lube pumps are a 1 to 9 ratio if you do the math 120 psi multiplies up quick. The 200 psi rated hoses are bursting from time too time. lots of fun cleaning 15w30!

260 hours

got too work one day and my tool box got a lift kit

           Tis this is a picture of a Sculley plug The grounds will play mind tricks on you. There was a plug i did a while back that i replaced, and put a new ground wire too. our tester still read BAD ground. It turned out too be the Sculley plug mount was not grounded. this happened because thies systems use two different sourses of ground. DONT WANT A SPARK AROUND 4000 gallons of fuel!!! 

Half a can of starting fluid.....??? What were they thinking?

This week i asked to take on a little bigger project. Some colleges of mine have been using a man lift but for the past couple weeks the motor has been making a little more nose then a diesel should. About a week ago they were trying to start it and of course not being mechanic's they went through half a can of starting fluid. Now the motor is done. Iv been doing some research on the motor, its a Lambardini Two cylinder the company was bought out by koler. I still have some more research to do but my plan is to have the injectors sent in too north land diesel, check valve adjustment and compression then go from there.

hours....I honestly have not been keeping track but i have been working 40 plus hours every week since iv been out of my fall classes.

skully

The bus runs

last week i shorted a bus and it would not start. I then got on the Internet with new flyer "the bus manufactures" and i chatted back and forth with a Mr Butch Hartley. He gave me tips ,advice and most importantly testing procedures. What the problem turned out to be is A burnt up a CPU or also called a rack. Its a type of data buss for the vehicle. I also burnt up a few relays.

Learnd my lesson

To any one out there please learn from my mistake. This week i have been trying to get thies buses running so my company can use them for turnaround, to haul workers back and forth to the refinery. The buses have been sitting in the back Field for over three months and the battries are dead as dead. I stuck a 24 volt charger on them for a day and it started up. I then continued to let them charge for a few hours. but the last bus i went to turn off wouldn't fricken turn off. I tryed unplugging the coolant sensors and i also flipped a kill switch that was on the dash. still running.......then i did the no no i flipped the battery shut off. I think i fried the brain to the bus. What i should of done is stuck a book over the air intake. If i could only go back in time i would. Wheres a delorean when you need one.

Home project

 I took a 5mge motor and put it into a Toyota pickup

 this is the motor installed

 the donor car i bought on Cragslist

 i had some fun destroying the car :)

The car

The truck

Something iv learned from this project......take your time trace wires well and MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT WIRING SHEMATICS! just because it says on the internet its for an 1983 dosnt mean its for an 83 "but dont we belive every thing we read on the internet"?