Monthly Archives: March 2022

Our tractor is coming right along. The old oil and filter has been taken to the recycler and the air filter replacement has breathed new life into our motor. Let's take a closer look, now, at the cooling system since it has to work so hard in the summer heat.

Learn simple short tips to keep your articulated truck running its best. Discover how to maximize your uptime and reduce repair costs and extend the life of your parts.

Equipment fire is a serious concern. Unfortunately, it is a very common problem in farming equipment. In fact, a large part of our salvage sales are from machines where there has been a heat-related issue on one section of the machine.

In the preceding articles we discussed some of the various aspects of doing a comprehensive tune-up. Hopefully some light was shed on why we do or don't do certain things pertaining to inspections and order of events when doing a tune-up. Perhaps some useful reasons were given for why parts fail and what to do about preventing part failure in the future. All these tips will help us think and reason out a problem to make our tune up last and, hopefully, keep us from spending extra money.

Searching for a perfect replacement used cab for your heavy equipment? Learn what to look for, what to inspect, and how to search to connect to a replacement cab quickly.

In Part 1 we inspected and either adjusted the plug gap or replaced the spark plugs. After that, we decided that a compression test was in order so we could verify the internal engine status. That way we wouldn't buy any tune up parts until we were sure that the engine was in reasonable mechanical condition. Our tests showed a fictional compression reading of 85, 80, 82 and 86 psi.