Worked in a spring shop when i was 18 on mostly trucks in the logging industry, dirty heavy work but i liked it a lot . I learned a lot built truck bodies for logging rebuilt/changed a ton of springs. Your video brings back memories thanks JC
Enjoyed watching, thanks. Back in 1980 I worked at a truck dealership as an apprentice mechanic. Our job was to assemble trucks that came in crates from the factory and it was only two of us, me and the mechanic. Handled some really big, heavy parts, but with a crane, jacks we were fine. Once a truck developed a brake problem that the mechanics could not resolve. I put my head to it and told him it would be a faulty new valve, which it turned out to be.
Boy that sure brings back memories. 25 yrs as fleet mechanic for oilfield wireline company running 50k+ 10 wheelers, I've been known to change a few of those.
There’s a good spring shop not too far from me so when I come across jobs like this one I usually just take the spring packs in and have em re-arched with one new leaf to keep the pack where it should be. Always with new U bolts & nuts. Bushings too, most times. Great fix. Another one back in service!
First thing I thought of was "Centerpin" which brings to mind where I found common sense before it was too late. I had a butterfly hood Pete when I come up on a guy trying to imitate a short logger with a half ton pick up truck and had pulled the bed off and just stacked accordingly short logs than ran a myriad of length's and the truck had more than I would attempt on say a ton and a half or two ton truck. He was a struggling with his load headed to a pulp mill and you could see him working the steering wheel back an forth... so I decided to just back off instead of going around which cars were honking their horns and one fool tried to pass but I blocked him and I could tell he was burning a gasket./LOL. I had about better part of seventy feet between us when the thing decided to come apart and crap went everywhere.... I busted out laughing...probably shouldn't of but it was funny and then the road was plugged up and no harm, no fowl to me... he slept at the county lock up and we went on our way once we cleaned up the road enough. He was poor and loaded that truck by himself but he got greedy instead of needy. I thought long and hard about that for a long time, I knew I wasn't that stupid but it bothered me so I looked up his family and took em some food and clothes for her kids cause we had kids growing out of everything she needed plus I think the wife threw in some stuff for her. They needed help and we done the right thing by them... I never laughed about someones bad luck after that
they sure look a lot better in person than on the camera!. this truck was sold well before the video made it to the editing software. the owner brought his mechanic to look it over. i am sure they gave it a good inspection.
You make it look so easy...... Hey I did some of that kind of work when I drove a log truck and I tell you now it is HARD work. It took one heck of a big ass pothole to shear that bolt like that. May as well go ahead and do those brakes while you are at it..........
@@j.c.smithprojects The brakes need service. The pistons were not pressing the pads squarely onto the rotor. But then who cares if a truck can't stop......
I May be overkill but in our shop I would have replaced the spring packs on both sides along with all u bolts ,but we have single axle leaf sprung dump trucks with 30k rear axles. That juice brake under CDL truck truck doesn’t take nearly the weight and roads our trucks do. I get why you kept it simple , our springs always break right where the locating leaf meets the main stack .....we usually get 5- 8 yrs out a set of springs at the most
Some new car bumpers come wrapped in plastic sheeting, it’s great for working on top of in gravel. Honda and Ford are best. If you know anyone at a body shop they can hook you up.
I'm not sure that's a good thing. Leaf springs are a simple, yet extremely robust design that are still being used on new cars. Volvo XC90 uses a modified transverse leaf spring design. Leaf springs are especially warranted in design of heavy vehicles due to the way they spread out the forces of bumps and the weight of the vehicle over a larger surface of the structure of said vehicle, rather than how coil springs concentrate those same forces into a small area, needing reinforcement.
those brake rotors looked like one of those "might as well" jobs that should have been done as long as you had it apart......kind of surprised you didn't because usually you' re very through …...just say'in always enjoy you tak'in us along on your jobs - thanks
we did this repair and then test drove the truck to be sure it was fixed. the truck sat awhile because of the shifted axle. no need to fix the brakes until it is ready to be used because the rotors will rust again from sitting if not put into service and used regularly.
The construction company I used to work at maintaining trucks and equipment. We never seen a truck or trailer that ever wore out a tire on the right hand side. Curb strikes all ways took them out first.
Looks to me like someone hit something harder than was necessary. Proper driving would not cause that much damage. Excellent job on the repair. Thanks for sharing your videos! 👍
I'm not very familiar with 5 ton+ trucks. Does this truck have hydraulic disc brakes like a 1 ton? With air parking brakes? Just curious when I saw what looked like discs in the rear.
this particular truck has hydraulic brakes with "park" in the automatic transmission and a cable operated parking drum brake on the front of the differential
Yowza... You would think they would have noticed after it happen that the truck was riding in the rear awfully strange.,... or at least you hope the driver did. I always wonder when you see stuff like that, how some folks never checked to see how things are maintenance wise.....cause no way if a driver were doing daily checks or even weekly you'd miss it....Nice work on the fix...but boy thats a bit of work to get it there but way to get er done JC
they took the truck out of service because of this but the tire wear suggests there were a good bit of miles put on it before they realized what was going on. it dog tracked horrible. it was very odd backing up also. it didnt "react" like it should have when turning the wheel. its fixed now.
That's what happens when you curb the hell out of shit probably some dude in a hurry wasn't paying attention and took a corner hard and cut it too tight and smash that passenger side up against the curb going into a shipper or receiver
1 question, why dont Ford dealers do this with basically every e1,2,350 van ever made. I buddy of mine went through hell getting his van to stop catchin bugs on the right side. Edit: and by hell I mean taking it back to the dealer 3 times before going to a local private shop and getting it done right.
It looks like someone had a habit of overloading that truck then all it took was a bump on a kerb to snap the locating pin and knock the axle out of line...
We had one not tracking dad never wanted to check it out oh it fine he would say well loaded log truck muddy truck road ruts he ran over something shoveled the axle the rest of the way he had to unload the truck in the worst spot possible.
I was driving 49 Maple Leaf what is a GMC all the bolts holding the box on snapped off I had 8 electric motors on I had to drive half across the town I lived in with no bolts holding the box on this electric motors were a big as the cab on the truck that is when I QUIT that company
You make good videos. Details, no stupid background music and good camera angles. Thanks, enjoying them.
Worked in a spring shop when i was 18 on mostly trucks in the logging industry, dirty heavy work but i liked it a lot . I learned a lot built truck bodies for logging rebuilt/changed a ton of springs. Your video brings back memories thanks JC
Enjoyed watching, thanks. Back in 1980 I worked at a truck dealership as an apprentice mechanic. Our job was to assemble trucks that came in crates from the factory and it was only two of us, me and the mechanic. Handled some really big, heavy parts, but with a crane, jacks we were fine. Once a truck developed a brake problem that the mechanics could not resolve. I put my head to it and told him it would be a faulty new valve, which it turned out to be.
Boy that sure brings back memories. 25 yrs as fleet mechanic for oilfield wireline company running 50k+ 10 wheelers, I've been known to change a few of those.
Awesome video, plus I learned some new stuff. Thanks for the videos and the extra time you spend bringing them to us.
than ks for watching. glad you found some new stuff in it!
There’s a good spring shop not too far from me so when I come across jobs like this one I usually just take the spring packs in and have em re-arched with one new leaf to keep the pack where it should be. Always with new U bolts & nuts. Bushings too, most times.
Great fix. Another one back in service!
Great video JC and Mrs JC, thanks for sharing
thanks for watching mike!
"Are we rollin Jimmi" ?? "I wanna get this airplane off here"! "Nah leave it yet".
First thing I thought of was "Centerpin" which brings to mind where I found common sense before it was too late. I had a butterfly hood Pete when I come up on a guy trying to imitate a short logger with a half ton pick up truck and had pulled the bed off and just stacked accordingly short logs than ran a myriad of length's and the truck had more than I would attempt on say a ton and a half or two ton truck. He was a struggling with his load headed to a pulp mill and you could see him working the steering wheel back an forth... so I decided to just back off instead of going around which cars were honking their horns and one fool tried to pass but I blocked him and I could tell he was burning a gasket./LOL. I had about better part of seventy feet between us when the thing decided to come apart and crap went everywhere.... I busted out laughing...probably shouldn't of but it was funny and then the road was plugged up and no harm, no fowl to me... he slept at the county lock up and we went on our way once we cleaned up the road enough. He was poor and loaded that truck by himself but he got greedy instead of needy. I thought long and hard about that for a long time, I knew I wasn't that stupid but it bothered me so I looked up his family and took em some food and clothes for her kids cause we had kids growing out of everything she needed plus I think the wife threw in some stuff for her. They needed help and we done the right thing by them... I never laughed about someones bad luck after that
i was able to got my stolen truck back. i really appreciate you sir
Wow, you took me to SCHOOL on this video. Great Job Mr. JC
just another day playing with trucks! boys never grow up...their toys just get bigger!
Good to see all 4 U bolts are new... pretty those are one n done🤙🏼
i like to replace all 4 at the same time. the other side get stressed when the other side shifts.
Nice repair Dr. JC
Looks like rear brakes are going to make the "to do" list on that truck...lol
Work safe, best to Mrs. JC
Doug@ the "ranch"
they sure look a lot better in person than on the camera!. this truck was sold well before the video made it to the editing software. the owner brought his mechanic to look it over. i am sure they gave it a good inspection.
Very knowledgeable, this is the kind of guy that I would want checking my truck.
You make it look so easy...... Hey I did some of that kind of work when I drove a log truck and I tell you now it is HARD work. It took one heck of a big ass pothole to shear that bolt like that. May as well go ahead and do those brakes while you are at it..........
Nice work! That brake rotor looked pretty nasty.
the truck had been sitting for some time. it doesnt take long for a rotor to look like that around here.
@@j.c.smithprojects The brakes need service. The pistons were not pressing the pads squarely onto the rotor. But then who cares if a truck can't stop......
Legendary status mate. That’s exactly how to fix a truck from crabbing. Get video and straight up information.
Your voice sounds like you're related to Jeff Cooper. Nice Video. Great information.
I May be overkill but in our shop I would have replaced the spring packs on both sides along with all u bolts ,but we have single axle leaf sprung dump trucks with 30k rear axles. That juice brake under CDL truck truck doesn’t take nearly the weight and roads our trucks do. I get why you kept it simple , our springs always break right where the locating leaf meets the main stack .....we usually get 5- 8 yrs out a set of springs at the most
Some new car bumpers come wrapped in plastic sheeting, it’s great for working on top of in gravel. Honda and Ford are best. If you know anyone at a body shop they can hook you up.
Good job! A spring shop would have changed you 600 $ 700.00 to fix that! And that's money in your pocket
not to mention i would have had as much time taking it there, dropping it off, going back to get it and bringing it home as it took to fix it.
Not seen springs like that in Europe for 20 years
I'm not sure that's a good thing. Leaf springs are a simple, yet extremely robust design that are still being used on new cars. Volvo XC90 uses a modified transverse leaf spring design. Leaf springs are especially warranted in design of heavy vehicles due to the way they spread out the forces of bumps and the weight of the vehicle over a larger surface of the structure of said vehicle, rather than how coil springs concentrate those same forces into a small area, needing reinforcement.
Looks good to me! I’m gonna have you just go ahead and give her a full send bud
those brake rotors looked like one of those "might as well" jobs that should have been done as long as you had it apart......kind of surprised you didn't because usually you' re very through …...just say'in
always enjoy you tak'in us along on your jobs - thanks
we did this repair and then test drove the truck to be sure it was fixed. the truck sat awhile because of the shifted axle. no need to fix the brakes until it is ready to be used because the rotors will rust again from sitting if not put into service and used regularly.
I imagine getting that corrected will also help the tires last longer. That wasn't a bad job. Most things on trucks weight 500 pounds. :)
sure makes it track down the road a lot better.everything is heavy....my 22.000lb driveable jack sure makes thing easier!
The construction company I used to work at maintaining trucks and equipment. We never seen a truck or trailer that ever wore out a tire on the right hand side. Curb strikes all ways took them out first.
Keep up the good work buddy
thanks for watching gary
Looks to me like someone hit something harder than was necessary. Proper driving would not cause that much damage. Excellent job on the repair. Thanks for sharing your videos! 👍
I'm not very familiar with 5 ton+ trucks. Does this truck have hydraulic disc brakes like a 1 ton? With air parking brakes? Just curious when I saw what looked like discs in the rear.
this particular truck has hydraulic brakes with "park" in the automatic transmission and a cable operated parking drum brake on the front of the differential
This guys realy know their job
I have seen a bunch of dog legging semi trailers. Do they have a similar issue or what is the fix for them?
How do u dog leg a box truck
Good video - important info. thanks.
Do they salt the roads where you're at?
Yowza... You would think they would have noticed after it happen that the truck was riding in the rear awfully strange.,... or at least you hope the driver did. I always wonder when you see stuff like that, how some folks never checked to see how things are maintenance wise.....cause no way if a driver were doing daily checks or even weekly you'd miss it....Nice work on the fix...but boy thats a bit of work to get it there but way to get er done JC
they took the truck out of service because of this but the tire wear suggests there were a good bit of miles put on it before they realized what was going on. it dog tracked horrible. it was very odd backing up also. it didnt "react" like it should have when turning the wheel. its fixed now.
Good repair JC
thanks antonia.....just another day playing trucks.
I need to get into more diesel trucks
are those air over hydraulic brakes? seems like quite a big truck to not be having air brakes
So how fast do you think they were going - when they caught the curb?
too fast for sure!it sure tracks better now!
J.C, On those big trucks are most things still SAE or have most of them gone Metric as well ?
there was a good amount of hardware that was sae. the lug nuts are 33 mm.
Them u bolts defenitly shifted a ton
Why got broke ?
That's what happens when you curb the hell out of shit probably some dude in a hurry wasn't paying attention and took a corner hard and cut it too tight and smash that passenger side up against the curb going into a shipper or receiver
1 question, why dont Ford dealers do this with basically every e1,2,350 van ever made. I buddy of mine went through hell getting his van to stop catchin bugs on the right side.
Edit: and by hell I mean taking it back to the dealer 3 times before going to a local private shop and getting it done right.
did the same idea with a big block pulled it back with two comealongs then replaced motor mounts...
It looks like someone had a habit of overloading that truck then all it took was a bump on a kerb to snap the locating pin and knock the axle out of line...
the truck is 14 years old. i figure age, rust and fatique along with a driver hitting a good sized curb way too fast was the culprit on this one.
Is that a weakness of the metal or an impact of some sort?
I would think they age, fatigue combined with hitting something would have caused the pin/bolt to break and allow the axle to shift.
@@j.c.smithprojects
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We had one not tracking dad never wanted to check it out oh it fine he would say well loaded log truck muddy truck road ruts he ran over something shoveled the axle the rest of the way he had to unload the truck in the worst spot possible.
Excellent work.
Damn potholes
8:16 magically cuts bolt how exactly for non mechanics? 12:13 more critical video just disappears.
bolt was broken. i simply pulled it out and replaced it, i had a viewer stop buy while i was working....we got to talking and i forgot to record.
Good video
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Dave
I would've put new u bolts on anyway
Tires look bent
Broken center pin
Nothing a new grade 5 bolt can't fix. Ok maybe 8
i never considered looking at what grade they were.
@@j.c.smithprojects So you didn't use stock bolts, just some from your hardware stash?
T shrit weather I see.
it was! not so much now!
I was driving 49 Maple Leaf what is a GMC all the bolts holding the box on snapped off I had 8 electric motors on I had to drive half across the town I lived in with no bolts holding the box on this electric motors were a big as the cab on the truck that is when I QUIT that company
sorry I don't mean to be rude but... DUDE MAN! FLIP THE FUCKIN TIRE!
"cribbing" must be a yankee term. we call it blocks or dunnage down south
We always called that crab steering or crabbing.