Just got home from a road call, A fella from Anderson Southwestern trucknig had his air system freeze up on him tonight, it was 14 above when I went out to help, felt really nice to me, its been really cold up here for awhile, but this poor feller was cold! What a hell of a guy tho, he stayed out there with me to hold the flashlight and help any way he could, nice to work with good folks like that! Hope the rest of his trip goes well! I told him if he came back my way to bring a truck load of arizona winter back for me!

 

I hate them roadcalls in the morning to go out to the yards and thaw out all the trucks.

 

fortunately this one wasnt too bad, froze up the wet line right at the drier, a good shot of methanol and she went to building air, put on a new gov, there was alot of water in there and didnt want it to end up in the old one and muck up the works. have you ever set up a pressure pot system where you fill an old fire extinguisher half way with meth and then pressure it up to 120 psi? I have a glad hand and an assorted fitting kit that i can hook up to the system and give it a pressurized shot. It works very well, that meth will cut ice fast under pressure. I keep it in my cab so its always warm when I get there.

 

We got a setup that connects to the compressor discharge line. I have a few fittings to connect it to glad hands and such too. Works pretty good, not as good as a fully functioning air dyer and a driver who drains his tanks daily

 

AMEN!!!![sm=chairshot.gif]

 

I remeber one truck in the shop that I noticed built air really really quick. I pulled his drain on his wet tank and out came 3 gallons of oily sludge, looked sorta like a chocolate milkshake. I dont think that tank had been drain since that truck rolled off the dealer lot.

 

Man I am so glad I don't have to deal with air systems!

 

Ive had plenty of air tanks like that. the one I used to drive was a Mack service truck with a 30gal air tank on the deck along with 4 onboard tanks, when I was first assigned to the truck I pulled all the drains for all 5 tanks and got maybe 7 gal of chocolate milk

 

Ive had a few locomotives that have drained for 30 minutes or so at the rate of a garden hose. On a hot day you can see the water level sweating on the side of the air tank.

 

you guy's should see what we go through in the military and the 'operators' who assume they can drive an air brake truck. . .some of these guy's never drain the air tanks. . .one tractor was soo bad I had to remove the drain **** and drill out the rust just to remove the pressure.[:@]