Cab ford f- 550 video taking the cab off

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40 hours work and school week ending1/26/2013 160 hrs to date

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This week was an interesting week at Williams, we had an all day training  on forklifts. Their is a lot to know on safety on this type of machinery, for example  picking the load and checking the load to make sure all is secure. Knowing the lifting capacity of the your forklift. Keeping your forks at  4 inches above grade when  traveling.Steps like these can insure safety and loss of damage to the operator and materials being handled. Knowing what is around you and keeping people away from the lift while working is a crucial step in safety also wearing your seat belt at all times  .All this information is crucial  in the safe operation of a forklift .I was also trained and certified on atf forklifts I  learned alot and was  certified for three years.thanks Williams.The rest of the week we put the Ingersol Rand engine back together and tested a pigging door to make sure it was working for the near future when we will be doing some line testing for line life and wear on the main 36 inch line running south.  I posted a video on the 550 ford  project in the shop. Tom and I have been gathering info such as cost for parts and we hope to have some parts by next week sometime other than that all is great . 

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40 hrs week 1/14/-1/18/2013 to date 120 hrs

This week I worked on taking the cab off the f 550 in the shop. I learned that its not to hard to take a cab off if you have the right tools, I made a glow plug tool to easily remove the glow plug electrical connectors  and it works great.At Williams I have been helping replace bearings on a Ingersol Rand engine  a set of bearings had extreme wear and was releasing shavings,The  problem was that we had prior installed some bearings on a rod to  the compressor side,and did not see a protrusion   which was on the rod  cap which then was rubbing against the aluminum bearing side face, causing metal loss which potentially caused the engine to shut down because of the filtering  system it has installed  which is there to save the engine .I also was removing fuel valves  and replacing them, the fuel valves have o rings and sometimes leak gas out or have a buildup of black hardened substance from the fuel burn and cause a week burn inside the piston chamber,  which then activates the alarms ,the process then is a sequence of  safety steps  desighened to protect us.in order to fix the problem.Each of the pistons is monitored by an Allen Bradley monitoring system and it shows individual heat temperatures for the pistons . That's how we find out which valve is bad because of the low temp readings compared to the other pistons usually about 835 degrees  .

40 hours class and work11/7- 1/11-2013

This week has been a great learning experience working on the 550  ford  6.0 we learned different approaches on testing for fuel leakage .fill the piston  chamber with diesel wait for it to show up below .simple works great or give it some air listen for leaks.Which one of the injectors is bad learn to spot the o-rings when damaged I learned if you don't have the tool ,make it, compromise why buy it when you can dream it up and fabricate it.Keep up the good work Jeff .Thanks for the lessons.

Hydrolock info on diesel. week 1 winter quarter 40 hours

last week I worked on a piping job at Williams and have been learning about tubing installation and threading pipe . today  I was diagnosing a 6.0 powerstroke steps to do to finding root causes of malfunction  to components. during my research I learned that  Diesel engines are more susceptible to hydrolock than gasoline engines. Diesel engines have a much smaller final combustion chamber volume, requiring much less liquid to hydrolock. Diesel engines also tend to have higher torque, rotating inertia, and stronger starter motors than gasoline engines. The result is that a diesel engine is more likely to suffer catastrophic damage. Diesels can also hydrolock if water builds up in the injector systems and is injected into a running engine in place of fuel^[