Maintaining Your Semi Truck – Part Three
February 3rd, 2010
- Now that you have made it through most of the winter with no down time you have to think to yourself was I just lucky or did I stay on top of the small things that can fail, luck can run out so it is always a better bet to maintain your truck and prevent break downs than have no starts or on the road failures
- Electrical Connections. Spray your battery and starter studs with a spray grease to keep out moisture and corrosion to maintain peak performance of your starting and charging system.
- Keep The Interior Clean. Nothing says poor maintenance like a truck with a worn out carpet, burn holes in the seats or holes cut and drilled in the dash or bunk. When it comes time to sell your truck or trade it in, this can be a deal breaker.
- Water In The Air. Keep your air tanks drained and your air dryer maintained.
- Buy Quality Fuel. Buy your fuel from a place that is busy. They have daily fuel deliveries eliminating the chance of you getting bad fuel.
- Fuel Conditioner. This is very important if you buy fuel in Florida in the winter and then run north to sub zero temperatures. Solid gelled fuel will ruin your day.
- Spring is right around the corner things just keep getting better
- More Tips To Come soon !
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Maintaining Your Semi Truck – Part Two
January 14th, 2010
This is Part Two of a series of informative information to help keep you running trouble free and save money along the way and also to retain the best resale value on your truck
- Truck wiring is not a hobby. It may look easy to just splice and cut wires for power to add interior lights or the latest electronic gadget but do yourself a favor if you are not familiar with wiring and today’s delicate electronics on trucks, let the pros do it. Otherwise you could end up with failures that shut you down $$$ or worse yet a fire.
- Spray Lubricants. Spray your door locks once in awhile, especially ones seldom used such as step boxes and bunk doors. This way when you go to open them you know the key will go in and turn.
- Chrome Plastic Bolt Covers. These covers will retain moisture and salt when siliconed to areas like the heads on frame rail bolts and cause huge rust damage that can be avoided.
- More Tips To Come! Watch for Part Three for great Tips that will cost you nothing !
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Maintaining Your Semi Truck – Part One
December 31st, 2009
When it comes to the maintenance of an asset like an expensive semi truck that earns your livelihood, most people think of oil changes and grease jobs. While oil and grease is the key to keeping your truck running trouble free for years, there are often small items that are overlooked but key to keeping you running and helping you to retain the best resale or trade in value possible down the road.
Here is a list of items that are often overlooked and most items can be done yourself for very little cost or no cost.
- Keep all of the aluminum in good condition. Polish it at least once a year, while it is not a fun task it will preserve the truck’s appearance. Once all the aluminum wheels, fuel tanks, Peterbilt grille and step boxes have been acid washed it is expensive and very time consuming, if not impossible, to reverse the damage to polish it again.
- Rotate your drive tires. Did you know that your rear drive tires wear faster than the fronts. Rotating your drive tires may be a cheap way to extend their life by 60,000 miles.
- Paint the frame. You can extend the life of the paint on your frame by carrying a can of spray paint and whenever you see a spot around a huck bolt starting to rust hit it with some paint. If the frame has been neglected beyond a simple touch up it is money well spent to have it sand blasted, primed and painted with a good quality paint. A quality job does not have to expensive to be good. Get a reference or two from a body shop and make a couple of calls to see how their work stands up.
- More tips to come!
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