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Anybody want anything from Ontario?

hey Chicken, did you hear about the bus crash at Columbia Icefields a few days ago, came to rest on the rocks a couple hundred yards uphill from where you stood.
 
Dragged home a load of steel I-beams from Arkansas. Supposed to deliver Monday morning to Toronto.
Found a broken leaf spring and a ujoint ready to let go tonight

Not been a banner month so far
 
Dragged home a load of steel I-beams from Arkansas. Supposed to deliver Monday morning to Toronto.
Found a broken leaf spring and a ujoint ready to let go tonight

Not been a banner month so far

UJoint as in drive shaft? Broken leaf spring as in one in a stack of many?

Craig
 
Yuck. Are those things you can fix yourself or does it have to go in someplace?
If I could get a leaf spring on a Sunday I could do that myself
I don’t know on the ujoint. I’ve never done one that big but pretty sure between three different balljoint/ujoint press kits I could do it myself
Again, can’t get parts on a Sunday
My little truck is at a mechanics right now so I don’t have a parts runner

So....got it booked in Monday morning, take it from there
 
Ya ok... those are kind of must do now items alright.

I would imagine that you can deal with the UJoint yourself. What about the leaf spring?

Craig
Leaf spring “should” be easy if I can jack the frame up enough to drop the axle

When they did the bushings and whatnot back in the winter they made it look easy, but then again that’s why they are pros
 
U-joints completely do-able by yourself with an open end wrench & a big "Chicken Press" but its no fun, especially if your in a water filled rut or snow drift at -30, it just takes time. Personally I have never changed one on dry hard ground LOL.

Same with the front spring, the biggest concern here is jacking on the frame to lift the wheel off the ground, takes a lot of blocking and the higher the blocking the more unsteady it gets. A big tip here would be to have your "blue wrench" handy for the U-bolts...cut them & use new ones... The old ones have been on there for eons in the harshest "oxidization environment you can imagine and can be a bear to unthread from top to bottom, second benefit is a lot less "under the truck time" with that makeshift blocking we often depend on.

All that being said I sure don't miss having to do either job anymore .
 
I’ll agree with you, generally, both jobs by themselves aren’t a big deal, not being able to get parts on a Sunday and not having a parts runner kinda stinks. At least right now it’s driveable I just don’t trust it with a trailer

More than once I’ve cursed the rough roads in the USA but there’s some real winners in Canada too
 
Yup only folks that haven't rode in an 18 wheeler for a bit will praise our infrastructure quality. Riding a 4 -wheeler with tuned suspension is so far removed from a working truck ride that , with blindfolds, you couldn't identify the same highway.

Our road build quality here in Ab. took a severe nosedive back in the Premier Getty days when he put all the unemployed oil lease road builders to work building secondary highways...just dumping a "row of dirt between two barley fields and call it a highway" that they did for a lease road didn't make an "everyday usage" highway at all.
 
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Bluewater Bridge

Back to Texas
 
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