Two from when I was driving over-the-road. First was Mr. Goodwrench, repair shop forman always scolded me for letting my truck idle too much. Then one day I'm running north bound on Mannheim Road in NW Chicago, water is a foot deep next to curb in right lane, I get to my delivery stop, pull into the parking lot, drive around to back lot where the dock was, large cardboard sheet covered the storm drain and water was about 1-1/2 ft deep right where I had to park my tractor. Water was just touching the bottom edge of the rear drive axle hubs. Twice while we were unloading my 45 ft trailer with 45,000# of groceries I heard it raining in torents on the trailer roof. Tractor had an air starter, when I was ready to leave, hit starter button, engine spun almost a complete ferolution and instantly stopped rocking the cab. First impulse is hit the starter again. Might as well, damage already done. Two loose intake manifold bolts in the inside of the V, 903 Cummins, V filled with water and leaked into 2 cylinders, hydro-locked engine, bent two conn rods, the load knocking was crankshaft counterweights hitting wrist pin bosses. Mr Goodwrench had my drive 25 miles back down Mannhiem to 79th St then east to Western. I never ran over 1400-1500 the whole way. Took them a month to rebuild the two bad holes. If I'd let it idle it never would have happened.
About a year or two later I'm driving an old S2200 IH, shiny but very tired 290 Cummins, Cousin passed me, chatted on CB a minute and ran off and left me. Temp guage started creeping up, pulled off into small gas station, borrowed a bucket and slowly added 2-3 gallons of water, refilling bucket and the old girl Screeches, Hey took me 5 minutes to get that much water into the radiator! The screeching ended in dead silence! It wouldn't turn over with the starter. I call Mr. Goodwrench, between him and Dispatcher they were fine with me spending the night in that almost abandoned gas station for the night. Had to call my wife to come get me almost 2 hours later. Mr Goodwrench and his helper got their truck back, they started pulling the 290 to drop in a 6-71 but never got that done.
The companies total lack of maintenance caught up with them and they closed their doors.
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