How's your day going?

[afriqueart]

Great day! Portfolio up! No snow! Still tattooless and piercingless. Daughter's not pregnant. No dog poop in the house.

and........

I didn't have to go to work!

 

[Stevie]

A 555 Cummins? Good Lord, where do you work - the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry?
I hope you have earplugs handy.

I'm self employed....semi-retired, John Deere combine tech.

The 555 is in a hunk-o-**** Terra-Gator spray rig. I have no idea why I'm wrenching on it .....really didn't volunteer for this job. However, it belongs to a neighbor and friend who's down on his luck. Farming being a hard business these days. It must be fixed.....or we will all eventually be eating Argentine and Austrailian food!!

No...I'm not too fond of Cummins V8 engines...and the 555 ain't as much fun to work on as a 903, and 903's stink to work on....I'm not fond of Cummins engines period.

 

[AITG]

You have my sympathies.

My first job out of college was working for a truck line that had a bunch of Dodge city tractors powered by Cummins V8-185 engines. They were the fore-runner of the 555.
The 185 was such a good move that the guy who ordered them got fired and eventually the trucks got repowered by Chrysler gas engines.

Later, I worked for a fleet that leased a bunch of 903 powered IHs. The good thing was that they would literally go forever without an oil change. The lessor never did maintenance. Every one I ever looked at had a hole in the clutch housing - seems 14 1/2 inch clutches weren't made to turn 3,000 rpm. Both 185s and 903s were noisy, leaky, heavy chunks of iron.

I don't miss turning wrenches ... but I'm glad I did it and it put a lot of food on the table.