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  1. OntarioVanMan

    Diesel engine

    Does anyone have a web site that describes how it works WITH pictures?? How fast, rpms does an alternator have to turn to make power?
  2. OntarioVanMan

    Legal headlamp?

    Does anyone know what, if any is the legal luminums for a headlight? They sure are getting real bright in oncoming traffic.
  3. OntarioVanMan

    Sprinter Pay Rates

    LBD said "To be classified as a C unit a truck has to be dock high, have 14' of floor space and scale 5k. Sprinters, as good as they are, fall short on all three scales. Should they be another category in between? I personally think so even though I don't run any of them. I think they should be...
  4. OntarioVanMan

    Tire Pressure Gauge Calibrated?

    How many actually have their Tire Pressure Gauge calibrated? Had mine tested and it was 3lbs heavy so I have to always remember 70 is really 67lbs.
  5. OntarioVanMan

    Was it hot fuel syndrome??

    Ok one fill up 23.6 mpgs--- next 18.2mpgs---next 22.8mpgs. All same driving conditions. I suspect hot fuel.
  6. OntarioVanMan

    Big Macs to fuel big trucks

    McDonald’s customers in Britain will be indirectly helping power a fleet of trucks when they order a Big Mac and fries from now on. The British press reports that McDonald’s is converting its entire United Kingdom truck fleet to biodiesel – and that the fuel for the 155 trucks will come...
  7. OntarioVanMan

    Nitrogen inflation improves tread life

    VANCOUVER -- Recent research conducted and funded by nitrogen tire inflation proponent and equipment supplier, Vancouver-based DREXAN, showed improvement in both tire tread life and vehicle fuel economy in a long-haul trucking fleet. Drexan's president, Konrad Mech researched and authored the...
  8. OntarioVanMan

    Interior Lights for Sprinter

    Ok this is what I did..I got that 3 spotlight Patio System from Home Depot thats solar powered..2 in the backcorners and one between front and back. The solar panel bout 4"x4" is detachable from mounting bracket so it just lies on the dashboard during the day charging and plug it in at night the...
  9. OntarioVanMan

    Sprinter..Back Doors

    Ok guys heads together...Them back doors you can see light thru them they seal like crap..at least mine do...I was thinking them door sweeps like we use at home. You know they attach to bottom of door to keep draft down? For the floor( I have the factory particle board floor)I am going to use...
  10. OntarioVanMan

    Love them Sprinter 07's!!

    Fueled up the other night and a 2007 Sprinter 170" wheelbase tall boy was in front of me...WoW Everything is bigger on these badboys...the styling is alot better, interior much improved. 6 cylinder diesel. Side door has to be 12 in. bigger as well .Can actually side load now! 2 in. rear door...
  11. OntarioVanMan

    single wheel VS Dually drives

    I don't know what the official name for them is but I was with a guy in orientation, tractor driver and he had on that new configuration of two drive tires instead of four....extra wide tires. Looks cool, he said it saves him about 1 mpg which translates into almost 9,000 bucks a year in fuel...
  12. OntarioVanMan

    Degussa considering biodiesel catalyst plant in Al

    Specialty chemical supplier Degussa is considering to construct a plant in Alabama to supply the growing biodiesel market in Canada, Mexico and the USA. The 60,000 metric ton facility in Mobile, Alabama, would make alkoxides, used as transesterification catalyst for biodiesel. "With this...
  13. OntarioVanMan

    ConocoPhillips and Tyson Foods to produce renewabl

    ConocoPhillips plans to produce diesel fuel from beef, pork and poultry by-product animal fat supplied by Tyson Foods. Production is expected to ramp up as much as 175 million gallons per year of renewable diesel using thermal depolymerization. It's an NExBTL, H-bio process, different from...
  14. OntarioVanMan

    More Sprinter ?'s

    Ok how many Sprinter owners have rusty filler fuel caps? We take it off all the time ever look under it? Another: Harmonic balancer How many have replaced this??? Mines an 05.
  15. OntarioVanMan

    CDL in S.D.

    As if anyone would care but I know some of you's are info nuts so heres one. They say one should try to learn one new thing a day! Ya know I am Canadian so I'll convert this the best I can in U.S. terms. I have a CDL D (your terms) without air endorsement and I wanted a simular SD licence when...
  16. OntarioVanMan

    Ford Transit

    There is word now 2008 it will debut here in the U.S. http://www.newfordtransit.com/
  17. OntarioVanMan

    Sprinter Water Lines

    Hope this may help someone. I just had a water line blow off...Its one that runs off the right side of the EGR and down at an angle and hooks up to the left side of a box on the firewall. You can reach in and reconnect. Its about a one inch line. Seems they've used a PLastic type hoseclamp...
  18. OntarioVanMan

    Remote Start for diesel

    I finally found a maker. I was talking to my daughters latest beau and he has a Ram 2500 dually P/U and vroom it starts up! I says hey How'd ya do that? so he shows me his remote switch...after about 20 minutes of jawin the truck shuts off...apparently it can be also programmed for the amount of...
  19. OntarioVanMan

    Remote Start for Diesel

    I finally found a maker. I was talking to my daughters latest beau and he has a Ram 2500 dually P/U and vroom it starts up! I says hey How'd ya do that? so he shows me his remote switch...after about 20 minutes of jawin the truck shuts off...apparently it can be also programmed for the amount of...
  20. OntarioVanMan

    RE: Front Spindles

    Ok you wizards! *lol* Problem...On my 3rd set of INSIDE bearings, they are lasting about 6-7,000 miles The bearings themselves are wearing in the inside corners of the bearing themselves until they completely fail. SO FAR: changed EVERYTHING! except the spindles... they look good not scored...
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