349A Jakes

[rzucker]

So... I have a customer's truck in the shop and it's my first rodeo with 349s on a 3406B. Complaint was no retarding force. Turns out these were added to the truck about 6 years ago and have never worked right. My assumption... right or wrong, is that the trigger valves were never set initially.
Now my question... Can it be done without the Jacobs tooling to set them?

 

[Truck Shop]

That's a question I can't answer but I know someone who can. Just for grins are the jakes mounted in their proper position-front/rear I have run into that once years back.

Truck Shop

 

[rzucker]

That's a question I can't answer but I know someone who can. Just for grins are the jakes mounted in their proper position-front/rear I have run into that once years back.

Truck Shop

Yep. first thing I checked. I will have the tooling Monday afternoon.

 

[Truck Shop]

Did you get those jakes working right? I did find out the 349 jakes often need a tune-up kit installed also. And he had a tool for the trigger valves.

Truck Shop

 

[rzucker]

Yessir... got the kits put in Monday and did a valve set, resealed all the lower rocker covers and fuel fittings that pass through the head. Had the tooling Tuesday morning, kicked it out the door at about 10:30 for the test run to E-berg with a 104,700k of hay. Customer is one happy camper now. His driver said they have never really worked right.

 

[Truck Shop]

Great!

Truck Shop

 

[rzucker]

Great!

Truck Shop

And now because of the trucker network, I.E. bs'ing in the Anderson yard... I have a few more to do.

 

[Truck Shop]

Anderson, I went to high school with one of the Anderson boys. I remember when Ron the old man started that business on Cascade Way going
west out of town. Remember the hay barns on Dollar Way he put up in the 70's? Those huge signs that said Anderson Hay and Grain I lettered,
took 32 sheets of 1" MDO plywood- 2 and a third letters to a sheet.

Truck Shop

 

[rzucker]

Anderson, I went to high school with one of the Anderson boys. I remember when Ron the old man started that business on Cascade Way going
west out of town. Remember the hay barns on Dollar Way he put up in the 70's? Those huge signs that said Anderson Hay and Grain I lettered,
took 32 sheets of 1" MDO plywood- 2 and a third letters to a sheet.

Truck Shop

I knew "Anderson" would bring up something from you.