Need Help With My Truckmount

Not wanting to be a negative nancy, but I hope you picked this machine up dirt cheap! It looks to be a safety nightmare, and with exposed belt and wheel would not pass any scrutiny from a Health and Safety Officer, at least not here in Australia it wouldn't!

Those unattached wires are a bit of a worry, do you know who the original manufacturer was, or at the very least who assembled the machine? They're probably the only ones that could give you a definitive answer on your questions.

As for the red(ish?) tube, is it some sort of pre-filter to be used in-line perchance? Fitting size looks right for that type of thing...

The hole apparent in the exhaust pipe tubing just above the flange in that same picture is a bit of a concern as well, looks like the machine is suffering with neglect, making it all the more important to find out who the original assembler was so as to find out what the original design parameters were and in doing so you would be able to find out what the settings in that third picture are all about as well with any sort of luck.

I hope you have at least a little mechanical nouse as, by the look of it, you've got a bit of work ahead of you to get it up to an acceptable working standard. And hopefully, this isn't some "backyarder" type machine that someone has slung together, leaving you to guess/work out how it is supposed to function- it could end up being a lot of frustrated and wasted hours trying to get the thing working the way you need it to.

You'll probably have to have something fabricated to suit to cover the pulleys if it isn't a mass-produced machine with spare parts readily available. I have seen guys address the issue by simply building a steel mesh cage over the machine, probably the most inexpensive way to do it and then it can become a bonus storage area for items unaffected by heat.

I'd also be doing something about that horribly kinked hose going to the vac pump; that bend & kink will not help airflow in the slightest! You always want as straight a line as possible from point to point with bends maintaining a constant pipe diameter so as to restrict airflow as little as possible. If that bend is too tight for a rubber hose (as it appears to be from the apparent kink) invest in some stainless steel tubing, once again custom manufactured for it. You can get what are called "mandrel" bends of tube that are prefabricated to whatever curve size and diameter you need. Don't go for "crush" type bends that most exhaust shops do as they will "crush" the overall circumference of the tubing, once again restricting airflow. It's all about maintaining velocity, bends, narrowed sections or any other impediment will affect your machine's performance at the wand quite significantly.

If you're wondering who to get to do it, possibly your mechanic can suggest an exhaust shop that specialises in performance exhausts. Well worth the few dollars it'll cost in the long term as it will be a lifetime component

thanks FreshAire for the suggestions... That damm pulley almost scrubbed my mechanics arm so yes it is a risk... And I already have the divider in the making now for the cabin space...

thanks Jack...but it is getting the water hot.

Lester dont post here anymore he went over to Mikeysboard and looks like he got himself a Butler.... And a new Home..

Edited by John L - 15/January/2009 at 11:42pm