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SVcummins

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Making a road to my horse corral it always gets a big mud hole in the low spot so I’m going to put some cinders down. Hauled 3 loads and I have one still on the truck I need to get home . The new plugs made the ol dump truck run like new again pretty sure I at least doubled the fuel mileage as well .
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Yes it’s a dump truck . Used to haul silage with at the dairy . I traded some work for it when the guy lost the dairy
 
Not sure what you mean by cinders, but around here,
Billings Mt area, we get asphalt millings from when
they mill and repave highways.
I had a guy do my driveway 3-4 years ago, and it's holding up great.
He leveled the area to be paved, then spread the millings with an
asphalt spreader, so it it was all even thickness and such.
Then he ran over it with a smaller vibra-packer.
Only place that is a problem is the "parking lot". It's about 24 ft. square.
Weeds like to grow there. So I just get the Round-up and all is good.
I hauled several 15 ton loads for the neighbor. He spreads
it with his Deere loader or the Bobcat. The trick
is to get it packed REALLY good!!
He usually just runs over it with his big loader but a vibra-packer would be better.
I asked the guy that laid mine what was the best thing to do for it.
He said drive, drive, drive on it!!!
 
Darn, thats nice to have, i have a one ton rack dump, but thats alot bigger bed you have. Put some sides on it youll be all set, im guessing a pto driven hoist on yours? Unless the electric hydro set up is on the other side of the frame.
 
To VS, cinders are volcanic deposits. I have seen the hills of the crunchy material my self, (not VS's) Jim
 
Some guys used to get ashes (cinders?) from the local steam power plant and used it for
base under concrete. I guess it work really well.
Then someone deemed them "Hazerdous" so now it's a problem
to dispose of them!!
 
Is that one of the new plugs ? Don’t need anti fouler on that one. What kind and # is that plug. It’s burning not all that bad with the little running your doing
 
That one had an anti fouler on it . This is what the worst one looked like . The old plugs were auto lite 145
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Some new umbrella seals on your valve stems might help that. They can be put on without removing the heads.
 
Wow! I never seen a plug fouled that bad from a 4 or 2 stroke! I hope you put ac delco plugs in it? My 73 350 i put champion plugs in one time, truck dident start good, i put in ac r44t night and day difference! I also have good luck with bosch or ngk plugs for my 2 cycle engines, im sure they must have them for old chevy engines. Does this truck burn oil? Valve guides or seals my be worn ect,
 
Did that same thing like you said with the seals on our truck like that. Oil consumption was bad before and terrible after. First trip after the repair and didn't make forty miles and I lost oil pressure. 5 quarts and we went on.
 
It burns a fair amount of oil . I took it to a garage to get a new clutch put in 3 years ago they were supposed to put new plugs in but apparently they never did Because it hasn’t ran like this in quite a few years I guess that’s what I get for trusting someone else’s work . At least now I know .
 
It has a pto driven off the transmission I have one dirt side i need to make another one the one that came with the truck has needed rebuilt for a long time . I also have grain sides and it still has silage sides .
 
I like the 3020 because of the powershift crowd the pile and then shift to reverse shift back to forward ease up to the truck dump and shift back to neutral all nice and smooth as glass and no clutch
 
Do you have a coal power plant near you that you can still get cinders? my parents had a coal stove and our driveway was cinders
 
wow! that is more than valve seals. you need a compression check. sure appears broken rings on that cyl. plus if you give the valve stems a wiggle at tdc on compression it gives you a good idea what they are like. i have seen them with 1/8 of wobble. you need .003 on a new guide. another thing it could be is a bad intake gasket,.. it is sucking oil into that cyl. and now i am thinking thats the problem. if i was close i would fix it.
 
Cinders are common here too, They even cinder the roads in the winter time for traction in the snow and ice.
 
(quoted from post at 22:07:36 11/27/20) Some new umbrella seals on your valve stems might help that. They can be put on without removing the heads.
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BINGO!!! Might also try a little hotter plug to help burn the seepage.
 
I saw cinders like that north of you a ways between Idaho Falls and Mud Lake in one of those volcanic BLM areas. They graveled the roads with cinders. There was a pit where they were digging up the cinders and it looked like they were driving over them with tracked machinery to break them down to size. The cinder rocks looked like slag that bubbled up out of the lava. Lava is harder than cinders.
 
Check with some gravel pits or construction companies.
If they don't have any, they usually know where to get some.
 
When I first went to work at the Wallkill Prison they were still burning coal. The cinders were used to "sand" the various roads on the property. Being black which attracted the sun and having sharp edges, they worked very well.
All of the high schools used to come for it also for use on their running tracks. Great for that as well.
Finally switched to #6 oil and that was the end of that wonderful commodity.
 
I would let you. For now I’m going to run it the way it is it starts good and plenty of power . For my short hauls I think it will be fine
 
Leveled out the cinders today . Now I’ll drive on it till spring and pack it down and then level again
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