Things I want Changed...

[Jeb_H]

Guys,

I have a little over 9400 miles now on my white Gote' and I have noticed a have a small oil leak possible at the pinion seal on the rear axle. It has not dripped, but I can see the housing area around the driveshaft yoke is wet on the axle housing. So I am watching it for more than what it has done so far. May have to replace that seal. I need to make sure that the axle vent is vented. I had a Ford truck once that had the vent assembly all nice and in place but the fitting that was threaded into the axle that the hose fitted on was never drilled out so the axle would get all hot and pressure up and the pinion shaft seal was the first place that started to leak...

Now, do any of you guys know if there is anyway to get the switches for the Tow/haul and the jake brake so that they have a memory to them, or so once you turn either or both of these switches on, that they would stay on until you switched them off??? I just want these to stay on if I have them on, even after I cut the truck off and then restart her.
Make sense?

I know there has been programmers that once you install them, they would do stuff like this on certain vehicles. I guess I could run a hot wire to these two switches that is hot all the time, but that is not such a good idea, I would rather have something like a memory circuit of some sort to these, unless there is a way already to switch these around much like I did with the high idle circuit. Makes no sense to me why the high idle circuit was not on from the get go on these anyway LOL... Any rate, anyone know if these switches can be revamped like this or not???

I also started on building a set of the ultra high performance running boards that I make from time to time for work trucks and guys who use these for working with. I have made many sets over the years of these and they are some what a PITA to do like I make these and all, but they are really great running boards that bolt straight up to the frame... I will have art work on this process, with the work in progress. I also have some art of the Gote' I need to put in the shutterfly account and get some of these posted on here also.

The white Gote' has really started to turn loose of the hp here lately too, guys!!! I mean this Gote' was not a slug to begin with, but now with almost 10K on her now, she is really waking up now... This past week I got my first fuel in her that was not the ULSD. Lucky for me I just happen to like to check stuff like this as I am filling up at new places, which this was. So I got a little weirded out when I noticed the fuel was plain and clear, didn't have the green dye in it. So I only put in 10 gallons, which was just enough to get me where I have been getting fuel that I know is good stuff.

Sure enough the fuel I took on from this place went about 50 miles toward home town and the truck set a check engine light and went into regen. cycle... Just made me sick too when I saw this happen, pulled over and dumped 10 more ozs. of PowerService in the fuel and hit the rode with the truck in 5th for a high gear, so as to keep the R's up a little more to help cook the DPF out. I logged all the data on this in the log book and I have contacted the EPA on this. Really torqued me off when this happened... I will keep all here interested, posted as to what the EPA finds out and does. They did understand my concern about this and my new truck that has all this filter on the exhaust system. They was not at all for the idea of removing the filters on the exhaust system, so as to be able to use the fuel we buy LOL... I did tell them I think that the Gov't. was a little ahead of things on this technology until they have the ULSD at the pumps and no way any other grade of fuel was going to be able to sneak in under the radar...
As I talked to the EPA, I was still somewhat torqued up over what had happened, so I had plenty to say about all this crap they have put on our trucks and now they can see just what is going to happen to our trucks... I also told them what I was probably going to do with my truck so as to be able to burn any type of fuel since that is what we still have at the pumps even when they say its ULSD LOL...