Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Spq14 Austin

This past week I've been working hard up at our plant in Darrington. Working 12's and more. Learned to run the controls for the plant and how to wire the plant.

Did a starter, ran the loader, jumped the trucks,ran the plant, etc.

Hours: 63
Total: 131

Monday, June 30, 2014

Spq14 Austin

This past week Ifinally graduated! Ive been working 10 hour days to get my 300 hours.

Finished all my assignments and was wondering if i still have to blog once i get 30 hours. I replaced hydraulic hises on the loader in Darrington and that wasmy first time cutting, fitting abd installing. Itfun to learn new stuff.

total hours 439

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Spq14 Austin

This week I have been been taking my cylinder apart and am almost done with measurements. All I have to do is assemble it back together and adjust valves. By tomorrow it should be getting back together. I've done the horn, windshield wiper, and the injector balance test, and the ford ids. I'll do six probably tomorrow.

Hours this week 29
Total 402

Monday, June 9, 2014

Spq14 Austin

Quiz pictures for #7

This week I have been taking my cylinder apart and now doing measurements. 
Its fun finding all the parts that need to be measured. I learned about transmission bands and different parts of the tranny in my truck.

hours this week: 27
hours: 341

Monday, June 2, 2014

Spq14 Austin

This week I have been working on my tranny in my truck. Did some research on why it wasn't shifting from 2nd to 3rd. Its the valve body that tells the computer to shift the transmission.

When I was going over the pass my turbo seemed like it wasn't responding and super high boost but felt gutless. I'm going to to have to do research on what's going on.

I learned this week about how a valve body on a transmission works and it helped me understand the concept of a tranny just a bit more. I am very interested in learning more.

Hours this week 37
Total 307

Monday, May 26, 2014

Spq14 Austin

This past week we finished the engine and it was fun but I am glad it is done. Now onto the 3516 engine tomorrow. It was a great learning experience on how to find and assemble different parts of the engine I wasn't familiar with.

This past week I have been waiting for the tranny parts to arrive so it can be installed on my truck. Today we got the tranny on the jack and going to be installing it tomorrow. Learning from Bill of the different parts and functions of a tranny. Today I learned about the actual definition and gave me a visual of a torque converter and the benefits from a single to a triple.


We went to Kenwoth and got another great tour. 
It's crazy how detailed and clean it is. I never noticed how big the oil trucks they make are. 
Its just amazing to me and the different places they are shipped and how many trucks each plant makes a day.

Hours 30

Monday, May 19, 2014

Spq14 Austin

This past week I signed up for Alcoa foundation. It will be nice to work with some new people and help me pay for tools with their help.

This past week Travis and I have been measuring all the measurements needed for our Mercedes diesel engine. I have looked at the book for a long time. I found out the correct measurements and was amazed how far off they were. We finished the engine worksheet and Travis will post the paper on his blog.

I took my tranny out of my truck and am rebuilding it. I did the testing on the temperature sensor on the board.

Hours this week: 31

I guess I didn't post the pictures from the worksheet from last week so here they are.