G'evening Clutch 🤠 . Changing out trailer lights on a regular basis can be a pain in the butt sometimes. If you cut the leads to your lights and trim them back for butt connectors too many times eventually they get too short and you have to run new wires for the lights. Instead of doing that pick up a few bulk packs of male and female bullet connectors & keep them with your wiring gear in the truck. Then whenever you fix a light put a female bullet on one lead, and a male bullet connector on the other that way you can't get the polarity for the lights mixed up and you won't have to cut the wiring or use butt connectors anymore. When you have to install a new light just put the appropriate bullet connectors on the wires for the new light and plug them in 🤠
4/6/24 0720hrs New Zealand. Heres wishing you a Happy Birthday CT Amigo. Coincidently it is our 28th wedding anniversary today, Sat. April 6. Bob & Lina.
As many times as we have been thru Casper, I always have to think about what side Evansville is on! Would be a lot simpler if the freeway went around Casper! Murder by Death has to be one of the goofiest movies I've ever watched! I'm still not sure if anyone actually got murdered! Safe travels and good loads! G&L
Im heading east from Idaho next thursday...I was working a medical assignment here...thru wyoming, nebreska, kansas, missouri, then nashville to georgia. Ill be looking out there for ya...if ya hear honking...wave.
Clutch, be happy that you have loads to p/u and deliver. With frieght rates as they are, many O/O have parked their rigs and are working at McDonald's for $20 an hour....with benefits!
I keep snaking out the unusual loads That nobody is willing to do. Therefore get paid well enough to keep driving. It means going to Montana a lot. But. What are u gonna do?
Yes Casper still under construction for while. I got brand new tire free found by the side of the road on Wyoming with rim and drum intact inflated 100 psi amazing the only problem is need take out the drum.
I don't think they'll ever be done working on I-25. Concur with the electrical grease in a different comment - I've had good luck with that myself. Safe travels always neighbor!
Here is something to improve the ‘life’ of your electrical connectors. Where the wires enter the connector, place a small dab of RTV silicone sealant. Just enough to cover the entry point and maybe a little bit inside. The idea is to make the thing weatherproof. Too much can interfere with the electrical connection, so don’t jam it in there. The cheapest RTV in the smallest container is fine. Some people also use the better grades of RTV to make gaskets, etc. If this is you, then buy the better stuff, but still in a small tube so you don’t end up throwing away a bunch when it inevitably drys hard in the tube. It should last a year or two if you don't let the tube freeze or overheat.
On the flip side of my last comment I recently bought a new to me enclosed cargo trailer & a Garmin nuvi 2757 LM gps to make our move from Boise to interlachen FL. easier. Unfortunately the lights that were on the trailer were toast so I bought a new trailer light kit and rewired the whole thing 😋
Clutch, if a love service truck was at another Truckstop and had the three last empty parking spots blocked while repairing a flat? What would you do? I told the man this was unnecessary and I need a spot to park for the night. LSS I had to get an employee of the Mom&Pop to tell him not to block three spots.
Apply caulking from a small squeeze tube of bathroom caulking ( Dap 8889 acrylic tub and tile chalk) , it will weatherproof and secure the wiring to the pigtail body . Use Truck-Lite NYK corrosion preventive compound for the terminal connector pins . Do not use RTV SILICONE , it is corrosive . It produces acetic acid when it cures which is corrosive to copper .
Yes Beth. Most of the newer trucks can average 6.5 to 8 miles/gallon. My older engine which is a 1999 only averages 5 to 6.5 mpg. But I also don’t have to buy DEF. Diesel Exhaust Fluid. Which costs an average of 3.39/Gallon. So when you factor that in. I’m only about a mile a gallon less than the newest trucks
G'evening Clutch 🤠 . Changing out trailer lights on a regular basis can be a pain in the butt sometimes. If you cut the leads to your lights and trim them back for butt connectors too many times eventually they get too short and you have to run new wires for the lights. Instead of doing that pick up a few bulk packs of male and female bullet connectors & keep them with your wiring gear in the truck. Then whenever you fix a light put a female bullet on one lead, and a male bullet connector on the other that way you can't get the polarity for the lights mixed up and you won't have to cut the wiring or use butt connectors anymore. When you have to install a new light just put the appropriate bullet connectors on the wires for the new light and plug them in 🤠
Cool tip
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! 🎂...🎉.... 🎈... Stay safe Mr Clutch and Rusty. 🙏🎈💙
Thank you, I will
Stay safe Mr Clutch and Rusty. 🙏❤️
That plug design = planned obsolescence
Yes it is! Love being on that consumer treadmill boy
4/6/24 0720hrs New Zealand. Heres wishing you a Happy Birthday CT Amigo. Coincidently it is our 28th wedding anniversary today, Sat. April 6. Bob & Lina.
Very cool. Congratulations
As many times as we have been thru Casper, I always have to think about what side Evansville is on! Would be a lot simpler if the freeway went around Casper! Murder by Death has to be one of the goofiest movies I've ever watched! I'm still not sure if anyone actually got murdered! Safe travels and good loads! G&L
I feel the same about that movie. And with I-25 coming from the north. Then turning straight east. It gets confusing
Im heading east from Idaho next thursday...I was working a medical assignment here...thru wyoming, nebreska, kansas, missouri, then nashville to georgia. Ill be looking out there for ya...if ya hear honking...wave.
Will do. I know what my truck looks like. Plus usually have my cb on. Give me a shout
Wanted to wish you a Belated Happy Birthday! Good to feel 29 again??😆😆😆
I wish
Clutch, be happy that you have loads to p/u and deliver. With frieght rates as they are, many O/O have parked their rigs and are working at McDonald's for $20 an hour....with benefits!
I keep snaking out the unusual loads That nobody is willing to do. Therefore get paid well enough to keep driving. It means going to Montana a lot. But. What are u gonna do?
Yes Casper still under construction for while. I got brand new tire free found by the side of the road on Wyoming with rim and drum intact inflated 100 psi amazing the only problem is need take out the drum.
Very cool find
Stay safe
Some folks have spring cleaning.
We have spring wiring! Pain in the ass, but a necessary evil!
Stay safe out there!
Johnny D.
Yep
I don't think they'll ever be done working on I-25. Concur with the electrical grease in a different comment - I've had good luck with that myself. Safe travels always neighbor!
add a dab of dielectric grease between plug and light. Eliminates moisture inside connector/ light
Alright!!! Yes sir!!
Here is something to improve the ‘life’ of your electrical connectors. Where the wires enter the connector, place a small dab of RTV silicone sealant. Just enough to cover the entry point and maybe a little bit inside. The idea is to make the thing weatherproof. Too much can interfere with the electrical connection, so don’t jam it in there. The cheapest RTV in the smallest container is fine. Some people also use the better grades of RTV to make gaskets, etc. If this is you, then buy the better stuff, but still in a small tube so you don’t end up throwing away a bunch when it inevitably drys hard in the tube. It should last a year or two if you don't let the tube freeze or overheat.
Cool
I like stopping at the hat six because of the parking in their bathrooms are pretty clean, but their stuff on the inside is entirely too expensive
Yep. Overpriced
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Try smoothing the connection with epoxy juice or similar bonding material.
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On the flip side of my last comment I recently bought a new to me enclosed cargo trailer & a Garmin nuvi 2757 LM gps to make our move from Boise to interlachen FL. easier. Unfortunately the lights that were on the trailer were toast so I bought a new trailer light kit and rewired the whole thing 😋
And when u do it yourself. I know it’s fine right!
Clutch, if a love service truck was at another Truckstop and had the three last empty parking spots blocked while repairing a flat? What would you do? I told the man this was unnecessary and I need a spot to park for the night. LSS I had to get an employee of the Mom&Pop to tell him not to block three spots.
I like it. Well done!
Yeah, that last one was funny. Did you say there's nothing to talk about and there wasn't?
Yep
Still no justice😮😢
if you put grease on the ends before they go into plastic houseing will it help from cheap rubber from drying out and cracking
That’s not the problem. It has never failed where I spliced the wires. Always from the plug housing. Poor quality plugs
@@ClutchTrucker so its not the drying out or cracking wire just bad product
Apply caulking from a small squeeze tube of bathroom caulking ( Dap 8889 acrylic tub and tile chalk) , it will weatherproof and secure the wiring to the pigtail body . Use Truck-Lite NYK corrosion preventive compound for the terminal connector pins . Do not use RTV SILICONE , it is corrosive . It produces acetic acid when it cures which is corrosive to copper .
RTV is corrosive to what??? I know an emergency lighting company in CT that continues to use RTV on virtually every fixture for more than 25 years.
@@tgmct Acetic acid is released from RTV Silicone as it cures which is corrosive to copper .
@@tgmct RTV Silicone releases acetic acid as it cures and is corrosive to copper .
@@tgmct Acetic acid is released from RTV Silicone when curing which is corrosive to copper .
Do newer trucks get better gas mileage??
Yes Beth. Most of the newer trucks can average 6.5 to 8 miles/gallon. My older engine which is a 1999 only averages 5 to 6.5 mpg. But I also don’t have to buy DEF. Diesel Exhaust Fluid. Which costs an average of 3.39/Gallon. So when you factor that in. I’m only about a mile a gallon less than the newest trucks
And no def related problems.
Chinese made?
I’m sure
Enough trucking. . You could almost become a full time mechanic…
😂