CAT C7 Engine Maintanence

seeing the sights wrote:
Scott, Small world......... as I was going to reach out to you soon regarding my upcoming project. I found your posts on another board. First I am going to get my codes pulled to see what happened on my way down south. Then in the garage up on blocks. Yes thanks for the correction about the grease-able fan bearing. Again hope its ok to get in touch with you about my project. Thanks, Joe

Absolutely no problem contacting me on this. I'm no expert by any means. I've just done what some would call some "deep" maintenance. If you've ventured over to IRV2, you'd find my post:

http://www.irv2.com/forums/f124/ok-cat-people-need-some-technical-assistance-here-374555.html

In that post/thread, you'll see just what things look like when digging into the back of our coach. One thing that's vitally important here. That radiator is approximately 5 years old, plus or minus. Just prior to installing it, I modified the frame of it, so more air flow could take place. The corner gussets were solid plate steel. Well, when you add up, all the square inches of all EIGHT corner gussets, you'll find there's quite a bit of non-air flow area.

So, I plasma cut, as much out of all 8 of those corner gussets as possible and, still retain their strength. One more thing. I also re-routed my blow-by tube to the very back of the coach, right next to the exhaust tip. So, what you'll see in the radiator fins in terms of dirt/debris/hay/grass/ a "Rat"(yep, a small Rat) and a few other items, was accumulated in the last 5 years and about 42K miles.

Contrary to what some believe, It's virtually IMPOSSIBLE to clean any section AT ALL, of my radiator and CAC while both are installed in the coach. Maybe some can get to thiers but, not mine. So, while all this was out this time, I disassembled the radiator frame, cleaned things up, blew out the fins with my small pressure washer (did the CAC too) and put it all back together.

So, again, feel free to contact me at any time.
Scott