I was feeling a little down today and now I can’t believe my luck. Ez posted a video! So cool! Thank You Ez!

Thumbs up for the air bag story. 👍

Bout the easiest AB replacement video on the Tube.

I've been watching your videos for several years. You remind me of . . . well, me. I've got just about 3,000,000 miles as an O/O, and all in just two trucks in 38 years. You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've paid a pro mechanic to work on my truck. I suspect you're the same way. Something breaks, I figure out how to un-break it. I'm convinced that attitude, more than anything, is the single most important factor to determine success vs. failure in this business. I see others losing days and days of work while their truck sits in a shop, running up $125/hour fees. I tell people my mechanic works nights and weekends, for free ! It's plain to see you have the same business model. Much respect to you from a fellow trucker in Massachusetts.

@Ezrider359

2 жыл бұрын

When I first started out I was taking my truck to shops for a lot of repairs but low quality work and long wait times didn't take long. Being I had previous experience in automotive and equipment repair it didn't take long to get comfortable working on trucks. It's all the same just bigger and in a lot of ways simpler.

@immike1945

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ezrider359 Agreed. A Model A Flathead four to a Bugatti W-16; it's all nuts and bolts. Big trucks have big, heavy, extremely dirty nuts and bolts, but 90% of it is refined '40s &'50s technology; very simple.

another way to do it is drain the air out. take the air fitting off the airbag and put a cap on the threaded end of the air fitting. build air back up and works the same as you did. just an extra step but keeps from having to pinch the airline and risk damage to it. can also use the leveling valve to move up and down if needed. great work !

Shark bits makes plastic water line repairs and to cap off water lines. Not 100 percent sure if they fit air line but if they did you could cap it off so you wouldn't have to bend the air line. I like how you change the air bag.

Happy earth day ez. can't wait for the battery powered truck video.

Truck and trailer look good together!

Hey I am from India. I like the way you do the repair like One man Army. It's great opportunity for us to learn a lot from your videos. Thank you

Great work as always. Good to see you're gearing up for fertilizer season

Hey Ezra,your shows are never boring,they are awesome and all about learning something new everyday even though youg cdl drivers need to know that stuff,anyway I'll catch ya on the next one.

Excellent idea, let the other bags support the one you’re working on!

Great video fella. You know all the little tricks. Thanks for taking the time to film.

Air bags blowing can be exciting! I remember being a nervous, green driver learning 40' frameless end-dump work (there's only two types of those drivers: those that have and those that WILL tip over). On one of my first runs & loaded down VERY heavy with an old, worn-out trailer, I stopped right beside a school bus unloading kids with parents calmly waiting there. All of a sudden, BOOM! Dust flew everywhere and those people jumped 2 feet up off the sidewalk! When I dumped just down the road, I was so shaken & flustered, I had to call in just to have an old hand walk me through the dumping sequence again! Thanks Ezrider359, good story.

Good trick, the haircuts like you and I have we have to be careful out in the wind can get messed up easy😁

@Ezrider359

2 жыл бұрын

I Know it. My three hairs are unruly in the wind

I really appreciate your no nonsense approach to trucking videos and I recognize so many of your "moments". I'd just like to see you wear some hearing protection when you do your work. Your ears may not hurt anymore, but the young ones watching and looking up to you don't have to yell "what?" before they are 40. Take care and thanks for the videos!

@Ezrider359

2 жыл бұрын

My hearing has been shot sense I played drums in a few rock bands in highschool...lol there wasn't really anything that loud in this video

Thanks for the tips!

Love watching your videos man!

You're definitely a real mechanic and not just a parts changer 👍

Another great interesting vid 👍🏼👍🏼🇬🇧

Good work, greetings from Brazil

Neat trick Ezra!

Good job!

Awesome video, simple. Thanks.

Peace of mind! 👍

Great job and video

Maybe you can do a little drive time video . Thinking that might be cool . Just a thought . Take a ride in the old 359 .

Thanks so much and thank you for sharing Great tips!!!

Good video and nice to see ya again take care and be safe on the road.

Thanks Ezra for the vid, gotta be one of my most favorite channels!

You make it look easy

Thank you my teacher my teacher

that color combo of Red with the black hopper looks awesome...

Nice quick repair Ezra! 🙂👍 Glad to see you're doing well. Take care 🔧

@Ezrider359

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks zane always better than a hard repair. Stay safe

Thanks for sharing.

That's an easy way to do it, 👍. Be safe and careful out there.

That seemed easier and quicker! Thanks for that!

@Ezrider359

2 жыл бұрын

It's pretty simple to throw a jackstand and flip a suspension dump switch as well.

Mr Ezra Thanks for sharing and stay safe.

@Ezrider359

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Hal 👍 same to you

Pretty nifty trick 😁

Porter greetings.🇺🇸 We’re on the brink of a new summer season of fun! 🥰 Good story on the air bag. This is something that I just have to ask…from experience you know…if you replaced the bag on the one side, did you check the bag on the other just to make sure that it didn’t have any issues? 🧐 It always seems to happen that way…what you do on one side you have to do on the other as well, eventually that is. 😳 Well, thanks for another good, swift job. You never want to stop in the middle of something to replace a bag or whatever. Keep On Truckin, my friend! 🥰🤩✌️

Well said ,Nicely done!!Cheers!! Clean, tight!;-)!!

Love the vids. Be careful doing this for anyone watching an old boss of mine watched a tech of his die from an inflated bag blowing up next to him doing it this way. I find jacking up the opposite axle from the axle you’re doing the bag on to lift the frame plenty to do the bag. Happy wrenching!

I did an air bag just like that today on a tempty hopper bottom

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What I normally do is remove the air line/fitting to the blown bag and then have a foot long section of air line to a drain valve and on the other end use whatever fittings I need to attach to the line I disconnected then I can air up the trailer and using the drain valve adjust the height as needed to remove and install the new bag

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I remember when you were in Lignite I own the gas station there lol take care

@Ezrider359

2 жыл бұрын

I remember you I'm sure I'll probably run into you again there some day.

You are lucky. On my trailer everything is so close together that when you get under there,,,, it is a "you can see it but can't reach it, or if you can reach it you can't see what you're doing ".

@Ezrider359

2 жыл бұрын

My side dump has the close axle spacing middle axle is fun to work on

My eyes, all the dust falling down made me safety squint 😆

Question - what do you recommend to remove seized s-cam pickup tube on a trailer?

Are you liking the cat motor over the Cummins

Lotta snow down that way? Up here every one was snowed in, unless you had to get somewhere, and wanted to shovel.

@Ezrider359

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah we got buried. This video was recorded a few weeks ago part of the reason it wasn't up sooner is cause I was putting in a lot of hours with the bobcat moving snow

Hi I watch you're videos and I have a question.I have a mack 05 ch613 I loose air pressure I took it in and they told me it's the air modular valve abs. But I can't find where it is would you happen to know where it goes? Please.

If Jimmy was in the cab with you when the bag exploded, I think your hearing could have been damaged! 👅🐾🐾

You doing well in these times of suffering dude?

I've seen spare axles held up off the road by air bags. I'd like to see a setup that pushes one axle down enough to raise all the rest off the ground. Empty trailer of course.

that was way too easy. that trailers in great shape

5:07 deeze nutz lol

What was supporting the weight of the trailer then, if there were no jack stands?

@Ezrider359

2 жыл бұрын

The other 5 airbags

Do you plan on recording some of your runs this spring?

@Ezrider359

2 жыл бұрын

I'll probably work some footage in

Could you make a video how you find work as an owner operator?

@Ezrider359

2 жыл бұрын

I probably wouldn't be a whole lot of help there I found a hand full of really good customers early on I haven't looked for work in years

How much is such an airbag? Nice video as always!

@immike1945

2 жыл бұрын

The prices are all over the map depending on the application. The bag he used was probably around $125-$175

@Ezrider359

2 жыл бұрын

This video was recorded a few weeks ago I don't remember the exact price off the top of my head but it was somewhere in that range

I'm watching episode you put an 18 speed transmission in old red what gears is in it?

@Ezrider359

2 жыл бұрын

3.70 rear gears

@keneddie7336

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ezrider359 thanks. my 88 binder has 410's 13 speed won't go over 60.

I don't get it. So u didn't have to jack the trl up? Why did u jack the trl up last time?

If one is bad the other 5 are right behind the one with the hole. looks like the all had red paint on them I'd be replacing all of them. don't know about you but fert. hauling was my best hauling & I didn't want trouble for the rush.

@Ezrider359

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't really found that to be the case. Plus the oem bags seem to last longer than the replacement ones. This looked like forgin object damage as well. Like a rock or something kicked up and got trapped. But I definitely get the line of thought on that

@immike1945

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ezrider359 Not to mention the cost of SIX air bags instead of one. That's a significant expense !

@danielhofer7386

2 жыл бұрын

@@immike1945 If I'm not getting rid oft he trailer in the near future I'm not concerned about the cost of the other bags. I'd be more concerned in missing a load or two during peak fertilizer hauling season. because once its done its done. It's the best pay for hopper bottom truckers. ANYWHERE!

@danielhofer7386

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ezrider359At 6:41 of the video that bad doesn't look all that good to me & not talking about the hole in it. I'm betting the rest look the same. when I hit fertilizer hauling season I never wan't to have troubles big or small. I made twice as much or more hauling fert. than grain plus there was two terragators counting of me to keep product in the plant for them to spread. That season is very good but short and when it's done it's done. You can put them in yourself so half the cost isn't there plus you'd been done with that trailer probably for the life of it while you have it. New air bags are a good selling point if one was getting rid of it later. there's so many that can't do the repairs themselves like you. You have that step on them covered.

You put a lot of work on your truck and Sterling

Better to catch the minor stuff now before you go balls to the walls busy and then the minor things turn into major down time.

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