{"id":16682,"date":"2024-11-25T15:04:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T15:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/battery-issues-2019-freightliner-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T15:04:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T15:04:44","slug":"battery-issues-2019-freightliner-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/battery-issues-2019-freightliner-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery issues (2019 Freightliner)&#8230;. | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"bbCodeBlock bbCodeQuote\" data-author=\"BoxCarKidd\">\n<aside>\n<blockquote class=\"quoteContainer\">\n<p>I have surly been on a thousand plus service calls. Glad that worked for you. I have smoked a few alternators doing that. Just shared what worked best for me.<\/p>\n<p>Click to expand&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>I understand that,  and will tell the story of how I came to need that jump start from the reefer, since it was not really a battery problem; it happened when I was having a fuel problem and ran the cranking juice too low&#8230;.. it is a funny story and admit that had I not been the one in the truck at the time with the problem, I would have been LMFAO&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The truck I had was developing a fuel problem and the gauge was dropping like a rock and shut down&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p>Turned out that the left tank was dry and the right was overflowing when it was properly diagnosed, but not before being put OOS.<\/p>\n<p>First shop thought it was the crossover valve and fixed that. Turns out that was either the wrong problem,  or just part of it, because it continued. 2nd shop recommended a fuel tank replacement,  although they couldn&#8217;t point out the hole it was leaking from (it was overflowing at the fill point, duh)&#8230;.. we pushed on through delivery and found another shop that actually drained the tank that was overflowing and found a blockage in the line. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care how thorough you think your pre trip or a DOT inspection is&#8230;. this would NEVER be found!<\/p>\n<p>What was pulled out&#8230;&#8230; wait for it&#8230;.. looked like a CONDOM! <\/p>\n<p>Apparently,  someone who was assigned the truck before I was (I only drove it for about a week I think)&#8230;.. really PISSED SOMEONE OFF!\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n\tfbq('init', '1812746315680142'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n\t\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/threads\/battery-issues-2019-freightliner.2336012\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have surly been on a thousand plus service calls. Glad that worked for you. I have smoked a few alternators doing that. Just shared what worked best for me. Click to expand&#8230; I understand that, and will tell the story of how I came to need that jump start from the reefer, since it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}