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Diagnosing and Temporarily Fixing Front Plow Malfunction

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Scraping Hard pack snow in a Crippled Plow Truck

What happens here

The presenter experiences an intermittent problem with his SnowDogg front plow, where the remote control unit is not consistently engaging the plow's hydraulics. He explains that this has been an ongoing issue since the previous year, with multiple attempts to fix it (checking grounds, wiring, and even replacing the controller). He and his assistant, Franky, temporarily resolve the issue by wiggling the electrical connection for the plow's controls, confirming a loose connection. They previously used zip ties to hold the connection together, which they plan to do again.

Goal: Identify and establish a temporary connection for the malfunctioning front plow.

Tools and materials

  • Black Pickup Truck Dodge Ram 2500
  • Zip Ties — Used previously to secure the connection

What they say

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not the end of the world but when you got two plows you'd like to be able to use them a little bit better than what you'll see in this video boy sometimes you just don't get traction if you use too much downforce you will lift that back end of your truck right off the ground and you see that stuff scraping up right there that's not grass that's actually leaves all right so let me show you guys what we're dealing with when i say we got a crippled truck uh this snow dog how long has it been doing this frankie since last year right yep okay so and last year we had to zip tie the connection together we'll see if it'll go down see hit the power button it'll work but i'm not hitting the power button i'm not gonna hit nothing we'll see if it'll go up nothing then you hit the button power button don't help come on come on up go up all right come on you can go up wait okay there we got it it just went up but it's gonna it's not gonna work on the next run so we'll do one more run we'll wiggle the connection and this connection on this has been dead already frankie which ones did we work on last year frankie was it these two yeah see look it it's just even that much right there right see they got a locking thing on them right you're supposed to pull down on them and then oh okay no that's where they when it's that's when that's the cap yeah so last year we zip tied them together go just try and see if it works better i'll just hold it once right there okay that's the most response we've had it works better that way right yeah yeah yeah that's what it is this time ziploc we've been zip talking like we did last year okay that's about as clean as we're gonna get it without salt [Music] and they don't pay for salt so that wasn't it the reason we know that wasn't it is because it it worked a little bit better and you would think oh there's a poor connection and a lot of guys have said hey check your grounds we've checked the grounds we checked that connection we ended up wire tying that connection together that wasn't it it wasn't a loose ground we brought it in three times in the last year and this last time they gave they said they thought it was the controller i haven't picked the truck up yet i'm gonna see how well it works i mean we'll have to wait till the next snowstorm to see how well she responds [Music] so you'll notice most of the lots out here are empty we got one straggler and everybody's parking in the street only problem is right where they're parking right…

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