gearhead204

wish the brine was only for the turkeys!  should have bought stock in washer fluid! I hate driving in slush at 25 degrees  when the dry ass snow would have just blown off the road.

Get well soon! the pound is missing its dog catcher and  Super mutt  is prolly thinking  he's been disowned!

now that's my idea of getting  COAL in my stocking

Cool....Ol'e.....Antique.......Legacy

much simpler with pictures thanks Swishy !

my experience with the 38k rears is they are about bullet proof, you may break a axle shaft but that's it, we dump trucked with them with very good success, wheel hopping in sand would blow an axle but never failed a housing or drop in.  

how much free pedal do you have ? should be 1 1/2-2 inches at the pedal, check the lever arm on the bell housing and make sure it has free play, ( this will determine the free play  you feel in the pedal isn't linkage wear) If the lever arm is snug adjust until its loose (adjust pressure plate not the linkage) when in proper adjustment a 1/2" drill bit should just pass between the clutch brake and the release bearing housing. if this checks out ok then as truck shop said the clutch may have failed a hub on one of the clutch discs.

on my e-9 it took about 5k miles to get it to hold after replacing it,  top two gears would slip on a hard pull, was about ready to pull it out, then it finally burnished  in.

After rereading your post it sounds like a clutch lost its lining and is holding the pressure plate or intermediate from fully engaging until the broken fragments find a home and then sandwich the drive disc, thus propelling the truck  Has there been a new driver in the truck? or has it been stuck? this type of failure is common with the trans input shaft spinning in one direction and the engine flywheel spinning in the opposite direction.

cant say I want to see the size of girl that will pick up ! .......that will make the lowboy easer to get under !  so that is a 15 1/2 ton lift ? 

Yep, that thing is a little different, it's at least 7 story's tall and runs on rails. Handles a log truck. Load at a time, pretty awesome!

sorry to hear this news, out thoughts are with you and the family.

most of the larger axles I have seen have dual steering gear,  but I want to say their was a 16k axle that was still single gear.

Merry Christmas from our herd to yours

do both large posts on the solenoid have power when the key is in the start position?

thanks for the show......I will be crying in my beer for a while !.....all those "retired " trucks are better than what we can afford to buy !

cant say that our state highways  hold up very long, the state engineers keep playing with asphalt mix designs, had some that resembled a "brownie mix" the state was trying to utilize waste from the bag house, it never seemed to cure. tried "superpave" it hauled water level in the dump boxes. "Low spray" actually appears to be working  ( open matrix design allows water to penetrate the asphalt) but it was used in a very arid area of the state, but when it does rain trucks produce very little spray. our concrete roads are riddled with broken segments and driving a rw 713 with pad rear suspension  I can tell where every defect is !  Have dealt with bone head inspectors that wanted the meet line to be in the center of the wheel track, others that wouldn't allow us to fix failed sub grade, just pave over it ! they would say. Our internal quality control stopped multiple jobs on state oversights, we like to produce a QUALITY product that would LAST.....guess that maybe why we were awarded the "contractor of the year award" from the state.

HEY.....HEY....HEY... I'm ...MAT.... trained

Yep know the situation well as we bring in $ 16,000 a year , no fun to maintain 40 +year old stuff  with no budget to update, and parts becoming scarce for the old stuff.

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3 hours ago, 1965 said:

Well what's the good beer named?

Well around here its  Coors, Coors light, Coors Original, Miller lite,  Michelob  Ultra, for domestics, then Molson, Sessions, Kokanee, for Canadian imports, then Corona,  Dos Equis, Modelo, Tecate for Mexican. .......kinda funny, in the 80's 90% of the farm workers from Mexico would drink Bud while here, now I would guess its around 10-15% 

On ‎12‎/‎18‎/‎2016 at 7:17 PM, TeamsterGrrrl said:

First off, unions don't have much to do with it. The legislature and governor decide how much to spend on road maintainence.

Second, suspension function is a whole 'nother largely unrelated issue.

Perhaps.......but the quality of the repairs do! .....they must be on a quota pays scale, don't square the pot hole or even make sure its dry just throw in some cold mix back the truck over it  and on to the next one! then do them all again the next week ! 

Suspension function can only function properly with a proper road surface and proper repairs.

the younger local guys age  25-30 call Budweiser "Diesel" well that started a fight with me !.......as I informed them that diesel was worth buying !

7 hours ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Why is it that despite antilock brakes, stability control, airbags, etc.... The accident and fatality rates aren't dropping?

have you driven on any of your union maintained roads lately ?......in order to maintain control of the vehicle all tires must maintain contact with the road surface!........good luck with that !

sure ........rub it in why don't cha......but you cant ice skate on that.....!

no doubt ! old man winter always knows the calving calendar       -32  will make your teeth  rattle ! better stay inside and clean the gun collection, , heard coyote pelts are worth something this year so you can justify going through the collection   

just 237's ?  I thought the e9 and the  e-6 e-7 350's and 400's  were equally as worthless, helps with gear changes and changes the sound of the exhaust but that's about it !