Geoff Weeks

I know!

One shop owner wanted the bell pulled, not exactly sure why? If there was no evidence of leakage before I started, I only had one gasket/joint to worry about doing it my way, but he was the boss so did it his way when I was working for him. Doing my own or at a shop that didn't care, I did it my way.

It is only difficult if you have the bell housing on, the space to work just with the bearing retainer removed makes it difficult. I still do it that way over pulling the bellhousing 1/2 and loosing the oil out the countershaft bearings. I guess it is what you are used to doing. Remove the retainer bolts, insert a pair of bars in the bolt holes and work the retainer out of the bell, snap ring pliers and remove the snap ring on the shaft, then two small "ladies foot" pry bars to pop the bearing out, and another snap ring to remove the input. Put the old input aside, as they make the best clutch alignment/installation tool there is. Screw those plastic ones they sell.

Mowerman was referring to a White Mustang (Semi Tractor) you brought in the Ford.

I agree on the RTV, more likely to plug the drain, Paper gasket and if needed a little Indianhead or the like (Hi tack)

sorry Roadranger (Eaton)

OK, that is different than RR and the like, the input gear will not fit through the bearing opening on those if my memory is correct, but the input shaft is splined to the inside of the gear, you remove a snap ring and the input shaft slides out of the gear. Nose of the main shaft just rides in a bushing on the RR trans.

None of the old semi's with gas engines had displacement anywhere near the diesels of the day. Only Hall Scott made large displacement spark ign engines. Most gas tractors were 550 CID or less, but still pulled the same loads as there bigger diesel cousins. IHC and Ford had 530-550 CID V8's IHC and GM had inline 6's around 500 CID GM had a 702 V12 (two 351 V6's on one block) REO had 440 CID. At the time gas was king, 3-4 mpg was common, but diesels weren't much better until they were turbocharged, Cummins made a spark ign version of their inline 6 Diesel, but it was never used in vehicles. GM (Detroit) had the 6-71 (426 CID) and the 8V-71 (568 CID).

You have to remove the snap ring on the SHAFT, not the bearing, for it to come off the shaft. The shaft and bearing WILL NOT come out as one unit. On most transmissions, once the bearing is off, you remove another snap ring and the shaft comes out, leaving the input gear in the transmission, normally I put the trans in direct when I pull the input.

Are they different than other HD trans? I've done plenty the way I described, snug, but not press fit to the shaft. Common to change the bearing and input when doing a high mileage clutch. Both are done with the trans assembled. Play is no reason to change, Ball bearing in the flywheel and on the input of the trans, shaft just rides like that. What say you Jojo?

Not 100% sure, but that looks like it is put together like most others. Remove the snap ring on the input shaft (leave the one on the outside of the bearing in place) rap on the end of the shaft to drive it back a small bit, then pull the shaft (and the bearing with it) forward enough to get a set of pry bars behind the snap ring on the bearing, and work it forward and off the shaft. That is the typical way you do it on heavy truck transmissions, but if Mack does it different I stand to be corrected.

He was refering to White Mustangs, but thinking about it, they had about as much room as the back seat of a Ford mustang

Friend of mine had a saying, when things started to go hard "This is a job for library paste" that seamed to fit whatever the problem was at the time!

Stat's favor wearing seatbelts by a huge degree. Having run a tow truck, I would agree with the stat's. For every rule, you can find an exception, that doesn't negate the rule. I rode around in the bed of pick-ups, it wasn't illegal, rode from Mass to Maine several times. Riding in trailers was. In High school we had I think 10-12 in the bed, may be it was less, but not much.

Yeah, we all survived without what we have today, I am not disputing it. We were not better off for it, however. I remember when I was sold on 3pt seatbelts. It was the late 60's and a Volvo P1800 hit a snow drift @70 mph, flipped and spun on the passengers door. No one walked away, they drove off after my dad and a few other stopped and pushed the car back on its tires. The two occupants were shaken up, and the antenna was bent, but it drove on. I did all the kid things, including drinking from a hose or a stream, and lived to tell about it. I also learned not to drink from an unknown stream after a bad night of being sick. I had done it many times and one time proved one too many. Again, I don't dispute we survived, only that in some way we were better off for the experience. I have never experienced Fentanyl, and surviving having done so would not make me stronger or better off in any way, but brings the very real risk of not surviving.

What I'd like to see is a Deutz in a GMC/Chevy truck, I know they were offered as an option, but never seen one even at a show.

I can't remember how many times I had polio, diphtheria or whooping cough, because I never had them. You can't remember how many times you had measles because at most you can have it once, unless your immune system is severely compromised. By implying you had it repeatedly just shows you don't know about it. There are at least five (IIRC) kids who died unnecessarily from the latest outbreak in Tx. Yeah, I had those diseases also, but why would you want to put a child through that when they can get the same immunity from a jab? Yeah I got chicken pox and now have to worry about shingles, if there was a shot for chicken pox when I was young I wouldn't! You are looking backward with nostalgia for a time that never existed. I didn't have to worry about small pox because it was under control, and now mostly eliminated from the world. Getting it doesn't make you stronger, most often it makes you dead. Some survive, as with most diseases, but at best it leaves you immune from future infection.

Yep, and they died of diphtheria, Whooping cough, and suffered polio, not because they were stronger, but because the only ones around to tell us about it are the ones that survived. Do you know what diphtheria does? It forms a membrane across your larynx, so you die of suffocation. Not a pleasant way to go. Polio can prevent your ability to breath also. It is not a coincidence that "vaccine hesitancy" has come about only after all who lived though the times when there was nothing that could be done for these diseases have pass on from long lives. The lack of these horrible diseases, is the only thing that breeds the kind of thinking that they are not necessary, or worse "dangerous". We are too far removed from the horrors of them.

Shouldn't have to mention it, but will anyway, no more than 50/50% antifreeze and water. If someone keeps topping with straight antifreeze, it will cause problems with heat transfer.

egg laying hens are housed in much higher density so it rips though the whole flock much quicker, also more are kept for laying than are raised for meat. We did have it spread to zoo birds here, the zoo ended up quarantining their birds in buildings to prevent it from wild birds. Bio-security is a big deal around here, we even had one town completely quarantined for the movement of birds. Rose acre farms had it get into some of their turkey houses, cost them plenty, and I saw the efforts took to deal with it. No vehicles in or out without being "sprayed and drove through a de-contamination pool to get the tires and under side, all employees had to park remotely and walk in. Culled birds were buried in a big pit. I don't know if it was lined or sprayed before the cap was put on the pit. Big news out here where there are large chicken, egg and turkey farms.

In all my time working on heavy stuff, I've had ONE impeller in the water pump be a problem. ONE wrong waterpump and countless radiator failures. If you want to go with the odds and not confirm with a test, replacing the radiator is the most likely solution. If you want 100% confirmation, put a temp gauge in the lower radiator (return) and compare to the one on the engine. If the return isn't 10 deg cooler when working the engine hard, then you have proof it is the radiator. Edit: The above is on a clean system that has been maintained and has a coolant filter that has been serviced at normal intervals. If you have never serviced or don't run a coolant filter, then all bets are off.

What do you expect from people who are always getting loaded and getting dumped?

Both my 9670's had them on the floor, and lasted as long as I had the trucks, hit with a little WD-40 if they sat for a while, the water dispersing quality of that product does well here. "92 Marmon had on the turn signal stalk, when it went bad, it went on the floor, eliminated a relay and was more "ergonomic" to have it on the floor. As with most "tilt-tele" steering columns, the turn signal switch was below the "tilt joint" meaning you had to reach down for it. Not a big problem for the turn signal, as you know you are going to use it, but fumbling when a car comes over a hill to dim was more of a problem. I am of a generation that it was on the floor, and that is where I like it, even though vehicle have had it on the column for 40 years or more.

The use to pull with a pintle hitch makes it a little more critical, it has to be strong enough for the loaded trailer.

My guess is the owner had a short-neck drop-deck that was made for a single screw and the frame hit when towed by a tandem drive tractor.