First time pulling tranny

[RZucker]

Truck Shop; that is real nice and professional work but in my case doing one, maybe two clutches every two years makes the job new each time. Got to remember how I lifted it last time, where are the eye bolts I made, where did the pilot shaft go, oh I forgot I have to fix all the air lines again before I get it back together and the dang 966B is broke again and another dump truck died in the pit and now the boss wants a brake job done on his pickup and the parts just showed up for the D8H and they just stranded the ejector line on the Letourneau scraper and the pump on the wash plant quit putting out water and on and on and on and on infinitum.

Letourneau scraper??? What have you got there?

 

[John C.]

Used to have to work on a fleet of rolling junk.

 

[mitch504]

Here's some pics I took for another guy on here of how I jack those up. I usually put the truck up on Budd rims and work from creepers.

 

[mitch504]

In case you can't tell, that's a piece of 1/2" plate bolted on top of the jack, a piece of 6x6 about 18-24" long crossways behind the PTO, and a short block beside it. The PTO is holding up the other front corner, and there's 2 good ratchet straps across the whole thing.

 

[Truck Shop]

Personally I drain the gear box and remove the six fasteners and drop the PTO then put a spare cover back on to stop the drips. It just doesn't take that long plus most PTO's
leak so that needs to be resealed anyway. I want the transmission setting directly on the jack plate. Got a friend minus some parts to his hand from doing that same job some
years ago. JMHO

Truck Shop

 

[crane operator]

I strap and block a lot like mitch504 does, and remove the gearbox like truck shop says, I find its easier with it out of the way. I would have a hard time doing that over the pit, I'm not sure how you're moving the transmission to line it back up and push/pull it back and forth.

 

[still learn'n]

This is how I pulled a big differential in a floater truck and I'm making a different plate to attach to the tranny

 

[John C.]

Talk about thinking out of the box. Now that is fancy.

 

[crane operator]

That is pretty nice, you'll have to build quite a plate to hold the transmission.

 

[Hallback]

Nice setup!
I think I am stealing that idea as our new shop has a 50' long pit also!

 

[still learn'n]

This one is only 15' as the boss didn't want to take up too much room but I wish it was 20' at least or I need to redesign my lift. 50' for trucks would be very nice.
Did you put rails in the sides?

 

[Hallback]

No rails in yet. I will take some photos tomorrow as we are moving in this weekend.

 

[Tenwheeler]

Like these

 

[Junkyard]

This is how I pulled a big differential in a floater truck and I'm making a different plate to attach to the trannyView attachment 176821

If you concocted that and made it a reality what are you askin us for? lol that's pretty slick!

 

[still learn'n]

I like to learn as much as I can before I start a project so I know what to expect and also understand better how it comes apart! Also if it's something I haven't done before I like to look at it and then have some time to think about it.

 

[mitch504]

Floater?

 

[Tenwheeler]

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Floater?View attachment 176891

Ha buddy! Your front tires are on backwards.

 

[still learn'n]

This one I'm working on is a Mack RD688s that we just put bar tread tires on. The guys say it will go thru a lot so far we have the regular steer tires on it but was supposed to get 445 tires for the front yet to. We also have a floater truck like you pictured and also like is in attached photo that we put a tank on that will go thru a lot don't know if we hardly ever have got it stuck. The newer floater trucks have planetary rear axle and ours don't so have blown up the rear end in ours quite a few times.

 

[mitch504]

Ha buddy! Your front tires are on backwards.

Nope! Read on the side of a motorgrader tire. Arrow one way for powered tire, other way for unpowered. That kind of tread works like a ratchet, the rear tires grip the dirt good to push the truck forward; the front tires, the dirt grips the tire good to keep it rolling. That truck goes until the front tires stop turning, soon as that happens, you only have a few feet to get on solid ground. In 32 years of spreading, I've tried it both ways, and reversed fronts really work better.

We ate up a bunch of 17,000 lb IH 2-speed rears, once I started running the 23,000 rears, I've had no rear end problems.

I run IH 2375s with 23k rears, low-hole 9spds, and 300hp L10s.
That pic is actually of one I wore out a few years ago, I am still running the same specs, though.

 

[crane operator]

Aww come on, most of us know what the tranny looks like, I want to see more pictures of the plate you made, and if it worked well.

That's quite the pit. Steel tracks, lights, electric and air, all right there in the pit. Got stairs to get up and down in too? How about a drain hole or sump in the corner? I've been known to be messy at times and I've always wondered how that would be in a pit.

The truth is most of us are a little envious of that set up, I know I'm impressed. Someone put a lot of thought into that. I feel pretty good that I get to work on concrete, and sometimes even in the building. I've done some of that out in the dirt, and that adds a whole different set of issues, to say nothing of wind rain or snow.