Hello, first post here. Thanks in advance for your knowledge and apologies if I am asking a question that has already been answered in the archives! (If you know where it is and send me a link I will gladly reference it!)
I recently bought my first dump truck! It's a 1985 Chevy C70 with a Detroit 8, air brakes, and the 2 speed rear end. I paid $3,000 for it, and it works pretty good, besides the fact it has ben stuck in low gears. I just replaced the 2 speed shift motor and the circuit board/wires that seem to be notorious for corroding.
Good news: now when I depress the clutch and pull up the red shift lever I can hear a clunk in the rear end signifying a shift to the high gears.
Bad news: upon shifting to the high gears the truck began lurching like a 15 year old learning to drive a standard transmission in the Walmart parking lot! There was also a dull sound similar to what happens when a stick gets stuck rubbing the spokes of a bicycle. I tested it out on my back road at low speed, so I am hopeful I did not break anything (worse).
Possible clue: Before I put the new motor in I tried using a jumper wire to jump it into high gear. (Picked up that little tidbit on this forum!) I wonder if when I did that I got it stuck in between gears somehow. If that were the case I would think the truck would show similar symptoms in both low and high gears, but I don't know.
Has anyone run into this problem? Thanks again for any help you have!
I recently bought my first dump truck! It's a 1985 Chevy C70 with a Detroit 8, air brakes, and the 2 speed rear end. I paid $3,000 for it, and it works pretty good, besides the fact it has ben stuck in low gears. I just replaced the 2 speed shift motor and the circuit board/wires that seem to be notorious for corroding.
Good news: now when I depress the clutch and pull up the red shift lever I can hear a clunk in the rear end signifying a shift to the high gears.
Bad news: upon shifting to the high gears the truck began lurching like a 15 year old learning to drive a standard transmission in the Walmart parking lot! There was also a dull sound similar to what happens when a stick gets stuck rubbing the spokes of a bicycle. I tested it out on my back road at low speed, so I am hopeful I did not break anything (worse).
Possible clue: Before I put the new motor in I tried using a jumper wire to jump it into high gear. (Picked up that little tidbit on this forum!) I wonder if when I did that I got it stuck in between gears somehow. If that were the case I would think the truck would show similar symptoms in both low and high gears, but I don't know.
Has anyone run into this problem? Thanks again for any help you have!