DMiller
Senior Member
Brakes on the old Eucs were next to useless most of the time, pit monkeys were BAD for doing similar and the side scars where they used the haul road wall as a Friction brake were obvious.
I recall working on a 773B something about not shifting as I recall probably the switch at the transmission that moves in sequence with the one in cab to keep things in sync. Anyhow running empty down a little used haul road flat out to make sure it had all the gears. Then decided to hit the brakes like you would on an old R-35 Euclid! Yikes glad the road was nice and wide so I had time to straighten it out!Been there done that with 773B models and the first traction controls that I ever worked on. Our roads were steeper, the corners were a lot sharper and the driver's treated the trucks like four wheelers on a dirt racing track. The material was glacial till and this is western Washington State with the associated amount of wet. You would see trucks sliding broad side most of the way into the pit and coming to a stop under the wheel loader buckets without making a 3 point. Tire costs were immense.
The old R-35's were not too bad despite what I just wrote but you had to have everything up to snuff and adjusted just right. Some time the parking brake would actually hold on grade, if it had a good drum on the back the CLBT5860 Allison and the cable was not rusty and stiff.Brakes on the old Eucs were next to useless most of the time, pit monkeys were BAD for doing similar and the side scars where they used the haul road wall as a Friction brake were obvious.
And if it wasn’t for some of the smart humans kicking around the software developers would be in even deeper sh1t than they would be otherwise.....!!Lets get the smart humans back in the equation !
Just watched a show on air plane disasters last night. In this one the dash indicators for the pilot and co-pilot were connected to separate inertia sensors that gave read outs to whether the plane was climbing or diving.Seems that the average mechanic could have thought this through better than the programmer that designed it. "What happens when the VSS goes bad?" The question was probably never even asked let alone attempted to answer before released to the field. Just ship it and let warranty work the kinks out. Never mind the customer.