Re: 5+2 trans

Posted by notjustair on December 17, 2017 at 18:02:46 from (184.191.48.136):

In Reply to: 5+2 trans posted by stonerock on December 17, 2017 at 15:29:15:

I've got five straight trucks around here and none of them have the working fifth trans. I wish the newest one did. It's only a four x 2 and even with splitting each gear there is a large jump in there where the v8 falls on her face.

I grew up driving grain trucks and drove school bus for years. A two speed is second nature for me, but I would even have to think twice if I suddenly had a working fifth in one. I'm really impressed she understands the mechanics of what she is doing splitting those gears. Lots of people can't put their head into the machine to know how to treat it. It is counter-intuitive to think that you run fourth, then fifth, then back to fourth to go faster and finally to fifth again. My wife won't even consider driving one of the grain trucks (or the semis) and they aren't that complex. .

All of my straight trucks top out under 60 miles an hour. They can pull anything in the field though. You might have a prettty tight set of ratios - that makes her a good freeway flier but hurts it in soft ground. The best bus I had could pull a load up anything and run 75 miles an hour on the interstate (if you gave it enough time to get there). It was kind of an oddball, though. I can't remember the ratios exactly but one was in the 7's and the other was in the 4's. Spicer built one heck of a rear axle for that bus.

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