Public service annoucement

I had a truck once get into 1st gear, and have the brakes released over coffee, amazingly no one had the guts to admit they had dean in the truck. I have a bad knee and could not catch up to the truck it damaged the hood. My fault I should never have trusted that someone would not **** around. You never want to leave the truck in gear. I watched a welder drop a spent rod and have the truck crank its self across the shop. Luckily it was in reverse and hit a wall.

 

HUH? is that possible. I think you watched maximum overdrive too many times!

 

Old mechanic forced me to get in habit of flipping the high/low range selector before touching the ignition key. With a Eaton/Fuller tranny, you can hear the air cylinder move back and forth. It cannot move if tranny is in gear.

 

had this happen a our yard. rookie came to me and said truck won't start. I went over jumped in , did like always, checked to see if it is in gear (and it was) put it in nuetral and fired it up.

His eyes popped out of his head, and I had a little chat about the safe starting of big rigs.

 

years ago, i woke up in a daze at 0-dark 30 to find my engine cranking away happily with the key off. it stopped, i went back to bed (that 'in a daze' part). i never thought of it again until a technician noticed that the wire powering the starter solenoid had been rubbing for years against the main battery cable to the solenoid; once that solenoid received power, the starter would've cranked away happily until something gave. luckily it was the abraided contact point (this time).

until reading this post, i never thought what would've happened had this short occurred when the truck was parked in gear.

 

Ok...... How do you know this?

 

watch it your stepping right in front of it!

 

.....and with the brakes set?...