Click Click Boom!!!!!

The first 318 I drove had a 5x3 and no tach. The truck boss said to just "wind it". "Drive it like you hate it" was another of his sayings for the green-horn dummy that got the 318. Hauling logs with that piece of crap you learned real fast how to snap shift. It was the only Detroit they ever had and everybody hated it. We used to try to blow it up but it outlasted several drivers.
The last I saw of it it was being used as a pump motor in the rice fields.

 

5X4 brownie here I didn't know any better at the time - thought I was pretty cool! I remember exactly where I was the first time I rounded the corners on the brownie and stuck the shifter too.

 

Most engines just sound like #### when you drag the RPM down like that for extended periods. Seems like most are happier running 15-1700.

 

Yeah, they'd tell you "shift it square" and you'd nod and agree to do just that...not really knowing what they meant until the first time you rounded one off and hung it up and came to a complete halt on some hill. The next driver coming up the hill behind you would stop and show you what that long bar in the wrapper box was for. Then you had to start out again and try not to slide out from under your load.
The good old days. Kind of.

 

Shoot, I didn't have anyone come up to show me the error of my ways. I had the top off the brownie trying to figure out what happened! Once you see how that pin can get in between the rods it becomes clear in a hurry. THAT's what that big long screwdriver is for!

 

What are the symptoms when this happens?

 

The engine makes funny noises. We did spend time trying to find the noise in the one Cummins 5.9 we had then it threw the rod right inside our shop.

I’m assuming my boss tried to drive the truck back to the shop when the noise started before deciding to have it towed

it didn’t run long at all in our shop before the rod made a window in the block.

 

My buddy had a massey Ferguson 30 or something, 1940’s model tricycle tractor.

I shifted the gears on it and it got jammed somewhere between the slots or something.

the owner had to take the shifter tower off and re position the forks and reset the tower.

lol!!