Where are you

just noticed there's a lady in a skirt and purse walking around the parking lot.. wouldn't think nothing of it usually, but it's been storming something serious the past hour and some change.. i think she's a working girl.. Bumpyi49 where ya at?

 

You sure its a girl...

 

yeah, might be a drag queen..

 

One good way to find out......

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Right after I posted that, the light bulb went of in my head. That's the direct gear (furthest forward) in the trans, and they had put the input 'suitcase' kit in while doing the clutch. As soon as I realized that I asked about part numbers on the input shaft. Nope, it was the right number.

So off comes the shift rails, and it obvious that the dog is hitting the input shaft before it could fully engage. WTH?!? Turns out the idiot put the spacer on the wrong side of the snap ring and the input shaft was riding about a 1/4" too deep. Sigh.

Headed back down to get it now, after spending most of the day there baby-sitting. I didn't leave until the rails were back on and I made sure I could manually shift into direct. Good news was it still looks like a brand-new tranny inside! Synthetic lubes are wonderful, there was literally no visible wear on any of the teeth or dogs, and it's within spitting distance of 600K on a carhauler. With our near heavy-haul duty cycles, I was surprised to see that!

An interesting aside: I'd never seriously pondered how they'd managed to keep the standard shift pattern while making 3/7 the direct hole in the main box on all these RTLO's. There is actually a fourth shift rail on the far right that is run by a lever to reverse direction from the far left rail that would normally operate that shift fork. So no stick against the dash while in the Big Hole!

I already hear the mocking of the chickenhaulers...

 

Glad you/they got it going again. The guy that rebuilt mine is retired from Eaton and now pushing 80 years old.
I was sold on synthetic lubes in the trans and rears till he showed me the wear on the gears. To me they looked fine till he pointed out the shinny~dull~shinny spots on the teeth of the gears. The shinny was from wear and the dull was from the hardening process from the factory. He said once all the teeth go shinny they would start pitting. The cause was from todays synthetic oils that are not a true synthetic but a more refined base oil thats thinner. His advice was to go back to 80w-90 oil or come back and see him in another 500000 miles and get a gear set.
He said other than coal hauls busting trannys the bulk of his business was from water to oil coolers going bad and synthetic oils.

I think the 4th rail is the reverse gears. If you turn 8th and 9th around the "big hole" will be against the dash.
The 3rd, and 4th gear is on the left side of the tranny. 1st and 2nd is in the middle and low and reverse on the right side, I think, its late. lol

 

Re: Late LOL!

I wasn't clear enough: These newer trannys are all "turned around" in the sense that the gears are laid out such that without the 4th shift rail to reverse the 3/4 shift motion, they would have the turned around shift pattern, big hole to the dash. The old trannys that were turned around had a direct high gear in the main box (before being turned around,) all these newer trans have an overdrive high gear in the main (basically, turned around from the factory.) The 3/4 gate does indeed move the far left rail, but it has no fork; all it does is move the lever which moves the far right rail and fork. There's no direct contact by the shifter to that 4th rail. In other words, if you took this current shift rail assy. and put it on an old-school turned around tranny, that tranny would have a normal shift pattern.


I just realized I'd better stop using "tranny," else TTR be inundated with porn-seekers from Google!

 

I was not meaning to be a jerk......sorry I came off that way

 

Carlisle PA... waiting for an 0-dark-early appointment to roll around.

 

Apology accepted sometimes it's hard to read meaning when all you have is print, no body language, no facial expression, no tone of voice, etc. One of the downsides to the net.