It's clutch season, already...

Jim Warman · March 6, 2006

Todays victim (yes, I work on Sundays when they ask nice...) - 06 F350.... 37,000 kms (that's just shy of 23,000 miles, for the metrically challenged).... customer broke through the frost on a pipeline job (truck is an Xray unit)...

Rather than ask for a tow, he managed to get out on his own.... got things hot enough to melt the slave cylinder... I'll try to remember to take the camera tomorrow.... no slave in stock so I decided to order parts before I yank the trans. I believe this one is going to get a flywheel and a rear main seal....

Keith Browning · March 8, 2006

Clutch season? /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif What kind of ammunition do you use when hunting clutches?

Jim I get the impression you see a lot of manual transmissions eh? They are very rare here in NJ or at least in my neck of the woods they are.

Jim Warman · March 9, 2006

We do have a few die-hards that wont buy anything but... even though we have found that the autos seem to have a little better lifting power on soft ground.

Am I mistaken in recalling that, before we bid fairwell to pilot injection, the early stick trucks had tire scorching bottom end? Or have I just mellowed a little since the first 6.0s?

I did that clutch I'd mentioned tonight (I'm still about 5 trucks behind schedule with about 12 hours left on the crash job on my hoist, 8 hours booked for my first job tomorrow on the spare hoist and my second appointment for the day due when I still have 4 hours left on my first job.... and we wont mention the high pressure oil concern that wont go away... (the driver does his own wiring... but it still refuses to burn...).

On the FRT staff forum, one of the other staff members and I broached the subject of identity theft.... I'm going to have to reply, now.... Nobody wants to steal my identity because it SUCKS TO BE ME /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek.gif