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Re: Could this tale be true?


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Posted by Dr. Walt on January 24, 2013 at 04:58:52 from (12.2.223.79):

In Reply to: Re: Could this tale be true? posted by The tractor vet on January 23, 2013 at 18:28:30:

Ah, the good old days, I remember them well. Back in the late 70's & early 80's I worked for a large mining company as a Union Certified Top Millwright / Mine Maintenance Mechanic and I drove an old, old long-nose Mack 10-wheeler service truck with a day cab. Came back from vacation in 1980 to find that someone had been playing with the Blue Ox exhaust retarder (they liked hearing the engine back-rap like a Jake Brake) and had slipped a liner - radiator EMPTY & milkshake in the crankcase. So, I got to do an engine swap. The only thing available was a brand-new CAT 3306 that was destined to go underground for an LHD (load/haul/dump). I shoehorned it into "my" Mack, had to have the Machine Shop fabricate an adapter plate to mate-up to the trans. . I now had a CAT 3306 engine coupled to a 13-speed Road Ranger trans. with dual overdrive, Tandem drive axles with Allison 2-speed rears. What a SWEET COMBINATION that was. Got the chance to drive it over to our Mill - 40 miles away & in another State - so I opened it up just to see what it would do. The ONLY time that I got to go through ALL of the gears, the speedometer only went to 85 & I was WAY past that. I'll never know just how fast I was going, but if that truck would have had wings it would have been airborne. Smooth running, absolutely no vibrations of any kind, just FAST, FAST, FAST.


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