can't win
Lead Driver
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From: So. Jersey
Can you give a little more details. Does it go fine in reverse? Or does it just rev in both D or R, try putting it in L. You may just have over torqued the valve body when you changed the filter and now have sticking valve not allowing full pressure to operate.
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Cargo Master
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From: Sand GAp, KY
When it warms up it only revs in all gears. when it is cold it moves in all gears but still slips.It worked fine after I put it in up till today. I drove it about 38 miles to take her to work this morning (about 35 of it all highway). When I started to leave her work it slipped in drive and got progressively worse till it didn't move at all. The fluid level was and is fine but as I said it is slightly dark and smells burnt. I guess this what I get for buying yard trannies. But with work being slow money is tight and most of the shops around here don't get good reviews from guys that have used them. They Only replace a few parts and keep "what looks good".
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Cargo Master
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From: Sand GAp, KY
Nope I didn't think it would work so I tried to sell it. When that didn't work and we moved to this house I had no garage so I junked it. Wish I had it back now.It was an old style manual type clutch that about tore my bad knee up but it would still beat the s**t out of these autos.
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From: Mi'kma'ki
sounds like it may have had a bad front pump.who knows.
when you installed the TC did you make sure to spin and push in so it bottomed out all the way? they make a few clunks before going in all the way.
when you installed the TC did you make sure to spin and push in so it bottomed out all the way? they make a few clunks before going in all the way.
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Cargo Master
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From: Sand GAp, KY
Yes it was in all the way. I have put almost 4000 miles on it since the swap and it was goin good. I am looking forward to a hydraulic clutch, my knee has not been the same since I hit that deer with my bike a couple years ago and don't think I could handle an old manual clutch any more. Man it sucks getting older.
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From: Faibanks Ak.
Them old 4spds are pretty easy to shift with no clutch. Both times I broke my bellhousing I didn't have time to shut it down for quite awhile, so I either starte it in gear or parked on a slight incline so it would roll enough to get it in compound.
All you would have to do is use the clutch to take off with, unless you are in a lot of traffic.
All you would have to do is use the clutch to take off with, unless you are in a lot of traffic.
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Cargo Master
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From: Sand GAp, KY
Ya they were, I lost the clutch rod out of mine on a trip to muncie one time and just matched revs to shift. I would pop it into neutral for stops and just shut it off then start it in 2nd gear to get going again. This technique really surprised my girl and my stepson (I call all three of her boys my step kids even tho we are not married lol) as they never sen this done.
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From: Faibanks Ak.
My sons mud bogger started out a 4spd and everyone said he wouldn't be able to shift fast enough to compete with them. He was in the top 3rd from day one. when we went to the mud drags the mud was not very deep and he got a lot of traction so at take off his rig would twist and loose the clutch rod every run. lol he took second against all the big boys shifting without a clutch.
Before it started I told the crowd that was the winning 4 at all of them before my son started that he needed to spot him 50 feet because of his bone stock motor. They told me screw you if that boy ever gets a motor we will never win again.
Before it started I told the crowd that was the winning 4 at all of them before my son started that he needed to spot him 50 feet because of his bone stock motor. They told me screw you if that boy ever gets a motor we will never win again.
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Cargo Master
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From: Sand GAp, KY
LOL! I love to here about youngans knowing how to do this stuff. The milatary went to automatics in the 80's because most recruits couldn't drive a stick and they didn't want to teach them. We have guys at work that can't drive our 96 f350 stakebed because it is a 5 speed.
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From: Faibanks Ak.
US express is a prime example. total fleet is autoshift so they can hire drivers that have never shifted a stick. And there is more and more professional drivers starting every day that has never seen a clutch period. Running my shop for years and since been back on the road I have seen some pretty scary changes in the trucking industry, I watched a lot of them yesterday after the interstate opened yesterday. I even stopped the same driver twice just because I hate to see some idiot tear a mans equipment up, but then again they know what they hired.
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Cargo Master
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From: Sand GAp, KY
My grandapa used to call the new gen of drives (big trucks) 30 day wonders. He said it took them 30 days to get thier lisence and wonder if it would take 30 days for them to kill some one or them self.
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From: Faibanks Ak.
I had a son in law that was as good of a hand in a truck as you could ask for and that is the only reason I ever bought a second truck. I then wanted a haul road truck (ice road) so I bought a third but only used one driver my son in law went away and I was lucky enough to get another good hand, but about a year ago he decided he wanted to stay around home and I had about decided to go back to just me driving so it worked outwell in that regards. About the same time the freight rates started to plummet so I parked mine and for the first time in years drove a company truck.
Any time I ever thought about buying another truck I could sit at a truckstop 10 minutes and watch drivers to get over it.
Any time I ever thought about buying another truck I could sit at a truckstop 10 minutes and watch drivers to get over it.
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From: Melbourne, Ky
I have been working on trucks for 10 years now, and I agree it's crazy some of the drivers you see behind the wheel of these trucks. Actually, they're steering wheel holders. Some actually brag about that! I figure, if you can't check the engine fluids, tire pressure, and adjust your brakes, you've got no business behind the wheel of one of those trucks.