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Post by BuckSkin on Nov 2, 2024 5:09:31 GMT
Inside the cab of the Red 1989 Peterbilt 377 9-speed of my previous posting.
Thursday_24-October-2024
Shift Pattern - 9-speed RoadRanger Peterbilt Switch Panel
Note the Henke Idler automatic shut-down timer.
You turn the dial/knob to however many minutes you want the engine to idle/cool down before the engine shuts off; from 1- to 15-minutes on this model.
These idle timer units were invented by Montana farmers, the Henke brothers, in 1973. Peterbilt Gauge Panel Peterbilt Speedometer/OdometerDoes your odometer register the millions ?
What kind of shape will your plastic marvel vehicle be in when it registers over 700,000-miles ?
This is actually quite low mileage for the year model; it is not uncommon at all to see three million or more showing.  ISSPRO Pyrometer - Exhaust Temperature Gauge
Probably the most vital gauge on a diesel engine; notice how much larger it is than the other gauges; let that exhaust temperature get beyond the melting point of Aluminum and you will burn a hole through the top of a piston.
Contrary to what one might think, dramatically increase engine RPM to bring the temperatures down. Peterbilt Protected Switches
Best not fool with these unless you know what you are doing. Air Brake Control Valves
Red for Trailer and Yellow for Truck Signal-Stat 900 - Turn Signal Switch
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Post by hmca on Nov 2, 2024 15:11:32 GMT
Not something I would ever have thought about, but I find some of this quite interesting to see and read BuckSkin......starting with the wood dashboard.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Nov 2, 2024 15:56:07 GMT
What Helen said " the wood dashboard." Love it. Today, my old brain would explode trying to go thought the gears. I drove a two-range, (8 speed?) grain truck once about 50 years ago. Pretty sure I could not do it today. What is the transition from LO to HI? > > >> 4 LO to 5 HI as per the "upshifting" instruction on the first photo? Confused about the "9-speed" when it has 4 forward gears in Hi and Lo range. Why not 8 speeds? |
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Post by BuckSkin on Nov 2, 2024 18:17:40 GMT
What is the transition from LO to HI? > > >> 4 LO to 5 HI as per the "upshifting" instruction on the first photo?
On the gear-pole, just below the knob and within easy reach without taking your hand from the knob, there is an up/down lever or an up/down TEE-topped button; either way, they are air switches with little colored plastic air lines going in and out of them.
This air switch is the Range Selector.
Starting out, the Range Selector is down, in Low Range.
You shift through the pattern until you are in the highest gear for that range - number 4 in this case.
You pull up the Range Selector BEFORE you take the pole out of "4" --- no clutch --- you only ever use the clutch when initially taking off --- ; and, the instant you move the pole from "4", the internal Range Selector shifts to High Range and you move the pole back over to what was "1" and is now "5"; then "6", then "7", then "8"; and, by then, you are walking on.
Coming back down, you do the same thing, except in the other direction = when you get to "5" in High Range and want to go to "4" in Low Range, you push down the Range Selector before taking the pole out of "5" and then move the pole to "4"Confused about the "9-speed" when it has 4 forward gears in Hi and Lo range. Why not 8 speeds?
At the extreme left of the pattern, over by your leg and straight back toward the seat is 1st gear - "Lo" - thus making your 9-speeds.
I have driven many 9-speeds that also have a Deep Reduction Splitter = another selector button, usually Blue; that, when switched to Deep Reduction puts the transmission into another super-low range that allows you to take off fully loaded from a dead stop on Sunshine Mountain at an idle by just letting out the clutch; --- you can get out and walk ahead of the truck and it won't catch you, nor will it quit coming on.
In Deep Reduction, you have all five gear positions you can choose from before going out of Deep Reduction into normal Low Range.
Deep Reduction adds five speeds to the nine already there for a total of fourteen forward gears and three reverses --- and --- it is still officially a 9-speed.
A 9-speed without Deep Reduction, but with an Overdrive Splitter is no longer a 9-speed, but a 13-speed; once you are in High Range, each of the four gear positions can be "split", providing a gear between each gear.
A 9-speed with the Overdrive Splitter that also works in Low Range is what is labeled an 18-speed = I dearly love an 18-speed and they are the transmission of my choice.
However, when heavily loaded in bad ground, one quickly becomes attached to a plain old 9-speed with Deep Reduction --- unless, you have an 8LL, better known as an "Eight Double L" = fifteen forward gears with Double Deep Reduction = I have driven several of them as well, both standard and Horseshoe Pattern. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Nov 12, 2024 3:42:36 GMT
Kinder Morgan Barge Transloading Facility As of 2024 Now = Superior River Terminals Indiana - SRTI Ohio River Mile-post 597.2 - Indiana Port Authority Port of Indiana – Jeffersonville - Clark County - Indiana
Monday_28-July-2014
Hatcher Farms 2000 Volvo VN 60-Series Detroit w/13-Speed
53' Spread-axle Steel Frame Trailer w/Aluminum Deck
Double-bunk Sleeper; you can stand in the cab and do Jumping Jacks.
They somehow managed to flop it over on it's right side; pulled it back over onto it's wheels and sent me out in it.
It won't stand close inspection.
Check out Satellite View at these coordinates:
38.316833 -85.665000 136.8552 m 449' |
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