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Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers!
My Work For The Day?
Well my work for the day?
I suppose it's to get this little beastly thing moving!
Okay truth be told it wont be that easy at all, but also fairly easy. This might sound confusing and that is because it is! See I've got to refit the transmission and as simple as that sounds these things always have a bunch of stuff that needs attending because they we're immobile for so long a lot of the pressure stuff gave in.
For example the air for the brakes, those lines are rotten to the core, so when we start it we will see where they pop!
The Transmission In Question!
Well here she is! The one that needs to be fitted back into the... well... Tank??
We didn't rebuild this one ourselves, there is a workshop in Johannesburg that specializes in just these transmissions! So we decided to send it over to them!
See they even painted it a nice and bright CAT colour, at-least very close. This might sound really stupid but I got this little bit of enjoyment when I opened it up and seeing that it's this bright yellow!
I'll be able to spot it in traffic one day! If I jump underneath it though! xD Laughs!
The Funny Thing!
What I don't always understand is that when you tell Bossman this is going to be a fast one and it ends up not being the fast one. Why is it always like that? With stuff that you know you can sort in a jiffy? Those jiffy's is going to kill me one day!
Well yeah we had a bit of a struggle getting it joined to the engine and normally these are the easy going ones!
Eventually with a little brain power and more patience than I can count we managed to get it joined!
Here Is The Actual Work!
Really, getting the transmission joined with all those pesky converter bolts and stuff. Even that I'd say the real work lies with these!
There are three incase you wondered! One very long one and two short ones! Now the other short one is already fitted but heck!
With eight bolts and nuts on a side it amounts to 48 bolts and nuts to torque down on and oh yeah you can only get into those cramped spaces with two spanners! No ratchet tools to speed up the process!
Finally!
After almost two hours just on the three prop-shafts my hands and arms feel like they are dying! Truely they must be!
These prop-shafts are tedious work, really tedious work!
But the most of the work is done now and we would likely be starting it up on the morrow, a flat battery and it being parked right in the corner of the yard, well it would have been impossible to get it out just before closing time!
Tomorrow is the day for those!
Never Forget!
Never forget the oil! If you may wonder! Yes I have forgotten the oil in a differential! Only once though but I have and I doubt I'd be doing that again!
Well perhaps I might but not this time!
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I always learned the hard way that I never tell myself it's easy, till I'm completely done with a dyi project haha
Awesome stuff! Thank you for sharing
I think it's more of a comfort thing 🤣 stressing out and you keep telling yourself that it's going to be okay.
And at the end it is always okay... I've run into some dangy problems where I thought how te hell is this going to get sorted but it always does...
It has too 🤣🤣
Good luck with all your future DIY endeavours 🤣
That tank looks spectacular, does it have four-wheel drive? I assume it does because being so heavy it must have a lot of power. Interesting color that the garage that sent the gearbox to you put on it.
It is hey, a damned bright colour!!
It is a four wheel drive yeah! Although it has three prop shafts... the transfer is a little unconventional but propbably normal in the world of trucks and heavy stuff.
It's strange that we've never done one of the transfers on them...always the gearboxes.