Very first truck I ever drove, tandem dump with a 427 gas engine, 5+4 trans, probably 34000 lb rear ends. This or a similar spec'd ford was a typical dump truck back in the day. Makes me laugh when I hear you need 500 hp in a dump these days to get around.
I got a p/t job when I was 15, cleaning it up and greasing it, checking air in the tires and tune ups on the engine. I got hired because I knew how to do a basic tune up and I knew more about that than the owner who was also a welder. He introduced me to welding, we re-skinned the box on that one and a few others.
Never really got real good at the 5+4, it was two transmissions, two sticks which was OK on the flat ground, but climbing a steep hill with the gas engine it was hard to down shift it fast enough to end up crawling up the hill.
I got a p/t job when I was 15, cleaning it up and greasing it, checking air in the tires and tune ups on the engine. I got hired because I knew how to do a basic tune up and I knew more about that than the owner who was also a welder. He introduced me to welding, we re-skinned the box on that one and a few others.
Never really got real good at the 5+4, it was two transmissions, two sticks which was OK on the flat ground, but climbing a steep hill with the gas engine it was hard to down shift it fast enough to end up crawling up the hill.