So tonight I'm coming home and I live on a 1 way street and some guy in 45ft tour bus tried to turn around and got hung-up in the driveway, (engine pan/frame lodged on driveway). So I thought I'd try and help him out. I got out the tow strap and chain, hooked up, dropped down into 4wd and went to work. Well, no go! Engine didn't lug a bit, clutch started to smoke, fully released. Well that put an end to my bragging rights. O'well. I guess I need a bigger clutch?

Alright call me dumb, stupid, macho. But, who out there wouldn't of tried to move a 40k bus sitting on its frame?





(.......Note to self....... When a bunch of guys standing around saying," that things got a Cummins in it, it can move it, think twice, or make sure you got a new South bend clutch intalled.)

 

OK so it is now Diesel Junkies Gauges and Buckshots Clutch for the bombing party...

 

You just needed a runnin start. Give it a good jerk it'l go.

 

Begle that won't do anything, put it in third run up the RPM's and let her rip, that's the only way to do it. That way no matter what happens bystanders are gonna be impressed.

 

Forgot to mention you have to hook your chains to the middle of the bus, it's easier to pull them sideways you know. Just like you snag a fish.

 

Were you in 4Low Buckshot?

 

You had to go and reply to the post I deleted didn't you?


For the record I said to fully engage the clutch and coast to the snug level because I thought that you were smoking your clutch trying to engage it from a stand still; then I read the original post again and figured that was stupid to say...

 

4High

 

Yup,Thats what I did and gave her a little juice and then the stinky clutch.

 

40K is a lot to move from a stand still with our trucks, let alone 40K that is stuck.

I think my truck may be able to move that kind of weight, but just barely.

 

4 LO and a little room to "****** er loose" and it would've moved.

I had a bus stuck halfway in my workshop bay with the engine apart, brakes locked and in gear. I couldn't leave it that way because we couldn't close the bay door to go home.

My buddy tried his 3/4 ton chebby in 4 low ...

Then I hooked up, dropped it in 4 lo and asked them "Where do you want it ?". They laughed until I started draggin it about 15 feet ... they said "That's probably good right there "

I had the pictures on here somewhere but they got lost a while back.

PISTOL

 

yea you shoulda just gave the strap about 5-10 feet of slack and got a running start. its kinda scary at first but it works. just don't do it with a chain. I pulled my fathers 150K$ motor home that was buried to the frame in sand out with one tug like this. I think I had about 20 feet of slack with a 75 foot rope though. momentum works wonders.

 

OUCH! i would not recomend a running yank like that. That is WAY more strain from a spike like that. if you cant do it with 5' max... then try something else.

Anyhow i bet 4 low would have done it.

 

Back when I owned my 92 CTD we had a driver get a loaded tractor trailer stuck in the mud on our lot. These guys were hooking up F150 and forklifts to it but nothing could budge it. I went out and told everybody to clear out and hooked a chain to the bumper. I put it in 4lo and I spun 1 revolution while the chain straightened out and that truck came right out of that mud. Needless to say I was the hero of the day and I was beating the girls off with a stick and.............

 

Never pull in 4 high. You need the gear reduction that 4 low has to offer, and you would not have seen 2000 rpm's and it would have been out. These trucks are hosses when you put it in 4 low, if you have traction, either the object will move or you will here a loud bang somewhere under your truck, cause something WILL give.