For those interested in old Lorries

[J. S. Bach]

2 hours ago, GrumpyPenguin said:

Wonder how many "recently passed" HGV drivers could cope with this (let alone know what it was) ?

Looks like there might be a High - Low range selector involved; possibly a two-speed rear.

Edited May 6 by J. S. Bach
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39 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

Looks like there might be a High - Low range selector involved; possibly a two-speed rear.

Possibly or maybe a splitter in the box.

 

First truck I drove had an Eaton twin split, from recollection you put it in the first gate, then used the switch for gears 1, 2 ,3 then went to the second gate for 4,5,6 etc. I later drove an ERF EC with a fuller range change box from recollection that was similar to the image above I.e. the first gate was gears 1 , 5 , 9 and the second gate was gears 2, 6, 10. Needless to say I found that out by stalling the thing going for what I thought was 2nd...

[GrumpyPenguin]

19 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

Looks like there might be a High - Low range selector involved; possibly a two-speed rear.

Indeed - a switch or lever - on some Renaults you had to "knock over" the gear leave when in the neutral position to change the range - left for low, right for high (IIRC).

 

Some transmissions had a splitter to give you half gears - very rarely did you use all of the gears selected.

 

 

[big jim]

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[J. S. Bach]

I just realized what is wrong with the jacked-up Pete; no CB antenna!