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BSing with an old friend, and was recalling when I was a kid, all the obnoxious Detroits the Gypo loggers used to roar around in. Found this vid. I don't know what the toggle switch is, two speed axle, maybe? How'd ya like to row that thing down the road?

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU3gZGUInd4"]Detroit Diesel 453T in 48 Diamond-T - YouTube[/ame]

Not sure what this is supposed to be. A rat rod? old GMC ?? 1 ton ?? with a turboed Detroit 4-53

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2zwd1iazvU&feature=related"]twin stick shiftin' - YouTube[/ame]
 
In the first video the toggle switch is for the jake brake, I love the sound of a Detroit screaming through the gears but those little 4 bangers just have an annoying sound to them.
The truck in the second vid is definatly a little "rat rodish"
 
I drove one of those once about 35 years ago. It's a 4X5, lots of fun. The toggle switch is for a jake brake. Second one I'm sure of, but looks like it might be a 5 ton.

Jack
 
This truck has twin sticks in it with a two speed rear, and the 6-53 sounds a little better than those 4 bangers
Skip to 1.55 for the good part.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnN1i9LjAw0"]Screamin Detroit Diesel 653 C70 - YouTube[/ame]
 
love pullin gears...9 speed hi/low/2 buttons to move got it turn down low and it makes 1250 ft lbs of tq...at 1600 lol.. nice cars there lol
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daliant said:
This truck has twin sticks in it with a two speed rearhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnN1i9LjAw0
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I was thinking of posting that, but you can't see the shift levers.

When I first got my old Landcruiser, it had a REAL worn out 283 in it. First winter I had it, I converted the vacuum transfer case to lever shifter. I used to leave a stop light in the heavy snow, in 2nd gear low range, and double clutch the transfer case into high!!!

Transfer case of course is non-synchro. My friends thought I was nuts, but it beat slipping the clutch in high range.

Later on, that thing ended up with a 340/ A-833 and Jeep straight through transfer.

Here's the questionably useful GMC swap in question:

This guy seems to be into diesels the way some of you are into A bodies

http://www.4btswaps.com/forum/showt...s-4-53T-Detroit-Diesel-1950-GMC-pickup-thread

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IKPecdbis0&feature=player_embedded"]Buck's 4-53T GMC - YouTube[/ame]


This is the 48 Diamond T featured in the one video:

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daliant said:
In the first video the toggle switch is for the jake brake, I love the sound of a Detroit screaming through the gears but those little 4 bangers just have an annoying sound to them.
The truck in the second vid is definatly a little "rat rodish"
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I agree the switch is the Jake.
 
That Diamond T looks pretty badass, the GMC sits about a foot too low to the ground for my taste, I like the air starter, they are good for scaring the sh*t out of people.
 
Two stroke Detriots are a serious love-hate thing.

random video
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKQ0d82c9yQ&feature=related"]12v71 Dragster Vs 12v71 Wannabe - YouTube[/ame]
 
My dad and his friend talked about doing something like that with a Mustang. Literally take two top loader 4 speeds, make sure they had different ratios, thow em together, Boom instant 7 or 16 speed transmission (depending if you shifted like 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 2-1 etc. or 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, and top gear 4-4.).
 
scampy72 said:
so what exactly is a jake brake?
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It's a form of compression release, to increase engine braking. Unlike gasoline engines, diesels don't have much compression braking. (They have no throttle plates.). "Jacobs" was/ is one major manufacturer and I guess they are or were the most popular, so everybody adopted that name. Sorta like calling a hand held circular saw a "Skil saw"

Before truck had Jakes, the truck brakes were the only effective stopping power, and once in awhile, you'd hear about one that "lost the brakes." Many many years, ago, trucks didn't use dual - diaphram air brakes, known as "dynamiters". These are a dual -can brake, one of which gets air when the treadle valve is activated, applying the brake. The safety side has a huge spring, and when configured to run down the road (brakes released) this side of the can has full air pressure, which pushes the spring to disengage. If you lose air pressure on the truck, this spring will apply the brakes.

Up here where I grew up, I can remember at least two "runaway ramps" for trucks. One was on the "Bonners Ferry Hill" and the other one was on the old "Lewiston Hill." When you came down those, and could see the ramps, you could tell that there were tracks on 'em some of the time.
 
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