[AT] One of two things I like about the list and a fuel consumptionquestion for the list

[Mark Greer]

Have you ever looked into a GearVendors Under/Overdrive unit? I have a
customer who installs them and he has them in a couple of his own vehicles
including a 1 ton Chevy crew cab dually and a 3/4 ton Suburban that he tows
a 24' enclosed race trailer with. See them at http://www.gearvendors.com/ .
They work sort of like a TA in a Farmall by splitting each gear. There is
also a Richmond Gear 6 speed that you can have set up with your choice of
ratios with a first gear ratio as low as 4.41:1 and a 6th gear OD as high as
.52:1.  See it at http://www.richmondgear.com/01pdfs/pages20-24.pdf .
Neither is cheap but both will do what you are asking and are for the most
part bolt-in units. Couple either of these with the proper rear diff. ratio
to match your engine and you can have stump pulling torque in first and
fuel-easy OD for the highway.
Mark Greer (an old hot rodder from Ohio).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grant Brians" <gbrians at hollinet.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 3:02 AM
Subject: [AT] One of two things I like about the list and a fuel
consumptionquestion for the list


> I have learned a lot about different areas through the list. I feel that
> agricultural discussions such as the Canola GROWING discussion Ralph Goff
> started help me understand more about the challenges and potentially
useful
> information from other areas. As a farmer and curious person, I really
> appreciate these sorts of posts. The other posts I like relate to the
actual
> subject of the list (antique farm equipment and the comraderie associated
> with it.)
>     I fear that we have again been flirting with straying too far from the
> list with the posts about gasoline politics and related subjects, though.
I
> hope that we can stop the anti-environmental inaccurate info about why
there
> have not been refineries built in the last 25 years (because it is more
> profitable for the large companies to close refineries and raise refinery
> margins than to build more capacity given the high value of the dollar
until
> recently and the judgements of the legal liabilities of building in the
US.)
> The refiners have been offered looser environmental regulations in many
> cases and still chose to close the refineries they closed.... This is
> proven.
>     Now a request that is ON-Topic. I have three antique trucks (1945 IH,
> 1946 Studebaker and 1957 GMC) that have either two speed rear-ends or
> brownies. I have always liked these solutions for providing better mileage
> when not heavily loaded and maintaining pulling ability. Now while their
> power level is a fraction of the current V8 and 6 cylinder engines many on
> the list use to pull their trailers with, they do a creditable job of
using
> the power they have. I have wanted to use this concept on my pickup truck
> since before I bought it new in 1986. So here is the specific request:
>
> Could we start a discussion on how it could be possible to install either
a
> brownie or a two speed into heavy duty pickup trucks (such as my 1986 F250
> diesel) to provide higher mileage when unloaded and preserve the trailer
> pulling ability for our tractors?
>
> Thank you all.
>         Grant Brians
>         Hollister, California
> p.s. I am looking forward to receiving the two Farmalls I am bartering
> for.... More info and questions when they arrive.