From: Adam Suess (ajsuess@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Feb 12 2005 - 17:57:54 PST
Most of the 5 tons I've driven are gutless right after shifting to 4th gear.
It's just too big of a jump in the gearing and the engine is below it's torq
curve thus no power untill it picks up a few rpms. My Mack does ok at low
rpms but the cummins and multi fuel take some time to pick up speed. If you
have not changed your fuel filter in a while it could help. Good luck.
>From: Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: [MV] 5 ton power
>Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 14:44:00 -0500
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>Ok, I've driven the 5 ton enough to have noticed a peculiarity. Sometimes
>it'll be utterly gutless and other times it'll make good power. This
>usually manifests when I'm accelerating and once I hit 4th gear. But
>changing back down to third doesn't seem to help. But after a bit, the
>power comes back slowly. An I pulling too much fuel than the fuel system
>can give or do you think I have a gummed up fuel filter?
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>Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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