Truckspotters

[fastpakr]

RRORC is still a thing?

 

[ryan]

RRORC is still a thing?

Came back on facebook. Not a big group but a lot of the same names

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

What's the 3rd stick for?

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I didn’t get to talk to the owner. I would assume either twin stuck conversion or pto.

It is a twin stick of sorts, left engages the t-case and right selects the range.

Looks like a military surplus Jeep (AKA a MB)

 

[Ranger850]

I didn’t get to talk to the owner. I would assume either twin stuck conversion or pto.

I'm not smart enough to know what "PTO" is. but the picture @85_Ranger4x4 posted helped me figure it out.
Thanks guys.

 

[Dirtman]

Power Take Off. Auxiliary drive on a transfer case/transmission to run gizmos besides the truck.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I'm not smart enough to know what "PTO" is. but the picture @85_Ranger4x4 posted helped me figure it out.
Thanks guys.

Power Take Off

Heavy duty applications often have a PTO on the transmission or t-case to run something like a hoist, hydraulic pump for a dump bed or winch.

After the war Willys sold jeeps as farm equipment that had a PTO or belt pulley like a farm tractor of the time.

And as you add PTO and hydraulics to your jeep you gain more and more levers too...

 

[racsan]

At the boat dealership I worked at after high school we had a old willys jeep that had the 3-lever arrangement. it also had a power steering pump to run either a rear lift boom or front snow blade. It was quite a powerful little thing, had a front &rear ball mount to move boats around with, 5.38 gears so in low range could move it if it could maintain traction. wasn’t something youd want on the highway, 4-wheel drum brakes, unbalanced bias ply tires and 45mph at best.

 

[Ranger850]

Oh, so the PTO is where the bush hog hooks to. Why didn't yall just say that?

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Oh, so the PTO is where the bush hog hooks to. Why didn't yall just say that?

In normal heavy duty trucks it is different, there is a port on the trans or t-case where a pump or belt drive can be powered.

That said my Ranger has a PTO port on the transfer case...

What is a PTO?

Power take-offs are mechanical gearboxes that attach to apertures provided on truck transmissions and are used to transfer the power of the vehicle engine to auxiliary components.

www.munciepower.com

 

[dvdswan]

 

[Ranger850]

PTO 101
Class is in session.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

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And I keep an eye on the commercial truck of the JY section in hopes of finding a pump like that to mount on a t-case like that...

 

[Snoranger]

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That’s most likely a Chelsea PTO. The 2 most common PTO manufacturers are Chelsea and Muncie.
Chelsea PTOs are red.
Muncie PTOs are blue.

The PTO and pump pictured are separate pieces, usually from different manufacturers. You can bolt different things up to the PTO depending on the desired application... although hydraulic pumps are the most common.

 

[Dirtman]

If you had an electric tractor you could hook the PTO up to a generator to charge the batteries.

 

[don4331]

If you had an electric tractor you could hook the PTO up to a generator to charge the batteries.

That's not as dumb as it sounds - power the tractor from batteries up hill and charge them from the generator going back down.