This is why you dont shift from 6th to 1st

[Mook]

Downshift from 6th to 1st in a fully loaded haul truck and this is what happens…

This Cat didn’t have nine lives!

This is what happens when a computer glitch dropped the transmission from sixth gear back to first whilst doing 60 km/h with a full load of 230 tons.

Below is what remains of a Caterpillar C175-16 – the 85L capacity V16 engine from Caterpillar’s second biggest dump truck, the 793, which has a gross power output of 1976 kW (2650 hp).

Flat out it revs at around 2500 rpm. As big as they are, engines of this size don't like to over-rev at all; 100-200 rpm over will start to do damage. There was no compression lock up, just BANG!

A new engine costs around $250k. Once you account for labor/shipping/opportunity costs/other affected components (transmission, drive shaft, etc) you’re looking at probably 3-4 times that by the time it was fixed.

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[bikrboy128]

Jesus there's nothing left of the block

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[MikeyLikesIt]

 

[Bru]

Holy fuck

 

[SHOmuff]

Classic SHOmuff.

 

[Smokinhot]

That's insane

 

[Prevent]

85L


holy shit1

 

[VenomousDSG]

Little superglue and it'll be like new.

 

[Runtz52]

Shouldn't that be covered under some kind of warranty? I mean it was a computer glitch.

 

[Flyn]

My brother drives one of these. He talks about the huge cost and length of time to get minor parts so I imagine this repair is going to cost a buck or two.

 

[Mook]

$250k just for the engine.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

Shouldn't that be covered under some kind of warranty? I mean it was a computer glitch.

Computers took our jerbs!

 

[guspech750]

WOW! That's freaking crazy. What carnage!

 

[Spivitz]

It's under warranty.... I hope

 

[Stink Star]

I bet that guy got fired

 

[P40E]

That's why I always lease mine .

 

[bikrboy128]

i wonder what RPM it hit. it's gotta be covered under a warranty. the computer did it......

 

[Blood on Blood]

Incredible carnage. Looks like metal spaghetti.

 

[VenomInside]

 

[Burtonrider10022]

Can afford a million dollar dump truck, can't afford a decent camera.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Looks like a fucking murder scene.

 

[b00sted]

Read the title and thought "How does someone even do that?"

Saw that it was truck with a hi/low switch(or whatever those things use). That sucks.

 

[wolfe]

They forgot to mention the new seat that's needed because the driver shat all over the old one when that happened.

 

[Turk]

Money shift!

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

unintended deceleration