There are all types of technical colleges out there for half the price of UTI. I noticed you wanted to work for Cummins..... While I was a heavy equipment and truck mechanic at a construction company for a good while I interviewed some of the people who came from schools like UTI, Lincoln Tech etc... the best interview I ever had was stumped with one question.."how long would you say it would take you to do a clutch job job on this mack?" the mack was an older model super liner we used for a haul truck..;the response I got was "4 hours"...... I laughed and the interview ended. The ones that applied from a tech school in waco tx were great workers and very teachable. Those are also the ones we would send to different schools with cummins cat etc. If you go to those state type tech schools and get a degree in diesel mechanics then get on with cumminscat, etc... they will send you to their schools free of charge to get you specific certifications.... and all the ase certifications you can pick up along the way will only help those chances.

Best wishes, and thanks for what you do

 

So how long does it take to do a clutch job on an older Mack?

I'd say "I don't know, I'd have to ask the service writer."

I'd guess 8 hours plus extra if it's rusty or not readily obvious how to unbolt the transmission from the chassis. But I really have no idea.

 

Which mack? The ones that have the trans as part of the motor support, take longer....they wont teach that in college





On a side not, we hired a college graduate.....so far, hes well....slow.

 

Fastest mechanic I'd ever seen was a meth addict. Only had teeth on one side of his mouth, ridiculously paranoid, went between fevers and cold chills every few minutes...

I watched him change a clutch in a Volkswagen in an hour one time. He had the car up on a lift, he attacked it with an air hammer and impact, cursing at the top of his lungs the entire tire, whenever he took anything off he'd throw it on the ground, whenever he was done with a tool he'd hurl it at the wall, swearing and grunting... When it was time he just reached up and King Kong'd the transmission out of the vehicle and heaved it onto the ground, cracked the concrete...

I was amazed. A miracle anything ever worked after he touched it, but God I was amazed.

 

As far as the exact year and model number.... brother I will be honest with you, it was to long ago to say and be right about it. I can tell you it was, I am thinking mid to late 80's mack super liner. The place I worked had a half azz trans jack that we would have to block with wood to use. The problem with the older macks.... and probably some of the newer ones was clearance. We had to move a bunch of crap outta the way to slide the tranny out of there. If we had all the parts we needed in the shop, it was usually a group effort. Most of the time myself (Field Mechanic at the time) the other field mechanic as well as the sop mechanic would tag team total clutch jobs and you could still figure the better part of a full day.... then we started at 6 in the morning and usually had to stop to get parts or one of us would have to pull off that job for a while and go handle something in the field, so we would usually be buttoning up the clutch somewhere around 3-with no one leaving and parts there, or later if it was a busy day running down parts and handling other calls

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Nothing like a methed out mechanic on a mission!! LOL thats the best I have heard in a while!!!