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gearhead

I have seen trans that all the gears look like that bad gear in the picture. The driver had the pto bottom snap off due to pto gear exploding from bad bearings. The driver put the broken off piece in the truck and drove it another 75 miles with no oil.So here is the story. He called in and i went out on a road service call to find out why it wouldn't move he didn't tell me on the phone what he did until i got there. I looked under the truck because the first thing i saw was the oil everywhere, and when i did i noticed that the bottom half of the pto was missing. I asked him about it and said ya it's in the truck on the floor in the passenger side. He said ya i just put it in the truck and took off to get back to the shop. well he had to be towed back. I asked him why he thought it was ok to drive when you saw the puddle of oil (4 gallons) at the plant where he picked up the broken bottom half of his pto he just shrugged his shoulders. Needless to say he got fired soon as he got back to the shop. Yes the customer was pissed about the 4 gallons of oil in their lot that he didn't even bother to offer to clean up.