{"id":18083,"date":"2025-01-20T14:52:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T14:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/2001-freightliner-century-breaking-flywheel-bolts-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T14:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T14:52:47","slug":"2001-freightliner-century-breaking-flywheel-bolts-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/2001-freightliner-century-breaking-flywheel-bolts-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"2001 Freightliner Century Breaking Flywheel Bolts | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tso 2001 Century.<br \/>Detroit 60. around 500HP<br \/>13 speed<br \/>Pulling 48 flat legal weight.<br \/>300&#8243; wheel base with 3-piece drive shaft<\/p>\n<p>A little over a month ago the truck went down as it wouldnt engage the clutch. Towed to shop and found that 2 bolts had broken in the bell housing, 2 were still tight (bottom 2 bolts) and the rest had backed out. Installed all brand new bolts with blue locktight except the 2 broken ones.<br \/>A week later they had backed out again except the 2 bottom ones. Red locktight the bolts and reinstalled. <br \/>I think were about 3 weeks later and now all the bolts have since broken except the bottom 2 bolts and has separated the flywheel housing again.  Bolts are grade 8.<\/p>\n<p>What the hell is going on?<br \/>We did air the truck up and measure the angle on the shafts and they are only .1-.3* but I feel like if that was the case of the driveshaft angle then this would have happened over a year ago when I bought the truck.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n\tfbq('init', '1812746315680142'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n\t\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/threads\/2001-freightliner-century-breaking-flywheel-bolts.2519388\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so 2001 Century.Detroit 60. around 500HP13 speedPulling 48 flat legal weight.300&#8243; wheel base with 3-piece drive shaft A little over a month ago the truck went down as it wouldnt engage the clutch. Towed to shop and found that 2 bolts had broken in the bell housing, 2 were still tight (bottom 2 bolts) and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}