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More towing with my '65
I know you guys like the "trucks at work" pics, so here's a couple of my '65 hauling a Mercury Grand Marquis back from Rome, GA yesterday. The truck did great pulling it stability-wise, and the little 250 and SM420 did very well pulling all those hills. Not bad at all for a junkyard truck I paid $600 for and still probably have less than $1,500 in including four new tires!
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Re: More towing with my '65
Right on....good to see the truck getting used.
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Re: More towing with my '65
Man! I want those overhead lights! I am honking on converting my c20 to a tow truck and they would look good! Where dud you get them.
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Re: More towing with my '65
Glad you liked the pictures.
Here's a link to ebay for the lights I have: http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-Amber-Cab-...c7f3f9&vxp=mtr They are made by "United Pacific" and are copies of the old Yankee 77's that came on these trucks. This scanned book at the GM heritage center shows the light placement: http://gmheritagecenter.com/docs/gm-...olet-Truck.pdf It's at the 100th page--I used the Conventional/LCF layout, BTW. The biggest pain was threading the wire back from the lights, but with a little creative thinking I got it done. I added them partly for safety/visibility when towing at night, and they are also certainly very nice for that. Adds a lot of visibility, and most people certainly seem to try harder to stay in their lane with them lit up. |
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Re: More towing with my '65
Cool pictures Sub! Here's some of mine.
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Re: More towing with my '65
Neat pictures, TJ. How'd yours do pulling that little Kubota backhoe?
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Re: More towing with my '65
You should--I almost did some video of this trip. I guess you probably have trailer brakes on your truck, too? I added an old Kelsey-Hayes controller to mine (and added brakes to one axle of the trailer).
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Re: More towing with my '65
You guys ever herd of a c20 for a tow truck? I have a 283 v8 with a 3 speed manual. 8 foot bed big backwindow. Will it work?
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Re: More towing with my '65
The three speed is marginal you really need a granny 4 speed If your moving heavy loads. I used a 64 C20 250 Six & granny 4 speed with a home built wrecker sling for many years. I even moved a couple of school buses with it. A C20 as the atvantage of a heaver frame stronger springs. Floating 8 lug rear axle, bigger brakes and many had 456 rear gears.
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Re: More towing with my '65
That there's cheatin', TJ!
![]() ![]() x2 on the SM420 for hauling/towing. The deep first/reverse is very nice to have, and second is still deeper than the three speed's first (3.58:1 vs 2.94). Also, there's no question about somehow blowing up the SM420! Also, a note; why does this lame little 250 seem to run as good as the 5.4 ford in the borrowed late model F-150 I previously used? Besides that lame 1/2 ton being thrown around like a rag doll by this very C-30 on the trailer behind it, it also barely pulled it. On similar (actually lesser IIRC) hills it struggled to maintain 40-45MPH running 2,800RPM+ (IIRC). The Mercury isn't much more than 500lbs lighter than the old C-30 (there's technology for you), and I was pulling hills in high gear with this little six! On only one or two of the steepest did it slow down to 40MPH at the top (1,800RPM!), and if I wanted to downshift into third I could have maintained speed just fine. So... WTF? I know the F-150 is slightly heavier, and the manual SM420 is much more efficient than the auto, but damn! According to the specs the 5.4 should be making roughly twice the power of the 250! Oh well, I guess I'm not complaining. ![]() |
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Re: More towing with my '65
Private dirt road doesn't count!!! Cheater!!!
![]() Mine has 4.10 gears and 32" tires on the back; 65MPH is about 2,900RPM. Most of the time I ran about 55MPH (kind of my normal rural highway/road cruise). The truck handled great at 65 though! Yeah, I think 65 would be pretty scary with a SWB half ton with that much weight behind it--especially if you need to stop without trailer brakes! |
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Re: More towing with my '65
Yeah, probably 3.73's. That's what 99% of them had IME, too. Not sure where this one tops out; it still had some left in it at 80MPH with the old 283, but I haven't tried that with the 250--I'm sure it's fast enough for a ticket, anyway.
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Re: More towing with my '65
LOL! Mines a ticket attractor the way it is!
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