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08-19-2013, 09:15 AM | #1 |
Recovering Truck Driver
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Orleans, NE USA
Posts: 1,883
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Good to be driving it again
So my Dodge laid down on me on the way home from the last ATV trip, clutch is shattered again, going to take $1000 or more to put a clutch in it that will handle the motor nowdays, so it will take awhile to put the cash together for that project. My wife had a fit and said "Well I guess we're done camping for the year then!" I have a 36' triple axle 5th wheel Carriage from the 90's and it's a heavy old brute, so I told there there wasn't any way we were going to pull it with the suburban, so I guess we were done. So I went out and put a battery in my 67 and it fired right up after sitting since the last snow storm (it's my plow truck in the winter).
I pulled the plow off and welded a gooseneck plate under the flatbed, put a brake control on it and trailer wiring, fixed the brakes and got both doors and windows working along with the headlights, turn signals, wipers and defrosters, put a good used set of shocks on the front and we are ready to go back to the lake. I drove it to the highway and back and laid a nice set of black marks across the road with it. Came home from work the next day and they were all but gone. I told my Dad the tires must be hard as wood and he said he thought he put them on it in 1984 so I'm going to put a set of street radials on it to pull the camper I love this old truck and always have every since I was a little kid, now I just gotta figure out a good way to put speakers in it without cutting it up
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67 K-20 350, SM465, Eaton rear, 4.56 no spin option 00 Dodge 2500 4x4, 24V cummins, 5 speed Chad South Central Nebraska |
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