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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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Registered User
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Central NC
Posts: 830
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Re: Good to be driving it again
You can always count on an old Chevy to pull you through your Dodge repairs.
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1972 Cheyene C-10 "Ole Green" My Grandfathers truck (early 70's to 1983) My first vehicle (1983) Original 350 (3 rebuilds) 700R4 from Bowtie Overdrives ![]() |
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Recovering Truck Driver
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Orleans, NE USA
Posts: 1,883
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Re: Good to be driving it again
yup, not the first time it's taken the place of a much newer pickup.
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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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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Silverdale, WA
Posts: 263
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Re: Good to be driving it again
There's a vender selling speaker boxes but they only work if you have your in cab tank out
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Vintage 4x4s
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Prior Lake, MN
Posts: 4,305
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Re: Good to be driving it again
got any pics of it?
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67 GMC K1500 Custom- 305V6 SM420, PTO, Ram Assist, yellow (the outcast) (project period correct upgrades) 67 GMC C2500 351V6 TH400, AC, PS, PB (can't decide what to do with. Update, decided to keep and will restore ![]() 86 CHV K30 502 th400, apple red NEW 71 CHV K20 350 SM465, ochre (saved work truck) 71 CHV K20 292 SM465, white, tach, PTO, (future project) 72 CHV K20 350 350th, medium blue (project stocker) 01 CHV K2500hd crew, indigo blue ^3 dont run and the others don't see winter either '86 K30 Cummins "Fireside" thread: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=649649 '71 K20 "get driveable" thread: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=590642 '72 K20 Build Thread: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=493477&page=6 |
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laying low
![]() Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Searcy, Ark. USA
Posts: 13,080
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Re: Good to be driving it again
Yeah, hook it up. Lets have a look.
The newer trucks are real nice with all the bells n whistles but a good ol basic truck can often save the day.
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Boog 69 Chevy stepside, 358/T350, 4.11 posi, 4.5/4 drop, rallys, poboy driver primer is finer 91 Chevy sportside, Tahoe, Yukon & GMC Crewcab All GM..'nuff said. I stand for the flag and kneel at the cross |
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