"The Crummy" - '77 K30

[73kay]

Originally Posted by 808_67C10

Proper load and splitting butts.... HA HA what kind of web site is this? HA HA HA HA

Hahahaha lmao

[Molberg]

sub'd... love the story. Will follow this one

[jlsanborn]

Crummy gets a little love! Clutch has been clapped for a couple years now. We pulled it in around 9:00 this morning and by 10:30 it was going on the stand. Goin easy too, no mad rush. Got a new 12" clutch pack but couldn't get the flywheel done so it's looking like later this week to get it back together. Getting a rear main seal too. Boy went crazy with degreaser and the washer and got it looking clean!

[jlsanborn]

Pair of squares, workers.

[mcbassin]

Nice work removing the engine. You guys made that look too easy.

[jlsanborn]

Thanks Mike! This thing really is too easy. Bare bones electrical and a manual trans make it quick work. Even with a big block there's tons of room under the hood and underneath.

Replaced the rear main only to find a pretty nice groove on the journal, so it'll probably still be a little dripper. I should have ordered an offset seal but didn't feel like waiting. Ran through all the valves too, mainly to see if we had any lobe loss. Looks good. Buttoned the pan back up, just waiting to get the clutch back on. Flywheel is done but I forgot exhaust manifold gaskets UGH! Should have it stabbed back in and pretty well wrapped after chow.

[rusty76]

Cool truck.

[Low Elco]

How did I miss this? You got me remembering Firewooding with Boppa when I was a kid. Kept the wolf away form the door through 2 winters on firewood. Oddly, some of the best times. Dig the Crummy, it always looks p*ssed off.

[slotard]

I've read the 14FF G80s aren't as bad as the 10 bolt but I guess you were beating on them pretty hard... break anything else in the axle often? 14FFs are pretty sturdy but that much weight in the bed and beating on it takes a toll on anything.

It almost sounds like you should find an old deuce and a half with a PTO winch.

[jlsanborn]

Originally Posted by rusty76

Cool truck.

Thanks! I like it too!

Originally Posted by Low Elco

How did I miss this? You got me remembering Firewooding with Boppa when I was a kid. Kept the wolf away form the door through 2 winters on firewood. Oddly, some of the best times. Dig the Crummy, it always looks p*ssed off.

You're in now Chip! I've got some work to do here before firewood season starts again.

Originally Posted by slotard

I've read the 14FF G80s aren't as bad as the 10 bolt but I guess you were beating on them pretty hard... break anything else in the axle often? 14FFs are pretty sturdy but that much weight in the bed and beating on it takes a toll on anything.

It almost sounds like you should find an old deuce and a half with a PTO winch.

The G80 has been pretty reliable for me to date. Any more troubles there and I'll find an open diff and do the Lincoln Locker We went out to the ORV park on Jan 1 for the Hangover Run, hosted by a local off-road club. Low range, 3rd gear, WFO in about 12" of snow. The thing is a beast man BUT the double cardan did NOT like the angle it's at. Dropped my new driveline on the ground. I'll post a pic here soon.

[jlsanborn]

Originally Posted by slotard

It almost sounds like you should find an old deuce and a half with a PTO winch.

I too have long thought about a big-rig. I gave a four-bolt 350 to a pal for his dad's '49 wood gitter. It has a PTO/Hydraulic winch and a dump bed. I've also considered a PTO winch on the Crummy. The Warn is a tough SOB but no duty-cycle. If Wifey wins, we'll be getting a furnace in the next ten years, so maybe I can retire the Crummy then.

[slotard]

I mean an M35A1, so not quite big rig but significantly bigger. Some guys like to put bigger singles on them too, and from what I read they're pretty cheap.

[jlsanborn]

Swiss Cheeze! Power steering pump is not happy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x50TLShe1bM

[AnotherWs6]

Originally Posted by jlsanborn

Hear that. I've also heard them called Gov-Bombs. I can tell ya that my original one saw "reasonable service" for the 10-15 years that I ran it. Dunno how much use it'd seen before me but I would bet it was commercial. I rodded on it plenty too. I did swap the old 350 4bbl to a "mild" 454, lifted and switched from a 265 to a 315 (31" to 35"). That was a big tree too and the Boy is a lead foot. We were half loaded and he did this big roll-back thing in 4L with big wood on the line - lemme say YANK! That Dana 60 was bouncing off the ground with the secondary's open (need video this year). That said, I trashed two of them last year and I'm just fixin to go after some more big-boys again (got a winch and a total of 450' of wire rope now baby!). If I lose another one I'll for sure upgrade. I'd need to grab an open-carrier to do the Detroit or some other lunch-box. Maybe just Lincoln-lock an open?? I have to admit, when I swapped them G80's I simply slapped my old ring gear and bolts on to the bone-yard carrier, jammed the carrier into the pinion tight, then backed it off one or two holes. Fresh oil and full throttle!

Lol, that's the way to do it. I've spent the better part of a day measuring backlash etc. - doin it "right" while my friends kept pointing out that there are probably millions of back yard mechanics do exactly what you did and they are fine. I had a G80 blow pulling away from a stop sign. Just a little goose cuz i was crossing a busy road with blind corners and BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!! I literally thought a gun had gone off for a few seconds. It was that sharp and loud. Put some good sized chunks/gauges in my my pumpkin and dented the steel cover pretty good. Did NOT put a new one back in. It would still drive too though.

Sick truck, I wish I had a legit reason to own something like that. Yanking big trees out of the woods with a big, old truck sounds pretty godam fun!

[jlsanborn]

Thanks for the read! Sadly, the big fella has been neglected. The double cardan is still in a coffee can. A couple of the doors need mechanism work too. I've got about zero firewood so I gotta get it in the shop here soon.