So what did you do with your truck today?

IDIBRONCO said:

The poor guy's going to freeze now during the winters! WMO probably won't flow very well during those times either.

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My concern is the nose bleeds and ears popping being so far above sea level......

And probably done with WMO for a while....it takes a long time to get established with such.

That's a funny thing. I don't really have issues with my ears popping at altitude. It seldom happens, even going from about 2100' to 9000'+. I just feel tired for the first day. After I sleep that night, I'm fine for the rest of the time.

Praying for you. If you do decide to move farther north, ping me. Interior Alaska is a great place to raise kids.

nelstomlinson said:

Praying for you. If you do decide to move farther north, ping me. Interior Alaska is a great place to raise kids.

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I already called dibs on him, he'd make a great neighbor!

nelstomlinson said:

Praying for you. If you do decide to move farther north, ping me. Interior Alaska is a great place to raise kids.

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Nero said:

I already called dibs on him, he'd make a great neighbor!

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Yall are just too far...... but if the Lord in his sovereignty dumps huge sums of cash in my coffers, ill keep Oregon and Alaska in mind.....one of my current favorite preachers is in southern Oregon.

I didn't take any pictures. I had a friend help me move a non running truck from behind my garage to the front so I can start working on it. Then we went over to another guy's property to look at the 1994 Explorer that he's getting from him. The key switch was broken off at the inside end. It looks like ours and was broken right at the cross looking part of it. Some ham ****** ogre had tried to break it out. I looked at it and tried with a pair of needle nose pliers. It wasn't lined up with the brass half moon piece inside so I got a small flat tip screwdriver and managed to turn the brass piece and remove the broken piece. He stuck his new key switch inside and it turned. Naturally there was no battery so I got out my jumper cables. The starter turned over 3-4 times and the engine started. That's after sitting for 3 years! We were both amazed. He talked about going to buy a new battery so I told him that he should also get a can of Sea Foam and a bottle of Heet to dump in the tank. Better safe than sorry.

Home sick, so I fired up the old girl for the first time in 8 months (didn't get any big snows over the cold months, she's just sat all winter)
Gave her some "fooked" batteries from work (the kids don't understand that checking water levels in the batteries can save a customer hundreds of dollars and the current service manager isn't any better).
The worst part is the customer paid for the new ones, but the batteries have 04/25 stickers with an 18 month free replacement label.......
Stuff like that is why my resume is visible on Indeed these days......
One of these days I'll get the belt for the vacuum pump, put on a 1-wire alternator a couple of years ago and it's a 3g instead of a 1g, needs a shorter belt..... or hydroboost....

Well it wasn’t today but the last couple of days.

Got the body swap done this past weekend. Tore the front ends apart and broke loose all the body/bed bolts Friday. Saturday I hauled them up to the horse ranch and used the tractor to swap the cabs. Made sure to run the IDI off a single battery and jumper wire to make moving it around a lot easier. Got the body and bed bolted down, all the accessories hooked back up short of the front clip and the wiring.
Sunday was body panels, interior reassembly and the smaller details. The swap went so smooth I drove it to work today. Minor oil leak coming from the fuel pump gasket but that’s an easy fix.

The whole goal behind doing the swap was fuel mileage, believe it or not. I have literally nothing but time invested into doing this and the tired 351W that was getting 7 mpg gets to rest.

Somehow I forgot to get a finished project picture but she’s doing work now.

Edited the post due to an accidental double post. Here’s more pictures in no specific order.

R Squared said:

Well it wasn’t today but the last couple of days.

Got the body swap done this past weekend. Tore the front ends apart and broke loose all the body/bed bolts Friday. Saturday I hauled them up to the horse ranch and used the tractor to swap the cabs. Made sure to run the IDI off a single battery and jumper wire to make moving it around a lot easier. Got the body and bed bolted down, all the accessories hooked back up short of the front clip and the wiring.
Sunday was body panels, interior reassembly and the smaller details. The swap went so smooth I drove it to work today. Minor oil leak coming from the fuel pump gasket but that’s an easy fix.

The whole goal behind doing the swap was fuel mileage, believe it or not. I have literally nothing but time invested into doing this and the tired 351W that was getting 7 mpg gets to rest.

Somehow I forgot to get a finished project picture but she’s doing work now.

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Man, thats serious......great job!

Hey guys.....I was thinking the other day about him and I just checked, but @Old Goat hasn't logged in since the 11th of Feb.......anybody got a contact on him?.....hes tough as nails, but no spring chicken......

Old age catches up with us ALL! I hope Old Goat is doing well!

Jesus Freak said:

Hey guys.....I was thinking the other day about him and I just checked, but @Old Goat hasn't logged in since the 11th of Feb.......anybody got a contact on him?.....hes tough as nails, but no spring chicken......

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I had been wondering about him a couple of weeks ago. He is usually on more often than that... I think he's somewhere between 80-82 in age, seemed like he said he was 80 not all that long ago. I hope he's doing okay...
@ttman4, do you know him personally? If I recall correctly, you two don't live all that far away from each other... across the OR-NV border

Edit: Nevermind, I guess you're closer to Bend, not very close to Goat

Well kept working through some more old truck woes today. Got to work and found out the truck was spraying fuel from the #3 injector area. Local parts house had an injector return line kit. No dice….

Limped it home and thankfully that core injection pump I got from @Jesus Freak had spare lines on it. Swapped it out and she’s good as new.

Also swapped out front pads, rubber brakes lines, swapped out the leaky master cylinder, and got rid of the clogged 15+ year old muffler in favor of a 3” flow master FX that runs to just in front of the rear axle.

Should be a much better drive to work tomorrow!

I'm considering a 3 1/2" Hypermax which I believe is similar to the Flowmaster. Do you notice any improvement, and is the cab noise worse?