a couple short vids

[Dsl_Dog_Treat]

i can't wait to get a concrete floor. for now it's gravel. what do you all think i should do to address ground moisture on the truck? park over a tarp?

Rob, you're prolly better off with the gravel floor. That will wick the moisture down and away instead of allowing it to set there.

My dad put concrete in his barn and if the fiver didn't leave for a year, you could see rust shavings forming directly under the frame rails.
He even parked his 72 Mach in there and resorted to putting cardboard or carpet chunks under there and swapped them out when they began to get damp. That helped.

 

[69oiler]

well it's an oily mess, like the aftermath when i eat at the local diner

i pulled the spare

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a good starting point

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my helper

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love potion #9

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mmm...oily

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all while this is going on

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time for a long winter's nap

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[mankypro]

Why not drive the truck in the winter? Fear of rust? It's a 4wd isn't it?

 

[david85]

Hey we have a tractor like that too. Ours is not so nice, but it still works after 50+ years.

Mine sleeps outside and gets driven through salt every year. So far I've been able to preserve the cab, rad support and the frame is good, but the rest of the body will have to be replaced some day. Oh well, it works for a living after all.

 

[mankypro]

The replacement body panels being sold today - according to my body shop guy - are electrostatically treated like all panels are on new cars today. If/when the bed rusts out I'll get a early 90's bed and swap it in as others have - supposedly the 90's + body panels are more rust resistant...

 

[82F100SWB]

Hmm, that tractor looks like a 55 or so Ferguson 35 painted Massey Ferguson colours. We have one of those(1955 deluxe, serial 140963) back home that's saddled with a loader and backhoe from the same era... Nice little tractor, way too much weight attached to it though.

 

[Russ]

Rob kind of hard to tell from the pic. but did you leave the windows down a little? Also a couple pie tins full of charcoal briskets will help keep the moisture down inside the carpet and seats.

 

[mankypro]

Wow, can't imagine having issues with humidity like that. The few times I've gone to the beach on the east coast - LI - there have been times when it felt like you could cut the air with your pocket knife. Ugh.

I love my high desert climate. Your towels actually dry sitting on the towel rack indoors.

 

[69oiler]

i did an OK job of preserving my old reg cab '86 even though i ran it all year. but the rust did start taking hold after 5 or 6 years in ohio despite my efforts. the RC was also a CA truck when i got it, it was mint and served me well for 7 years.

i took this vid just before i sold it

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there is no more brutal rust belt than Chardon Ohio. i have always been one to mock garage queens so i will have to eat crow this time and take my lumps for it. my IDI is put to work mercilessly in the saltless months but i wont subject it to road salt if i can help it.

the tractor is an MF TO35 and it has a 6' (borrowed) box scraper on it. its' a little much but it does the job if you take your time. i have a Dearborn Equipment front snow plow mounted on it now. the box scraper acts as weight for traction.

 

[69oiler]

also i have another very capable 4wd work truck that i dont mind the salt getting on. it tows my 16' enclosed trailer better too.

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[mankypro]

my 84' 6.9 didn't skip a beat pulling my 16' tandem for 2200 miles - well thats if you discount the FSV failing and needing a new starter

Nevermind that thing is a gasser, right? It gets...6mpg pulling that trailer?

also i have another very capable 4wd work truck that i dont mind the salt getting on. it tows my 16' enclosed trailer better too.

 

[92F350CC]

Nope, he's got a PSD in it. The early 99's had the V8 powerstroke badge on the fender, rather than the powerstroke badge on the door.

Dang Rob, your 86 is cleeeeean. The underside of my truck doesn't look near that nice. And I'll vouch for your statement about the ohio rust belt. I bought a 92 Chebby half ton from the Columbus area once. More rust than sheetmetal I tell ya.

 

[69oiler]

the '99 it a 7.3. both trucks get about 10-11 mpg towing. the PSD just does it at any speed i ask it to.

i was talking to Gruss yesterday, i think i'm going to install my turbo on my current 6.9 and work the bugs out that way before doing the engine swap. i cant bring myself to tear into a great running truck. plus cash flow has slowed down a little so this way i can get a trubo IDI sooner. i still have the crate 6.9 if the original one gives up.

 

[69oiler]

Wow, can't imagine having issues with humidity like that. The few times I've gone to the beach on the east coast - LI - there have been times when it felt like you could cut the air with your pocket knife. Ugh.

I love my high desert climate. Your towels actually dry sitting on the towel rack indoors.

i'd love to up and move out to Colorado or Arizona..or pretty much anywhere west of the Great Plains. got family and my business built here though. maybe in a few years...

the Great Lakes make sure we have plenty of moisture all year round. living down wind from Lake Erie we get a lot of gloomy cloudy days and a LOT of lake effect rain and snow. you can drive up from the south and see the clouds hanging over the lake and the shoreline. but i'll take it vs having water shortages like some areas have. or earthquakes or wildfires or tornadoes. if it wasn't for the snow (and the dead economy) it wouldn't be too bad here. it's snowing right now, i'll bet you'll see Chardon on the weather channel. it's our claim to fame along with Maple Syrup.

 

[CDX825]

Salt brine makes regular rock salt seem good. Man that stuff gets in everything and rust it out! They dump that stuff one the main roads like crazy around here. I'm working on undercoating right now myself. The truck has been undercoated twice already by the PO but its been awhile and it starting to come off in places.