Anyone in Missouri have a decent rig for sale?

[Old Goat]

Sounds like an Evinrude!!

Young crowd here won`t even know what that is.


Goat

 

[IDIBRONCO]

I’m talking out of my league but I think the vacuum pump was where a distributor would go, which was turned by the cam and that shaft also connected to the oil pump. Like a SBC.

I've only seen one 5.7 and I didn't look at it very closely, but that's how the 6.2/6.5 engines were. Seeing as how GM didn't really do much evolution from the 5.7-6.5 I feel safe in assuming that the 5.7 was built the same way.

 

[nelstomlinson]

I have my 87 F250 in SW Arkansas (extended cab, long bed, 2017 installed all tertian tires with under 15k miles on them) I need to probably sell, but I'm in Arizona right now. I am considering going back out there around June actually, but that might be too late? It's not perfect but it was running good when parked late 2020. But I realize that's further from Alaska than you already are. Figured I'd mention it anyway.

She's out looking at SUVs and Subarus right now, but if she's still looking in June I'll tell her to get in touch with you. She's in SW Misery, so a whole state away, but maybe y'all could work something out.

 

[KansasIDI]

Evinrude? Boat motors? Only thing I could think of. Small 2 stroke outboard engines, at least I think.

I’ll google it later and see what else has that name

 

[Old Goat]

Yeah Evenrude and Johnson were the top Out Boards when I was a kid growing up. Some you had to wind the rope around the pulley each time trying to get one to start. Were no rewinders.
I remember my Dad buying a 10HP Evenrude for the 14ft runabout we had and with the home built trailer. Think that was 1956 or 57. And we had a 53 Chevy PU.


Goat

 

[Cant Write]

In my neck of the woods in SD, Evinrudes where known to be cold blooded, hard to start but would run forever once started.

 

[KansasIDI]

The IDIs start and run all winter, long as we plug'em in. We use stadard flooded lead acid batteries. Long as they're charged, they don't freeze. We put a trickle charger on the battery, a heat patch on the oil pan (another on the transmission oil pan for automatics) and the block heater.

If you get up this way give us a shout.

Edited to add: what do you do for a living, KansasIDI?

Glad that the IDIs work good for you up there.

Will do.

So I farm with my parents, and my dad builds feedlots, I work for him. We are one of 5 companies in the United States that pour concrete feed bunks in place. There are 3 competing companies, and Cactus Feeders, they are so big that they pour their own bunks. Another company that I know of who is based out of France. And 11 companies that do it in Australia. That’s all. No one else is crazy enough to do it. We are the only guys who bring a concrete plant on site to do it. We make our own concrete, put up the fence, sometimes buildings, we put in the water lines. All with 9 people. 9 of the right people.

 

[KansasIDI]

More pics

 

[KansasIDI]

We also do the dirtwork

 

[KansasIDI]

Probably not many Dodge savvy people looking at this part of the forum, but you may notice that some of the work trucks are Mega Cabs… with 9’ beds…

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We send them to Salt Lake City to get stretched professionally… they are ungodly long.

 

[Nero]

Better than kenworths with ultra sleepers. Talk about land yacths at 48" bumper to mudflap

 

[KansasIDI]

I have a daughter who's in Missouri until June, and she wants to buy a truck down there and drive it back to Alaska. Her budget is about $6k. The truck has to be solid enough to get here from there with no issues. She's going to want me to help with maintenance in the future, so an IDI would be ideal...

Edited to add: she's looking in Overland Park, Kansas, too, so I guess Kansas or Missouri or whatever's close.

Did she ever find something?

 

[nelstomlinson]

Yes, she bought a little Toyota, and started driving north yesterday with a friend.

 

[nelstomlinson]

@KansasIDI, there is a lot of heavy construction in Alaska, but probably no real scope for your specialty. We could have a much bigger cattle industry if we had a slaughterhouse, but right now herds are sized in dozens, because there just isn't a way to dispose of more.

 

[KansasIDI]

@KansasIDI, there is a lot of heavy construction in Alaska, but probably no real scope for your specialty. We could have a much bigger cattle industry if we had a slaughterhouse, but right now herds are sized in dozens, because there just isn't a way to dispose of more.

I figured there weren’t any feedlots up there, but I didn’t realize that you don’t have a slaughterhouse. Takes some government bribery to get one

There probably aren’t enough Mennonites in Alaska to get the feedlot industry started and keep it rolling

P.S: I am not a Mennonite, as I don’t have a Lets Go Biden (yes Biden no not Brandon) sticker on my rear window. Probably why my dad gets along with the Mennonites so well… liberals… but I must say that I find it surprising that the Mennonite Church hasn’t bought a bunk paver so they don’t have to outsource having feedlots built by people outside the Mennonite community. Tight knit they are…