So what did you do with your truck today?

[gnathv]

i bought what I needed for less than $5. Here’s hoping the same for you.

 

[gnathv]

This is what fixed mine. It’s an assortment of 10. 3 of them are the Ford ones.

 

[Big Bart]

A couple of weeks ago help a friend move some junk to the landfill.

 

[Big Bart]

Today I used the old IH 7.3 IDI to move a IH tractor! Bought this new toy for the heck of it. Gasser unfortunately, but should be fun to tinker with.

My 17 year old son will have fun driving it too.

But my 6 year old nephew is going to loose it when I sit him on my lap and let him steer us around. Maybe I should put a towel down under him, heard Santa's get a lot of wet legs from excited kids!

 

[chillman88]

Ordered some front end parts for Diego this morning. My care package for Tank showed up finally after sitting in the UPS hub for a week.....

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Made in the USA? That's pretty rare.

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[IDIBRONCO]

There must have been a major screw up for it to dit in the UPS hub for a week. UPS seems to be the best way to ship these days.

 

[chillman88]

There must have been a major screw up for it to dit in the UPS hub for a week. UPS seems to be the best way to ship these days.

It was a slight exaggeration. It shipped on Thursday. Showed it was in Illinois on Sunday I think. Buffalo NY Monday and Tuesday, then showed Illinois again on Wednesday! I might be off a day but it was weird. I think it was supposed to be on the truck to Buffalo but then they found it in Illinois instead.

This might have been the one that the truck broke down en route too. Either way it was SCHEDULED To show up Monday

 

[mexicanjoe]

Well today i had to replaced both batteries on my '89...... LuluBelle just keeps me on my toes....was going to install new return oines and and maybe look at LMC for other parts but noooooooo! I should have bought a better quality battery but I have to take my son to his appointments in DFW and ended up buying @ Walmarts battery's.....cheap, but theyll do the job until more $$$$ is available.

 

[TNBrett]

Well today i had to replaced both batteries on my '89...... LuluBelle just keeps me on my toes....was going to install new return oines and and maybe look at LMC for other parts but noooooooo! I should have bought a better quality battery but I have to take my son to his appointments in DFW and ended up buying @ Walmarts battery's.....cheap, but theyll do the job until more $$$$ is available.

I wouldn’t feel bad about Walmart batteries. They’re all pretty much a crapshoot anymore regardless of who’s name is on it. I sure wouldn’t rush to replace them before they fail.

 

[bilbo]

I wouldn’t feel bad about Walmart batteries. They’re all pretty much a crapshoot anymore regardless of who’s name is on it. I sure wouldn’t rush to replace them before they fail.

I have always had good luck with Walmart’s batteries. I remember reading somewhere there’s only a few producers anyway so it’s probably the same as more expensive ones. I used to work there and someone came in with a big excursion saying we sold him a bad battery. The policy was to replace it no questions asked so that’s what we did. He was back two more times within a week saying we had sold him another bad battery. We tried to tell him there was more likely some other charging issue with his truck but he wasn’t having it. At the time I had a Taurus and my boss let me take his “bad” battery. Definitely never had starting issues in the Taurus with 1100A on tap! That battery lived in my Taurus until I sold it some 10 years later, and that’s in northern ND where winters are fairly ******* batteries.

 

[JAKRANCH]

Walked out of the shop to go put my horse up and the old bull nose made me smile so much I figured id better share

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[chillman88]

Measured the u-joint and ordered a new yoke and rear joint today. Also ordered a crush sleeve eliminator from Russ. Then I pulled the cowl off to check out the wiper situation.

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The bushing literally popped out of the linkage rod.....

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I put it back in and twisted it 90° to get it to stay put for now. Then I popped the ball out of the bushing and put some silicone grease in it before putting it all back together.


Then I tried replacing the dead washer pump with an inline pump from Amazon. No luck.

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It will move fluid, but no pressure. A little bit of fluid just dribbles out of the nozzle. That's enough fun with this truck frustrating me today.

 

[IDIBRONCO]

the old bull nose made me smile

Was your smile as big as the one on the fuel tank is?

 

[JAKRANCH]

Was your smile as big as the one on the fuel tank is?

Haha nope thats quite a smile to compete with

 

[Scotty4]

Measured the u-joint and ordered a new yoke and rear joint today. Also ordered a crush sleeve eliminator from Russ. Then I pulled the cowl off to check out the wiper situation.

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The bushing literally popped out of the linkage rod.....

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I put it back in and twisted it 90° to get it to stay put for now. Then I popped the ball out of the bushing and put some silicone grease in it before putting it all back together.


Then I tried replacing the dead washer pump with an inline pump from Amazon. No luck.

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It will move fluid, but no pressure. A little bit of fluid just dribbles out of the nozzle. That's enough fun with this truck frustrating me today.

That seam looks like it may give you problems down the road! Thats where my truck leaked