Talk me out of it... (buying more junk)

[Danielle]

I hide everything behind the garage now and he seems to be happy now.

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[210Tumbleweed]

Well if'n you're gonna be parting that off....How much fer the cool flashy lights and that righteous roadkill style airdam bumperette???? PM.....pleeeeze?

OOOO....and if that's a functional CB ?

 

[chillman88]

Well if'n you're gonna be parting that off....How much fer the cool flashy lights and that righteous roadkill style airdam bumperette???? PM.....pleeeeze?

OOOO....and if that's a functional CB ?

I'll let you know if/when it follows me home.

 

[subway]

I hide everything behind the garage now and he seems to be happy now.

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hehe, that is how some things work i pick up. i have to keep them in the garage for a "normalization" period. after they have been there several months to a year they have become a normalized citizen of my empire of dirt like they have always been there!

 

[tjsea]

Well you know you could always say you were picking it up for one of us and then we could just never have a chance to come get it, haha! Then when she sees you parting it out just act pissed because so and so never came to pick it up after a year or 2 lol!

Also if scrapping the frame save everything in the front half till your swap is done. You dont want to scrap it and then find out you needed a bracket or something. I'd probaly just cut it off behind the front leaf springs so it could all stay together till you did the swap.

 

[chillman88]

. I'd probaly just cut it off behind the front leaf springs so it could all stay together till you did the swap.

Actually that's my plan exactly.

 

[chillman88]

Alright so I'm pretty sure I'll be picking it up. Any tricks to getting it to fire? It's got bad o-rings so it won't hold a prime. It would be REALLY helpful to be able to drive it to load it.

My plan is to pull the filter, fill it with ATF and see what she does. If that doesn't work I'll crack a couple lines to bleed the air out and try again.

Any other suggestions?

I don't know if I could try pull starting it or not because of where it is. Need to avoid tearing up the lawn.

 

[Thewespaul]

If you have one of those pancake compressors fill it up at the house and bring it with you. You can pressurize the tank to help it prime. A wif of ether with the gpc disconnected and it’ll fire if it’s got good batteries and a starter

 

[chillman88]

Hmm... Depends if there's rust holes in the tank lol. Worth a shot. I've got two small air tanks so I can do that. As long as there's air left after I fill up the flat tire.

I was considering unhooking the gpc and giving it a whiff of ether anyway. No telling if the gp's work or not right now.

I looked at the frame a bit the other day and it's flakey but solid. I'm going to see if it'll pass a safety inspection and hopefully drive it this winter.

Anyone know for sure if I can put single wheels on it after I pull the adapters off the D60? Sounds like I can from everything I've read. I think being cab and chassis the rear axle is similar outside width to a srw anyway?

 

[Duke57]

Even "I'm" not THAT stupid lol

I am!

 

[laserjock]

As they say, nothing but fear and common sense keeping you from it.

[emoji6]

If it has true dually d60 hubs I think there is a physical swap of hubs required. Not just the adapter bit. The arrowcraft adapters bolt to the srw wheel studs. As for the rear end, I think the rims will bolt right up but I have no idea on what the backspacing may need to be. I guess so long as you clear the leaf springs, a little wide or narrow won’t hurt anything just to be a driver.

 

[chillman88]

Yep, got the title today. He had the keys last week when I was over there but can't find them now go figure, just my luck. I know him so he's not some shady punk trying to mess with me. He's going to keep looking and let me know if he finds them. If not I'll either have to find a way to force the key cylinder to disengage the column lock or swap it out for a loose column I have here.

 

[chillman88]

If it has true dually d60 hubs I think there is a physical swap of hubs required.

You might be right, I may have been looking at the wrong thread. I'm saw mention of D50 hubs working so I'll keep researching. Won't matter unless it passes safety inspection anyway lol.

 

[laserjock]

Dana 50 hubs should work. Everything after the spindle I believe is identical. The spindle is slightly different.

 

[chillman88]

Alright well the plan is to try and haul it home tomorrow. He still can't find the keys so I'll be taking a spare very loose steering column (the one that came on my 91) with me and swapping it out. One of the tires is flat so I'm hoping it'll take air long enough to get it on my dolly.

Hopefully tomorrow night there'll be a thread on here about it making it home with no issues