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Well, I got another steering wheel.
It is an EX-USAF stake bed. I got it through GSA. It was used at Shaw, so when it is fixed up and tagged, I'm going to drive it to work! lol. (I work at Shaw AFB)
I got to jump it off and test drive it, so I bid a little more than I wanted to, but my business is growing and I really needed a truck with a lift gate for swapping out WVO bins and it is a diesel.
I started to clean it up today until the fitting on my steam cleaner blew, so I need to get another one. Lift gate worked about 3 times up and down now it won't go all the way up anymore or drop back down. I loosened a hose and it dropped, but when I tried to get it to go back up it still wouldn't go all the way or drop down again. So I need to figure out what's wrong there. Plenty of fluid and the pump runs fine. I just have no experience with lift gates.
Cleaned out the battery box and installed two fresh group 31's.
It needs the deck boards replaced, a shimmy in the front end figured out, and I need to find a new alternator for it. It doesn't have just a field and stator, there is a third connection plus the batt connection on the back. Very odd, Napa didn't have anything like it. I might just get a single wire alternator, not sure yet. Depends on how hard it is to find and what it costs.
Engine runs great and transmission shifts smooth. All lights but one cab marker work, wipers work, so does the heat. has 9.00r20 on the rear in good shape, 8.25r20 on the front, in ok shape, starting to have a lot of sidewall cracking.
Can I run 395's dualed?
My plans are to find a pto for the Allison AT545 transmission, and mount a vacuum/pressure pump under the truck. I have a 1000 gallon steel tank I can swap onto the truck, and connect to the pump. Then I can use the truck to collect one day, or swing the bed off and go service and put out bins the next. Love double duty equipment.
Not sure if I'm going to leave it blue or come up with some company colors.
I'll keep the pictures coming as the progress progresses.
It is an EX-USAF stake bed. I got it through GSA. It was used at Shaw, so when it is fixed up and tagged, I'm going to drive it to work! lol. (I work at Shaw AFB)
I got to jump it off and test drive it, so I bid a little more than I wanted to, but my business is growing and I really needed a truck with a lift gate for swapping out WVO bins and it is a diesel.
I started to clean it up today until the fitting on my steam cleaner blew, so I need to get another one. Lift gate worked about 3 times up and down now it won't go all the way up anymore or drop back down. I loosened a hose and it dropped, but when I tried to get it to go back up it still wouldn't go all the way or drop down again. So I need to figure out what's wrong there. Plenty of fluid and the pump runs fine. I just have no experience with lift gates.
Cleaned out the battery box and installed two fresh group 31's.
It needs the deck boards replaced, a shimmy in the front end figured out, and I need to find a new alternator for it. It doesn't have just a field and stator, there is a third connection plus the batt connection on the back. Very odd, Napa didn't have anything like it. I might just get a single wire alternator, not sure yet. Depends on how hard it is to find and what it costs.
Engine runs great and transmission shifts smooth. All lights but one cab marker work, wipers work, so does the heat. has 9.00r20 on the rear in good shape, 8.25r20 on the front, in ok shape, starting to have a lot of sidewall cracking.
Can I run 395's dualed?
My plans are to find a pto for the Allison AT545 transmission, and mount a vacuum/pressure pump under the truck. I have a 1000 gallon steel tank I can swap onto the truck, and connect to the pump. Then I can use the truck to collect one day, or swing the bed off and go service and put out bins the next. Love double duty equipment.
Not sure if I'm going to leave it blue or come up with some company colors.
I'll keep the pictures coming as the progress progresses.
