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Weekend at Wreckeman's

Capt.Marion

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End result: smashing success. Clint and Dawn's truck runs beautifully, and with a little more bleeding, the brake pedal should be hard as a rock.

From my house, to WM's in Alabama, to Rome, and finally home, I averaged 39 mph over 5 hours 52 minutes of driving and 209.2 miles. Not bad for a 43 year old truck!

Mine's the one in the lead with the singled 11.00s and muffler...

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-LM10oxcuo[/media]
 

OPCOM

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Wish I could have been there. It's too hot in Texas.. Bu that outweighs many other problems we do not have.
 

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We had an awesome Saturday and luck was definitely with us.

Wreckerman had picked the truck up for clintogf from Redstone and gotten it home. I asked him to take a look at it and let me know what to expect. We already knew from the GL pics it had no light switch and the driver's seat bottom was trashed.

He checked it out and it had a master full of fluid and no pedal whatsoever and it didn't pump up with repeated pedal application, so I knew it wasn't just a lot of air in the system.

So we brought my F-150 and Dave's M416 trailer FULL of parts and tools. Brake bleeder, new airpack and a new master cylinder, belts, hoses, filters, lightbulbs, cmpressor wrench tool, rotella, GL1, 5 gallons of coolant and 10 gallons of water, etc. When we go on a recovery we are prepared!

We get to Wreckerman's somewhere a hair before 10am (due to me missing a turn on the way there and having to backtrack) and we get started. I plugged the output of the master and it still didn't pump up so I figured it was the culprit. We swapped the master and found out the new master cylinders are slightly different from the old ones and you have to remove one of the 11/16" plugs from the end in order to install them.

With help from Capt. Marion, the master cylinder was installed and I bled it and after a few minutes, got the pedal to come up. I didn't have the right fitting to bench bleed the master and I think some air was in it.

Installed another battery box that had 2 good batteries in it and checked the oil and antifreeze. While I was doing the master I checked the driveline bolts.

Fired it up, went for a test drive and pronounced it good to go. :D It's definitely a cold natured truck-it didn't really want to go over abour 40 until it got good and hot, then it would run.

We left WM's and had lunch with Capt. Marion @ Subway then headed over to HndrsonJ's house to meet Twright who had repainted the tailgate on my F-150 after I backed into a tree at work. His shop did a gorgeous job (my dad wants him to paint his Chevelle now) and I was thrilled to have a tailgate on my truck again.

All in all a good day, clintogf picked up her new Deuce/5 ton 3 color camo cab tops (yes, for sale and waaaay cheap for SS members), she got her deuce and it's a whistler with very few problems (no turn signals-I gotta get the test light out and figure out what's going on) and I got my tailgate. But oh lord it was hot-over 90 degrees and very high humidity.

I really can not express my extreme appreciate to WM for being such a gracious hose and giving us a shady spot to work, letting us use his tools and generally just being awesome, Marion for driving over and getting greasy helping me get the truck prepped and Twright for painting my tailgate. Much thanks to my Dad for going along and helping as well.

Now some pics!
 

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Thanks, Joe. It seems to be a really good truck. Clinto was like a kid at Christmas, he loves the whistlers.

Thanks again to Wrecker and Capt. Marion for all of their help yesterday, it was greatly appreciated. Clint's Dad was also with us for the ride as well. It was nice to have someone to talk to on the ride back home. He was also the mission photographer at times as well.
 

papabear

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Those are very nice pics :jumpin:

Now....who's holding out on us??:roll: There has to have been some sort of shinnanigans cause Wreckerman was involved:eek:

Are we to believe this was a multi recovery mission with no snafu's??:p
 

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papabear

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Fine then...I'll tell the story:

Clinto and Marion were just kinda walking around Wreckerman's AO taking a break when they found a HUGE sink hole near the wood line.

Clinto looked at Marion and said..."Dang...how deep you recon this hole is??"
Marion said " Heck...let's find something to throw in and see how long it takes to hit bottom!!?

Well....they looked around and found an ole deuce tramsmission close by. They carried/drug/rolled it to the hole and pushed it in.

Just as they were standing up a goat came from the woodline and jumped straight into the hole!!! No hesitation...no nothing...just jumped right in!!!

Clinto and Marion were baffeled and then is when Wreckerman shows up and asks..."Hey guys...have you seen my goat anywhere?"

They both shrugged and said the goat had run out of the woodline and jumped right into the huge hole....musta been suicide!!!!

IMPOSSIBLE!!! Yelled Wreckerman....He could NOT have done that...

I had him tied securely to an ole deuce transmission!!!rofl
 

gunboy1656

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Fine then...I'll tell the story:

Clinto and Marion were just kinda walking around Wreckerman's AO taking a break when they found a HUGE sink hole near the wood line.

Clinto looked at Marion and said..."Dang...how deep you recon this hole is??"
Marion said " Heck...let's find something to throw in and see how long it takes to hit bottom!!?

Well....they looked around and found an ole deuce tramsmission close by. They carried/drug/rolled it to the hole and pushed it in.

Just as they were standing up a goat came from the woodline and jumped straight into the hole!!! No hesitation...no nothing...just jumped right in!!!

Clinto and Marion were baffeled and then is when Wreckerman shows up and asks..."Hey guys...have you seen my goat anywhere?"

They both shrugged and said the goat had run out of the woodline and jumped right into the huge hole....musta been suicide!!!!

IMPOSSIBLE!!! Yelled Wreckerman....He could NOT have done that...

I had him tied securely to an ole deuce transmission!!!rofl

Guess the other lawnmowers are going to have to work a little harder for a while. rofl
 

Stan Leschert

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With you lot, any thing is possible. Advisable???? BTW about your Turtle/ Roadkill recovery/ recipe, up here, we all packed Tobasco to kill the taste of our IMPs (Northern MRE). They still tasted like crap, but if you masked the taste well enough, you could eat it!


Congrats on the sucessful road trip.

BTW, Elkhunter, why don't you send them some real rations! Elk and Trout might be a nice change from WM and his food c/w NDT tracks!
 
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