Recovery adventure today

[greenjeepster]

1500 is possible... It is hard to think in terms of dollar signs until you start selling stuff. You can compare prices with Ebay listings to get an idea.

Personally I would end up keeping the engine, winch, fuel tank, tail lights, drive shafts, and tires for spares. By the time you keep what you "need" you may only have a few hundred in scrap left..... I know we are a bad influence.

 

[gimpyrobb]

You would be crazy not to keep other small stuff like the IP, starter, and air comp too. I will add to that list once we start pulling things!

 

[JCKnife]

I guess I'll start a "parting out" thread with a better title.

 

[JCKnife]

Parting out thread is in the Classifieds.

http://www.steelsoldiers.com/parts-sale/78112-parting-out-1969-m35a2.html

 

[JCKnife]

A successful winch test! I'm as happy as a little girl.

 

[JCKnife]

Spent some time pulling parts today. Had a blast. It's nice when you don't have to worry about things going back together.

Pics attached for a couple questions:

1. Which turbo style is this?
2. I think I may have found the heater problem: shouldn't there be a ground wire somewhere? I only see one wire going to the heater / blower motor.
3. What is this extra plating in the back of the cab? I wouldn't call it armor--too thin. But my deuce doesn't have it. Looks like it's riveted in?

 

[sandcobra164]

That turbo is a C or whistler, you should have heard that thing whistling while driving it. The heater fan would work better with a ground wire, mine's grounded to the mount and only has 1 wire going to it. The plate behind the seat is a cab re-enforcement plate, truck may have had a machine gun mount on it at some point in it's life.

 

[sandcobra164]

I should have added, if you can get ahold of a towbar or if you already have one, you can sell everything but the axles and tires and just tow it to the scrap pile, course the axles could be worth the price you paid for the truck to the rock crawling and mudding community. Most scrappers have forklifts if you can drag the truck. Then you could have them lift the truck and use a torch to cut loose the axles, have them loaded up on a trailer and then sell them as well. I'm not much for parting a truck but that's how I'd do it.

 

[JCKnife]

I guess I'm doing it the hard way. Won't be the first time.

Can I pull the heater and test it by just running + and - wires to a 24-v battery circuit? Or do I need something else in between?

 

[greenjeepster]

I guess I'm doing it the hard way. Won't be the first time.

Can I pull the heater and test it by just running + and - wires to a 24-v battery circuit? Or do I need something else in between?

I would start by bypassing the switch. I bet 80% chance the problem is with the switch. You can run a new feed to it without removing the heater.

Worst case sell the core and ducting with a blower in unknown condition. I would knock about 50.00 off of what you would have asked if the blower was working. Or put it on ebay and let it end where it will.... These are a hot item this time of year, lots of deuces out there without heaters.

 

[JCKnife]

The battery box is already out of the truck, so anything I hook up at this point will be kinda hand-fabbed. I will try just hooking straight up to 2 batteries if no one sees a problem with that.

 

[renovate7]

I'm late to this thread but around here the axles alone will bring $300-$500 each. When I have my A2 anywhere in public the "youngsters" just stare at them in awe...Try posting just them on Craigslist and see what happens.

 

[greenjeepster]

Electronics is not my area of expertise, but I would guess that it is wired through relays, resistors etc and probably would melt down if you direct wired it to 24 volts.

If you are going to take it out anyway, hook it to the feed to your heater from your other truck and test it that way.

 

[JCKnife]

...five months later...

The scrap man is going to haul off the rest today!

Thanks everybody for making this a fun and worthwhile adventure.

 

[Seth_O]

...five months later...

The scrap man is going to haul off the rest today!

Thanks everybody for making this a fun and worthwhile adventure.

If that's all that's left - you did good! Not looking for a specific figure, but did you meet your $1500 breakeven point?

Wish I would have seen this earlier, and gone after some parts

 

[JCKnife]

If that's all that's left - you did good! Not looking for a specific figure, but did you meet your $1500 breakeven point?

Wish I would have seen this earlier, and gone after some parts

I did a little better'n that, even. And gave very fair (low) prices, especially to folks who could come and pull their own parts. I learned a lot, too.

Plus I still have a lot in my "spare parts" room to keep for myself, incl a nearly-new radiator, starter, alternator, compressor, turbo...and the engine block.

 

[gimpyrobb]

Might want to pull the bearings out of the trunion caps!

 

[JCKnife]

Might want to pull the bearings out of the trunion caps!

OK, i found a way to git er done and found...doesn't seem to have bearings! Some kind of solid spacer / cone?

EDIT: yeah I talked to Gimpy and he remembered that some of them have solid bushings instead of bearings. Oh well, I have these if anyone needs them.

 

[lawdog1623]

congratulations. I hope you get her restored and back to the original beauty quickly. God bless

 

[RedbeardTheZombieHunter]

Opportunity is BANGING on the door!

Why not get what you what off it and list it at scrap price before scraping , hate to see good parts go to china.

I'm with porky! A multifuel engine is a terrible thing to waste!
Why not just fix the trans, get a couple cabs, graft em together, throw on a 105 bed and build a crew cab and sell it for what you get into it! I'm pretty sure there's a few SS members that'll buy that in a heartbeat! What MV collector wouldn't kill for a crew cab bobber like those $64,000 beauties C&C sells? Am I write here guys?