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Is the fuel gauge reading but incorrect or just not moving? When I got my truck it was reading incorrectly so I ordered a new sending unit. When I took the old one out I found the reason it was reading incorrectly is because the resistor was covered in algae. I installed the new sending unit anyway but you may be able to clean that off and not replace the sending unit if that's the issue. Just pull out the sending unit and inspect it. The floats also break off as well so you may find that rolling around inside the tank.
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Thanks for the advice ill take a look at that! The gauge is all over the place. It will go to full when i fill the tank and go down to 3/4 at some point then it will go back up to full and bounce around between 3/4 and full even when lower at half a tank or less.
This is the first time i actually have to truck at my home location since i purchased it. Feeling a bit overwhelmed with the amount of work i want to get done.
Im making two lists. One is work i can do the other is work i will have to source out to a mechanic.
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Just starting to get some parts in so no updates on things that have been done to the truck but... I have been doing some smoking! Enjoy!
Opions on either installing a new airpack that came with the truck or selling and using the money for other things i need done now. Was told my brakes were done right before i bought the truck but i havent been able to get in there to confirm.
And some other pics from the restaurant im working at.
Opions on either installing a new airpack that came with the truck or selling and using the money for other things i need done now. Was told my brakes were done right before i bought the truck but i havent been able to get in there to confirm.
And some other pics from the restaurant im working at.
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Sorry, was going to read what you wrote but stared at food instead.
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OK, now you just made me hungry ! I was so hungry I forgot to mention the fuel gauge problem !
The sender on these deuces can get corroded so bad they will never read correctly again. You probably just need to replace it with a nice NOS unit. There are plenty out there.
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Can we make a reservation, please:
- "Steel Soldiers"; party of three.
And can you save some room at the table? We like to get together, and there's going to be more for sure.
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Thanks for the kind words guys! Im working hard to make this happen.
Its obviously not legal to serve food off the truck. If you start from the beginning of the thread you would see that im in the middle of the conversion and still have to enclose the entire back of the truck to a "screened in porch". All of my fabrication is being planned an costed out it wont be until feb/march till that work is started/completed. I apperciatte the concern though.
I am smoking meats on the truck and selling them out of a licesned establishment. Which is totally legal. I have done way to much research at this point i have driven myself to buy a deuce an install a smoker on it.
Right now i am doing some smoke an wind with the truck an making seem like im actually cooking on it everyday. The truck has been great advertisement to lead people to our spot and grab some good foods. So in short the truck is out front loaded with wood smoking like a champ bringing that good smell an we are reheating up smoked foods in the oven. No harm no foul just not doing it daily.
Its obviously not legal to serve food off the truck. If you start from the beginning of the thread you would see that im in the middle of the conversion and still have to enclose the entire back of the truck to a "screened in porch". All of my fabrication is being planned an costed out it wont be until feb/march till that work is started/completed. I apperciatte the concern though.
I am smoking meats on the truck and selling them out of a licesned establishment. Which is totally legal. I have done way to much research at this point i have driven myself to buy a deuce an install a smoker on it.
Right now i am doing some smoke an wind with the truck an making seem like im actually cooking on it everyday. The truck has been great advertisement to lead people to our spot and grab some good foods. So in short the truck is out front loaded with wood smoking like a champ bringing that good smell an we are reheating up smoked foods in the oven. No harm no foul just not doing it daily.
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Whoa, it's a joke son. Your presentation is far superior to anything expected out of an old smelly (yes, all the deuce cabs have a particular smell), oily, probably rusty truck that served all those that served. My fondness for military vehicles and food would be a natural and I'd line up for some of your feast.
Carry on, I rest my case
Carry on, I rest my case
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Geez sorry guy! Its always hard to see the intranet sarcasm :/ ive been in so many BBQ forums and trying to research the **** out my foods, some of those guys are so BBQ snobby an rude its crazy. I forget what a great bunch of helpful guys you are! My appologies!
Free lunch for you if you can find the truck here in Lecanto!
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Got some actual work done to the truck today. The bed is rhino lined!
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Truck has been resting for a bit but ive got a bunch of work done!
New alternator
New master cylinder
New short airpack
New belts and hoses
New brake cylinders all the way around
New wheel bearings
Also the conversion to food truck has begun. Here are some pics. Enjoy!
New alternator
New master cylinder
New short airpack
New belts and hoses
New brake cylinders all the way around
New wheel bearings
Also the conversion to food truck has begun. Here are some pics. Enjoy!
That is a lot of work! I'd rather enjoy a smoked brisket but will settle for pictures.
I have the perfect piece to pull behind it, a large cast iron flask that weighs 1500#. Cast lets the infrared heat of a wood fire transmit through, giving great flavors . It's on a dually truck rear end with a dropped down work area and can be wood fired from outside or inside. I build a fire under it and do things like seafood boil or cooked 18 dozen ears of corn by super-heating and then putting water it (about burned myself on HOT steam). Chili slow cooked over a wood fire in it is really good. I had the trailer titled, so plating is easy too.
Have you fired your new cooker yet and where will you go, to festivals and the like?
My daughter is a tourism major in college. It might be cool to start a uber-like database of mobile vending with persons like yourself, ready and set up to do vending for events.