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.
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!
There has to have been some sort of shinnanigans cause Wreckerman was involved
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