What have you done to your 5 ton this week?

[overlordofmars]

Managed to get it running and drove it . I feel the power.

 

[Another Ahab]

Managed to get it running and drove it . I feel the power.

It's a beauty.

Say, overlordofmars, what's the story on the backhoe in your avatar? I know it's a drift to ask, but that's quite a rig.

Got a thread on here about it?

 

[my blood flows OD]

I bought a duece bed last week.

traded that for a 5 ton drop side Wednesday and got her mounted up on my m-813 Saturday. All went really well thanks to a few really good guys, rich from merlow nh who I got the deuce bed off. I don't know if he is on this board but he is a real good guy.
once again to Matt "vintage iron" for hooking me up with the drop side bed.
if you are in the New England area and need any thing mv related give Matt a call.
You should see his fab work. Top notch stuff.

Now just paint the cab and bolt up the HEMTT rims and 16.00's.
Or I could put them on the work truck?

 

[wilmart01]

Over the past few weekends, I upgraded my headlight system to 4 54W LED lightbars. I made these plug & play, using factory packard connectors and existing bolt holes. Bottom spot lights are low beams, click the floor switch and the upper flood beams come on along with the lowers with the use of a 50V diode from Radio Shack.
I sandblasted and repainted the front end and as of today, I'm nearly finished installing my train horns, all using factory packard connectors. Hornblasters Shocker 24V kit.
It's time to wake the dead!!

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I like your set of lights,
look what I did with mine.

 

[wilmart01]

Painted the hood, but I don't like the way came out,
i will try again.

 

[my blood flows OD]

What did you use to paint it?

 

[Another Ahab]

Painted the hood, but I don't like the way came out,
i will try again.


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Those are pics BEFORE you painted it, or AFTER?

 

[Andyrv6av8r]

Bounced left front tire off a tree and did thisView attachment 610679

I have a spare if you need one.

 

[wilmart01]

Those are pics BEFORE you painted it, or AFTER?

This picture was b-4,
the paint was right, same color,
was too wind and my spray gun I couldn't setup right to paint,
i need to buy new spray gun.

 

[wilmart01]

What did you use to paint it?

I started with a primer, the picture was the beginning.

 

[71DeuceAK]

I actually kinda like the red paint job! That's a M54, huh?

 

[Oldworldtenacity]

I installed new LED side clearance lights from Riverside MFG on the Frankencab now making all of the lights on the truck LED. They are even brighter than what I expected.

 

[71DeuceAK]

Looks good!

 

[MIDDLEMAN]

Shine'n bright!! Where is your favorite place to get the LED's?

 

[my blood flows OD]

I bought a ton of led's on Amazon. The price of led's are dropping in price.

 

[Ford Mechanic]

Progress over the weekend, done with the rock! And 2 of the pens back up. Now to take the other 2 pens down to get the mats up and beside the others. Then re-work the top to fit the 4 joined pens.

 

[General Hood]

Painted the under carriage today after removing a few rust spots, sorry no pics, as Sgt Major Plumley said......

You can't take no pictures lying down there sonny

 

[ross165123]

Had a leaking injector pump because some jackwagon didn't put a gasket back in it when they took it apart so I fixed that at the same time as I swaped out the #37 button with a #27 and why I was at it noticed my radiator was leaning to the side so I made some new bushings but ran out of time to install the radiator. Replace belts as well why I had the chance.
Ow yea by the way I also spent 20 min on the truck stuck with the radiator in my hands not knowing how to get it down. That SOB is heavy.


I was going to post pictures but I cant get them to load....

 

[gottaluvit]

Hauled a load of firewood home today. The local sawmill has a firewood machine that cuts and splits and they feed it the smaller diameter logs that I suspect come from clearing pipelines. All hardwood and $50/bucket load on the front end loader. I use my 5 ton regularly, but every time I drive/use it I love it more. That Allison shifts like a dream with Valvoline Dexron III.

 

[gottaluvit]

Replaced the H4 headlight bulbs with new old stock Volvo bulbs picked up from ebay. These are made in Germany, so I trust them to last longer than the China made ones I had in there. I ordered a spare just in case.