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  1. mybigwarwagon

    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    No work done on the truck. But I did decide to look and see if there was still paint under all the mud today.
  2. mybigwarwagon

    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    The old girl started running like a hammered dog turd yesterday, and I didn't think it was going to get back home. It finally did. No check engine light so I figured it had to be fuel, I pulled the filter off. I am pretty sure that it was the factory filter.
  3. mybigwarwagon

    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    I am getting a lot more than it is worth, but I will still have to work. Some of the farms around here are getting 7 figures.... Now to the truck. If you give a gorilla crayons and tell him to draw a schematic. Now I just need a dry place to work. And if you need professional...
  4. mybigwarwagon

    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    3 acres. At least for the next 12 months. A lithium mine has a contract to buy my place.
  5. mybigwarwagon

    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    No work on the truck, because the truck has had to work.
  6. mybigwarwagon

    My 88 Shortbed build

    After the back surgery and the massive head injury Spooky got put on the back burner, and eventually someone came and started throwing cash at me til I let them take it home with them.
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    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    That is why That is why I bought a tractor several years ago.
  8. mybigwarwagon

    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    Paused for a glamor shot in front of Mt. Asphalt. And brought home 10,000 pounds of old roads.
  9. mybigwarwagon

    BettyBlue

    So One final update. I have a badly trashed back. And while I love driving a 5 speed, it doesn't love me. Lifting my left foot over and over kills my back. I pretty much stopped driving BB about a year or so ago. I kept it around because I loved the old truck so much. However, a neighbor loved...
  10. mybigwarwagon

    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    Yesterday morning we headed down to the scrap yard. I had a full day booked and no time for nonsense. Of course, the truck had other plans. The drivers front brake started grinding. It was just going to have to grind. I had brand new rotors on the parts truck so I could replace them when I got...
  11. mybigwarwagon

    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    From everything else I am finding on this truck those were original to it. Possibly they weren't. but the timing had never been set on it.
  12. mybigwarwagon

    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    And now from Today And now on IT'S A WORK TRUCK NOT A SHOW TRUCK, the epic saga of one man's demented determination to beat a truck into submission. This morning, Heath and I went to the scrap yard. On the way back the dash nearly fell out of #7. These GMT400 trucks had a major flaw in the...
  13. mybigwarwagon

    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    Yesterday ( about a week after the last post) we went out to put the steering box on #7. Since the tie tie rod ends on Moby were brand new we stole those and put them on. While I was under the truck I saw the water pump was leaking, so I sent Steph to get one while Heath and I put the steering...
  14. mybigwarwagon

    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    Got the roof rack put on. Mostly because we needed somewhere to put the wagon to go to the airshow tomorrow.
  15. mybigwarwagon

    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    We got all the tune up parts for #7, so we went out to tune it up. To prove how well these old TBI engines run, this engine has not been tuned up ever. The parts I took off today were all factory installed as far as I can tell. 133.000 miles on factory ignition parts. When we pulled off...
  16. mybigwarwagon

    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    So I can't resist even with a mangled finger. After ruining the lexan, I had to find another material. While I was poking around I found an old license plate sticking out of the mud, joys of having a 7 year old mechanic. After cutting teh size I needed, I realized that my buddy has not...
  17. mybigwarwagon

    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    Repeat my mantra with me. It is a work truck, not a show truck. It is a work truck, not a show truck. It is a work truck, not a show truck.... So I said we would be taking some time off, but I got bored. So we didn't The wife went out and pulled the emergency lights out of the old truck. I...
  18. mybigwarwagon

    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    EDIT: Since I am copying this from another website ( yes I forgot to put it on here) I will include the other things too. This was an unusual day. No work on the work truck, but the work truck had to work. We got the F250 back from the shop Friday where it got a new fuel pump. Saturday we...
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    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

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    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    Day 3 Since the wife is preggers, and the 7 year old is not a lot of help, and my back is all out of sorts; going is slow on the building. But how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Todays bite was fairly small. We got out and pulled the roof rack off the old truck, and prepped it...
  21. mybigwarwagon

    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    DAY2 Installed a brake controller While Steph put on the plug and wired it up. I also ran the power wire for the emergency lights so I could seal up the firewall and be done with that. Finally, Heath, and I swapped the wheels over. The old truck turned donor is looking sad.
  22. mybigwarwagon

    Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck

    (Warning; the following post is most likely rambling and incoherent and you will have a hard time finding a subject at times. Bear with me, it will be a total waste of time.) For a little over a year I have had a 97 Suburban (Moby) that has been no end of trouble. When it ran it was great. We...
  23. mybigwarwagon

    Meet Moby

    Got unstapled
  24. mybigwarwagon

    Meet Moby

    Not a whole lot has happened. But it has been a while since I updated anything. And Since I am recovering from a near fatal concussion that required emergency surgery... Since I spend so much time on the side of the road picking up cars, I needed some lighting. For about $25 at Ollie's I found...
  25. mybigwarwagon

    Meet Moby

    And it begins....Well not really. We had to do the first repair to Moby. The back brakes started to scream. They were paper thin, but had not worn the drum. We also found a leak in a wheel cylinder so we replaced both of them. When you tow as much as I do there is no excuse for taking a chance...

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