treemandan
Tree Freak
Nice. I am wanting an air horn and a better system in my IH. Next year though, gotta go back to the beginning and mint out the old chevy next. Fourth seems to have a bad synchro now, has a little grind/hitch shifting into it. Kinda sucks because the clutch is still perfect (aftermaket upgrade), but if you're gonna have someone take all that apart, might as well swap it out. At least I have two good trannys out in the yard.
I already have all the parts for the restoration too, as I started to restore an identical truck a couple years back, and then gave up on it. Brand new tanks, brackets (already painted), sending units, fenders, inner wheel wells (painted inside), dash pad, doors, mirrors, sound deadener, rubber floor mat.. real nice seat. It goes on and on, just need the new mason body and it'll be something really special. Cool thing about that truck is the dump set-up, it's a scissors (pto) with the power down, thing flies and we put a bigger pump on it a few years back. I've never seen one of those trucks with that set-up before, most are the lame, no power down, ram style piston. Hate them things. The other cool thing is I can't think of a truck that's done as much treework as that thing.. I mean without that truck I wouldn't have and of my other equipment. It basically earned everything in the yard. Old friends need to be treated with respect.. lol.
What is "power down" anyway. I have decal on mine that states you're not supposed to do that but what do I know. And I don't know if you realized but this crap is complicated. After all these years I still can't figure out what an actuall cord of wood is, I am totally confused about this " double clutching thing and i think I am dumber than when I first started.
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