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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Members Rides => Topic started by: Jake_s on March 30, 2013, 09:30:52 pm
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I just picked up this truck last Tuesday from a farmer in Royston Ga. The truck is all original except for the bumpers and the seat. The truck has some surface rust on the bed and the only bad rust spot is the passenger front fender (just below the side marker)
The interior needs some TLC. The dash is severly cracked and the factory rubber flooring is worn through on the driver side. The radio is missing and none of the gauges really work.
Spec:
350 (all original)
4 speed trans w/ granny gear
NP208 with factory skid plate
14 bolt Semi-floater rear axle
10 bolt front axle
Dealer installed AC
Dual exhaust with glass packs
Recovered and restuffed factory bench
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awesome find. do you have any plans for this truck or will it be a daily driver?
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The current plans are to get everything working. The blinker stalk is broken off of the column, none of the gauges work well, no radio, flooring is crap and the tires are dry rotted.
The truck will be used to haul building materials for the house, runs to the scrap yard and any other misc hauling that needs to be done.
After I get the trouble areas addressed I may swap wheels and go with 285/75/16's and spray it OD Green, but that is at least a year away.
Jake
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Nice find, should be a great work truck.
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looks like a solid truck! I wonder if that front fender issue is from a battery overflow? The back bumper is interesting too. Wonder what the purpose was? The connector on the corner of the bumper interests me too! Great find...enjoy!
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Real decent find, looks like a quick disconnect for air, air tank/rear bumper combo???
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nice truck!!! :D
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looks like a solid truck! I wonder if that front fender issue is from a battery overflow? The back bumper is interesting too. Wonder what the purpose was? The connector on the corner of the bumper interests me too! Great find...enjoy!
Real decent find, looks like a quick disconnect for air, air tank/rear bumper combo???
The right side looks just like Zieg said. The brackets welded on the very back could of been for a metal swing out type tail gate, the left bracket looks like it was the latch portion.
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Wow! That rear bumper doubles as an on-board air tank! I love it!
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since it was a farm truck I wonder if it had some kind of pressurized sprayer tank on it? Something like that could be used to spray fruit trees. Pretty cool idea.
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Very cool truck. I really like the bias-ply mudgrip tires.
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The rear bumper is set up as an air tank (there is an air gauge and Q/D fitting) and has brackets for a hay spear. I opted to not buy the spear when I bought the truck. The front fender cancer appears to come from battery acid. The inner fender is rotted away at the front.
The tires ride fairly nice for being bia plies, but the flat spot like all bias plies do.
Jake
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I almost forgot. Here is the messed up column. I think I'll just swap the column instead of trying to repair it.
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Jake
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where does that fitting on the bumper lead to?
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where does that fitting on the bumper lead to?
The fitting is threaded into the bumper. The bumper is square tubing that is sealed off on both ends, so the bumper will act as an air tank. I need to repair a hole in the bottom of it, then it will be filled with air. You gotta love farmers.
Jake
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can you imagine backing into a post at the grocery store with 100 lbs of air in yer bumper!?!? That could give a whole new meaning to the term "fender bender" LOL
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where does that fitting on the bumper lead to?
The fitting is threaded into the bumper. The bumper is square tubing that is sealed off on both ends, so the bumper will act as an air tank. I need to repair a hole in the bottom of it, then it will be filled with air. You gotta love farmers.
Jake
lol wow, hey if it work.
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handy for inflating a tire off the bead on the trail, nice farm truck
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The retired farm truck needs tires to replace the dry rotted Feed Store Specials that are currently on it. Before I get tires I want to get wider steel rims that look OEM. Since I want steel my options are limited and that led me to these wheels. They're found on Ram 2500's from 2003-2012 and are 17x7.5. Now all I have to do is locate a set for cheap.
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Jake
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I finally pulled the rest of the flooring out of the truck, and I found a wee bit of rust in the passenger side floor.
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Overall the rust isn't as bad as it could be. I have wire wheeled the floor and applied a couple of generous doses of naval jelly.
Jake
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I removed the last of the emission equipment over the weekend. The AIR tubes were so rusty that all I had to do was bend and break the tubes off, then I was able to use a socket to get the plugs out of the manifolds.
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I found this while I was strolling through a local bone yard. a couple of weeks ago. I didn't get a chance to ask how much they wanted for it.
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Jake
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Great find man! I can't wait to see more on it!
I almost forgot. Here is the messed up column. I think I'll just swap the column instead of trying to repair it.
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Jake
Not trying to threadjack this. but I don't think it's as bad as mine... The previous owner decided he'd fix the column, (for what reason I don't know) but somehow he managed to put it back together so when you would turn the ignition off it starts the truck. and Vice-versa. Me and dad always joked it was an anti theft device! lol
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That would be an excellent anti-theft device. It amazes me what people do when trying to repair a problem.
Jake