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Offline Jake_s

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84 K20 Farm Truck
« on: March 30, 2013, 09:30:52 pm »
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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Offline mikek20

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Re: 84 K20 Farm Truck
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2013, 11:21:02 pm »
awesome find. do you have any plans for this truck or will it be a daily driver?
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Offline Jake_s

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Re: 84 K20 Farm Truck
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2013, 11:50:09 pm »
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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Offline bake74

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Re: 84 K20 Farm Truck
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2013, 08:53:39 am »
     Nice find, should be a great work truck.
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Offline PromiseKeeper

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Re: 84 K20 Farm Truck
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2013, 01:16:31 pm »
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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Re: 84 K20 Farm Truck
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2013, 02:10:02 pm »
Real decent find, looks like a quick disconnect for air, air tank/rear bumper combo???
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Re: 84 K20 Farm Truck
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2013, 02:34:35 pm »
nice truck!!! :D
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Re: 84 K20 Farm Truck
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2013, 07:12:06 pm »
Quote from: PromiseKeeper on March 31, 2013, 01:16:31 pm
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!

Quote from: zieg85 on March 31, 2013, 02:10:02 pm
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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Re: 84 K20 Farm Truck
« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2013, 07:13:37 pm »
Wow! That rear bumper doubles as an on-board air tank! I love it!
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Offline PromiseKeeper

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Re: 84 K20 Farm Truck
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2013, 08:09:18 am »
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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Offline Jason S

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Re: 84 K20 Farm Truck
« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2013, 07:13:59 pm »
Very cool truck.  I really like the bias-ply mudgrip tires.
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Offline Jake_s

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Re: 84 K20 Farm Truck
« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2013, 08:56:19 pm »
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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Offline Jake_s

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Re: 84 K20 Farm Truck
« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2013, 08:58:56 pm »
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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Re: 84 K20 Farm Truck
« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2013, 09:50:33 pm »
where does that fitting on the bumper lead to?
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Offline Jake_s

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Re: 84 K20 Farm Truck
« Reply #14 on: April 08, 2013, 10:21:57 pm »
Quote from: Irish_Alley on April 08, 2013, 09:50:33 pm
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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