715 progress

Heres my buddies m715 that I been working on.


Looks way better in OD then the nasty red

Not bad, but he's got to get rid of that funky bumper! What is that winch, a 10K Garwood?

Winch lools like the stock LU4.
If the bumper did not slope back on the outter edges it might look ok with the top plate on it.

Hmm, you might be right. I guess it's the mounting that is making it look weird to me.

Looks really small with all that bumper going on.

Yeah, rip that crappy bumper off and go with the stock one.

Other than that, nice rig!

I don't think that it looks so bad. If you think about how the stock bumper is straight across, it really kills aproach angles. If I were to have a stock winch, I would probably fab up something similar. I'd rather have my tires hitting the rocks or hills than my bumper. I say its a keeper.

The bumper came with the truck and will more then likely stay.

It used to be a fire department truck too, then was sold off and the truck sat for ~5 years till I got it running.


Then paint.

I'm making slow progress @ this project since I work WAY too much. I'm getting there tho.


Sanded most the bed last nite.


Looking more and more @ the truck I'm not happy with the way the cabs turning out, so I'm gonna wet sand it and do another coat of paint.

Ha ha. Your seats look better than mine! Mine are a bunch of spring with NO cover at all!

I sanded for a hour tonite @ work - making some headway at least

Got a jerry can to paint to match too - should make it a lil cooler.



Found out why the truck look sliek its smoking - the head gasket is trashed -ack Looks like I'll getta help with that too prolly


How hards a hg on a 230 to do?

not bad. iirc you CANNOT have them machined

Lee is right. You have to do the gasket only and hope it works. The timing chain is the problem. The only other way to do it is to have a good machine shop take off just enough for you to run 2 head gaskets. I would not recommend that since it is more of a band aid than a fix and there are so many really cheap or free 230's all over the country.

Ouch that sucks.... guess Im cleaning the head really good and putting it back on there.......




I should have some more pics to post tonite of the bed being painted this time. Thats if I decide to get off the intraweb and my lazy butt- then paint

Heres a few more pics its about done - still could use a wet sand job and what not - but next on the list is a head gasket.