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Alright! Im back again! Got the truck indoors, I am chipping the rusty, crappy paint off, and getting it ready to sand and prime/paint. Using rapco spray cans, when painting on a piece of steel( primed and then painted) it came out a semi gloss. Im using 383 carc substitute, and forest green...
My '71 Am General A2, just stock to the bone.... Its waiting for me to put the winch i have sitting in the shed on, and some fresh paint....
The other truck is my dads, '70 Kaiser Jeep, That's waiting on a whistler that we have, in our shed..
Ok, so I have a weird noise coming from my air system. It seems like the pressure relief valve, or something like that.. See picture, goes off, and the compressor pumps some more before shutting off and the valve releasing pressure again, and thus continuing the cycle.. But its driving me nuts...
Congrats Indy!! I wanted the truck, Im glad your going after it! Give me money to make my truck look like a hotty! As josh said, thats one truck saved! MORE MORE MORE! haha :beer:
So I heard about a deuce going to the local scrap yard.. On my first couple free days in the last 3 weeks, I went to check it out.. I almost cried.. They told me it was a military truck with a dump bed, and when i seen it.. it was a 5 ton (noticed by air filter and big transfercase and what...
Ive been threw alot of stuff with my truck, but i stopped.. Cause i learned! haha But second or third low is fine. These trucks do get stuck, UNLESS.. You have super singles.. We have some on the work truck and the pud was past the fenders.. Thick clay too.. These trucks are mean machines, but...
I could use, 3 axles, a multifuel, trans, transfercase, tires, frame, cab, kit and kaboodle.. Well, i got my truck, i dont need more, although, i do need some cheap bows and post.. :|
Well, almost every one of my teachers love it, and the rest of the teachers bring it up in conversation somehow(which is all hear say..) It is a head turner, and is absolutely fun to drive!
So I will be doing truck pulls in the next week or so with the deuce.. And I'm wondering, 2nd low? or first? I am thinking 2nd might bog down and stall.. But you never know!