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At our Town's annual Memorial Day event I had kids climbing all over the trucks. They had a lot of fun and I was glad I disconnected the batteries before hand!
Pulled the Red Deuce out and noticed oil on each side of the rear axles. Took about 8 hours to pull and change the axle seal and repack the bearing each side. Hope not to do that again for a while. I had grease all over me.
Started the prep work to repaint it.
And these are guys I know... Classics are still big around here but slowly Ricers are making an in-road. I appreciate all types. I felt bad as a young guy had a pretty darn stock Honda CRX there and he got the cold shoulder.
Maybe me driving over the curb thru an empty lot to park in the grass...
Been driving it around casually here and there. Took it to a car show and got a lot of looks like what are you doing here with that.... Hauled a load of scrap. Hauled a load of fertilizer (Loader guy was grinning a lot...)
I put some air tool oil in the piston area, but will also try the inlet.
Looking online, I see a few places have the metal units, are these that much better? $99 per unit.
I tried wide open, they start and then seem to get stuck in the middle. Manually turning it with the air on, I feel resistance each direction I try to turn it. It's like the air is pushing in from both sides.
My wiper motors don't do much. Took one apart but nothing much there. The piston goes back and forth but not sure why it doesn't cycle. How much air do they need?
(its plastic)
Pulled the in tank pump on Deuce #2 and got that working. It was nasty but I am happy I don't have to buy a new one! Contacted the old Fire Company that had the truck previously. They had it from 1996 to 2008. Mainly for parades and Brush duty. Said they did a complete service on it before...
I just did one of mine. Super easy to do, I think I will need to turn the fuel down a bit as it gained quite a bit of power just with the bypass. My truck has been sitting a long time so maybe the FDC was gunky or something and it was limited the fuel....
Replaced the O rings today. The little shaft was a bugger to get the tit to line up. Took me 20 times before I was ready to throw it across the yard and it just snicked in on the last try....
No more fuel leak there!
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