Thread: Things that eat up your day

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I "resurrected" an old farm truck so I would have a snow plow available. We've owned this for more years than I can remember but it was loaned out to a neighbor who has been using it to haul wood from the backside of his and our property.

I think he last ran it some 4 or 5 years ago and he left it out in the woods. I asked if he was done with it and he said sure, it's just sitting there. So with the help of his son we drug it back to my shop. And I've been scaring off various rodents since.

I tossed a battery in and poured some gas down the carb, took a few minutes of cranking but it lit off and ran a minute 'til the gas ran out.

I had to take the wheels off ( front anyway) and got the brakes apart, took some heat to get the bleeders to open, and I "re-directed' the brake line to the rear - it now goes to one front wheel cylinder, and the other side of the master goes to the other wheel cylinder. Honed the cylinders clean and re-assembled the brakes and bled the air out.

For some reason the neighbors cut a lot of wiring ( could've just pulled the fuses!) so I did some cleaning up of the interior and wanted to get the heater working amongst other things. But first I got the plow remounted and had to fix some of the connections, here's a couple pics.