- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
Maybe I should get one and put a plow on it?
...an F350 standard cab wouldn't be much less capable, would already have the axles and could tow a trailer mucho betterer than my JT in certain situations? Hrrrrmmmmm
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Maybe I should get one and put a plow on it?
...an F350 standard cab wouldn't be much less capable, would already have the axles and could tow a trailer mucho betterer than my JT in certain situations? Hrrrrmmmmm
Long term, I'm definitely going to swap either a 12v cummins into this thing or something else... They are just such neat trucks and so easy to work on, I'm not used to it haha. The hard thing is finding them without tons of rust. This one I was thinking was a super lucky find but it has been bondo'd in a few places so it's not as cherry as I thought. But for the price in this market I can't complain much. I'm just excited to plow my area with a warm heater and maybe only 30 min, instead of 1.5 hrs + on the atv!
ID Bronco
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- Idaho Falls, ID
Nice work, it makes me sick thinking of what I spent on the OEM setup on my Ram. The shop space and know how is paying off!
My plow didn't come with the truck side wiring either and I'm looking at ~1k for everything. What. the. crap. Needless to say, I'm going to 3d print a controller of some sort and wire it all myself. Plow components are highway robbery!
ID Bronco
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- Location
- Idaho Falls, ID
Agreed, it's all very expensive. I bet you could buy a used controller pretty cheap and then splice it to make it work with your system. I've had mounted Joystick type ones that I didn't like much, I prefer a handheld controller similar to a winch controller.
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
Well, that's unique for sure
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- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
very "farmish"
PO. Not me.
My washers wouldn't have been symmetrical. I don't have that many in each size.
Since I have a tractor with no implements, and an extra snow plow.. I combined the 2.
Its the plow I had on my Colorado for a hand full of years. I just needed to add a receiver to the front of the tractor.
The tractor has had a leak from where the hydraulic fluid screen is. After draining all the fluid, It still wouldn't stop dripping from where I needed the gasket. I didn't think I could keep it clean long enough for RTV gasket to set up, so I used some paper gasket maker.
This is the garage version of copy/cut/paste
No leak so far.
Its the plow I had on my Colorado for a hand full of years. I just needed to add a receiver to the front of the tractor.
The tractor has had a leak from where the hydraulic fluid screen is. After draining all the fluid, It still wouldn't stop dripping from where I needed the gasket. I didn't think I could keep it clean long enough for RTV gasket to set up, so I used some paper gasket maker.
This is the garage version of copy/cut/paste
No leak so far.
- Location
- The Land Northward (Bountiful), Utah
🎵Mr. Plow that's my name, that name again is Mr. Plow🎵
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
You need some basic implements for that rig. A rear blade and a box scraper would ratchet up your capability.
Yeah, I keep going back and forth between selling this one for UTV towable items, or spending more money to make this more what I want.
Or selling it and using the money to rent what I want when I need it.
Or just getting over my inner Ramsey and buy something much newer that I can’t afford.
glockman
I hate Jeep trucks
- Location
- Pleasant Grove
So you don't have a ball peen hammer or you're a millennial?
Hmm. I don't get the reference, old man.
- Location
- The Land Northward (Bountiful), Utah
I think he's saying you lay the gasket over the thing you're going to make and then hit it with the hammer to make an indent.
But either way I think we're elder millennials? LOL
Does that make Chad an X
glockman
I hate Jeep trucks
- Location
- Pleasant Grove
Proud to be Gen X, obviously the best of both the Boomers and the Millennials.
Stratton got it. You can use a ball peen hammer to cut a perfect gasket by laying the material on the item to be sealed and tapping around the edge with the round face of the hammer.
Stratton got it. You can use a ball peen hammer to cut a perfect gasket by laying the material on the item to be sealed and tapping around the edge with the round face of the hammer.
Maverick
old-school
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- Anywhere, thanks to my geeky droid
Here's what I worked on today....
Hooked up the last of the emission hoses on the air filter today, tightened the distributor bolt, and tried to drive the Scrambler around the neighborhood, thinking about a Sandhollow trip on Saturday. But no. Horrible banging clanking knocking sounds are coming from the transfer case. Somehow, while sitting for a year, something happened in the 205 case. Ugh. Before I pulled the engine, I drove it to the carwash and it drove fine (other than icky old engine sounds)
I think it's the t-case....in t-case neutral, doesn't make any noise in any of the gears in the transmission. But with the trans or t-case in gear or neutral (even coasting) the banging/knocking is pretty bad. Gonna pull the rear driveshaft to rule out the rear diff. Then I'm going to torch it. Er, I mean, start pulling stuff apart.
Hooked up the last of the emission hoses on the air filter today, tightened the distributor bolt, and tried to drive the Scrambler around the neighborhood, thinking about a Sandhollow trip on Saturday. But no. Horrible banging clanking knocking sounds are coming from the transfer case. Somehow, while sitting for a year, something happened in the 205 case. Ugh. Before I pulled the engine, I drove it to the carwash and it drove fine (other than icky old engine sounds)
I think it's the t-case....in t-case neutral, doesn't make any noise in any of the gears in the transmission. But with the trans or t-case in gear or neutral (even coasting) the banging/knocking is pretty bad. Gonna pull the rear driveshaft to rule out the rear diff. Then I'm going to torch it. Er, I mean, start pulling stuff apart.