I Bought a Junk Tow Truck - Dump Truck Build Gains Parts!
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- Опубликовано: 28 фев 2024
- Gaining the last parts truck to finish off the ford super duty dump truck build. Will this old tow truck have everything we need?
DISCLAIMER'. this is not a how to video and I am not responsible for any actions you take on your equipment or property
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Next week: "Building a Tow Truck for the Homestead..."
Haha yep… or a removable dump option to transform the homestead dumptruck…
Now wait a minute.....
All I need is a rear axle! 🤣
I'm sure you'll get that tow truck running Mike.
You sounded like you meant it 😁
Funny Guy Wes 😂
As much as I admire your tenacity your resourcefulness is amazing. I’m particularly impressed by you repurposing the boogie board into a gravel creeper that slides effortlessly on the gravel under the truck. Try that with wheels. Not happening.
You know what you can do is. Take the tires off the back of it. In that way, you could drop the truck down a little bit of the truck, download but and pick it up. Less higher to get it up.
You "Exhausted" your do the right thing energy......while you're fixing the "Exhaust" ........I see what ya did there...😉👍
I was hoping someone would catch it!
I’m beginning to see the big picture, getting the dump truck up and running so u can haul the U-Tube yacht to the river! Genius!
A 3 way. Impressive build on this one. Since the Fubaru only took 2 vehicles to build.
Taking the best parts from 3 trucks. I love it!
this was one of those days where you take 1 step forward and 2 steps back, i'm sure things will go better on the next video 👏👏👏👏👏👌👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👍
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Dig-Drive-DIY endorsed you a couple videos ago. He is "restoring" a dump truck but he said Captain Kleeman is seriously restoring a dump truck. I assumed that was a compliment.
That’s the spirit. Machines and tools may break, but as long as humans don’t get hurt, it can be fixed. Just get right back at it. See the humor in it.
Very fortunate to have DP as a friend and neighbor
Yeah, very fortunate indeed. But one thing is sure. It's not about material things. Mr DP is a smart man. A good soul. And the captain also is a good man. A hard working man.
Hay, Mike! Another great video! We're getting there! Won't be long and we'll get to see the Frank'n Truck roar! Thanks! Lee
Yessiree, “Smokin deal”…!
on that donor truck…! No problem on re-couping your money on its purchase price…, you will end up with money in your pocket on it. You probably know better, but yes, that rear axle alone is worth “the price of admission” (so to speak). The tow bed will maybe take a little longer to get sold, but it will bring good money.
This video series continues to be a treat,
Thank you sir.
Mike's salvage yard, Ford parts only. There's a side business for you. Like you don't have enough to do. Love your wit. Please be careful.
I like everything about this series!
Thanks!
If you spent a little time on how to word it, DP might buy the wrecker bed to make some kind of excavator attachment with it. Like a hydraulic jib pole extension or somethin. Its often overlooked on projects, but I dare say being able to stop a truck is a tad more important than getting it going.
Many years ago, We packed up our station wagon and headed to Mom and Dad. It was a long road trip from the Dallas area to the Bell Labs sort of place in the north East. I got 40 miles out of town when the hanger on my exhaust pipe broke. Rubber wiggled to death... Out on the highway we wondered. 1/2 a mile from us was a completed water culvert the state put in under the newly paved highway. I found a re-bar that was in the trash pile that just fit . It went into a hole in the frame, lifted the exhaust pipe and into the other frame. The ribs on the bar kept it from sliding around. I went to the New York area, loaded up and came home. Another story. But on my return I went to A&B muffler in Arlington and they all had a good laugh and wonder. It was still tight in the frame.
You really need to advertise how much bonus footage is included in your videos captain. This week, bonus fork repair footage.
MIKE, I see the dilemma you're talking about when you're committed to the work invested already to ripping apart ANOTHER truck for parts. BUT, what you're building out weighs the possibility of starting over! Stay focused and don't look back! So,....
Carry on Capt'n.
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This is the most fun I've had in years, thanks Mike
You bet!
Love it that you show the mishaps along the way ..most people whould have edited out the forks falling ..but no not our captain. ..absolutely love the full send content you put out mike ..peace and love from Cumbria UK 🇬🇧❤️
Appreciate ya watching
Ol Triple Nickle has been a great addition to your homestead.
Absolutely
Amazing what a fella can do with a hammer, a welder, a torch, and a little gumption. 🐱
Mike, I have nothing but admiration for you on this project.
Love it Mike, make it personal and teach that engine a lesson. All these simple engine issues started when someone decided that they needed to make them difficult with all the electronics.
Good morning sunshine! Well your project is coming right along nicely! Great video! Much love from Henderson Ga USA
The cap't talking truck mechanics may as well be Chinese to me. I'm clueless. More respect to this man and his "can do" attitude!
And they shall call him... The SLEDGEMASTER!
when Capt buys/gets a parts truck, Capt goes full in. Wrecker assembly should bring in some bux, might be a lawn ornament for awhile. the toolbox itself worth picking up whole truck. homestead dump truck will live thanks to 3 FORD's donating their parts. I hear Wes is always looking for more stuff . DieselCreek needs more projects too, either one would be thrilled to take the carcass off you Capt 😁
Great progress on parts for the frankentruck!
Another edition of the Kleeman Khronikles....looks like the 555 is just an all around universal machine...needs a little TLC and banging and welding and paint from time to time but a great thing to have at the workshop. And buying 3 trucks just to make one....who does that? Well Capt. Kleeman of course! As always....great channel and great content.
Those doors, fenders, and hood look good… or better than the sheet metal on the green cab. Those should bolt right up to your cab.
I thought you would get that truck bed off without any probs. Doing a captain there, got it wrong, but still caused great entertainment when subframe fell off! I actually laughed out loud. First time in a long time. Thanks Mike, you the best!!!! from UK.
Captain, you are bound and determined. You have an exciting video in the making. I can't wait to see the finished product. Captain please pray for a little 5 year old by the name of Ava Rigney who is in the Cincinnati Hospital being treated for cancer. God Bless You and Your's.
Monday!?……Noooooooooo!
You are amazing. Honest hard work seems to be your specialty.
Captain great video, you’re getting closer every time! Thanks for sharing! Kevin
Thanks for watching Kevin
Good.job. Nice show cool shop 👍👍👍👏👏👏
If a guy would have tuned in at 18:40 he would have thought he somehow started an Andrew Camarata video. lol
Needs more chain saw.
Wait a minute. Wrench to socket wrench adapter!? Genius. I've never seen that before.
It's pretty handy
Good thing you used the backhoe to try and pick up that bed the first time, before you found those other brackets, the 755 would have pulled it up and torn it off, throwing shrapnel in all directions! 🤪 (And if you want to start another channel covering how to repair bent loader forks and quick attach frames, I'd watch it. Not saying I've ever bent two sets of forks and two frames, just that I'm very interested in that topic!😉) Thanks and take care!
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The winch and part of the boom from the wrecker would make a cool log puller attachment for the skid steer.
It's for sale
Mike I'm not a glove guy either, unless I'm painting something! Not sure how the glove thing started, but pretty sure they were a professional something!
Nice video and nice purchase 🤣🤣
Thanks!
Can’t wait till it’s together and running
It was always recommended that if you're doing an engine swap (carb to turbo). To buy the whole car/truck as you have everything from the big items to the silly clips you always break
Mike I was just getting into it, and it finished, still thank you for bringing us along well appreciated I love watching you do a Frankenstein truck man that takes me back to when my Brother who is no longer with us and we used to do some real crazy stuff to make things work, so thanks again Mike for the trips down memory lane, Longer videos like DP you can do it. 😁😁😁🤣
Maybe Dirt Perfect needs the wrecker bed for Dirt Perfect Towing and Recovery for farmer Chris.
Thanks for sharing!
Big hammers are essential tools when getting creative.
High power wrenches!
👍🏻👍🏻because one is just never enough. Keep on keeping on. 🤛🏻🤛🏻
Mike ❕Huge TIP for ya❕Old recker booms make excellent JIB CRANES and the wheel snatch as a poor mans lift.
For sale if you need it 👍
@@CaptainKleeman Welp me and my boss already made one 4 years ago, But you could make this one then sell it making more on it then all the parts and scrap you have as is. 🤔🤔
Yes have a good weekend, see you on Tuesday European time. Nice video.
Stopped on your channel because I've seen this truck before LMAO love what you're doing and the channel
The foresight is never ending, now you can build quick attachments beds and have a dump and tow beds for the truck! - lol
Great parts truck and that truck bed and tow boom should sell easily for you. You might even find someone looking to build an off-road tow truck like all the channels out in Utah are this year.
make sure you eliminate battery lead faults ... jump pack cables straight to starter, just a thought
It was done in this video, so much so I showed the setup on another starter to explain it. Thanks for watching
Great job on the disassembly of the backend of the tow truck. I can hardly wait to see what is next! 😊
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It feels like I've watched you time carefully measuring & rechecking and then carefully welding and making up Quick Attache's on a few occasions . . . . & I've always thought, Yep, at some point in the future Mikes gonna be braying on that with a sledge 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Just Love it Mike, sometimes when I'm starting another job late in the evening, thinking of your work ethic cheers me on 👍
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Hi Mike. I was telling you that there's more bolts holding the bed on, but I guess you couldn't hear me! That axel should be a good upgrade for the dump truck. Pretty strange that you put 12 volts to the starter and it's not making starter noises! Hope that turns out to be something simple.
hello Mike & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool & Thanks Mike Friends Randy
Thanks randy!
I'm just jealous you're in short sleeve shirt right now 😲⛱
Great fun…thanks, Mike!
Thanks for watching!
That tow truck had the Carolina squat going on ;-) while you were unloading.
Captain Kleeman I'll follow any which way you go . 😮😅😅😅😅😅😊
Good truck
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Work in progress. Thumbs up 👍
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Look at all those goodies on that parts truck and should be able to get all your money back as well . Also you gotta break something in order to it call project ..... got that done and out of the way. Looking forward to what comes next.
Your doing good Kleeman, I like it👍🏻
Hey Cap’n, I am curious to see what use you will make of the towing jib. If it had a swivel you would have a handy yard crane, saving the front end loader for what it’s meant for. Hang on that’s another build, later. It’s going to be interesting to see what you come up with as you do the Franken build on the tipper project. It’s challenging but fun when you go one step at a time. Stay safe
I'm going to sell it
Great to see that you are makin progress !
Sometimes you just have to do something just because you want to prove that you can win over the issue at hand and learn something in the process (like starting a stubborn engine), I mean come on, who wouldn’t do that???!!!!😊. Looking forward to the start up, have fun, the journey is the best part of the trip. Thanks for the update, really enjoying this series, appreciate the time and effort you put into the videos.
Good job and video. Besides using the axle, I would put the front bumper from the tow truck onto the dump truck. I’d also put the winch onto the dump truck
Bumpers should not be low on dump trucks. Makes it easier to get stuck
@@CaptainKleeman true but you will still be able to push people or things that get stuck.
When changing from a drum brakes to disc brakes be sure the master cylinder you use does not have a residual valve.
He should have used the hydroboost master from the F-450.... 😉
That's the plan
That's the plan
Setbacks are normal, your still making progress! Keep up the good work!
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love the fun your having building your own rig. nice work. cheers.
Thanks!
Maybe build a wrecker for The Off Road Wrecker Games in Utah.
They said in the 60’s and 70’s, “Keep on Truckin’”
I've made this build my pet project over on the forum.
Every time someone asks about cab floors, or cleaning a frame, or..... 😆
I definitely appreciate that sir!
@@CaptainKleeman Hey, if it drives views and attention.... 🙄
Please come join us. 💡
We have all the documentation you could ever need.
I'm interested in what brand/model that wrecker winch is.
This is what I do on the overnight shift..
Thank you…I’ve been trying to stay up long enough to catch this video.
The wheel lift receivers are desirable to sell. Look like Vulcan Scoops.
Gotta love some precision sledge hammer work. Might think about reinforcing that area some way since bending and straightening metal weakens it. Or not. Just a thought. Amazing work you are doing there Captain. Much respect at your ingenuity.
Loving this project Mike 👍 but then I love all of your projects 👍👍🇬🇧🇺🇸
Thank you!
Mike's Truck will really be a True HYBRID !
Name it ' Mongy ' Mike,because it really will be a Mongrel Truck.
Please take the time and get you 3 cans of that Turbo krylon spray paint scuff. You'ret cab and painted before you put it on youll be , so glad you did little time little effort and on the cheap
I use to drive a non turbo 7.3 at my first job years ago. It was a slug and had to be plugged in to start in the cold no matter what temperature. Even the tiniest bit of cold air and it was a no go. You had to make sure no one ever unplugged the extension cord by mistake or you weren’t going anywhere 😂
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Love that breaker bar-box wrench custom extension! I always find some new ideas from your videos!! Can't wait, like you, to see that NEW Truck running down the road!
I bought it off Amazon. It's pretty handy
Just need a bigger hammer! Thumbs up! Safety First!! Jim
Great video Mike,peace brother…
Amazing how much finesse and precision you can get out of a torch and sledgehammer. Love your ability to find a way to make shit happen.
Glad you got the forks back up and liftin'. Broke my heart to see the forks snap like that. But watching your videos, I knew you could correct it. Seemed like it didn't take long. I'm comparing the sunlight in the video as contrast. Great work young man...Keep it up!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Other than that one tire that was flat on the bottom, they all look great.
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That push bumper is _AWESOME!_
For sale if you know anyone that wants it.
@@CaptainKleeman I want it on my truck!
Not sure..... I think it will cost me more in gas for the 460 to drive from CT to IN than it would cost to just buy one here. 🤔
🤨it’s just personal at this point…
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When I see you under there workin it reminds me of me wokin under my old 72 F350
I think we're gonna need a bigger trailer, Captain. lol
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It's been a minute, but with the IDI the main thing is the fuel cutoff solenoid in the pump. You were making it click, so that's good. I think the other is a high idle for when it's cold.
Then, once you get fuel bled you need RPM... IDI's hate to start with weak batteries and you'll just huff grey smoke. You will need more than a jump box. Normally they use 2 group 31 batteries with at least 800cca on both. I'm forgetting but I think you need at least 400 rpm on the starter otherwise you'll have starting problems.
As long as the glow plugs are NOT hooked up, a little whiff of ether won't hurt anything. It's when you use ether AND the glow plugs that things go bang in a bad way. Don't hose it down, just a whiff in the intake will do it.
The return lines are problematic on them. There's a lot of fuel that gets returned #1, so leaks can be a problem. Also, they can suck air and lose prime. nothing some o-rings and caps can't fix and you should be able to get it fired up even if they leak.
Do yourself a favor and get an electric pump. Even a cheap one is fine, but you'll have to turn that over for a minute before you can prime it. If you use an electric pump you can run the electric pump and bleed the whole system out.
If it were me I'd figure out how to get it spinning over on the starter, then make sure it's got enough RPM and hit it with a whiff of ether. GP's disconnected of course. It should rattle to life. Then using an electric pump I would bleed the fuel system and use a whiff of ether to help light it off - if needed.
With good batteries I've had IDI's light off at 45f with no GP's. So depending on how warm it is you may not need it. Just go easy and sneak up on it, but if you can get it spinning ether will bring it to life.
The biggest problem the 7.3's had was coolant cavitation causing pinholes in the cylinders. You'll think it has a bad head gasket but an NA IDI will basically never lose a head gasket... Hopefully that's not the case here.