Water in a cylinder or two I would say. That really rusty plug says it all. The air cleaner lid on those trucks is a perfect funnel for water down the carb. A friend of mine has the exact same truck with the same problem at the moment and we have the cylinders soaking in Marvel oil and Seafoam in hopes to break it loose. There is a rubber seal between the hood and cowl that leaks the water right on top of the air cleaner lid and right down the carb stud in the engine. We drained about 3 gallons of water out of the oil pan after pulling the plugs and finding two cylinders right full to the top. Put a Cummins in it and be done with it. Those old 370 and 429 gassers will empty your wallet feeding them, especially running PTO all day for hydraulics.
Try putting some diesel down the bores, friend did that on an engine that was siezed soild, left it for a day or two and it cranked free. Worth a shot for minimal cost, and if it cranks after that, it might crank over and fire up, though will smoke like hell for a bit.
I bet you could get it running with just a little time. Pull the heads and see if it’s seized or not. The crane alone is worth 3 times what you payed for it. If you got it going you’d use it move than than you think. Cranes beat the shit out of front end loads, forklifts, and your back for picks.
Put a 460 in it, give her a good clean, and you'll find a thousand uses for her. Even with a decent second hand engine, it still won't have cost a lot.
460 is the same block as that 429 and you can find a 460 easy enough they made tons of them and it will bolt right to that trans and you can use the motor mounts and all other accessories
As someone who did that swap back like 30 years ago, there is some kind of pain in the butt involving the air compressor going on the 460. I can't remember what exactly but it ate up a lot of time. I ended up wishing I had fixed the 429.
@@dlr6025 I know this but they used the 460 in trucks up to around 1990 or so plenty of them still running or rebuildable there has even been many for sale around where I live in old rusted out trucks but the engines were still running could have bought one for $350 just 2 days ago
I think I remember now the crank snout on the commercial truck engine was different, so was the balancer, and the timing cover. It turned the belt drive for the air compressor into a project. Some thing else was a project too. I think the oil lines for the compressor or the mounting, maybe both. Those trucks aren't worth doing any kind of swap in anyway. Best to just fix what's there. You never put enough miles on them to make a diesel swap pay off. Anybody who is going to put out the money to insure a boom truck, and get the crane certification, isn't going to use an old truck/crane like that. That's like something you use around your own shop and yard
Hey buddy, I won't get in to ""why"", what I would do is change the motor. You do have the savvy to get this going. You have had a lot practise on getting things going, so don't quit now.
@Lua Dipa So a tree company wouldn't buy it? I don't think they would mind what it looks like if they could use it to cut down large trees and make some money.
With some slight modifications that truck is EXTREMELY desirable to a commercial beekeeper. Figure out how to get controls on a cable and a spring-loaded bee-box lifter on there. Everything is there I've looked at the "bee lifts" like the guy uses in "Canadian Beekeepers Blog" and they cost around $30k. That's just the lift.
I can hear it now, "Honey, look what followed me home." Start hitting junk yards and find an engine, do the swap and use it until it's sold.. . . OR . . . Use the flywheel and a prybar to turn the engine. . . . OR . . . Pull the engine and see why it is seized. Might just be rust and will only cost gaskets to repair. Be a great project for some videos. Thanks for sharing.
Put a diesel "crate" engine in it & tow a nice size Woodmizer sawmill & be able to load, haul & saw lumber. I actually saw a rig like that at the Cincinnati Woodcraft store years ago doing a demo.
Look for a diesel engine to drop into this one, and sell it as quickly as you can! If that's a 429 fur barrel,..I'd bet somebody in the hot rod world would like to get his mitts on that engine for a quick and dirty rebuild hobby!
Stag Man good luck reaching with a 45ft boom I use a 20ton 80ft boom and on some houses it’s under powered gets to the red and I need to override it and can sometimes burly reach the house normally it’s it’s fine thoe
José Villa I used to drive a hiab truck and lift roof trusses on our houses here in the uk they didn’t weigh much as they were made of 4x2 and I generally delivered 30 at a time and lifted them up one at a time
Stag Man Stag Man I know it’ll lift quite a bit I’ve lifted and set on the ground packs of 30 trusses that are 50ft long but I mean the reach for like houses when ur at max boom at 20 degrees angle packs of trusses of 15 30ft get really heavy and the boom won’t come back up unless you lower them and boom up at the same time kinda like letting them fall for a few seconds while you boom up and if you aren’t careful you can very easily flip over that’s why I say they are under powered. Never used a hiab truck I’ve always wanted to try it out I’ve only used 20t and 22t 80ft fixed cab cranes and a 45t 125ft swing cab to set prefabricated walls
Keep up the good work.I enjoy the way you explain how things are done in certain situations.You make it easy for us lay people to understand what you're doing
I think I would find a Diesel to replace the paper weight that's in it then hold on to it. There are jobs waiting for it's use. One or two jobs would pay for it. You have plenty of parking.
That crane is like having a Vice on a table. Once you start using it, you keep finding other things that you can use it for, and as time goes by you wonder how you ever made it without ( the vice... or in this case, the crane
@@PaulHigginbothamSr if you watched the video at all you would have seen and heard him say its a 5 speed manual and he pressed the clutch like 15 times in the video....
I’d love to see it all working, either swapped or fixed, either way. It’d be some good content, may even have yourself a cheap, workable piece of machinery also. Cranes are handy.
Had a truck very close to this one. I see it even has the bracket for an add on jib extension. If it was like mine, it has pop out front out riggers in the front by the turret. There's a scissor arm that extends them out farther away from the truck. Made money with mine. Added a 2nd boom saddle over the cab to the front bumper so i could haul bigger loads on the bed. I moved a lot of signs and fuel tanks for a major oil company.
Howdyyawl from the land down under. Auctions are fun, play games with other buyers driving up the prices. Sometimes you can get burnt abit. It's a hard one, if you put a donk in it or sell as is. The taste will be sour. Good luck.😊
I'd keep it for the farm but that's me-- at under a grand, you really have something!!! BTW, you remind me of a fella I served with in the army named Sam Benson. You make good vids- keep up the good work!!!
@@DocNo27 and the fact that plugs were already out. By the looks of the one plug, that thing has a blown head gasket anyways so it’s not gonna do much good to try and get it busted loose as he’s doing, the heads really need to come off that thing at minimum
A barn painter would probably love it. Put a bucket on the end of her and you’d be able to paint the barn right up to the top of the silo. Lots of room on the deck to mount your paint and, compressor and beer.
9:24 “Ugh, gassers!” That got a subscription from me! Hate the idea that such big old trucks used to be gassers but have a morbid fascination with seeing them worked on (probably cause I’m not buying the fuel they’re guzzling down at an alarming rate lmao)
Throw in a cheap 460 and USE IT!!! They make forklift attachments and man baskets for those. Lift roofing to the roof top for people. Go down to the docks and load ships with equipment and supplies, rent a small barge and park in the center for underwater boat and equipment salvage. A crane can be a huge money maker. The last crane I hired was $1,500 an hour, just to lift 1,800 pound AC units to a 32 foot high roof.
Those engines are tough, should run again.. we had one similar with the 370 and it was seized.. motor oil and diesel in the cylinders and bump it from behind every so often it freed up.. ran like a top after that..
yup classics right we had a 1960's era rig with a similar crane on a 1963 M700 with a 312 Y block, unless it was really dark we had to "tow" it to job sites, it's amazing how much you can pull with 1/4" nylon rope (;
For $700 get junk yard engine. Spend a weekend changing it. See what you've got. Might want to have available just in case, at very low cost. Next time start bid at $100.
It just brings back happy memories of when I actually did get bailed out at an auction and was so relieved, as I knew that I had made a mistake. However, you did OK.
I would put a Diesel engine in it . Yes it might sit around a bit between jobs . But when you need it it's there ready n waiting . Mmmmm straight 6 Cummins . Yep I like diesels too . I have a V6 tdi VW Touareg here in the uk . It's one of the nicest sounding engines . Apart from the V10 tdi . Great to see you posting again . Hey back in 2002 / 2003 . Company I was working for took 2 Rolls Royce powered ERF Tractor units . One was sold to a guy in Jamaica . The other sat there . Until I got the job of converting it into a recovery Truck . One of my all time favourite jobs . Took me 10 months doing it along with other jobs building road tankers . It was Painted custard yellow . And so reliable . It had 3/4 of a million miles on it when we got our hands on it .
i can see into the further, you are going to keep it with a smile. or i came in late on this video, so i have already seen the part that you fix and it's a sweet beast. so far.
I don't know, a crane may be the kind of thing that you say you really don't need, but then you use it for a few jobs, and in the end you are glad you picked it up.
We all want to see the inside of that engine - maybe one of those smartphone borescope attachment/cable gadgets - save a lot of guess-work and they’re as cheap as chips.
The horn works -- it's a keeper! I'd tear the motor down to find the problem, and rebuild if reasonable, or replace (preferably diesel, but a similar engine would probably be a lot simpler).
@@theswedishpanda3897 How on earth would you know if somebody else is joking or not when it's not obvious? You don't. It doesn't look like a joke, it just looks like an honest suggestion for later on, when the motor's freed up.
We’ve got a f700 garbage truck with one of those 370s in it. Easiest stick I have ever driven. Had some issues with running, but that was nothing a little adjustable choke in the cab couldn’t fix. Truck is a 1988, but only has 30,000 on it due to being a local garbage hauler, like less then 4 miles once every other week. Lots of idle time though.
There is a welding shop not too far from us. Their lot is big however it is packed with storage. The way it works is they have two old cranes in the yard which can lift anything and everything. The cranes were taken out of service but the truck engine & crane work fine. You could probably power your crane pump with any number of engines. But like you said, you may not need a crane in the first place -Sell it to a sawmill
Thanks for the fascinating story! I learned a lot. Keep it up. Regular old brake fluid is the best bolt buster for the money. You need to put 8 quarts of brake fluid into the engine crankcase and let it set 24 hours. A 36" chain type pipe wrench will grip the outside of the crank pulley and give you the ability to reverse the rotation. That spark plug with the white crap looks like there is a blown head gasket letting coolant into the cylinder. An engine with the plugs left out indicates to me that it failed a compression test and was left to be overhauled or scrapped. The truck as scrap metal is worth $700 if you can get it to the recyclers.
thats not a bad old truck cant beat the price swap the motor over quick tidy up move her on if not be a handy truck for you with not a lot of money tied up looking forward to your next auction visit cheers mate
keep it. it makes good content. unfortunately it doesn't fit in any of your buildings, so you would need to set up a tent to pull the motor. still could be some good content. Id watch it.
Fixing could cost more than what it's worth. I would check out scrap prices and maybe just scrap it. I did something simular $600 for an old tanker sold for scrap for $1100
Take the crane and turn it into an amusement ride. Call it whip-lash. The stubby look of the old cab has character. With a little chop retrofit, it could make for a unique looking truck.
This channels content is fantastic for viewing on a rainy day... however it’s a beautiful sunny spring day and I’m inside watching it while my batteries are charging on my motorcycle... lol I would love to hang with this dude for a little while...
Yup, I'm sure most of us have a boat anchor purchase story. I know I do! Between selling parts and scrapping the rest, you might recoup some of your losses. The crane and flat bed should be worth something.
I know the previous owner - funny to see his name come up. He said it was a really good truck other than the engine, which is obviously seized. He said before it seized up everything ran well and all the crane functions were perfect. It may be worth getting it running again.
I’ve got faith in you, I think you’ve got some big problems with the motor but you’ll get it running for about 5-6 hundred. I predict your going to have some hydraulic problems, air brake system will need some work. Please check the bolts around the crane they look loose. Have a good day and I predict by November you’ll be happy you bough the truck. Stay safe
Next accidentally buy a running Cummins/Allison powered school bus and do a swap.
smart
Busses are cheap. Good idea.
Westen Champlin style.
@@thecube5861 or Whistlin Diesel and just sink it.
Water in a cylinder or two I would say. That really rusty plug says it all. The air cleaner lid on those trucks is a perfect funnel for water down the carb. A friend of mine has the exact same truck with the same problem at the moment and we have the cylinders soaking in Marvel oil and Seafoam in hopes to break it loose. There is a rubber seal between the hood and cowl that leaks the water right on top of the air cleaner lid and right down the carb stud in the engine. We drained about 3 gallons of water out of the oil pan after pulling the plugs and finding two cylinders right full to the top. Put a Cummins in it and be done with it. Those old 370 and 429 gassers will empty your wallet feeding them, especially running PTO all day for hydraulics.
Try putting some diesel down the bores, friend did that on an engine that was siezed soild, left it for a day or two and it cranked free.
Worth a shot for minimal cost, and if it cranks after that, it might crank over and fire up, though will smoke like hell for a bit.
I bet you could get it running with just a little time. Pull the heads and see if it’s seized or not. The crane alone is worth 3 times what you payed for it. If you got it going you’d use it move than than you think. Cranes beat the shit out of front end loads, forklifts, and your back for picks.
@Doug Moran it runs on gas
Fix her up. Videos about fixing junk equipment are pretty awesome 👍
I'd love to see you pull the engine and pull it apart. Who doesn't like an old big block?
Um.. he don't. Deisel guys. I tell ya.
Extend crane to its maximum height as part of The Diesel Creek Zipline attraction! Money back in no time.
Take it over to the church, because you will need an act of God, to get it running
Put a 460 in it, give her a good clean, and you'll find a thousand uses for her. Even with a decent second hand engine, it still won't have cost a lot.
Just for grins and giggles. pull the starter and have a look. I've seen starter ends come apart on those old fords and lock the engines up.
if that's all thats wrong, that's amazing
you got yourself a good ole fashioned "will it start" project
ya this was a great vid on a fun new project!
Get that motor free try to breath some life into old (GARLIC)
More like a will it do anything video
Talk to junkyard digs he can get everything running except diesels
Not true he got 2 diesels running lol
edward tye he got 3 running lol
@@protectoroffaith he only got one of them running
Sounds just about right
He is used to f250's so ya
460 is the same block as that 429 and you can find a 460 easy enough they made tons of them and it will bolt right to that trans and you can use the motor mounts and all other accessories
old rv;s with low mileage
As someone who did that swap back like 30 years ago, there is some kind of pain in the butt involving the air compressor going on the 460. I can't remember what exactly but it ate up a lot of time. I ended up wishing I had fixed the 429.
Nah diesel all the way if its getting a swap
@@dlr6025 I know this but they used the 460 in trucks up to around 1990 or so plenty of them still running or rebuildable there has even been many for sale around where I live in old rusted out trucks but the engines were still running could have bought one for $350 just 2 days ago
I think I remember now the crank snout on the commercial truck engine was different, so was the balancer, and the timing cover. It turned the belt drive for the air compressor into a project. Some thing else was a project too. I think the oil lines for the compressor or the mounting, maybe both.
Those trucks aren't worth doing any kind of swap in anyway. Best to just fix what's there. You never put enough miles on them to make a diesel swap pay off. Anybody who is going to put out the money to insure a boom truck, and get the crane certification, isn't going to use an old truck/crane like that. That's like something you use around your own shop and yard
On such a truck you probably have to count hours,
as on a tractor. They stand still and lift quite a lot.
Hey buddy, I won't get in to ""why"", what I would do is change the motor. You do have the savvy to get this going. You have had a lot practise on getting things going, so don't quit now.
@LuaDipa. You might be surprised how much a savy person might could make off that old truck.
Owning a functioning crane always has its ups and downs
@@drunkdunc8738 hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaha
@Lua Dipa So a tree company wouldn't buy it? I don't think they would mind what it looks like if they could use it to cut down large trees and make some money.
With some slight modifications that truck is EXTREMELY desirable to a commercial beekeeper. Figure out how to get controls on a cable and a spring-loaded bee-box lifter on there.
Everything is there
I've looked at the "bee lifts" like the guy uses in "Canadian Beekeepers Blog" and they cost around $30k. That's just the lift.
Honestly I've been reading tapes for 8-9 years and I still like when the tapes have fractions 😂
I can hear it now, "Honey, look what followed me home."
Start hitting junk yards and find an engine, do the swap and use it until it's sold.. . . OR . . .
Use the flywheel and a prybar to turn the engine. . . . OR . . .
Pull the engine and see why it is seized. Might just be rust and will only cost gaskets to repair.
Be a great project for some videos.
Thanks for sharing.
Put a diesel "crate" engine in it & tow a nice size Woodmizer sawmill & be able to load, haul & saw lumber. I actually saw a rig like that at the Cincinnati Woodcraft store years ago doing a demo.
Cool idea
Ford had those 429s in everything, bet you could easily find a engine for it and get a lot more for it as a running working rig.
Did they have that 429 in motor homes ? maybe look for a rough motor home IF it runs ? Ian - UK.
ian burit i don’t think so, 429 was used in heavy trucks. Seems most ford dump trucks around here have them.
@@ianburit3705 Yes some used them.
@@mjmcomputers Sorry Bud, i live way across the pond but only speak of what i see or read.. What does older motor homes have then ?. Ian - UK.
I bet if the crain dont work its only worth 800
Look for a diesel engine to drop into this one, and sell it as quickly as you can!
If that's a 429 fur barrel,..I'd bet somebody in the hot rod world would like to get his mitts on that engine for a quick and dirty rebuild hobby!
Will be ideal for when you need to lift your roof trusses on your house build when you get round to the house build 👍🏼
Stag Man good luck reaching with a 45ft boom I use a 20ton 80ft boom and on some houses it’s under powered gets to the red and I need to override it and can sometimes burly reach the house normally it’s it’s fine thoe
José Villa I used to drive a hiab truck and lift roof trusses on our houses here in the uk
they didn’t weigh much as they were made of 4x2 and I generally delivered 30 at a time and lifted them up one at a time
Stag Man Stag Man I know it’ll lift quite a bit I’ve lifted and set on the ground packs of 30 trusses that are 50ft long but I mean the reach for like houses when ur at max boom at 20 degrees angle packs of trusses of 15 30ft get really heavy and the boom won’t come back up unless you lower them and boom up at the same time kinda like letting them fall for a few seconds while you boom up and if you aren’t careful you can very easily flip over that’s why I say they are under powered. Never used a hiab truck I’ve always wanted to try it out I’ve only used 20t and 22t 80ft fixed cab cranes and a 45t 125ft swing cab to set prefabricated walls
Diesel Creek and Mustie1 are my 2 favorite channels .... love your great attitude towards fixing things
If you want to fix it. That’s up to you.I will watch the videos. Hell you’re good at fixing shit anyway.
Keep up the good work.I enjoy the way you explain how things are done in certain situations.You make it easy for us lay people to understand what you're doing
I think I would find a Diesel to replace the paper weight that's in it then hold on to it. There are jobs waiting for it's use. One or two jobs would pay for it. You have plenty of parking.
Old Blue whistling Turbo is sorely missed. God Loves resurrections.... He's with you brother
I see a diesel engine swap in the future
And a 7.3L Diesel should be easy since Ford used that motor to around 2003. Other choice IMHO would be a Cummins out of a Dodge pickup.
That crane is like having a Vice on a table. Once you start using it, you keep finding other things that you can use it for, and as time goes by you wonder how you ever made it without ( the vice... or in this case, the crane
before you do a swap or sale, do a good ole tow and clutch dump in 3rd to see if you can pop the engine free...
FrankTheCat
& after that he'll still have to pull the motor because everything inside broke 😂
Frank,,,,that I would do but----not now after trying to bar it over it will break something in the drive train and it may be an automatic.
@@PaulHigginbothamSr if you watched the video at all you would have seen and heard him say its a 5 speed manual and he pressed the clutch like 15 times in the video....
@@PaulHigginbothamSr Did you actually watch the video and see him moving the gear stick?
Why the hell didn’t you try to turn it over when you were hooked up to the tow truck fool!
I’d love to see it all working, either swapped or fixed, either way. It’d be some good content, may even have yourself a cheap, workable piece of machinery also. Cranes are handy.
I was looking for a Crane truck 3years ago. Good going.😎
Engine swap series!! Another project is always fun to cram in with the other 100 projects you've got going
“Oh great, asbestos, I hope there’s a lot of that I here” 😂
That one cracked me up.
Had a truck very close to this one. I see it even has the bracket for an add on jib extension. If it was like mine, it has pop out front out riggers in the front by the turret. There's a scissor arm that extends them out farther away from the truck. Made money with mine. Added a 2nd boom saddle over the cab to the front bumper so i could haul bigger loads on the bed. I moved a lot of signs and fuel tanks for a major oil company.
Well, you're very up beat about the whole thing.... you definitely handled this better than I would have. Best of luck with er!
Howdyyawl from the land down under. Auctions are fun, play games with other buyers driving up the prices. Sometimes you can get burnt abit. It's a hard one, if you put a donk in it or sell as is. The taste will be sour. Good luck.😊
I'd keep it for the farm but that's me-- at under a grand, you really have something!!! BTW, you remind me of a fella I served with in the army named Sam Benson. You make good vids- keep up the good work!!!
Importanter.... Good new word! 😀
Also , love the hydraulic fluid squirt in the face... Who hasn't done that with one type of fluid or another!!!
Contact the previous owner and get some info on the old girl before ploughing money into her. 👍
That it was at auction tells you all you need to know of the PO's opinion of her.
@@DocNo27 and the fact that plugs were already out. By the looks of the one plug, that thing has a blown head gasket anyways so it’s not gonna do much good to try and get it busted loose as he’s doing, the heads really need to come off that thing at minimum
@@1982MCI Hehe - look at more of his videos - there is a conclusion :)
A barn painter would probably love it. Put a bucket on the end of her and you’d be able to paint the barn right up to the top of the silo. Lots of room on the deck to mount your paint and, compressor and beer.
Fix it up! Im following you for exactly that reason ! Engine swap and get the crane going .. itll be fun ! ;-)
9:24 “Ugh, gassers!” That got a subscription from me! Hate the idea that such big old trucks used to be gassers but have a morbid fascination with seeing them worked on (probably cause I’m not buying the fuel they’re guzzling down at an alarming rate lmao)
Get it running. Would come in handy moving machinery. You said you planned on setting up a machine shop.
Throw in a cheap 460 and USE IT!!! They make forklift attachments and man baskets for those. Lift roofing to the roof top for people. Go down to the docks and load ships with equipment and supplies, rent a small barge and park in the center for underwater boat and equipment salvage. A crane can be a huge money maker. The last crane I hired was $1,500 an hour, just to lift 1,800 pound AC units to a 32 foot high roof.
Never scratch your nose at an auction. From a recovering auction addict.
Hahaha I did that at real estate auction once.
Why? i don't get it
@@kitsune9329 that can be a sign you've bid on something, usually subtle movements like that are a sign of bidding at silent auctions
@johnny smit what does 69 and young girls have anything to do with this?
@@techsavvycat2584 Oh!, got it, thanks.
Those engines are tough, should run again.. we had one similar with the 370 and it was seized.. motor oil and diesel in the cylinders and bump it from behind every so often it freed up.. ran like a top after that..
This title must be the same thing you said to your wife when you got home 😂
I know I told my wife the same thing about guns and cars I have bought lol
That was my first thought....
yup classics right we had a 1960's era rig with a similar crane on a 1963 M700 with a 312 Y block, unless it was really dark we had to "tow" it to job sites, it's amazing how much you can pull with 1/4"
nylon rope (;
Im a simple man. I see crane, I click.
Same, for me it’s on the OBS 6.9s-7.3s from 83-86-97.
That will come in handy with the next building build at the farm!!
Maybe it needs a diesel motor in it😃
Do a series where you swap the motor and get her back into shape!
My dad just sold his 1989 ford 700 hooklift diesel . It was a really nice truck. He had it for 13 years. Very reliable
For $700 get junk yard engine. Spend a weekend changing it. See what you've got. Might want to have available just in case, at very low cost.
Next time start bid at $100.
We have an 89 f800 boom truck as well! ours has a JLG 800 crane. The engine is the Brazilian 6.6 diesel. Great job bud !
Can you put a diesel engine in it?
Just for kicks pull the passenger head off and have a look-see
You got any engines laying around? Good luck
It just brings back happy memories of when I actually did get bailed out at an auction and was so relieved, as I knew that I had made a mistake. However, you did OK.
Can't wait for videos with this beast!
I would put a Diesel engine in it . Yes it might sit around a bit between jobs . But when you need it it's there ready n waiting .
Mmmmm straight 6 Cummins .
Yep I like diesels too .
I have a V6 tdi VW Touareg here in the uk .
It's one of the nicest sounding engines . Apart from the V10 tdi .
Great to see you posting again .
Hey back in 2002 / 2003 . Company I was working for took 2 Rolls Royce powered ERF Tractor units .
One was sold to a guy in Jamaica . The other sat there . Until I got the job of converting it into a recovery Truck .
One of my all time favourite jobs . Took me 10 months doing it along with other jobs building road tankers .
It was Painted custard yellow . And so reliable . It had 3/4 of a million miles on it when we got our hands on it .
You could take the crane portion off and use it as a flatbed
i can see into the further, you are going to keep it with a smile. or i came in late on this video, so i have already seen the part that you fix and it's a sweet beast. so far.
I don't know, a crane may be the kind of thing that you say you really don't need, but then you use it for a few jobs, and in the end you are glad you picked it up.
We all want to see the inside of that engine - maybe one of those smartphone borescope attachment/cable gadgets - save a lot of guess-work and they’re as cheap as chips.
I think you're going to be throwing some more money at it...
I’ll sell it to you buddy!!!
Oh my gosh, that Darla comment was hilarious! I'm new to your channel and I love it! Love your sense of humor.
I lost in when you pulled on the lights, and it just pulled right out LMAO
I was laughing too... it was all I could do at that point...
The horn works -- it's a keeper! I'd tear the motor down to find the problem, and rebuild if reasonable, or replace (preferably diesel, but a similar engine would probably be a lot simpler).
The systemic issue here is too many lawyers and not enough engineers.
Don't use the crank bolt, use prybar on ring gear to work it back and forth till it loosens up. Forcing only one direction doesn't work
Try turning the key and then pushing the button that’s how my truck works
That’s what I was thinking as well I had a 95 L9000 that had both
Guys, he can't even turn the engine with a breaker bar, it's locked. He should try and free it up though. It'd be a cool video
@@staind288 its a joke....
@@theswedishpanda3897 How on earth would you know if somebody else is joking or not when it's not obvious? You don't. It doesn't look like a joke, it just looks like an honest suggestion for later on, when the motor's freed up.
I had a truck that the key didn’t have to be in the ignition to run
We’ve got a f700 garbage truck with one of those 370s in it. Easiest stick I have ever driven. Had some issues with running, but that was nothing a little adjustable choke in the cab couldn’t fix. Truck is a 1988, but only has 30,000 on it due to being a local garbage hauler, like less then 4 miles once every other week. Lots of idle time though.
I think you should torch the front half off and convert it to a crane trailer.
He would still need a engine to turn the hyraulic pumps.
There is a welding shop not too far from us. Their lot is big however it is packed with storage. The way it works is they have two old cranes in the yard which can lift anything and everything. The cranes were taken out of service but the truck engine & crane work fine. You could probably power your crane pump with any number of engines. But like you said, you may not need a crane in the first place -Sell it to a sawmill
Many trucks like that do have low miles, but actually has many hours of operation from being used as a crane.
Thanks for the fascinating story! I learned a lot. Keep it up. Regular old brake fluid is the best bolt buster for the money. You need to put 8 quarts of brake fluid into the engine crankcase and let it set 24 hours. A 36" chain type pipe wrench will grip the outside of the crank pulley and give you the ability to reverse the rotation. That spark plug with the white crap looks like there is a blown head gasket letting coolant into the cylinder. An engine with the plugs left out indicates to me that it failed a compression test and was left to be overhauled or scrapped. The truck as scrap metal is worth $700 if you can get it to the recyclers.
where I bought it was directly across the street from the scrap yard... it was tempting!
Fit diesel motor and use it 👍
thats not a bad old truck cant beat the price swap the motor over quick tidy up move her on if not be a handy truck for you with not a lot of money tied up looking forward to your next auction visit cheers mate
keep it. it makes good content. unfortunately it doesn't fit in any of your buildings, so you would need to set up a tent to pull the motor. still could be some good content. Id watch it.
It'll fit in beside the Autocar and the tractor, won't it?
have you seen his container outdoor workshop???
@@FishFind3000 Yep, it would fit in there, wouldn't it? It's a bit rough, quite a bit, but it would keep the rain out the cylinders.😁
Yep there it is. Got ya some lawn art. Lol. You can get your money back on, maybe? Good luck
I can use a crane. Plus, she reminds me of my dad's truck. I don't exactly have a place for it just yet.
Those are good ratchets. If a 3/4" impact won't budge it, that ratchet will.
fix the old girl up and make yourself some cash
Fixing could cost more than what it's worth.
I would check out scrap prices and maybe just scrap it. I did something simular $600 for an old tanker sold for scrap for $1100
Take the crane and turn it into an amusement ride. Call it whip-lash. The stubby look of the old cab has character. With a little chop retrofit, it could make for a unique looking truck.
Did ya have the wrecker see if it would break loose with it in gear when it was on some pavement?
Genius there...would’ve loved to watch that.
Repairs are always a good video series
Make vids of restoring it a little get it working use it on the farm and when not using rent it out
This channels content is fantastic for viewing on a rainy day... however it’s a beautiful sunny spring day and I’m inside watching it while my batteries are charging on my motorcycle... lol
I would love to hang with this dude for a little while...
Pull that motor out and switch it over to a diesel engine.
Yup, I'm sure most of us have a boat anchor purchase story. I know I do! Between selling parts and scrapping the rest, you might recoup some of your losses. The crane and flat bed should be worth something.
I did that yesterday, I might have accidentally purchased a Makita Impact Driver and Combi Drill set, the first power tools I actually own 😅
There's a major difference between the two it's the fact your wife can't kill you over a drill but a crane yeah that's definitely a different story 😆
Wyatt Carson I think you’d have to have a wife for that, life much easier being single 😂
@@wyattcarson6572 yeah but jeepers its only $700 bucks for the boat anchor-lol
I know the previous owner - funny to see his name come up. He said it was a really good truck other than the engine, which is obviously seized. He said before it seized up everything ran well and all the crane functions were perfect. It may be worth getting it running again.
thats crazy, small world... I was betting that the crane was in usable shape, ill probably swap the motor but well see.
Diesel Creek I’ll be eager to see what you end up doing with her, I’ll keep and eye out for an update. Good luck!
Someone's been watching too much vice grip garage
Got my own and wouldn't think of selling it. To handy for to many things. Just moving tractor equipment around makes it a keeper.
That’s what I used to say to my ex-wife...”I accidentally bought it!” 🙄😬
I’ve got faith in you, I think you’ve got some big problems with the motor but you’ll get it running for about 5-6 hundred. I predict your going to have some hydraulic problems, air brake system will need some work. Please check the bolts around the crane they look loose. Have a good day and I predict by November you’ll be happy you bough the truck. Stay safe
"Special BS" = Pilot operated Check Valve ...AKA "Holding Valve"
Ya see you knew what I meant 😂👍🏼
We love that your viewership is rising! Super fantastic
Looks like you have too many projects.. SELL IT! Or keep it for few years, move it 100 times, and then sell it..
Gonna need a lot of lipstick. Squirrels need to open a detailing shop.
I accidentally clicked on this video.
I drove by that Richie Brothers yard everyday. I used to drive for Elite gas field right off 18 past Bert’s Hotdogs!!
I ate lunch at berts today lol