not sure that sit down and relax is sound advice for someone as out of shape as I am. need to be more active to lose weight. unfortunately I am over 500lbs.. working on it
@@richardd408 I will be home soon to take the alternator out and have it tested as well as tide up some under the hood. no promises but if I can get it running well enough I will use it to haul a semi trailer to the auction house
We used to run these hard. Electric two speed axles are awesome when you get them singing. We used sodium filled valves and four ring silv-o-lite pistons (less galling when hot). Would cut slits in the bottom side of the radiator shroud and drop a ramp down a few inches. Lugging was bad and stopping too soon after getting off the freeway was worse. Good luck !
That was a workhorse back in the day. I worked at Dr. Pepper bottling and we loaded these trucks to the max everyday! Those stick shifters you really had to make sure they were in neutral. They were a bear to shift when it was below zero.
Haha I would drive that everywhere too if I had it. I'm 50 years old and miss how much style and character vehicles had when I was a kid. Today they're all over engineered, computerized, and all look the same with Chinese parts with a name badge slapped on the front. I daily drive a 1990 1st gen 12v Cummins Dodge D350 but am going to get something more vintage in the future. Thanks for showing this old girl off, we gotta keep these old ones going because they don't make them like they used to!
Happy New Year greetings from the Ohio Porters!🇺🇸 You should have a battery door in the floor of that thing. They were bad about rusting though. Those springs really help raise the cab, after you pull the lock releases. I drove a 1965 C800 390 5&2 speed. It had power steering and I loved that truck!🥰 I even drove mine to school and vocational school to do the body repairs. Talking about a sweet truck! Mine had 8 track, CB Mount, lots of lights. Good looking little truck. Are those cherry bomb mufflers? Wowsers! I always liked the looks of those cabs.🥰 Good stuff! 😎🤩✌️
there is a battery door however the hole is not large enough for jumper cables comfortably. also the mufflers are basically 🍒 bombs but this peticular brand is purple hornies hoping to do more videos on this truck soon. currently there is 3 feet of snow in the back yard
Thank you. That's interesting on shift pattern My uncle had a 4 with 2 speed rear. And I worked for a guy that had same truck as yours. Same 5 speed. Is it bad to just split every gear. That's how I shifted. It just was used to haul a backhoe always. Never ran her Light. Never knew the pattern you said. Very interesting shift pattern. I just went off what was written on visor
think I said the pattern wrong at some point but with the two speed rear the pattern is different depending on the gear ratio you have. I have found with mine it is unnecessary to split the low gears with the rear as the gear ratio is so low.
@@travis9438 Can you do another video of just shifting again. I find it interesting how you shift a two speed rear, kind of like a spit shifter for say a class 8 Truck with the lever on front of nob. My 8- 71 with a Spicer 5 speed. Doest have a splitter on it. So it's been a time sense I used one of those two speed rears.
lol they've been making Zippo lighters since 1933, i have my grandpa's old lighter from the 50's...you never saw an old movie before or ww II docu before?
Hot , hot truck. No A/C, a driver cooker.
Dude, take it easy out there, sounds like you’re minutes away from a heart attack.
not sure that sit down and relax is sound advice for someone as out of shape as I am. need to be more active to lose weight. unfortunately I am over 500lbs.. working on it
@@travis9438 I mean to say, don’t strain yourself, the heat, physical exertion is really hard on the heart.
@@richardd408 I will be home soon to take the alternator out and have it tested as well as tide up some under the hood. no promises but if I can get it running well enough I will use it to haul a semi trailer to the auction house
@@travis9438 sweet, looking forward to more videos, it’s such a cool truck.
@@travis9438 damn dude you NEED keto diet
We used to run these hard. Electric two speed axles are awesome when you get them singing. We used sodium filled valves and four ring silv-o-lite pistons (less galling when hot). Would cut slits in the bottom side of the radiator shroud and drop a ramp down a few inches. Lugging was bad and stopping too soon after getting off the freeway was worse. Good luck !
That was a workhorse back in the day. I worked at Dr. Pepper bottling and we loaded these trucks to the max everyday! Those stick shifters you really had to make sure they were in neutral. They were a bear to shift when it was below zero.
its my hope to get it running well enough to do a load in it, as a novelty
Haha I would drive that everywhere too if I had it. I'm 50 years old and miss how much style and character vehicles had when I was a kid. Today they're all over engineered, computerized, and all look the same with Chinese parts with a name badge slapped on the front. I daily drive a 1990 1st gen 12v Cummins Dodge D350 but am going to get something more vintage in the future. Thanks for showing this old girl off, we gotta keep these old ones going because they don't make them like they used to!
I love the style of them old trucks. Had one on the farm same truck. It was our bale truck. 3208 Cat.
Happy New Year greetings from the Ohio Porters!🇺🇸 You should have a battery door in the floor of that thing. They were bad about rusting though. Those springs really help raise the cab, after you pull the lock releases. I drove a 1965 C800 390 5&2 speed. It had power steering and I loved that truck!🥰 I even drove mine to school and vocational school to do the body repairs. Talking about a sweet truck! Mine had 8 track, CB Mount, lots of lights. Good looking little truck. Are those cherry bomb mufflers? Wowsers! I always liked the looks of those cabs.🥰 Good stuff! 😎🤩✌️
there is a battery door however the hole is not large enough for jumper cables comfortably. also the mufflers are basically 🍒 bombs but this peticular brand is purple hornies hoping to do more videos on this truck soon. currently there is 3 feet of snow in the back yard
Sort of sounds like Dino when Fred Flintstone comes home
Lol.
That ford 391 was a good engine
That's the 330
So cool you drove this in high school 👍👍
engine sounds good I've got a couple cabovers I'm working on
Very cool!!!! I built a model almost identical to that truck. 👍
Still kicking 😎👍
They ran that model up in to the 80s
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Thank you. That's interesting on shift pattern
My uncle had a 4 with 2 speed rear. And I worked for a guy that had same truck as yours. Same 5 speed. Is it bad to just split every gear. That's how I shifted. It just was used to haul a backhoe always. Never ran her Light. Never knew the pattern you said. Very interesting shift pattern. I just went off what was written on visor
think I said the pattern wrong at some point but with the two speed rear the pattern is different depending on the gear ratio you have. I have found with mine it is unnecessary to split the low gears with the rear as the gear ratio is so low.
@@travis9438
Can you do another video of just shifting again.
I find it interesting how you shift a two speed rear, kind of like a spit shifter for say a class 8 Truck with the lever on front of nob. My 8- 71 with a Spicer 5 speed. Doest have a splitter on it. So it's been a time sense I used one of those two speed rears.
Wouldn't mind one of these and a Dodge L-700....👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻
New subscriber here bub
I'm surprised to see a gasoline engine in that. That had to be BEYOND terrible on gas. Like gallons per mile.
when towing it gets about 6mpg at 55mph. empty it gets 12mpg highway
They made these same trucks right up to 1990
And started in 1957, got their money’s worth out of the tooling.
Could he possibly be gasping and grunting any worse??
lol they've been making Zippo lighters since 1933, i have my grandpa's old lighter from the 50's...you never saw an old movie before or ww II docu before?
Sounds not good to heavy breathing
How is the truck doing now ?
unfortunately I have not had time to work on it lately I have been driving truck and haven't been home much.
A horrible mechanicle Situation there, why did your start this wreck, a empty radiator, empty battery, empty fueltank and no everythink!
why not?
@@travis9438 cause you can
Medicare and Medicare is government funded health care
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Seriously a petrol engine in a truck what a joke man 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's just how they were made
They were workhorses. My dad use to work for a guy around here and haul hay and tractors with one.
Used run those gasoline engine in east Texas life wasn't as fast then
Jesus....the heavy breathing made me not watch this entire video...
sorry to hear that it was 100 plus out and I do weigh 500 lbs so heavy breathing comes with the territory