Old (or new) pick 'em up trucks...

Shaun · 08-16-2005, 12:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Mick

Yeah I was thinking cummins, but I like the 3208 Cats, they sound awesome. I dunno if it'll fit into an IH though, failing that just the standard 350 IH motor would do, but then again, I'm dreaming here so I could put anything in it hey!

Mick in my earlier days I drove an IH hauling heavy equipment and it had a Cummins 350 in it and I never had a problem -- the nice things about cummins if you care for them they are a million mile engine.

lefty o · 08-16-2005, 01:03 AM

if you guys want to see a pretty cool truck, check out this months hot rod magazine. in the article about pump gas drags, you'll find my brothers old farm truck in 25th place.

Mick · 08-16-2005, 03:52 AM

Yep, those cummins are good motors. My dad had a IH C-line with a cummins motor when I was a kid, it was a single drive semi towing a 36 foot cattle trailer, all I remember was it was fire engine red with heaps of chrome bits and sounded cool, and it had a cut out in the firewall with a fibreglass cover so the motor would fit.

Apollyon67 · 09-08-2005, 10:37 PM

Mick, I bet you got alot of looks at that sweet ride.

Johnny_Revolver · 09-08-2005, 11:01 PM

We had an old commer at the first sand plant, second generation commer same as the dodge ( here anyway ) it had a 180 Cummins V8 shoe horned into it, single drive, man oh man on the drive from the place we got it to the plant I reckon it woulda done 100mph. Near all the cummins V8`s we had suffered electrolisis, we even had a cripple 5 cummins, what a POS that was. I had a Yale articulated loader with a cummins, I think it mighta been a 903 cause it stood up to everything I threw at it and never flinched. With diesels, once you go CAT, you cant go back...

Mick · 09-09-2005, 03:36 AM

I love those 903, turbo 3070 prime movers, they call them 'Bird Scarers' straight through 5 inch stacks, whoo hoo! what a noise!

Johnny_Revolver · 09-09-2005, 04:20 AM

I always thought it was the old 6/71 and 8/71 GM`s were called bird scarers. Still, I dunno what was in my Yale, I cant remember if it was turbo, it did sound righteous when the muffler rotted out. We had a 2170B acco, it had a criple five, it was allison auto but we ditched that for a 10 speed RR, it was next useless, wouldnt pull the skin off a rice custard. 13 speed may have helped, the 10 and the auto spec diffs, it just didnt have the grunt or the gears. But we were asking it and lesser trucks to do a dump trucks job, eventually we got Volvo BM`s. One out the plant now is A/C !!!! who`d have ever thunk it?

Apollyon67 · 09-09-2005, 09:15 PM

sure ain't nothin' sounds like a detroit diesel two stoker. Ever notice what some of the firetrucks sound like when the volunteers get ahold of them? Niiice, unless you are trying to sleep anyway.

rebel727 · 09-09-2005, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Apollyon67

sure ain't nothin' sounds like a detroit diesel two stoker. Ever notice what some of the firetrucks sound like when the volunteers get ahold of them? Niiice, unless you are trying to sleep anyway.

Must be using some danged old trucks to still have the old two strokes in them.

Johnny_Revolver · 09-10-2005, 05:09 AM

Lol, I had to operate an excavator with a Detriot deisel in it. It was old and pretty big, but had no gutz at all I was trying to desilt a silt pond with it. It would be screaming its head off, like only a GM 2 stroke can, And when I`d pull on the hoist lever the revs would drop to nothing, let go WAAAAAHHHHHH, pull lever duhhhhhhh the bucket would move a few inches. I`d start swivelling round as I hoisted the bucket to put the bucket fulla silt into the truck, flattened to side of the truck once or twice and prised it back up again... Character building stuff driving worn out crap like that.

rebel727 · 09-10-2005, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Johnny_Revolver

Character building stuff driving worn out crap like that.

Is that what you call it? I've operated more than my share of worn out crap. Among them an old Quick Way drag line gas burner, an International TD 14 dozer with a cable operated blade and drove a Diamond Reo gas burner with a 14 yard dump bed. Loaded about 35 mph was all I could get. When I started driving 18's I drove a cab over Int. with a 238 Detroit and a 10 speed. Then I graduated to an 8-71 Detroit with a 13. Thought I was chopping really tall cotton when I got my 290 Cummins. I Drive a Freight Shaker with a 470 HP Detroit 4 stroke now. I Still like a Cat but those new 450 and up Cummins really kick butt on a Cat. Before I got this job I was driving a 2003 Int. with a 450 Cummins. Dang thing took off like a rocket and loaded, not many hills (course we don't have many big hills here) I couldn't speed up on. Tear a 500 Cat's butt up on takeoff and pull.

Mick · 09-10-2005, 04:36 PM

Up until about 4 years ago we had an old Alice Chalmers HD-10 dozer with a detroit supercharged 4 cylinder motor in it,and a cable lift blade. I don't know how old it was but where the yellow paint was falling off it was O.D underneath.

odf 1bn · 09-10-2005, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Armorer

Several notes:

I don't own anything new. My truck is a 1969 Ranchero. 300hp 351, It's my hauler, ain't pretty, get the job done.

Dana, My 53' has a 3 speed non-sync O/D. 50 years old and get 27mpg on the highway.

Rice ain't nice. If you got to buy a plastic, computerized, truck, at least keep an American employed.

Everyone and thier mother has a new 4x4s around here, the ladies can't see out of them, csn't handle them, but by god, they rulle the road because they are bigger than the rest of us.

Oh yeah, and my number one question is:

If you have the money to buy a 40k truck, jack it up and put mudders on it that you will never use...

How the heck come you can't buy a set of cheap mud flaps to protect my windshield?
I'm tired of the glass man coming to my house!

i was wondering the same thing!?
as for my truck (suv) its a 93 blazer 4x4 and yes i gets used. its loud as !!!! and its not pretty passenger side fender and headlight bezel are messed up from a deer the rear bumper plastic piece is about to come off. it was free besides the 750.00 motor i had to put in it before i could drive it.

Apollyon67 · 09-12-2005, 10:46 PM

those SUVs, they have been getting few and far between out this way. (gas prices?)

jerry · 10-22-2005, 05:06 PM

Cleaned up the old Ford today. Just goes to show, you can polish a turd and you still have a turd LOL

rebel727 · 10-22-2005, 05:42 PM

I got my dads 85 Silverado today. Mom wanted to keep it parked in the yard ever since dad died just so she could look out the window and see it. Her car went bad on her and isn't worth fixing. She can't drive the truck cuz it's too hard for her to get in and out of. (she's78) Nobody can afford to buy her another one so we gave her our Jeep Cherokee and she told me to take dads truck home. Said she had been thinking about it cuz she's tired of people trying to buy it. Sis wanted to take it to Ga. with her but mom wouldn't let her have it. Sis is gonna be ticked.

Apollyon67 · 10-22-2005, 10:54 PM

Reb, I love that year series of trucks. Did your father buy it new?

rebel727 · 10-23-2005, 02:19 AM

No he didn't buy it new. It's a SWB a lil on the rough side but it runs strong. 350 CID, 4bbl, dual exhaust with glasspaks, at,ps,pb,ac

CleanCut · 10-23-2005, 09:27 PM

I had a Plain Jane 80 model Chevy with a 250 inline six and a three on the tree. Bought it about 11 years ago for $650. I had the carb rebuilt, did a tune up and put new tires on it (it sat about 3 years before I bought it). It had about 85k on it and I put another 100k on it before selling it for a $1000. All I did to it for the 100k was change the thermostat, put another set of tires on it and perform routine maintenance. That was 5 years ago and the guy is still driving it. Still kicking myself!

Apollyon67 · 10-23-2005, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by rebel727

No he didn't buy it new. It's a SWB a lil on the rough side but it runs strong. 350 CID, 4bbl, dual exhaust with glasspaks, at,ps,pb,ac

Sweet, mine is an '81 swb with a few add ons. LOLOne of these days I will figure out how to post a pic on here.

08-16-2005, 03:52 AM	#1203
Mick Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Emerald CQLD AUST Posts: 975 Images: 1	Yep, those cummins are good motors. My dad had a IH C-line with a cummins motor when I was a kid, it was a single drive semi towing a 36 foot cattle trailer, all I remember was it was fire engine red with heaps of chrome bits and sounded cool, and it had a cut out in the firewall with a fibreglass cover so the motor would fit. __________________ OzHunter Give me a six-pack and a red dirt open road (Adam Brand)

09-08-2005, 10:37 PM	#1204
Apollyon67 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Southern Maryland Posts: 2,238 Images: 17	Mick, I bet you got alot of looks at that sweet ride. __________________ "To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish." Ben Franklin

09-09-2005, 03:36 AM	#1206
Mick Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Emerald CQLD AUST Posts: 975 Images: 1	I love those 903, turbo 3070 prime movers, they call them 'Bird Scarers' straight through 5 inch stacks, whoo hoo! what a noise! __________________ OzHunter Give me a six-pack and a red dirt open road (Adam Brand)

09-09-2005, 09:15 PM	#1208
Apollyon67 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Southern Maryland Posts: 2,238 Images: 17	sure ain't nothin' sounds like a detroit diesel two stoker. Ever notice what some of the firetrucks sound like when the volunteers get ahold of them? Niiice, unless you are trying to sleep anyway. __________________ "To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish." Ben Franklin

09-10-2005, 04:36 PM	#1212
Mick Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Emerald CQLD AUST Posts: 975 Images: 1	Up until about 4 years ago we had an old Alice Chalmers HD-10 dozer with a detroit supercharged 4 cylinder motor in it,and a cable lift blade. I don't know how old it was but where the yellow paint was falling off it was O.D underneath. __________________ OzHunter Give me a six-pack and a red dirt open road (Adam Brand)

08-16-2005, 01:03 AM	#1202
lefty o Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: mn Posts: 5,028	if you guys want to see a pretty cool truck, check out this months hot rod magazine. in the article about pump gas drags, you'll find my brothers old farm truck in 25th place.

09-08-2005, 11:01 PM	#1205
Johnny_Revolver Gun Liker Join Date: May 2005 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 1,222 Blog Entries: 6	We had an old commer at the first sand plant, second generation commer same as the dodge ( here anyway ) it had a 180 Cummins V8 shoe horned into it, single drive, man oh man on the drive from the place we got it to the plant I reckon it woulda done 100mph. Near all the cummins V8`s we had suffered electrolisis, we even had a cripple 5 cummins, what a POS that was. I had a Yale articulated loader with a cummins, I think it mighta been a 903 cause it stood up to everything I threw at it and never flinched. With diesels, once you go CAT, you cant go back...

09-09-2005, 04:20 AM	#1207
Johnny_Revolver Gun Liker Join Date: May 2005 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 1,222 Blog Entries: 6	I always thought it was the old 6/71 and 8/71 GM`s were called bird scarers. Still, I dunno what was in my Yale, I cant remember if it was turbo, it did sound righteous when the muffler rotted out. We had a 2170B acco, it had a criple five, it was allison auto but we ditched that for a 10 speed RR, it was next useless, wouldnt pull the skin off a rice custard. 13 speed may have helped, the 10 and the auto spec diffs, it just didnt have the grunt or the gears. But we were asking it and lesser trucks to do a dump trucks job, eventually we got Volvo BM`s. One out the plant now is A/C !!!! who`d have ever thunk it?

09-10-2005, 05:09 AM	#1210
Johnny_Revolver Gun Liker Join Date: May 2005 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 1,222 Blog Entries: 6	Lol, I had to operate an excavator with a Detriot deisel in it. It was old and pretty big, but had no gutz at all I was trying to desilt a silt pond with it. It would be screaming its head off, like only a GM 2 stroke can, And when I`d pull on the hoist lever the revs would drop to nothing, let go WAAAAAHHHHHH, pull lever duhhhhhhh the bucket would move a few inches. I`d start swivelling round as I hoisted the bucket to put the bucket fulla silt into the truck, flattened to side of the truck once or twice and prised it back up again... Character building stuff driving worn out crap like that.

09-12-2005, 10:46 PM	#1214
Apollyon67 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Southern Maryland Posts: 2,238 Images: 17	those SUVs, they have been getting few and far between out this way. (gas prices?) __________________ "To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish." Ben Franklin

10-22-2005, 05:06 PM	#1215
jerry Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 11,117 Images: 9 Blog Entries: 1	Cleaned up the old Ford today. Just goes to show, you can polish a turd and you still have a turd LOL __________________ Joe the plumber is screwed

10-22-2005, 05:42 PM	#1216
rebel727 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Heidelberg, Mississippi Posts: 1,619	I got my dads 85 Silverado today. Mom wanted to keep it parked in the yard ever since dad died just so she could look out the window and see it. Her car went bad on her and isn't worth fixing. She can't drive the truck cuz it's too hard for her to get in and out of. (she's78) Nobody can afford to buy her another one so we gave her our Jeep Cherokee and she told me to take dads truck home. Said she had been thinking about it cuz she's tired of people trying to buy it. Sis wanted to take it to Ga. with her but mom wouldn't let her have it. Sis is gonna be ticked. __________________ North-1 South-0 HALFTIME!

10-22-2005, 10:54 PM	#1217
Apollyon67 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Southern Maryland Posts: 2,238 Images: 17	Reb, I love that year series of trucks. Did your father buy it new? __________________ "To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish." Ben Franklin

10-23-2005, 02:19 AM	#1218
rebel727 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Heidelberg, Mississippi Posts: 1,619	No he didn't buy it new. It's a SWB a lil on the rough side but it runs strong. 350 CID, 4bbl, dual exhaust with glasspaks, at,ps,pb,ac __________________ North-1 South-0 HALFTIME!

10-23-2005, 09:27 PM	#1219
CleanCut Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: South Georgia Posts: 77	I had a Plain Jane 80 model Chevy with a 250 inline six and a three on the tree. Bought it about 11 years ago for $650. I had the carb rebuilt, did a tune up and put new tires on it (it sat about 3 years before I bought it). It had about 85k on it and I put another 100k on it before selling it for a $1000. All I did to it for the 100k was change the thermostat, put another set of tires on it and perform routine maintenance. That was 5 years ago and the guy is still driving it. Still kicking myself!