Green 80"
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nakedbarra
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Green 80"
I spotted a green 80" on daves avatar and its either a crappy new paint job on my 80" in daves shed or do you want to finally tell us about your new addition Dave? :80inch: :88greenswbtopless: :dontknow:
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DaveB
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Yes, there is another truck here. Now I can say there are 5 trucks that don't run at the same time on the driveway... including yours, Andrew.
That was actually true for about an hour this morning, as the Rangie is dying and awaiting it's new engine, the Disco has a stalling issue, the 80" barely runs, your 80 inch is still in pieces, and the Series IIa, while it runs, the heater core started leaking...
Sigh... why do I do this? Anyway, pulled the heater and plugged both ends to a copper pipe, so that'll keep the blue truck running for a day or two till the heater gets re-cored; replugged all the connectors on the master fuse panel on the Disco, and 3 hours later its still running, so maybe there's hope yet.
As far as the 80" goes, its a 1953, in reasonably original — albeit dilapidated — shape. It fires up, but all the gaskets in the carb have dried up, so it wont rev and won't idle, but I can get it to fire and sputter and stay alive for a few moments, and a carb kit just arrived, so there's hope that it'll really run soon. Yes the paint is ugly, but it's not a priority project at the moment. It just happened along at the right price and I couldn't resist...
Dave
That was actually true for about an hour this morning, as the Rangie is dying and awaiting it's new engine, the Disco has a stalling issue, the 80" barely runs, your 80 inch is still in pieces, and the Series IIa, while it runs, the heater core started leaking...
Sigh... why do I do this? Anyway, pulled the heater and plugged both ends to a copper pipe, so that'll keep the blue truck running for a day or two till the heater gets re-cored; replugged all the connectors on the master fuse panel on the Disco, and 3 hours later its still running, so maybe there's hope yet.
As far as the 80" goes, its a 1953, in reasonably original — albeit dilapidated — shape. It fires up, but all the gaskets in the carb have dried up, so it wont rev and won't idle, but I can get it to fire and sputter and stay alive for a few moments, and a carb kit just arrived, so there's hope that it'll really run soon. Yes the paint is ugly, but it's not a priority project at the moment. It just happened along at the right price and I couldn't resist...
Dave