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QUESTION: Recommendation For An Old Vehicle.
Me | June 23, 2012 | Yosemitest

Posted on 06/23/2012 1:37:44 AM PDT by Yosemitest

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To: nascarnation

I don’t exactly have a decent fuel miser engine, either I use an old 6v71 Detroit or possibly another 1984 Cummins L10 (10 liter).

I do have quite a few trannies, mostly 10 speed stuff but also an Allison 540. I manage a concrete batch plant and so I have a whole back lot of old trucks and parts, and I am the chief mechanic fabricator there.


61 posted on 06/23/2012 6:03:17 PM PDT by Eye of Unk (Islamoprogressivenists need not reply.)
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To: Teflonic
Now that was difficult to do and very funny.
I bet the driver gets stopped by the cops all the time, just to see the registration and look the vehicle over for safety.
62 posted on 06/24/2012 1:57:56 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die!)
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To: metalurgist
A 1972 is too new, with electronic ignition, and smog control.
Plus plastic connectors that are probably rotten, and I don't like Chevys.
The last good Chevy truck they built was in 1964.
63 posted on 06/24/2012 2:01:28 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die!)
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To: Tau Food
That old truck cab is about a 1947 International R-190 cab with a butterfly hood.

64 posted on 06/24/2012 2:43:55 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die!)
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To: Yosemitest

Cool trucks!


65 posted on 06/24/2012 2:32:52 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: bk1000

You can always pull the head(s) and have hard seats installed if you cannot get hard seat heads off of a later model engine easier.


66 posted on 06/24/2012 2:47:21 PM PDT by Clay Moore (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Yosemitest

One thing you might consider is the probability of vapor lock in older vehicles. With the 10% ethanol maybe fixing to go to 15% it will happen.

Fuel pumps will die and older fuel lines begin to check and leak in months.

My old carbed truck now vapor locks if you shut it off for a short period of time and then try to restart it in hot weather.

We (family) just returned from a 2500 mile round trip to Steamboat Springs Colorado (Mustang show) in a ‘68 Mustang with an EFI 5.0 and had vapor lock in external electric fuel pumps going up high passes. Others had the same problem. Now I spend $250-500 parts to put the pump in the tank.

All because the Feral govt wants ethanol


67 posted on 06/24/2012 3:01:19 PM PDT by Clay Moore (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Yosemitest
How about a 68 Mercury Park Lane Brougham? Nice clean lines, four door hardtop. Looks especially good in dark colors, a triple black one was Jack Lord's ride in Hawaii Five-O.

Look for it or any other older vehicle in warmer, salt free areas, preferably a dry climate. Rust was more of a problem with some than others, but they all suffered from it until the advent of widespread effective rustproofing treatments to the metal itself, in the eighties.

68 posted on 06/24/2012 3:24:45 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Yosemitest

You’re wrong. GM didn’t come out with electronic ignition for their vehicles until 1974 and a half. Trucks at the most had air pumps and that’s it.


69 posted on 06/24/2012 9:02:09 PM PDT by metalurgist ( Want your country back? It'll take guns and rope. Marxists won't give up peaceably.)
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To: Clay Moore
Mississippi voted on the last ballot not to require ethanol in fuel and it passed.
The pure fuel is about 30 cents more a gallon.
70 posted on 06/25/2012 4:53:27 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die!)
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To: metalurgist
When you really study the facts, it's shocking how much money the government requires us to waste by the useless regulations.
That's why I want to get away from computer controlled vehicles and all the BS that the government requires.
71 posted on 06/25/2012 4:57:39 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die!)
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