Parts hauling adventure
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Parts hauling adventure
Had business at the Toyota Kentucky plant, so I arranged a combined trip to see Ed Skaff in Charleston, and bought some powertrain parts from him. First voyage for my new-to-me ute trailer, so, after repacking the bearings, hanging some new tires on 2 of the 3 purple SSIIIs I had laying around, and adding a hitch and harness to my little blue truck, and a trailer jack and spare mount to the trailer, off I went.
Spare was mounted on tongue as the unloaded trailer has zero tongue weight. Unloaded trailer hated expansion joints on the highway and got mad air on the rougher ones. Loaded, I think I was about 2000 lbs of trailer and Oldsmobile, and about 200 on the tongue, with the truck rated for 350/3500. Did the tire routine for the engine oil pan and the rear diff pumpkin, and strapped them down. Also had drive shafts, axles shafts, and another trans in the truck bed, along with tools and another trailer spare.
My only f-ups were I lost the handle on the jack crank (I got a bolt and nuts to replace it even though it works without it) and the weight of the 400 on the tongue pushed my slightly nose down unloaded trailer to more nose down, and just about bottomed out the trailer spare (which I pulled off and put in the truck bed.) I have a 5 inch drop hitch bar, I may go to just a 3 to combat this with heavy loads in the future.
All told, not a bad run, forecast was cooperative, and I managed to even back that thing into my garage, uphill, with my manual truck (I'm just glad it has a hand-operated parking brake).
What I got was the surviving parts of a 67 442, 400 rocket, th400 switch pitch, 3.08 posi rear, drive shafts, and another trans. Good cores to clean up, rebuild, and keep for spares for mine.
Spare was mounted on tongue as the unloaded trailer has zero tongue weight. Unloaded trailer hated expansion joints on the highway and got mad air on the rougher ones. Loaded, I think I was about 2000 lbs of trailer and Oldsmobile, and about 200 on the tongue, with the truck rated for 350/3500. Did the tire routine for the engine oil pan and the rear diff pumpkin, and strapped them down. Also had drive shafts, axles shafts, and another trans in the truck bed, along with tools and another trailer spare.
My only f-ups were I lost the handle on the jack crank (I got a bolt and nuts to replace it even though it works without it) and the weight of the 400 on the tongue pushed my slightly nose down unloaded trailer to more nose down, and just about bottomed out the trailer spare (which I pulled off and put in the truck bed.) I have a 5 inch drop hitch bar, I may go to just a 3 to combat this with heavy loads in the future.
All told, not a bad run, forecast was cooperative, and I managed to even back that thing into my garage, uphill, with my manual truck (I'm just glad it has a hand-operated parking brake).
What I got was the surviving parts of a 67 442, 400 rocket, th400 switch pitch, 3.08 posi rear, drive shafts, and another trans. Good cores to clean up, rebuild, and keep for spares for mine.
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Yeah, it's grimy, but the grease kept the rust away. Engine and trans and diff housing have all the right numbers, plus, the seller is a stand up guy.
I'm going to borrow a cherry picker to unload it, it has a castered dolly with it. Do we prefer a given brand of cherry picker on this board?
I'm going to borrow a cherry picker to unload it, it has a castered dolly with it. Do we prefer a given brand of cherry picker on this board?
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