PonyKiller87
07-26-2006, 11:24 AM
Several weeks ago I bought an old Chevy truck on eBay. It worked out that the truck was only about 50 miles away from some family that we were visiting in Minnesota this past weekend so I worked it out with the seller to pick it up while we were there. I was able to rent Russ’s super heavy duty car dolly which was wide enough to fit the truck on. We loaded up the truck with all our stuff and some tools on Friday afternoon and headed out. I had a stack of tires and a dog kennel strapped down to the dolly on the way there just to weight it down a little to keep it from bouncing which worked great but a lot of people that passed us seemed to give us dirty looks like they though we actually had the dog in the kennel or something? Anyways, after spending the weekend we the family we went to pickup the truck on Sunday to take it home. When we got there it was sitting there looking as $hitty as can be, rusted everything, fender well lying on the tire, bed falling off….. Just as I expected, lol.
After 2 hours of jerking around we finally had it on the car dolly securely so that I was comfortable with towing it. This should have been a lot faster and easier but the tires on the truck were too wide and wouldn’t let it pivot so we ended up taking them off and strapping the front axle right to the dolly.
We finally got on the road around 1:00 pm. Because of the weight of the truck I drove in 3rd all the way home and we were doing about 55-60 most of the way. Anyone that’s ever seen my truck in person knows it’s a little on the loud side because of the straight pipes, well it was really loud screaming away at 2800-3000 rpms on the free way. As loud as it was it did go pretty smoothly. We passed several cops / troopers and even got passed by one cop and none of them even looked at us twice. Around 11:00 pm, 380 some miles, about 50 gallons of gas and we finally made it home.
Now you may be wondering why I went though so much trouble to drag this pile home. If you look at the zoomed in picture of the grill you will see it. This truck has a sbc 400 and it should be the 509 block which is a high nickel casting with 2 bolt mains. These are getting super hard to find and I managed to get the entire truck cheaper than the last 3 509 blocks that I have watched on eBay. The 400 will get built up over time and eventually end up in my camaro. Other than the engine and some of the plow parts the rest of the truck will all be sold off as parts or recycled as scrap steel. If your interested in anything let me know, I will have a post in the classified area soon.
-Full floating axles with 4:10 gears (reserved as of now) these would be good for lifting a ½ truck.
-TH350 Transmission with or without the NP203 fulltime transfer case
-Plow blade and frame ( I’m keeping the hydraulic parts )
-3/4 Ton springs
-Sliding rear window
-Vin Plate with Clean Title?? Not sure if that’s really legal or not though
Pretty much everything else is so rusted out it’s not worth anything so it’s going to get scrapped. But like I said let me know if you’re interested in something
After 2 hours of jerking around we finally had it on the car dolly securely so that I was comfortable with towing it. This should have been a lot faster and easier but the tires on the truck were too wide and wouldn’t let it pivot so we ended up taking them off and strapping the front axle right to the dolly.
We finally got on the road around 1:00 pm. Because of the weight of the truck I drove in 3rd all the way home and we were doing about 55-60 most of the way. Anyone that’s ever seen my truck in person knows it’s a little on the loud side because of the straight pipes, well it was really loud screaming away at 2800-3000 rpms on the free way. As loud as it was it did go pretty smoothly. We passed several cops / troopers and even got passed by one cop and none of them even looked at us twice. Around 11:00 pm, 380 some miles, about 50 gallons of gas and we finally made it home.
Now you may be wondering why I went though so much trouble to drag this pile home. If you look at the zoomed in picture of the grill you will see it. This truck has a sbc 400 and it should be the 509 block which is a high nickel casting with 2 bolt mains. These are getting super hard to find and I managed to get the entire truck cheaper than the last 3 509 blocks that I have watched on eBay. The 400 will get built up over time and eventually end up in my camaro. Other than the engine and some of the plow parts the rest of the truck will all be sold off as parts or recycled as scrap steel. If your interested in anything let me know, I will have a post in the classified area soon.
-Full floating axles with 4:10 gears (reserved as of now) these would be good for lifting a ½ truck.
-TH350 Transmission with or without the NP203 fulltime transfer case
-Plow blade and frame ( I’m keeping the hydraulic parts )
-3/4 Ton springs
-Sliding rear window
-Vin Plate with Clean Title?? Not sure if that’s really legal or not though
Pretty much everything else is so rusted out it’s not worth anything so it’s going to get scrapped. But like I said let me know if you’re interested in something