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33 minutes ago, Joey Mack said:

Hey bud,  take a small bastard file and dress up the teeth.. just clean up the leading edges.. the new starter will push the bedix gear deep. If there are no burrs or debris in between the teeth you will be good.. of course there may be other spots on the flywheel that need some love so put a paint mark there and roll it around and look.  Easier than pulliin a tranny in a 4X4...   Jojo

Oh, for sure, I was dreading the thought of possibly having to do that! So, if I took like a three corner file and tried to clean those teeth a bit, is that what you mean? I used to have several three sided files, but I don't know where one is right now. I guess I can find one somewhere though. 

I decided to not be too much of a wimp today and went and took that starter off, on the ground, in the heat. It didn't come off too easy, even with the bolts backed out it didn't want to budge until I pried on it with a large screwdriver and got it to move. I could see the problem when I got if off, the teeths on the flywheel looked pretty chewed up, and I'm pretty sure that's what made the starter hang up. 

I'm going to try a new starter and hope for the best, but it really needs a flywheel. I expected a starter to be about $40, but I'm out of touch with reality apparently. A starter was $90, with exchange. Supposed to be at NAPA in the morning, so I'll go put it on and see what happens.

I sprayed some brake cleaner on it so it looks pretty.

10 hours ago, mowerman said:

Oh my I certainly got a response on this one ha ha.. Bob

I tried to reply to this topic the other day, and it said replies had been cut off. Are replies "cut on" now, or was mine not allowed because I agreed with what Paul said?..hmmm...

On 7/23/2023 at 4:23 PM, mrsmackpaul said:

Geoff your a bully because your trying to to tell others how to think and or write

 

You mentioned tolerance, your the only person on this thread been not been tolerant

As long as we agree with you all is okay, be buggered 

And why does the amount of time someone is here make a difference ?

The difference is if you were here longer you would know that this page/thread/topic is in the forum labled "odds and ends"

And if you actually read what it is for you learn something about the forum

 

This forum is for non truck related topics

Now you mentioned only a few posts ago that "our common interest in greast old things" is the reason you are here 

So if you are here to share our common interest on greasy old things, well and good and enjoy yourself 

If your here to exactly what you are doing, bullying everyone else into your way of thinking well we are gunna have a problem 

Unlike some, I come here to enjoy myself, laugh at myself with what is mostly very like minded people from all corners of the world, I don't come here to watch some upstart cause trouble in a place that none of us has to be in, we are all here by choice 

But I'll be blowed if I'll let someone turn up and upset a happy place and at least not try and raise my concerns

After all as I mentioned, I don't have to be here, to me it's meant to be fun, and when this rubbish happens I can see the fun fading pretty quick

 

Paul

 

Well said, I agree 100%.

I'm glad y'all said that- I'm the same way! I told Zina I'd rather pay somebody else to work on that truck than be up there laying on the ground taking the starter off. But I might though, just to see if the starter is even the problem.

3 hours ago, Vladislav said:

I see you didn't surrender without a fight. Self fixing is not only a money save but a huge time save in many cases. Not always though and we can't go beyound our possibilities.

I guess the issue was the starter. Or even just the control power supply to it. If the engine was stuck and the starter was trying to force it to spin you would hear a click and observe extreme drop of voltage in the instrumen cluster. 

Well, I hope it's the starter, but... I tried to turn the crank pulley with an adjustable wrench a while ago and it would not budge. At all. I'm going up there tomorrow with some tools and a breaker bar and see if it'll come unstuck.

17 hours ago, Vladislav said:

I have done a bit more complicated job in the past. I didn't want to rest my old posts with illustrations removed completely. But got to the limit on the attachments. So I copied those files on my computer, re-sized down to some tiny size (50-100kb) and uploaded them back deleting the originals. But I didn't post really great amount of pics during the times.

Starting from that point I try upload already resized images. But can't smallarize pics in a phone, probably need some software I don't have.

That's what I do on the computer, I always smallerize the pictures before I post them, but I don't know how to do it on the phone, or if you can. I can crop them, but they still seem to be just as big. I kind of hate to delete pictures too, but when it's a picture of a goat that I posted in 2014 I figure nobody is going to look at it now anyway, so off it goes. The only ones I haven't been deleting are the "a girl in a car" pictures 😂.

16 hours ago, Vladislav said:

Sorry for the starter fail. I guess the truck is automatic. Could be push started if it's a stick. And even driven for a few days that way just by parking on a grade.

Also nice to see the progress over the new place. The BBQ shed looks well built. And I really like the squirrel. It's seldom to see one with a water hose.

It has a four speed in it, but I couldn't get up enough speed to push start it. The parking lot was too flat, I only managed to get it from one parking spot to the next. I thought maybe that might at least unstick the starter, but it didn't. Neither did tapping it with a hammer. Come to think of it, I better check to see if the engine locked up, maybe the starter is good. But the starter acted like it was hanging up once before though, then it finally started, and it hasn't happened since, until yesterday.

Stuff happens. Could have been worse though, it could have been yesterday when it was sweltering hot. We went to the Home Depot store to pick up a freezer that we got last night and the starter locked up on the truck. Now we're waiting on a ride because there was no room in the rollback truck.

$120 to tow it from Lynchburg to Concord.

10 hours ago, Brocky said:

Unusual stack thru the hood in that last picture!!!

That's just one of my poorly photo-chopped pictures. The grill in the back is real though, that's when I took it home and before I painted it and put the chrome stack on it. I used it for a grill before, but I had taken it down to Moore's Machine and had a lid put on it. They put the offset fire box on it too, but it's only good for a shelf. It's way too small and placed too high to actually work as a smoker. It's still my favorite grill though.

53 minutes ago, Hayseed said:

Was This It OD??

It might have been, I'm not sure now.

Deleted a lot today. I think I had 240 pages of attachments when I started yesterday. If anybody reads an old post and wants to see the picture let me know, it's probably still saved on the computer.

I just saw a post the other day explaining how to manage your attachments and delete pictures, but of course I can't find it now.

Anyhow, I could get on the computer and delete pictures willy-nilly but everything works a bit different on the phone. I can't get on the computer much now anyway because the internet here absolutely sucks and Zina needs it for work. I don't want to call hughesnet again like I had in Gladys because they- whoever "they" are- keep saying the new fiber optic high speed internet is coming to this area soon. 

So back to the pictures- I started going through my pictures I'd posted yesterday, some as far back as 2008. I went through I don't know how many pages and checked well over 100 pictures to delete. And when I did I got a message saying something like "sorry but we can't find what you're looking for now". So I started over and deleted a few, and what I discovered was that if I deleted pictures on one page at a time it worked fine, but if I tried to delete any more than one page I'd get that same message. So I went through about 20 pages of attachments and deleted quite a few, but it's a pretty time consuming process.

15 hours ago, mrsmackpaul said:

Yep, what Swishman sez

You blokes are over thinking this way way to much

When you tighten up on duals, if the wedges bottom you need a wider spacer

If you don't have one, weld a bit of roubd bar around to build them up, asin the Swishmans picture (top right) if still not tight enough, bunga bit of rod on the other side of the spacer

It really isnt very technical, if your chasing torque settings you need to start drivimg a auto, torque settings on spiders are for over educated engineer types, not for truck drivers

And if your gunna start horror truck stories, best go and fill up your double shot almond mocca latte ffs

Keep

It

Simples 

 

Paul

It might not be the "proper" way, but I have welded a few beads across the back of the wedges too, so they would clamp tighter. Whatever works, eh? Never had any DOT man look at anything that close.

On 7/13/2023 at 11:02 PM, mowerman said:

Tires are ridiculous these days blew a tire yesterday drove right into loves no service call tire was over $700

If I had put the same size tires back on my pickup, they were almost $200 apiece. And they were "off brand" tires, not Cooper, or Goodyear or something. The ones I put on it were about $150 apiece. When I had the mud bog truck in the 90's I remember paying 150-something each for a set of 12.50- 38 Super Swampers. And I had a set of Q78 Super Swampers, a 36" tire, that were $148 apiece.

And the gas, I remember well when people would pull up to the pump and get a dollar or 2 dollars worth of gas. Now you spill a dollars worth just putting the nozzle in the gas hole.

On 7/13/2023 at 10:59 PM, mowerman said:

You forgot to throw in the TV tube tester everybody used to have ha ha I know it’s a bit off the subject but it came to mind. Oh the good old days I sure miss them all though I blew a tire yesterday I had to go to loves in Winnemucca if any  of you fellas ever use them. These guys are very slow.. but I was sitting in the office waiting for the repair and I noticed they were selling batteries for 160 apiece big 12 V I thought that was a pretty fair deal for a road service outfit

Yes, I just paid over $200 for an Interstate battery for the car.

On 7/13/2023 at 11:02 PM, Freightrain said:

Ken texted me back before Macungie to see if I was coming.  I think he spends more time at the farm in PA then across town from me.

Last time we spoke he was working towards selling his MH and trailer.

Yeah, we were talking at Winchester last year. I think MH Fred was thinking of selling his too. I was thinking about buying one, but I think it was Ken who reminded me that getting in and out of them doesn't get any easier and I'm not getting any younger. I'd want something like that GMC with the 6-53 that I thought was for sale but wasn't in Macungie anyway. Then I could look cool and make lots of noise.