He dropped it yesterday with a nice list of upgrades and service items
I spent the day yesterday pulling a 3.70 out of a 60 axle I bought for this purpose a few months ago. Drums were hopelessly frozen so I had to cut the drums off. Not fun...
Welded the wheel arches to the sides. I decided to weld both edges to the side and then cut out around the bottom in the hopes that it would stay straighter. I tried to go slowly building on tacks as I went and cooling with air, but even so...
A liitle more choke at cold startup today and she cranked right over, ran great with several hot starts over the 3-hour tour of the upland ground we just pushed 150 cow/calf pairs (and 4 bulls) onto, 400-lbs of mineral salt blocks and several fly...
This is a repair- not a restoration!!
On our last adventure, The 8274 gave up the ghost. It was a hard pull and I don’t fault at all. More than likely it was my own fault- I had run out of the heavy gauge wire to feed the motor, and I used a...