Then in '99 that truck was giving issues and Mamma was the one driving it all over, so finally did git that new Cummins,
An interesting side bit:
As I said - Mamma was the one driving the truck as I was in the shop, and actually - at that time I had recently lost 3 of 3 full time+ employees for various reasons, and I was running alone, so I didn't get out much.
I had been interested in the Cummins for some time, but when it came time to buy sumpthing - I weighed my options, and when you looked under the hood of the 3 diesel trucks, and the 2 V-8 based trucks had pipes everywhere trying to git exhaust and intake all on the same page, and when you look under the hood of a '99 Dodge - the inline 6 just lends it'self to being turbo'ed so much better with so much less BS about it....
So Mrs. Ox went to the Cummins dealer and all they happened to have, had a Dodge wrapped around it. She said "I want that one" and the guy asked if she would like to drive it?
"Sure"
"Can you drive a stick?"
"Yep."
It's been a few years since, but she used to drive a 5 speed Cherokee.
She was a bit rusty, and the 1 ton truck doesn't shift quite like a unibody, but she got it figgered out.
So then she says that she'll take it, and the guy was like...
"You sure that your husband doesn't want to check it out?"
No."
She is an officer of the company and thus is able to sign docs on her own, and she brought me home a new truck.
LOL!
(that was the red one)
And BTW - she Shirley put the bulk of the miles on that truck too!
It is now my plow truck and "yard" truck and is generally hooked to my goose for just around the farm here during the summer.
And occassionally used for emergency recovery when newer tech fails:
379:
I think that I can read the tire size and make on the forktruck beside your truck.
I have no intention of havig to keep sumpthing like that all polished up all the time!
But it is impressive work - especially for a HS kid!
You had a good mentor (or 2?).
Green:
I had to look at your profile to see where you was from - as I recall seeing SO MANY trucks like that coming out of Detroit back around 2000! We would be heading to The Soo and not see any until we hit Grayling, and then they were everywhere - coming up I75.
Stu:
My G-dad had a truck like that that had a grain body on it, but the truck was shot, and when I was in high skewl, in ag shop I pulled the cab off of it and all the front end shtuff, moved the front springs/axle back, and then took it uptown to the welding shop guy, and he built a tongue for it, and we used that as a wagon then.
However, for whatever reason, that running gear ended up with 2 molasses tanks on it and was parked next to the chop pile for the next several years, and the box of the truck ended up on a nice chopper wagon chassis, which really did give me a warmer/fuzzier feeling when going down the road. I never did like that hitch....
Scurried the motor on home and tore it down to see how they werked. Seems like it was a 292 (?) V-8. What they referred to as the original Y block motor.
Before the FE. I'm trying to think if that motor was actually cross bolted mains or not? It actually seems like it may have been?
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