Bought a truck.....

[lothar863]

I was getting tired of getting told that my 94 c1500 wasnt heavy enough to tow things so I was browsing for 1 ton trucks and I cam across a 1989 r3500 crew cab on craigslist

Massive coolant leak but ran and drove

Went out and looked at it heard it run for a short time and struck a deal.
$2,295
it shows 3,2xx on the clock and from looking at it i think it has only rolled over once for 103,2xx miles

had it towed home and BARELY got it into my shop

I have been working on getting it into running order.

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[Snoots]

Are you scared of it or are we going to get pix from in front of the trees?

 

[Old77]

Are you scared of it or are we going to get pix from in front of the trees?

Yes, better pics please and

 

[Charlie]

 

[dvdswan]

Welcome to the site.

Are you scared of it or are we going to get pix from in front of the trees?

Oh the shame!

 

[K201979]

Welcome!

 

[lothar863]

Just a quick post before I left work.

So the truck was parked under I am guessing a truck for a long time. and the crap isnt coming completely off with pressure washing. It has been resprayed at some point.

It also has what I think is the wrong style tailgate on it.

There is a decent bit of....iffy? wiring

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[lothar863]

The interior is weathers but not terrible

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[lothar863]

And the exterior doesn't clean up too bad.

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[lothar863]

the bottom of the truck isnt too bad.

I dropped the transmission and found the missing freeze plug and there was another on the front drivers side of the engine. Since I was there I dropped the oil pan and cleaned it up

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[lothar863]

The flex plate did a number on the freeze plug

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[lothar863]

Same thing since I was there new oil pan gasket and a new rear main seal
I did see some cold start damage on the bearing but it didnt look too bad

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[lothar863]

I replaced the fuel filter and then moved to the top of the truck.
I replaced all of the battery wires.
New battery
Reconencted all of the AIR pump stuff
new air filter (it didnt have one before)

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[lothar863]

From the pic above the original puke tank was there but the barb was broken off and there was just a random tank knocking around in the engine bay. I went to lowes and got a threaded to barb fitting and taped out the hole where the plastic barb was and threaded in the fitting. then i roughed up the plastic around the hole and epoxied around the fitting.

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[lothar863]

I filled the cooling system (making sure there is antifreeze)
Filled the engine with 5 qts Valvoline 10w-30 and 1 qt marvel mystery oil

I put the flex plate on to balance the engine and fired it up

I ran it through 4 heat cycles and no leaks

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