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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

My dead truck


My truck is dead....
I seem to be unable to make decisions. I have to find an engine for this truck. It is a 478 cubic inch gas engine.
I found another truck with an engine that will work. The truck has not run for 7 years. It has the transmission I need. It was running when parked. It was parked because the farmer bought a very nice truck and no one wanted to shift a 5 and 4. I don't mind.
So I could try to get this motor running. Or rebuild the 478 which has a broken piston and valve problems. But I have to tow it home. I may have talked a guy into scrapping it and giving me the engine "brownie" and front springs.
I can't hide in my house because my helper is cleaning the shed where we need to put a shop. He tends to be brutal in his disposals.
I want to plant or grind feed.

2 comments:

  1. Do whatever it takes to stand outside the storm. Grind feed. Take a walk with your daughter.

    I had the same downward spirals when I was in it, the farming, and tomorrow always depended on fixing a piece of obsolete junk equipment yesterday just to keep the whole circus hobbling through today...

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  2. Everything we have is old and there is something wrong with it all. There is no where to even start. And it rains constantly...

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