Originally Posted by
Mechanic688
Alloy, I do always enjoy your next adventure. Hope everything looks promising. I look forward to the next installment.
Hard to put a racing stallion out to pasture.
PS: I have went back and read about the "crane truck" adventure more than once. Not something you hear about every day.
Thanks Mechanic688, when I built that car trailer from recycled materials I did not have any expectations, the trailer was built out of boredom. I was very surprised that I was able to earn enough money to equip the trailer with a 10,000 lb electric
winch within a few short weeks then the grand slam buying the crane truck the following spring all from money earned with that home built trailer.
It took a long time for those planks coming from the hog barn that I used to deck the trailer to lose their smell.
One lesson learned from all the converters I managed to collect and mill into powder is that country roads create dust so fine some passes through the air filter, this fine dust abrades the precious metals wash coat from the cat comb sending it out the tail pipe. My cats assayed half that of a city cat that spent its live on pavement.
If the current sample proves to be worthwhile I'm going to pull the Mitsubishi diesel and transmission from my boat along with a few other goodies then donate the boat to a local non profit looking for boat donations. The tax receipt may come in handy.
On a side note I found an 1989 Toyota 4x4, a California vehicle that is totally rust and dent free for a couple hundred dollars, the only thing I do not like about the truck is the V6 engine and would have preferred the 22R four banger.
The California engine is probably detuned with all that anti pollution crap.
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