I Bought a Junk Tow Truck - Dump Truck Build Gains Parts! 

Next week: "Building a Tow Truck for the Homestead..."

As much as I admire your tenacity your resourcefulness is amazing. I’m particularly impressed by you repurposing the boogie board into a gravel creeper that slides effortlessly on the gravel under the truck. Try that with wheels. Not happening.

Very fortunate to have DP as a friend and neighbor

You "Exhausted" your do the right thing energy......while you're fixing the "Exhaust" ........I see what ya did there...😉👍

MIKE, I see the dilemma you're talking about when you're committed to the work invested already to ripping apart ANOTHER truck for parts. BUT, what you're building out weighs the possibility of starting over! Stay focused and don't look back! So,.... Carry on Capt'n.

The bumper on that tow truck is holding on better than DP's Jeep Bumper! 🤣🤣 The 555 is holding that truck up like a beast! 💪💪 Unfortunately, the forks decided that bed was too much for it, but the 555 was still in beast mode and wanted more! 🤣🤣💪💪😮😮 Round two went a lot better after repairs and repositioning the mounting point on the forks! 💪💪😎😎

Love it that you show the mishaps along the way ..most people whould have edited out the forks falling ..but no not our captain. ..absolutely love the full send content you put out mike ..peace and love from Cumbria UK 🇬🇧❤️

Yessiree, “Smokin deal”…! on that donor truck…! No problem on re-couping your money on its purchase price…, you will end up with money in your pocket on it. You probably know better, but yes, that rear axle alone is worth “the price of admission” (so to speak). The tow bed will maybe take a little longer to get sold, but it will bring good money. This video series continues to be a treat, Thank you sir.

Good morning sunshine! Well your project is coming right along nicely! Great video! Much love from Henderson Ga USA

Captain great video, you’re getting closer every time! Thanks for sharing! Kevin

This is the most fun I've had in years, thanks Mike

A 3 way. Impressive build on this one. Since the Fubaru only took 2 vehicles to build.

Taking the best parts from 3 trucks. I love it!

I like everything about this series!

Mike, I have nothing but admiration for you on this project.

You are amazing. Honest hard work seems to be your specialty.

Dig-Drive-DIY endorsed you a couple videos ago. He is "restoring" a dump truck but he said Captain Kleeman is seriously restoring a dump truck. I assumed that was a compliment.

Work in progress. Thumbs up 👍

Another edition of the Kleeman Khronikles....looks like the 555 is just an all around universal machine...needs a little TLC and banging and welding and paint from time to time but a great thing to have at the workshop. And buying 3 trucks just to make one....who does that? Well Capt. Kleeman of course! As always....great channel and great content.

Ol Triple Nickle has been a great addition to your homestead.

That’s the spirit. Machines and tools may break, but as long as humans don’t get hurt, it can be fixed. Just get right back at it. See the humor in it.

this was one of those days where you take 1 step forward and 2 steps back, i'm sure things will go better on the next video 👏👏👏👏👏👌👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👍

I thought you would get that truck bed off without any probs. Doing a captain there, got it wrong, but still caused great entertainment when subframe fell off! I actually laughed out loud. First time in a long time. Thanks Mike, you the best!!!! from UK.

You know what you can do is. Take the tires off the back of it. In that way, you could drop the truck down a little bit of the truck, download but and pick it up. Less higher to get it up.

Thanks for sharing!

love the fun your having building your own rig. nice work. cheers.

You really need to advertise how much bonus footage is included in your videos captain. This week, bonus fork repair footage.

If a guy would have tuned in at 18:40 he would have thought he somehow started an Andrew Camarata video. lol

Captain, you are bound and determined. You have an exciting video in the making. I can't wait to see the finished product. Captain please pray for a little 5 year old by the name of Ava Rigney who is in the Cincinnati Hospital being treated for cancer. God Bless You and Your's.

👍🏻👍🏻because one is just never enough. Keep on keeping on. 🤛🏻🤛🏻

Yes have a good weekend, see you on Tuesday European time. Nice video.

Great job on the disassembly of the backend of the tow truck. I can hardly wait to see what is next! 😊

Hay, Mike! Another great video! We're getting there! Won't be long and we'll get to see the Frank'n Truck roar! Thanks! Lee

Those doors, fenders, and hood look good… or better than the sheet metal on the green cab. Those should bolt right up to your cab.

Love it Mike, make it personal and teach that engine a lesson. All these simple engine issues started when someone decided that they needed to make them difficult with all the electronics.

Great progress on parts for the frankentruck!

Amazing what a fella can do with a hammer, a welder, a torch, and a little gumption. 🐱

Loving this project Mike 👍 but then I love all of your projects 👍👍🇬🇧🇺🇸

Good thing you used the backhoe to try and pick up that bed the first time, before you found those other brackets, the 755 would have pulled it up and torn it off, throwing shrapnel in all directions! 🤪 (And if you want to start another channel covering how to repair bent loader forks and quick attach frames, I'd watch it. Not saying I've ever bent two sets of forks and two frames, just that I'm very interested in that topic!😉) Thanks and take care!

The winch and part of the boom from the wrecker would make a cool log puller attachment for the skid steer.

Good.job. Nice show cool shop 👍👍👍👏👏👏

make sure you eliminate battery lead faults ... jump pack cables straight to starter, just a thought

Sometimes you just have to do something just because you want to prove that you can win over the issue at hand and learn something in the process (like starting a stubborn engine), I mean come on, who wouldn’t do that???!!!!😊. Looking forward to the start up, have fun, the journey is the best part of the trip. Thanks for the update, really enjoying this series, appreciate the time and effort you put into the videos.

Mike I was just getting into it, and it finished, still thank you for bringing us along well appreciated I love watching you do a Frankenstein truck man that takes me back to when my Brother who is no longer with us and we used to do some real crazy stuff to make things work, so thanks again Mike for the trips down memory lane, Longer videos like DP you can do it. 😁😁😁🤣

If you spent a little time on how to word it, DP might buy the wrecker bed to make some kind of excavator attachment with it. Like a hydraulic jib pole extension or somethin. Its often overlooked on projects, but I dare say being able to stop a truck is a tad more important than getting it going.

Mike's salvage yard, Ford parts only. There's a side business for you. Like you don't have enough to do. Love your wit. Please be careful.

Glad you got the forks back up and liftin'. Broke my heart to see the forks snap like that. But watching your videos, I knew you could correct it. Seemed like it didn't take long. I'm comparing the sunlight in the video as contrast. Great work young man...Keep it up!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great fun…thanks, Mike!

Thank you…I’ve been trying to stay up long enough to catch this video.

It feels like I've watched you time carefully measuring & rechecking and then carefully welding and making up Quick Attache's on a few occasions . . . . & I've always thought, Yep, at some point in the future Mikes gonna be braying on that with a sledge 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Just Love it Mike, sometimes when I'm starting another job late in the evening, thinking of your work ethic cheers me on 👍

Setbacks are normal, your still making progress! Keep up the good work!

You can make your truck four-wheel drive God bless

Your attituded and willingness to work through anything that you are not familiar with is very impressive. You deserve all the success in the world! plus the interaction with your daughter in the last video was adorable. The positive attitude in all of your videos makes my day!! Thanks for the great videos!

Please take the time and get you 3 cans of that Turbo krylon spray paint scuff. You'ret cab and painted before you put it on youll be , so glad you did little time little effort and on the cheap

You are so practical and a thinker,as you headed out to pick up the parts truck ,you said that you had ropes ,straps,blocks of wood etc etc,prepared so essential

Love that breaker bar-box wrench custom extension! I always find some new ideas from your videos!! Can't wait, like you, to see that NEW Truck running down the road!

It was always recommended that if you're doing an engine swap (carb to turbo). To buy the whole car/truck as you have everything from the big items to the silly clips you always break

Great to see that you are makin progress !

when Capt buys/gets a parts truck, Capt goes full in. Wrecker assembly should bring in some bux, might be a lawn ornament for awhile. the toolbox itself worth picking up whole truck. homestead dump truck will live thanks to 3 FORD's donating their parts. I hear Wes is always looking for more stuff . DieselCreek needs more projects too, either one would be thrilled to take the carcass off you Capt 😁

Good truck

Amazing how much finesse and precision you can get out of a torch and sledgehammer. Love your ability to find a way to make shit happen.

Great parts truck and that truck bed and tow boom should sell easily for you. You might even find someone looking to build an off-road tow truck like all the channels out in Utah are this year.

I use to drive a non turbo 7.3 at my first job years ago. It was a slug and had to be plugged in to start in the cold no matter what temperature. Even the tiniest bit of cold air and it was a no go. You had to make sure no one ever unplugged the extension cord by mistake or you weren’t going anywhere 😂

That tow body and whole tow assembly can probably make your money back if it works, that's actually a really nice tow truck and IDI motor's are great motors. nice to see all the parts coming together

Many years ago, We packed up our station wagon and headed to Mom and Dad. It was a long road trip from the Dallas area to the Bell Labs sort of place in the north East. I got 40 miles out of town when the hanger on my exhaust pipe broke. Rubber wiggled to death... Out on the highway we wondered. 1/2 a mile from us was a completed water culvert the state put in under the newly paved highway. I found a re-bar that was in the trash pile that just fit . It went into a hole in the frame, lifted the exhaust pipe and into the other frame. The ribs on the bar kept it from sliding around. I went to the New York area, loaded up and came home. Another story. But on my return I went to A&B muffler in Arlington and they all had a good laugh and wonder. It was still tight in the frame.

Mike I'm not a glove guy either, unless I'm painting something! Not sure how the glove thing started, but pretty sure they were a professional something!

Gotta love some precision sledge hammer work. Might think about reinforcing that area some way since bending and straightening metal weakens it. Or not. Just a thought. Amazing work you are doing there Captain. Much respect at your ingenuity.

Good job and video. Besides using the axle, I would put the front bumper from the tow truck onto the dump truck. I’d also put the winch onto the dump truck

Thanks for all the reminders as to why I gave up on shade tree mechanic work. Love yer stuff. Carry on and stay safe Mike.

Project moves forward truck no 3 great video thanks Mike

Can’t wait till it’s together and running

Mike's Truck will really be a True HYBRID ! Name it ' Mongy ' Mike,because it really will be a Mongrel Truck.

That push bumper is _AWESOME!_

Hey Cap’n, I am curious to see what use you will make of the towing jib. If it had a swivel you would have a handy yard crane, saving the front end loader for what it’s meant for. Hang on that’s another build, later. It’s going to be interesting to see what you come up with as you do the Franken build on the tipper project. It’s challenging but fun when you go one step at a time. Stay safe

Nice video and nice purchase 🤣🤣

The cap't talking truck mechanics may as well be Chinese to me. I'm clueless. More respect to this man and his "can do" attitude!

When changing from a drum brakes to disc brakes be sure the master cylinder you use does not have a residual valve.

That tow truck had the Carolina squat going on ;-) while you were unloading.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos another great segment to the quest. Wishing you and your family the best.

Your doing good Kleeman, I like it👍🏻

Wait a minute. Wrench to socket wrench adapter!? Genius. I've never seen that before.

Think about putting a winch on the dump truck maybe putting a Reese reciecivertube on front and built a winch on a plate that attaches to a a receiver that can the wince can pull front or back with remote power

Look at all those goodies on that parts truck and should be able to get all your money back as well . Also you gotta break something in order to it call project ..... got that done and out of the way. Looking forward to what comes next.

Big hammers are essential tools when getting creative.

hello Mike & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool & Thanks Mike Friends Randy

Love the kids snow sled creeper, beats the carboard that. i use on my gravel most of the time, PS i started using a yoga mat to lay on, saves from getting wet and the cushion from the gravel is a bonus, plus it's easy to store.

Good work Capt ,

Hi Mike. I was telling you that there's more bolts holding the bed on, but I guess you couldn't hear me! That axel should be a good upgrade for the dump truck. Pretty strange that you put 12 volts to the starter and it's not making starter noises! Hope that turns out to be something simple.

Stopped on your channel because I've seen this truck before LMAO love what you're doing and the channel

Maybe Dirt Perfect needs the wrecker bed for Dirt Perfect Towing and Recovery for farmer Chris.

The wheel lift receivers are desirable to sell. Look like Vulcan Scoops.

I see so many people make the mistake of trying to boost a truck without a battery just by hooking the jump box up to the naked cables it won't work next time hook your ground to the starter of the jump pack and the positive to the cable then on a ford cross the silinoid out with a screwdriver and it will turn over or put a cheap battery in it and then boost by crossing the silinoid you can't do it by hooking to just the cables with a jump box JS MR Kleeman

I've made this build my pet project over on the forum. Every time someone asks about cab floors, or cleaning a frame, or..... 😆

And they shall call him... The SLEDGEMASTER!

When I see you under there workin it reminds me of me wokin under my old 72 F350

Hope it all works out for you 2500 is a lot up front good luck Bud 👍👋🇨🇦

Captain Kleeman I'll follow any which way you go . 😮😅😅😅😅😅😊

Them idi engines love a lot of cranking power 2 really good battery’s recommend

Great video Mike,peace brother…

Hey Mike! That pump under the alternator is just a lift pump to get fuel to the injection pump on top of the motor. My 6.9 has a 12v inline fuel pump on the frame right next to the drivers side front tire that sends fuel to the lift pump. I don't know if it's stock or aftermarket but it's a simple design and works great.