Sorry about all the glitches in my edit.. it takes six hours to upload this video for me, so I don't know if I am going to fix it.. Truck made it 720 miles home... transmission failed 300 miles later..
Dodge transmissions don’t pump fluid in park, when I sit for over a year, or really at all put them in neutral first, I cleanse my ass cheeks so hard when he slammed into reverse 😂
Man, those older Cummins will crawl themselves out of their own graves if they have too. I appreciate the simplicity of those old rigs, and I appreciate the simplicity of your video. No unnecessary chatter. I just subscribed.
a lot of times before I start work on a project I clean everything up so when I dismantle things I don't get any debris in areas that should remain clean. I find that it saves time to take a little extra time up front. nice find! my experience with the heavy cummins engine up front a four wheel drive is a must. I struggled with traction problems with my 90 two wheel drive.
Keep up the confidence within your talents my guy, I personally love rescue finds and this one been within my top list. Great job please keep doing more 🗣
Love the video and the old 1st gen cummins. Seems like those trucks never die. Glad to see it rescued and back on the road. Thank you for the video. Honest, clean content that is very relatable to all the everyday guys working on their trucks. Thank you again
My Father was a Mopar guy so he bought 2 of the 1st gen Cummins trucks for the farm brand new. A 1990 D350 and a 1993 W530. They're still plugging along riding like slow, simple and super reliabe lumber wagons and bone stock. The 1990 has 490K miles and the W350 310K miles Replaced a lot of the Dodge stuff around the Cummins over the years on them both but even my dad would admist it's the big C is what gives these trucks notoriety. I wouldn't take a new diesel with all it's over engineered computer junk and emissions crap on it if they gave me one. I had no that old C would fire up, I hope you're repairs with the rest of the truck go well for you. Looking forward to more videos. 👍
@@Nza420 Nice low miles, she's not even broke in yet! Love my trucks too, did full PCM deletes and removed the electric shut off solenoid on them so they're as simple as a 1940's diesel. Once they're started I can disconnect the battery and it will keep running. No electrical failure will keep me from getting home. lol I Got manual pull shutoffs like back in the day. Newer cars keep getting more and more complicated, I like my the other way...simple and dumb like me. hahaha Once you get her fixed up, that 12v will last you as long as you want to keep her. 👍
@@BrodieBr0 Before I left VA to drive back to South GA, I had to wire in an external voltage regulator.. ECU is obviously flaky.. would only charge 10 percent of the time.. When I got 90 miles away from the house up in VA, I had to lay underneath for an hour at 27F and wire in a switch to actuate the OD, because the ECU wasn't playing ball. Good times... xD ... oh, and it is a "he"... his name is "Junior". LOL
@@Nza420 lol This story sounds familiar! That's the first ''fix'' we did to our trucks wiring in that old style firewall voltage regulator and second a switch directly to the OD because it wouldn't kick in at any speed. Luckily our other truck has the Getrag 5 speed in it. Damn great resorcefulness and ingenuity by rigging up a swith to the Alt and trans to get you home. haha and nice to meet You Junior! Please treat your owner kindly, he's given you lots of care! haha
Definitely enjoying this so far, love the way that truck just purrs when you started it on the second day. (Low-key getting a laugh out of some of the comments down there, think some of these folks have ever worked on something that's been sitting for a decade and a half? If that shit is stuck, it's stuck)
A Dodge truck with transmission failure?!?! Who'd have thought? LOL! I'm enjoying watching this video. I rescued a 1988 Ford F250 extended cab long bed diesel pickup 7.3 IDI. I found it 2 years ago for sale sitting in a driveway and not being used as well. The person who had it inherited it from their father. The woman told me her father was a rancher in California and bought it new. When he passed his ranch was sold and stuff divided up. She and her husband got the truck 5 years ago. They brought it back home from California to Virginia and in the five years, used it maybe 6 times. It hadn't moved or been started in 3 years at least. I live maybe 30 miles from them so I had it towed home and started it in my driveway plus did general maintenance, and a good soapy pressure wash. I still have the truck and it ain't going anywhere. Its practically rust free frame and body because of it coming from the California desert where it spent 95% of its life.
I like using the race installer tool, put a very light coating on inner surface, helps it go in a little easier plus when the grease squish’s all out you know it’s bottomed and in place. I like that old race trick good to know if I’m SOL.
So many armchair mechanics.. i was stressed out the whole time on the way home until i got within AAA towing range.. i had no chase vehicle with a trailer following me. Just a hope and a prayer.
Man! If it wasn’t for the acetylene torch, that would have been impossible to get out. Good thing you had that torch! I hope I never get into that situation because I don’t have an acetylene torch.
I recognized south of the boarder right away! I’m from Canada but I’ve driven to myrtle a couple times. Cool old truck that thing is worth a pretty penny up here once it’s fixed up
Thanks for the sub! "he" is gonna be my "super reliable" tow rig. Need to do several things, not the least of which is apparently the KDP fix.. That's a pretty big job, and one I have been avoiding for quite a while.
I totally have to agree. Especially with something like a DPF... seems to me, all it does is save up all the "soot" to burn it out really quickly at a later time.. pointless, in my opinion.
I did use starting fluid before I realized the shutdown solenoid was not getting 12 volts. That was the first time it fired off and then immediately died. I don't like to use it, but it was 20 degrees F and it had not been started in 15 years.. so I did it.
@@Nza420 here in Northumberland County, 14 mi. Inland of the Chesapeake Bay. Worked in my father's garage from my early to late teens my 20s and early 30s.Have been employed these last 15 yrs in the Seafood business. We pick and pasteurize crab meat for stores and restaurants all up and down the East Coast. And I am in charge of making batters for crab cakes we make crab cakes for Food Lion Nationwide and we have two airlines that we make crab cakes for and other contracts We also import. My boss purchased the company from another gentleman in 1983
@@docholliday1970 I absolutely loved growing up in SE VA, but the area I am from is over-run with entitled carpet-baggers now... I am on edge within five minutes of being there now.... I love where I live now, half an hour from Tallahassee. I don't have to see anyone I don't want to see... and people are much more polite and nicer in general around here... even if they don't mean it.. they put on the good public behavior still.
@@Nza420 Its changed here too . You don't know your neighbors like you did growing up.. People were NICER then , it's sad . This has become a Tourist and Retirement area for Northern Virginia and D. C. buying up the beach area. I'm not all about CHANGE, but it is what it is........ Looking forward to seeing more videos from you, Thanks 🙏
I guess you got this thing somewhere north of NC and drove it down I 95 south through SC and Georgia. I recognize some familiar scenery on your trip. 12 valve Cummins can't be killed except for the KDP. Make sure that's already addressed.
I have not had the money extra to rebuild the transmission yet. The truck mostly sits now, I do crank it up and drive it short distances in town occasionally. I definitely need to rebuild the trans. I am planning on removing the pickup bed and finding a flatbed for it so I can put a hoist on it like the cummins-swapped truck, and then returning the truck to my brother in VA.. hopefully before his ProMaster craps the bed! xD
The tank was full of diesel when it was parked. It has a plastic tank, so I wasn't worried about sediment/rust.. After the initial cranking and use of cosby sauce to get it to fire off, I did change the fuel filter and filled the filter with clean ATF. Other than that, it was pretty straightforward.
Cool you got it going but that's the thing about old cummins trucks. After 30 years, the cummins is still running strong while the truck rots around it...even while sitting in a barn.
You're right.. that's the story with most reliable diesel cars.. my TDI passat is mechanically perfect, but always having trouble with door handles and there is a rust hole in the floor from a previous owner driving over a parking block or something..
@@LivingCommonSense funny you mention that.. i was looking for a junk one and i searched the ol’ craig list… found another 97 passat tdi with 350k miles and got it for 1700. It is nicer than the one i already had.. definitely a driver, not a donor.. have to pull the trans because the clutch will not release. Possibly that will be the next video
Hey i just learned few days ago, the drum/rotor, you're supposed to go on the inside of it and get 2 flat heads. One pushing the plate that holds the tensioner in place so it doesn't spin, and the other flat head is to spin the tensioner, the tensioner is to make the brake pads tighter to your drum/rotor. If you look at 14:04 you'll see it to your left the thing that looks like a boomer rang. At the bottom of that is the tensioner ? Or the sprocket like thing that turns.
The boomerang-looking thing is the emergency/parking brake lever. The adjuster is all the way at the bottom, accessible through a slot in the brake backing plate. If you are just making the brakes tighter, you only need one tool, because it will ratchet only in one direction. If you need to loosen the adjuster, then you will have to figure out how to move the piece that keeps it from loosening out of the way and then turn the adjuster to loosen the shoes.
Thanks, man! This was a task and a half for sure.. would have been easier had it been warm, but then the transmission might not have made it the distance.
Not a bad idea. I wanted to make an adapter to bolt onto the axle itself, then pull with the holes that hold the axle in, but I probably would have destroyed the threads on the axle tube..
Before it was stored, it looked mint. Sitting in a dirt floor building with a leaky roof for 14 years did a number on the whole thing. Brother paid 5000 for it in 06
yes, true. The transmission was the big IF, though.. and indeed, it failed 300 miles or so after I made it to Georgia. I can still drive it slowly if I am easy with 2nd gear, but I don't take it far from the house right now.
When you said you could make an adapter plate that bolted to the brake drum , you were half way there Make the plate from maybe three rights to one half plate and use a spacer between the plate and the axle and as you tighten the axle cap bolts,it should pull the assembly right off. I made one for the front of my Cummins after a wrench from a dealer told me no way can you get to the front bearing without a gas axe. He was wrong. If adding your cap plate results in not enough thread engagement just get some longer bolts
Can’t kill a Cummins 👍🏻 unless it’s a 6.7 with the crap intake grid heater bolt. AND killer dowel pin in the older trucks. Or the VP44 injection pump in the early 24 valves. But still Cummins are great motors!
@@kengibson402 Once I gather the $2500 I have been quoted for the trans rebuild in Jacksonville, I will definitely do a video about that. I got a quote here in town for $3000. And the owner of that shop refused to work on the trans outside the truck... I dunno about you, but I don't like anyone else touching my vehicles, except the alignment guy. I would attempt to rebuild the trans myself, but I need this thing to be as reliable as possible, and I have never rebuilt a transmission, so, there you go..
The bearing was stuck for years. I tried to get it off with other methods years ago before it was parked. I was unable. It wasn't simply a matter of a ridge not allowing the bearing to come out. Someone before me failed to install the locking tab into the nut after servicing and also failed to purchase a new axle nut, so the nylon was not in it. That allowed the nut to back off enough with the rotation of the hub just enough to cock the bearing. After enough miles, the bearing was sho nuff stuck on the axle housing.
Seriously though, where the hell would you have suggested I put the crocus cloth? In my ass? You obviously skipped through the video and are commenting on something without context. Cheers for the watch, cheers for your comment.
Bearing Races are hardened steel, usually you can split them with a chisel...it usually isnt hard to get them to crack...Since this video is 9 months old, i'm sure you figured it out...but for future reference.
The outer bearing race is not what was stuck. Some idiot neglected to put the retaining clip back in, and the inner part spun (possibly race, technically) and seized to the axle. I wish you had been here, perhaps you could have made my life easy (*sarcasm*). The armchair mechanicism is *definitely* always appreciated. Especially since it was stuck for more than 15 years and *I* got it resolved. Get back to me when you service a Dana 80 and let me know what you find. I look forward to it.
@@Nza420 Thank you for the kind words...I have worked on a few, but none the less, I was just making suggestions, not trying to belittle in any way...I did finish the video, and you obviously got it sorted, and did a great job none the less...thank you for the video, and the possibility of learning other ways of doing things different than my own. I hope good things for you and your endeavors, and it's great to see that old rig back on the road...Kudos for bringing life back to this truck, and good to see you didn't just plainly give up.
Rereading my comment I can see how it comes off poorly, I do apologize,, that is not how it was meant...I was simply involved in the video, I am an avid Mopar enthusiast, and got a little too taken by the video...This comment obviously happened mid vodeo, and I was so thrilled to see this thing go...lol, thank you none the less, and let this be a testament to your great job making videos and sucking me in with all the suspense...lol
@@hayneshvac2 Well, I apologize for being harsh. At that point last night, I had just walked the dogs and I rolled my ankle and something spooked one of the dogs at that exact moment, which caused me to eat it into the pavement. So, I was a bit pissy. I should have taken your comment as it was meant, rather than the way I perceived it. Thanks for watching the video!
sorry if this sounds harsh but where the hell was your brain lol your trying to over think something that has all ready been solved these get stuck all the time on the old dana axles there easy to get off with no damage to the drum cause getting the axle tube so hot would'nt be my choice next time use a 3/4" flat stock and drill 3 holes 2 to bolt to the hub and 3rd hole drill and tap the center hole for a 3/4 bolt use a hunk of flat over the axle tube it works like any other puller would. im sure 1/2" stock may work i made mine with 3/4 and i made a plug on the lathe to fit the axle tube but it don't need to look store bought like mine looks it just needs to work lol. thanks for sharing
Really it isnt terrible.. the rust on the paint can be buffed out if i choose to do so.. the rust on the frame is surface rust. Truly minor in the grand scheme of things
Hey, man, I want you to go buy a real slide hammer with a wit to call a wheel puller goes on to the studs and you can pull a whole thing right off of there. O Tc makes a pretty good one. And not that much money, jesus
I didn't pay close enough attention and there was an extra track pasted into the project... totally my fault, even though the software was behaving strangely that day.
@@ottomatic9324 My mom assures me it has always been run down .. she and her siblings got my grandparents to take them there in the 60s and it was a joke..
Unfortunately, whatever you would pay for it, there is nothing that can replace it for that cost. Not only that, nothing I would *want* to replace it for that cost. No offense intended at all! You just can't buy a new truck that is this simple any more.
@@clbenjamin79 Not at all.. also, I am not gonna touch the camera or my phone when I have brake fluid, axle fluid, or grease on them.. .it's just common sense. In '95, when I was 19, I changed the clutch in a Peugeot 505 wagon with tan interior. I had grease all over my boots and I trashed the carpet while undoing the shifter.. Ever since then, I have taken a strain to keep my hands and everything else relatively free of grease while I am working, even if it costs me more in paper towels and hand cleaner.
Guess you missed the part where i said “the bearing was seized to the axle housing”. I don’t know how you personally would have gotten it out, but that is what this required. In this case, yes, I indeed had to melt the bearing.
Steering wheels are a bitch to get off too, but easy with a steering wheel puller. ..too bad something that works like a steering wheel puller couldn't be designed some how, and applied for That job.
As badly as it was stuck, I already had to buy a new drum because I completely ruined that with the hammer... beating on the hub with the hammer, I collapsed the screw holes for the axle flange. Had to chase the threads on all of them. I don't know if they would have held up to serious pulling with a jack or some other type of puller mounted there... They definitely are up to the task of the twisting force of the axles, but who knows if they would have survived a tensile load pulling outward on them... However, it definitely would have been nice to not have to use the blue wrench on the bearing.
Lol, Hobo Freight for everything that doesn't need to be precision. The part where I showed having just replaced the ignition switch, I was outside a hobo freight in Norfolk, VA.. xD
Tienes.q sacarle.el gato.o kriquet.despues de q hayas.colocado el;ambos soportes en cada extremo del palier.nunca el gato o kriquet.en esa zona.cuando realizas esa especie de trabajo.
Full floater uses oil from the differential to lube the bearings. Didn’t want to contaminate that oil with some red high-temp grease. However, whatever works for you, works. No criticism here, brother.
Ok will do! Yeah, I didn't notice some extra tracks in the edit before I rendered it.. If I had faster upload speed, I probably would have fixed it.. However, the video has way too many views now to do that.
