WOW, Just wow. Nasty !

[frodobaggins]

I don't mean to sound pesitmistic but I would plan on bearings & outer races too if you moved it very far with that "stuff" in there.
If the bearing rollers have any rust they will fail on the road or worse, down the road.
Jimm1009

I moved it all of 100 feet

Had some slight surface rust on the outer races and bearings. Wet sanded it and cleaned. I'm going to replace them all soon but these should be fine for now.

 

[frodobaggins]

I wonder if any mud got in around the flywheel?

No, the angle that was in kept that out of the mud.

 

[frodobaggins]

That deep hows the oil in the crankcase?

There was about half a gallon of clean water, and just some slightly nasty foamy oil.

I filled it up with some good oil today and put some miles on it to clean it out.
Going to drain and refill again tomorrow.

 

[broman78]

how much time do you have in the clean up, repack, and replacement of oil? I will have to do this really soon.

 

[wreckerman893]

That will teach you to drive the duece to "Mount Doom". Stay out of Mordor.

 

[saddamsnightmare]

May 24th, 2010.

frodobaggins:

WOW!!!

You know you could have gotten help with that truck....??? All you had to do was contact your local college's Archaeology Department and tell them that you had a military archeological site that needed dug......! When you bury a truck, you really bury a truck!!!!!!

 

[wreckerman893]

That's why Hobbits live underground.




"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

 

[frodobaggins]

how much time do you have in the clean up, repack, and replacement of oil? I will have to do this really soon.

About 15 hours, however, this was my first time, and an extreme case.
Lugnuts frozen, etc, etc.

If I had to do THIS job again, I could do it in 8.

If it was a normal job, probably 4-6 hours.

 

[Stan Leschert]

If you can call Gandalf, I do believe that he knew a vehicle Mech named Smeagol, who specialized in subterranean exploits!


Sorry, I just couldn't resist that one.

Let us know what you had to do to purge that muck.
Most of the TMs were written by soldiers mistakes.
This chapter may be interesting.... and yes informative!

 

[frodobaggins]

If you can call Gandalf, I do believe that he knew a vehicle Mech named Smeagol, who specialized in subterranean exploits!


Sorry, I just couldn't resist that one.

Let us know what you had to do to purge that muck.
Most of the TMs were written by soldiers mistakes.
This chapter may be interesting.... and yes informative!

Water hose, Engine cleaner, wire brush, brake cleaner, pb blaster, and gasoline.

 

[rwbrown72]

Did you replace the wheel bearings or just repack them? Were they rusted at all?

 

[frodobaggins]

Did you replace the wheel bearings or just repack them? Were they rusted at all?

Just the outside bearings had some very slight rust. I wet sanded it off, they roll like new.

Going to replace them all next year with a complete axle teardown anyway.