715 progress

[Crazy_Matt]

Heres my buddies m715 that I been working on.


Looks way better in OD then the nasty red

 

[Elwenil]

Not bad, but he's got to get rid of that funky bumper! What is that winch, a 10K Garwood?

 

[sermis]

Winch lools like the stock LU4.
If the bumper did not slope back on the outter edges it might look ok with the top plate on it.

 

[Elwenil]

Hmm, you might be right. I guess it's the mounting that is making it look weird to me.

 

[sermis]

Looks really small with all that bumper going on.

 

[maddawg308]

Yeah, rip that crappy bumper off and go with the stock one.

Other than that, nice rig!

 

[gimpyrobb]

I don't think that it looks so bad. If you think about how the stock bumper is straight across, it really kills aproach angles. If I were to have a stock winch, I would probably fab up something similar. I'd rather have my tires hitting the rocks or hills than my bumper. I say its a keeper.

 

[Crazy_Matt]

The bumper came with the truck and will more then likely stay.

It used to be a fire department truck too, then was sold off and the truck sat for ~5 years till I got it running.


Then paint.

I'm making slow progress @ this project since I work WAY too much. I'm getting there tho.


Sanded most the bed last nite.


Looking more and more @ the truck I'm not happy with the way the cabs turning out, so I'm gonna wet sand it and do another coat of paint.

 

[maddawg308]

Ha ha. Your seats look better than mine! Mine are a bunch of spring with NO cover at all!

 

[Crazy_Matt]

I sanded for a hour tonite @ work - making some headway at least

Got a jerry can to paint to match too - should make it a lil cooler.



Found out why the truck look sliek its smoking - the head gasket is trashed -ack Looks like I'll getta help with that too prolly


How hards a hg on a 230 to do?

 

[mcinfantry]

not bad. iirc you CANNOT have them machined

 

[Barrman]

Lee is right. You have to do the gasket only and hope it works. The timing chain is the problem. The only other way to do it is to have a good machine shop take off just enough for you to run 2 head gaskets. I would not recommend that since it is more of a band aid than a fix and there are so many really cheap or free 230's all over the country.

 

[Crazy_Matt]

Ouch that sucks.... guess Im cleaning the head really good and putting it back on there.......




I should have some more pics to post tonite of the bed being painted this time. Thats if I decide to get off the intraweb and my lazy butt- then paint

 

[Crazy_Matt]

Heres a few more pics its about done - still could use a wet sand job and what not - but next on the list is a head gasket.