What did you do to your deuce this week?

[Valley Rock]

Took the old truck on down to the local Dept. of Forestry and got it inspected, stickered and ready for another fire season .

1963 Studebaker M50 has been a water truck it's entire life, everybody loves it and so do I, getting paid to drive it and allow it to continue to do what it was born to do is a nice bonus !

 

[ToddJK]

Swapping out head gaskets on mine now. Was leaking oil really bad, would leak around a gallon per week and that's driving it three to four times around 120-140 miles/week. With the heads off, there was lots of build up around the injector nozzles, but the pistons looked great, the cylinder sleeves looked good too with no scoring or any signs of hard/abnormal wear. I did notice too, that it looked like one of the fire rings did not completely seal as I can see the soot mark on the head, which I'm wondering if that was contributing to my blow-by. Have the new gaskets on now and the heads are on but still needs to be torqued down and everything reinstalled. I have to say though, it's going by very smoothly unlike the first time I did it around 10 years ago when I melted a piston and everything in my other deuce.

 

[RedRiderBB]

I mounted two of my new ndt tires on the front and broke down one more wheel. Replaced a return spring that had broken on the throttle return.

I’m suspecting that I have a broken/missing throttle return spring, but I don’t see anything obvious, can you point me to where I can find it to verify it is ok/not ok? Accelerator pedal does not return to idle in fact it ramps itself up until the pedal is lifted an put in the idle position.

 

[cattlerepairman]

Throttle return spring diagram?

I started my deuce a few days ago and it was revving right up to about 2100 rpms when I would start it. Figured out that my pedal is sticking. I have sprayed the linkage with wd40 to no avail. I looked at the linkage and I cannot see where a return spring would go so I was wondering if anyone...

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[mweidhaas]

Too hot to drive this afternoon so a good day to work indoors. Added some new LED headlights and brighter dash light bulbs. I also installed some refurbished newer style tailgate chains. Hoping these will eliminate the tailgate rattle.

 

[92ramaro]

It's been quite a long time since I've been here.

Life happens I guess.

I figured I'd add to this thread again for old times sake since I stopped in to dig through TMs.

A good friend and I traded dump trucks months ago, and I finally had time to run over there yesterday to throw some batteries in to see what I'm working with.

Used Daisy (my M35) as a service truck of sorts to air up some tires,blow out some fuel lines, and haul the various tools and fluids out there.

The plan is to flat tow the 2.5 ton with the 5 ton since naturally, the dump truck doesn't have brakes of its own after sitting for more than a decade by now. It's a 2 mile or less drive.

It's neat to be using a truck that was also driven out of the same ground 6 years ago to assist in the resurrection of another project vehicle.
Albeit a much heavier one.