Hi All, In 1978 I bought this 1968 C50 from the original owner who was retiring. It was a 19,500 lbs. GVW truck. 327 V8, 4 speed, Vac. operated two speed truck.
It was a nice truck, and I worked it through the nineties into 2000. In 1993 the 327 was replaced with a GM Goodwrench 350hd engine. According to my records the 350 engine now has 15,xxxx miles on it.
Well life changes and went on to other ventures and the truck was parked.
I then loaned the truck to a friend to aid in developing his new property and house in 2003
Then he parked it in 2005. I never really thought about it much, as I knew were it was, and thought all was fine, And figured he still used it occasionally, but kind of lost touch.
Then I'm told from his ex I need to get it off the property . Fine I can do that.
When I get there, I quickly realized that this didn't end well.
The truck was parked in a area that grew back up, (think Woods) It was a mess.
I spent most of Sat. with a chainsaw cutting my way in, cleaning it off, and inside out best I could for now. Think leaves, acorns, rodents, etc.
The accelerator pedal, and clutch pedal were stuck.
I got the throttle working by freeing up the linkage on the carb. The clutch is better, but I have to pull the pedal back up by hand, so where gaining on it.
So I put in a new Battery and got gas flowing to the carb, but won't run.
60 psi oil pressure I noticed while cranking, which is a good thing.
Also after topping off the coolant I see it dripping out the heater box. So I bypassed the hoses for now. Cleaned and re-gaped the points after I realized I had no Ign. spark.
Try it again the Old girl took right off, even raising the bed in the process. I had forgot the dump and PTO controls Are backwards from what you would think. Also I left the Clutch pedal stuck down but Obviously the disk is also stuck.
So I let run for half hour or so and tried braking the clutch free by yanking it in low gear, but that didn't work.
Now I need to free up the clutch, and bleed the brakes some. At lease it does build somewhat of a pedal, and move more junk to get it out and on the trailer.
The plan for now is to at least get it back home, and clean it up and save it.
