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Marlow, SUPERB video.

Blueberry?!! Really???

Marlow, great video, although greatness is your standard, well done!

Wow, thanks Mr. President.

Here is one of the videos I clipped from. I am still getting used to the camera and more specifically the GoPro software. There didn't seem to be way to use the sound that the camera recorded using there editing app. Also, as you will see, the filtering choices all seem to cloud the video.
Anyway here's what the truck sounded like after about 10 minutes of tinkering with it.

Buddy Purrs like

Now that one was awesome.

I can't talk like Mr. Pres, but that was really a good one.

Nice sounding engine. !!

Keeping the dream alive great work having a bit of fun

Watched the video for the 4th or 5th time, very proud of my brothers!

Great job on the video and pictures.
Hope it will be at the Homecoming.

If it is?
I will stand fast, to protect it from the menacing scavengers that have terrorized HQ before.
Remember the last two years and the carnage done in the rain.

Don

Every time one of these beautiful old symbols of days gone by, starts up after a long slumber with just a little coaxing still amazes me. Then to only get in and drive them. A true testament of a STOVEBOLT!!!!!
Did someone say it has air brakes?? How cool is that!
Mr. Marlow, thanks for letting us live in the moment with this secret mission!!
I'm glad that all of the troops are accounted for and arrived safely back at headquarters!! Cuto's to the Comander in another successful rescue mission and bringing a soldier back to sacred ground!!
Well done troops!!!
I raised my coffee mug in your honor!!
Jim

Meanwhile, back in the Old Dominion.........

Watching these awesome videos Billy did over and over like a teenager got me thinking..........

This truck has a decent rear gear based on the data plate, 6.17 and BIG tires. 38" tall. Using the RPM Calculator found in the Tech Tips,




we might be on to something........

Sweet..... Are you considering setting a stovebolt speed record? Fix the brakes first and allow me to plus up my aid bag!

Chris

Hmmm, maybe not a overall Stovebolt record but maybe we could get close to that point with a Big Bolt....with air brakes.....
I'm already looking forward to Homecoming....this is going to be fun!

Speed record? I might be crazy, but not that crazy.

However, given the gearing, tires, and how well this truck runs without much TLC, this truck may not be such a slow slug. Given the fact the truck already has air, and the winch, ODSS recovery may have found its flagship.

Well, somebody needs to come give it a little TLC because it currently has the Stovebolt Flagship (Charlie) blockaded in port ...

Saturday brother. I'll be there Saturday for preliminary testing........

Who is the new owner (did I miss that) and what's the plan?

Mike B

It sure seems right to have a GMC as the ODSS flagship. Perhaps then GMC's won't be called the Gay Man Cruiser, but something a little more appropriate, like GIANT MOUNTAIN CLIMBER.

I submit the refurbished bed could be a mobile platform for the ODSS Men's *Glee Club!

A glee club is a musical group or choir group, historically of male voices but also of female or mixed voices, which traditionally specializes in the singing of short songs–glees–by trios or quartets. In the late 19th century it was very popular in most schools and was made a tradition to have in American high schools from then on. The first named Glee Club was founded in Harrow School, in London, England, in 1787.[1] Glee clubs were very popular in the UK from then until the mid-1850s but by then they were gradually being superseded by choral societies. Glee in this context does not refer to the mood of the music or of its singers, but to a specific form of English part song popular between 1650 and 1900, the glee. But by the mid-20th century, proper glee clubs were no longer common.

Mr. President
If I may? What a venue for Jack and his quartet to perform atop of. An old truck with an a$$ kicking banjo pickin maniac banging or should I say strumming out some awsum notes!! "Oh yeah", all awhile sipping some of doc's peach special sundae's!!!

We'll let the *owners* chime in here, but, I'm sure Jack could squeeze in a couple numbers around the Glee Club's offerings!

Do we have a homecoming date? I want to come with my truck this time! Please not Mother's Day weekend.

Blast from the past.

Re-did some of the pictures. A fun time and happy memories! Hard to believe this was 7 years ago.

My body suggests it was longer than that ago. Sweet you fix those floors yet?

Good question. How is Ol Buddy doing since his awakening from our rescue next to the pumphouse on our farm?

Sir Buddy has been a slow work in progress.

I acquired proper 6V battery cables that will be installed. Then an new battery and water pump since that was found to be leaking on his ride around the neighborhood a few months ago. After that I hope to get some help from our own ODSS Wheel Specialist for a new set of wheels and tires all the way around. Brakes, air tank then just drive it for fun.

Bone, your the retired one, how about helping a working man out and fixin them floor for me?

What's wrong with the wheels on it now??

Eagerly awaiting future updates on this project.

What's wrong with the wheels?

As my son would say, they aren't 26" and chrome! Just kidding. The rims are badly rusted, the rubber is shot. So I plan to get rims and tires exactly like it is. Even powder coated the same color to keep Buddy's original look and stance.

I have some that came off the bus if you think they would fit. Bus was 59 1-1/2 ton.

Would love to have the story of Buddy in the DITY Gallery. I'm guessing it'll be a neat "collective collaboration." What say you fellas? Shoot ... Billy could even make it into a movie. Well, maybe a series.

Sweetie -- That sound you are hearing is the same sound the sergeant hears when he walks into the squad bay and asks for a volunteer...

Are they 20" or 22.5" ?

6 or 10 lug?

Mike B

20”
10 lug

I thought I would kick off the weekend with a Buddy update:

Since installing proper battery cables so he can start and run as requested, we learned the water pump bearing was worn and leaked coolant faster than you could pour it in.

I removed the water pump (a little more challenging than a half ton) since the assembly for the compressor tensioner pulley is attached to a plate that is bolted over the water pump.

After much wrestling, the water pump was removed and sent to Mike at Marvelous Parts in Oregon and he turned it around in about 3 weeks.

Installed the water pump, all the other belts and hoses were also replaced.

Now Buddy runs and drives! Once we get some tires replaced, we can drive further than to the mailbox (1/2 mile away)!!!

Pics to follow......

That’s great Sweet! Always a good feeling when they run, move, and stop on their own.

Pics

Here's a set of nice used ones!

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Phillip - It looks like that FB offering is gone as no ad shows when clicking the link.

It still loads for me when I click it now. Are you logged into Facebook? It’s a good deal. Clear your cookies and history??