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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 63 Member | | Member Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 63 | So, like a well drafted plan, big shot (the wife) and I drove up to the Black Hills in sodak Friday night. Saturday my brother and I put the new tires and wheels on 'old green' (my dad's old 1954 Chevy 3600 pickup), put some grease in the tranny, greased the u-joints and on Sunday I drove her home! Ran GREAT! (But only about 50 mph). Got 14 MPG. Didn't expect (or enjoy) the front and rear seals on the engine to give out, but they did and so she likes to weep a little now, but I'm thinking I'll be able to fix that. Old Green had sat for 11 years so I suppose the seals got hard... Or, are those rope seals? Anybody know? 400 mile trip and I learned alot in those miles...! I'll get pics and send them, but I'm just glad I got the old truck brought back to life just in time for DOVE HUNTING SEASON out here in Kolorado! You know it TAKES a 3/4 ton truck to haul those doves once you limit out... | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,060 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,060 | Don't give up on those seals quite yet. I had a 65 once with a 292 that had been sitting around and leaked for a few weeks and then just stopped leaking. Don't know why.
Yes everyone, I had oil in it up to the full mark on the dipstick.
Sounds like a great trip/adventure!
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| | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 63 Member | | Member Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 63 | Anybody ever had any luck or bad expereince with those 'seal revitalizers' additives... I used the radiator / water pump seal revitalizer on a 90 ford I had and it worked perfect for about 5 years. Never tried the oil thing tho... Input? | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 990 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 990 | I haven't had a lot of luck with seal stuff in the motor, but that's because the seals I had got to were always in pieces, and nothing would help em. Its certainly worth a try. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | great,, glad you had a good trip
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 687 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 687 | Great deal R, I know what ya mean bout the birds. These Texas birds fill a 3/4 ton truck bed with just 5 birds.
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