Half Pint - Jeep Fire Rescue

[DieselSlug]

That stuff works good on anything rubber needing lube. Hummer windows are rough riding in the side tracks and that makes all the difference. You guys might try it in your window tracks as well.

Excellent, I need to dismantle the window tracks in the 69 IH as they are very sticky needing help back up while cranking.

 

[DieselSlug]

Wow, so much tighter front end in this sucker! Ready for more miles!

 

[Husker6.5]

Back in my day, they were all steel with ball bearing wheels and rubber tires, a wood steering wheel and wood ladders and you PEDALLED them!

Model A Fire Truck Pedal Car

This is one hot collectible. The chrome parts are just amazing and include grille, working bell, adjustable windshield, radiator cap, gate rails and bumper.This vintage pedal car features beautiful chrome headlight housings with decorative non-functional headlights. The all metal, stamped steel...

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[dbrannon79]

If my kids were still young I’d be the hillbilly to attempt to install a weed eater or chainsaw motor under the hood

 

[Husker6.5]

No worse than putting a 1.8L Datsun motor into a lawn tractor!

 

[Will L.]

My kids were 6volt- when that battery died it got a SEALED 12volt. That was the best move EVER! it had low and high speed. The low speed was now equal to the old high, and high was quicker of course. Then battery life between charging- used to have to charge that thing every day or every other day. Bigger 12v battery and that thing would go a week to 10’days , and it would slow down just a little the day you realized you need to charge it rather than just go from ok to dead in 2 minutes.

for charging I just bought a 3 amp trickle charger, wired in connector to the battery. So just plug it in without having to undo the stupid connection each time. Oh yeah- the battery and the trickle charger were cheaper than just a new power wheels battery.

 

[jrsavoie]

No worse than putting a 1.8L Datsun motor into a lawn tractor!

That made me look for the John Deere 400 garden tractor with a 350 chevy in it.

Something I actually thpught about. The engine went bad in my 400 and a K582 was about $1700. I had a 350 in The shop with way more power,

 

[Husker6.5]

In another thread on here I talked about the local/area lawn tractor pulling league we had back in the early 1990's. 1800cc engine size limit. Most people ran 1970's/80's 1.8 Datsun and Toyota RWD motors, adapted to a Powerglide transmission with narrowed Datsun/Toyota rear ends under the lawn tractor. So you'd see old Cub Cadet, Craftsman, Ford, Deere lawn/yard tractors in these competitions. My buddy, a dealership Subaru mechanic, ran an 1800 cc Subaru EA81 motor in his. That flat 4 not only kept the center of gravity low, being a flat, opposed 4 kept frame twisting down compared to the Datsun/Toyota straight 4's, but also looked cooler than hell with the heads out each side under the hood of the tractor and two straight exhaust pipes sticking up on each side and a 2bbl Hitachi carb sitting on each head's intake tract!