ak diesel driver
6.5 driver
Well it's been awhile but I finally got my plow truck up and going. I bought the truck off CL about 1 year ago for $700. It's a 94 K1500 ECSB with 229k on the clock. I bought the plow about 2-3 years ago with intentions of putting it on my DD. I bought the plow for $500 cause it had been in a wreck and messed up the a frame and such. The truck had been parked outside so I went to move it in my shed/shop to work on it. I drove it to where it was parked and it fired up pretty easy but it wouldn't hardly move. Turns out the pass side rear wheel was stuck and wouldn't move. so I had to have my wife drive it while I pushed it with the hoe to get it in the shed. Turned out the shoe had broken at the rivets and a piece had wedged in locking it up. Kinda blew my mind since I drove it to where it was parked with no probs at all. It's an engine driven hyd pump but I didn't care much for the way it mounted or was driven. So I pulled off th AC pump and mounted it in it's place. Hardest part was finding the correct clutch for the pump. After many trips to the auto parts stores and searching the net I finally determined the correct one was off an 86 mustang with a v8. I also didn't like the flimsy hose mounting brackets so I drilled the bumper and installed the hose end quick connects there. Then back to the truck I swapped out the s manifold for an F and got a plowing chip from Buddy. So so far I have $700 for the truck $500 for the plow another $600 to fix plow and get the clutch $100 in tires off CL another $100 in misc parts and new rear shoes. So so far total investment is about $2000