As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
It was a busy day in Two Chiefs life, as once victory was declared that he was running, it was more like the victory the Sioux declared at the Little Big Horn........it was a bit premature
On second start, he simply did not want to keep running. Third start was a prelude in finally figuring out where the fast idle screw was. The geniuses on line.....well they had me on the choke side, others were talking about the needle mix screws of air and fuel, and all seemed ignorant of the screw on the throttle side, with the spring on it, which is the screw I was looking for.
Topped off the radiator with fluid and it was time to start the engine.
JYG's advice which seemed ass backwards was to back the screw out to slow the engine down and to screw it in to speed it up. I gave it a full turn out before the 3rd start and it did bring it down from 5000 RPM's to a more 2500 idle which is still too fast, but 4th start in backing it out another full turn, spraying WD 40 on the foot pedal connecting pieces and the links in the throttle linkage connected to the foot pedal and when I lifted up on the foot pedal, the engine almost stalled out.
We were in the ballpark, but the issue it seems is the broken throttle linkage which the Buck rewelded and it is not right at all. It kind of over centers and then will not move. Of course no one makes parts for this, but then who in the hell of the millions of Ford pick ups has ever broken one of these rods? I have no idea what the Indians were up to.
So we did get the choke shoved all the way in and the engine kept running. That is an improvement over rapping out at 5000 RPM's and not running.
I decided that we should change oil. So we did as the engine had warmed up.
More adventure.
So I crawl around under this Ford and I can not find the oil drain plug. The 1968 and 1974 Fords I had drained were right there on the oil pan. This 1970 Ford Ranger had some Indian terrorism clause as everything is hard to get at.
This oil plug, sits on top of the frame cross piece on the chassis. So covered with gunk, I got it loose with a 3/4 inch combo wrench and with that some water started dripping out. Not a good sign, no more than a green antifreeze color that quit, as the lovely brown black oil started poring out.
I have no idea if there was some washer on that oil plug that fell off that was like a thick rubber washer, but nothing dropped, nothing was in the oil pan.........so whatever it was not there either like lots of things on Two Chiefs.
So the oil drained out. I could not find my oil filter wrench......just got one in some junk, but anyway, I found one in the tool box and took that off. Was surprised I did not need a jackhammer as people have a reason for over tightening them with a wrench, when hand tight is all they need to be.
Great news........the filter I got did not fit.
Le Sigh.
It was time to water cattle, so did that, and off we went to town as NAPA was open on Sundays to 2 PM. Got there a half hour before closing. Got the oil plug washer, got the oil filter......got two as I'm preparing for the End Times, and back we came for the big oil ceremony.
Crawled back under, put in the drain plug, crawled back out, put on the filter hand tight after putting a bead of oil on the gasket, and tightened that up.
I got some farm oil in a jug, called Harvest King. It was a pretty golden type oil like honey. Was 5w 40 an put that in toot sweet, and with that fired up Two Chiefs who is getting used to being a working Indian instead of a lazy Indian. No leaks or spraying oil.
I will just have to see about that water. Either is head gasket crack, or it was the Indians putting water in the oil as they seem to put dirt in the oil too, along with the gas tank. They are savage bastards when in a feud.
With that done, I greased the zerks on the pick up in the steering. Pretty red Mystic grease.
Looking around and having had a really high anxiety demon morning that was Gehenna nuked away, I decided to run the power cord over to Two Chiefs and take off the front flat tire, a the old man had a spare with a split rim which is what is supposed to be on F 250's.
Just going to mention. I got a cheap impact wrench from Harbor Freight and long impact sockets. Used them as the pick up is up on blocks and by God that impact is a big girl, but she rattled them lugs right off. I was impressed and pleased with this gem.
So took the tire off, checked with the free rim and tire I got from the Amish give away.......that fit. The old mans hub fit, so the next project is to get these old tires off the rims, switched around, so I have a spare and one on the pick up, probably with a tube in it.
This is a Tractor Whisperer solution, but some people may need it, as Two Chiefs Squaw Man resorted to this fix. Near as I can tell, he hit something big, maybe a fat Indian and ran over him or her, as the tire I was changing, the hub had been broken.
What you can do if you have an obsolete hub, is cut the center out where the bolts go, and then weld a outside hub that is more available. The F 250 runs 78 R 15's with 8 bolt holes. Is hard to find rims for old Fords now as most are in China as junk by stupid asses who saw money. It has to be welded straight as you can not have a wheel wobbling, but it will work for Indians and Squaw men. I'm the type though that wants things to be original, so I had the old hub around here, and I think I may have two more I can get from JYG. They are not split rims, but at least they are not welded up shit that looks like welded up spare hubs.
So Two Chiefs is coming along. He has allot of work yet. Have to see how he likes running as JYG and the Tractor Whisperer both said to run old engines as that is what they need. Sometimes they come out what is ailing them.
Seriously, JYG was telling me he had a Buick Century that he got in. Thing was not running worth a damn. So he started it, put a brick on the gas pedal and stood back, waiting for it to blow up. That car started running ok as it would not blow up. JYG said he drove it around for quite awhile after that.
So I hope that Two Chiefs will cooperate in being a WWP, a White Woman's Pick Up as we expect things out of our Fords. He is doing better on the 4th start, so will work on some of the things I need in I have an old LTD sitting here as a spare. Probably has a 390 engine in it, but I can borrow the breather shroud and other things, just to get this pick up going as I can't have him eating more dirt, as them Indians put half the reservation in his gas tank and oil it seems.
It has been a long and tiring day to get this far. Am most thankful to God in getting us this far again. No vehicle should have ever been abused like Two Chiefs has been. It is like they made sport in torturing this pick up, the way Indians tortured people. Probably was some squaw involved in this Two Chiefs saga as they always said when you saw particular attention to details in torture, a woman was involved.
Nuff Said
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