Welppp I’m thinking the LMM is sold but don’t count your chickens til they hatch. I’ve got a small car lot going on at my house. I have a 15’ Dart, 06 Colorado 5cyl, 72’K5 and my soon gone LMM and my Freightliner.
So why not add another? So I found me a 78’ Chevy Luv. It’s power by an L4 Isuzu motor fired by points and a Hitachi 2 barrel (I believe) and a 4 speed manual. When I picked it up it would die after about 3 minutes of idling. The blower motor didn’t work the coolant gauge had no signal and the fuel gauge didn’t work. These tank are fairly notorious for rusting so I changed the fuel lines and fuel filters with clear Kubota Tractor filters and bottle fed the fuel pump and the engine still chugged and died.
I pulled the air cleaner and noticed the electric choke was wide open but the breather flap was closed completely shut, I held the flap open and it would idle as long as I held it. It has old glass fuses and I rolled them with my fingers while the key was on and all of sudden the blower motor turned on and the temp gauge was reading something. So I pulled the old fuse box and left it in a tub of lemon juice overnight and that honestly made it look brand new. So I wire brushed it a little and reassembled the fuse box and now I’m not having a broke connection issue with the blower or temp gauge. I still don’t think the temp gauge is accurate though and the fuel gauge still doesn’t work.
Truck still needs a lot of misc work like weather striping, new windshield, the old tint is purple and milky, cancer spots on the body, front timing cover leak, valve cover leak, runs super rich, misfiring and voltage regulator is limping by. I’m working up a parts list for HEI conversion so I can run a hotter coil and parts are easier to get apparently. Need tires and carpet and tear the old dash out for a new one. Couple rotted joints on the front end and a few broken wheel studs.
It’s sounds like a lot and it kinda is but most of the parts are cheaper, I just have to order engine spark parts for a 84-87 Isuzu Pup and most of everything else is DIY rebuilding, they don’t manufacture parts for these anymore, I didn’t know I was buying a lifestyle but I guess I did lol.
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So why not add another? So I found me a 78’ Chevy Luv. It’s power by an L4 Isuzu motor fired by points and a Hitachi 2 barrel (I believe) and a 4 speed manual. When I picked it up it would die after about 3 minutes of idling. The blower motor didn’t work the coolant gauge had no signal and the fuel gauge didn’t work. These tank are fairly notorious for rusting so I changed the fuel lines and fuel filters with clear Kubota Tractor filters and bottle fed the fuel pump and the engine still chugged and died.
I pulled the air cleaner and noticed the electric choke was wide open but the breather flap was closed completely shut, I held the flap open and it would idle as long as I held it. It has old glass fuses and I rolled them with my fingers while the key was on and all of sudden the blower motor turned on and the temp gauge was reading something. So I pulled the old fuse box and left it in a tub of lemon juice overnight and that honestly made it look brand new. So I wire brushed it a little and reassembled the fuse box and now I’m not having a broke connection issue with the blower or temp gauge. I still don’t think the temp gauge is accurate though and the fuel gauge still doesn’t work.
Truck still needs a lot of misc work like weather striping, new windshield, the old tint is purple and milky, cancer spots on the body, front timing cover leak, valve cover leak, runs super rich, misfiring and voltage regulator is limping by. I’m working up a parts list for HEI conversion so I can run a hotter coil and parts are easier to get apparently. Need tires and carpet and tear the old dash out for a new one. Couple rotted joints on the front end and a few broken wheel studs.
It’s sounds like a lot and it kinda is but most of the parts are cheaper, I just have to order engine spark parts for a 84-87 Isuzu Pup and most of everything else is DIY rebuilding, they don’t manufacture parts for these anymore, I didn’t know I was buying a lifestyle but I guess I did lol.
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