[Heavy metal] This old snow plow [pics]

A little plow porn from Sunday before the mayhem.


Brasstax said:
We had a Shasta camper when I was a teen. Had a bunk bed at one end, a shower stall and a kitchen table at at the other end. Kitchen stove and sink etc. We spen some great times in that thing. Especially in the summer. Parents put it at a campground on a lake up in Wisconsin that we would all go to. That place was like teen heaven. Rec room, pinball, snack shop, bar for the parents. Good times.
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We went to Colorado and Wisconsin, but in the Plymouth Volare Station Wagon.
My dad had built a wooden roof top carrier for it with fake police lights painted on it. Red and green because he was Navy, lol.
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No. We had a white one, and later a red model. Both with 318's and plastic woodgrain on the sides. Both got totaled in rear end collisions, one got hit so hard from behind the weight of my dad broke the seat so it was stuck in the reclining position. The axle shoved the driveshaft into the transmission. It's not what you think, he was running marathons at the time on the local race team and weighed maybe 140 pounds. The old guy that rear ended him claimed the massive damage was because the car was rusty, then died from internal injuries the next day. The Red one got hit a little lighter but still totaled He bought it back from insurance and sold it to someone for the engine. These cars probably saved my dad's life. His adventures with these taught me not to settle with insurance right away, he made money on both deals.
 
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i learned to drive in a white 2 door volare of my uncles. about 13 years old going out to bush parties i drove the backroads and sandy roads home as DD. lots of fun. was a 225 slant six
 
Nice. I learned on an old garden tractor and 1969 Volvo. Red Volare was around long enough for me to defile the backseat and put it in the ditch a few times.
 
That Volare is a classic road trip vehicle :lol:
I can see the faces pressed up against the windows.
Did you pull your arm to get semis to honk their horns?
Hell yeah you did.
 
As expected, there was a pinhole in the trans dipstick tube. I enlarged it with my pick.
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The new one fit in nicely but was a little shorter. It came with a shorter dipstick also, with the correct depth markings.
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Played a fun game of where's the socket tightening down the tube mount. It fell off the 4' extension.
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I was working at the red arrow from behind the transfer case because that was easier.
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You can't get to it from underneath with the exhaust and front drive shaft installed, but you can start it from above if you're willing to climb over the engine and reach down the firewall.

Take a look at the previous pictures and try to find it please.
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My god. I dropped a bolt a couple feet down and it took me a half hour to get it out. Wanted to junk the damn car.
 
Brasstax said:
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Yeah, I didn't feel like tightening it while doing a hand stand on the engine, it was bad enough getting the damn thing started. It's a 9/16 stud-bolt for the dipstick tube/ bell housing, with a 1/2 inch nut that holds a ground strap and wire holding bracket. You can touch it blind from the other side of the transmission with the front drive shaft removed, or standing on your head over the engine. 4' was about right.
 
Hooked up the plow and ran around a little Friday, without 4 wheel drive...

I thought maybe I pinched a wire around the starter, but that wasn't the case.

The starter motor murder-suicided the front axle shift motor. This little guy moves a shift fork that connects the front drive axles to the drive shaft that goes back to the transfer case. In 2 wheel drive it saves wear and tear on those parts. Without it no 4 wheel drive.
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It screws into the axle housing here.
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Now it's happy again.
 
Your wit and reputation proceed you midxe. You should kill yourself before you turn into a cunt and no one respects you.
 
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