The Ford Barn

GB SISSON · 04-30-2020, 09:38 PM

It is pretty GD loud! I got home from my 'in town ' job at 3:30 this afternoon and enlisted my wife to help me hook up the cold start advance cable that is perculiar to these oddball cummins variants. It was hooked up in the beginning when the engine was mocked up on a junk chassis, but a wire from the alternator contacted the cable for the advance and started a fire last week. Just another shit show.... Dumped a half of a fire extinguisher on it and we were good...... But now it started hard. 6" of the cable was gone from the dead short and the clamping of it was nearly impossible by myself. My wife spent an hour and a half doing some nearly impossible wrenching, just to help me out. We used bent magnet wands and LED lights and thumbwheel ratchets and a few cuss words, but it is totally back to normal. Dang it I really like this smelly POS.

04-30-2020, 09:38 PM	#11
GB SISSON Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Orcas Island Washington Posts: 4,935	Re: What in Tarnation? It is pretty GD loud! I got home from my 'in town ' job at 3:30 this afternoon and enlisted my wife to help me hook up the cold start advance cable that is perculiar to these oddball cummins variants. It was hooked up in the beginning when the engine was mocked up on a junk chassis, but a wire from the alternator contacted the cable for the advance and started a fire last week. Just another shit show.... Dumped a half of a fire extinguisher on it and we were good...... But now it started hard. 6" of the cable was gone from the dead short and the clamping of it was nearly impossible by myself. My wife spent an hour and a half doing some nearly impossible wrenching, just to help me out. We used bent magnet wands and LED lights and thumbwheel ratchets and a few cuss words, but it is totally back to normal. Dang it I really like this smelly POS. __________________ Owner/Operator of 'Jailbar Ranch' on the side of Mt. Pickett. Current stable consists of 1946 1/2 ton pickup turned woodie wagon with FH V8, 1947 Tonner Pickup (red) mostly stock with exception of a cummins 6at turbo diesel, 1946 Tonner Pickup (green) with 226 cu in 6 cyl flathead, 1979 Toyota landcruiser wagon, completely encased in 1947 Ford Jailbar sheet metal. Ok, cornbinder rear fenders..... 'Rusty ol' floorboards, hot on their feet' (Alan Jackson)