I watch several threads of YouTube videos. A few machining ones, and a few auto repair ones.
One of the repair ones, is Watch Wes Work.
I know from hanging around here, about salt damage. I have seen some of the things you folks have fixed over the years. But, there are times when I watch Wes, and just go, "Why?" This poor guy fixes things I would not touch. I get the idea, these are working folks who need their vehicle to make it just one more year. But the work he has to do to fix the simplest things sometimes...........
I think I only saw him turn one down.
He put a truck on his lift, and when he started lifting it, the axles stayed on the ground. He eased it back down, and it actually drove out. But he called the owner to come get it.
So, it was surprising when he pulled in a 1964! K20.
There were several things about it that he was not sure about, but that is not surprising. Its probably older than him, and I doubt he has ever seen a truck of that age in his area.
Most of them are just little piles of reddish dirt in the corner of a field somewhere.
Note: Do not watch this video if you want to see a well restored K20. Whoever worked on it before, butchered it. NOT Wes. He was trying to fix some ot the things they did.
While I was watching this, I was trying to count the number of springs that had been added everywhere, Not suspension springs, others.
I suddenly realized that there were too many driveshafts.
In my defense, it has been a long time, and the camera angles were not informative until close to the end.
When I first saw two driveshafts going the same direction, I figured it may have a pto of some kind. My '79 f150 had a shaft drive pto winch. But it was a one inch solid shaft, not a hollow truck type driveshaft.
Finally, towards the end, I could see both shafts, and I realized it was a divorced transfer case. However, most of the ones I have seen over the years, had about a foot or so long shaft between the transmission and transfer case.
And it has been many years since I saw one.
Anyway, here is the link:
If you want to see a otherwise decent truck "modernized" in just about every possible wrong way, check it out. Given what he has to work with, and his lack of knowledge of that old a truck, Wes does pretty good.
BTW, I'm sure it was originally a single circuit brake system, but he mentions several times that it surely never had power brakes. I'm not so sure. My '66 F600 has single circuit brakes, with no booster on the firewall.
However it has a large remote vacuum booster on the frame under the cab, and can lock up all 6 with ease.
Anybody here know if a '64 K20 would have had one like that?
J.
One of the repair ones, is Watch Wes Work.
I know from hanging around here, about salt damage. I have seen some of the things you folks have fixed over the years. But, there are times when I watch Wes, and just go, "Why?" This poor guy fixes things I would not touch. I get the idea, these are working folks who need their vehicle to make it just one more year. But the work he has to do to fix the simplest things sometimes...........
I think I only saw him turn one down.
He put a truck on his lift, and when he started lifting it, the axles stayed on the ground. He eased it back down, and it actually drove out. But he called the owner to come get it.
So, it was surprising when he pulled in a 1964! K20.
There were several things about it that he was not sure about, but that is not surprising. Its probably older than him, and I doubt he has ever seen a truck of that age in his area.
Most of them are just little piles of reddish dirt in the corner of a field somewhere.
Note: Do not watch this video if you want to see a well restored K20. Whoever worked on it before, butchered it. NOT Wes. He was trying to fix some ot the things they did.
While I was watching this, I was trying to count the number of springs that had been added everywhere, Not suspension springs, others.
I suddenly realized that there were too many driveshafts.
In my defense, it has been a long time, and the camera angles were not informative until close to the end.
When I first saw two driveshafts going the same direction, I figured it may have a pto of some kind. My '79 f150 had a shaft drive pto winch. But it was a one inch solid shaft, not a hollow truck type driveshaft.
Finally, towards the end, I could see both shafts, and I realized it was a divorced transfer case. However, most of the ones I have seen over the years, had about a foot or so long shaft between the transmission and transfer case.
And it has been many years since I saw one.
Anyway, here is the link:
If you want to see a otherwise decent truck "modernized" in just about every possible wrong way, check it out. Given what he has to work with, and his lack of knowledge of that old a truck, Wes does pretty good.
BTW, I'm sure it was originally a single circuit brake system, but he mentions several times that it surely never had power brakes. I'm not so sure. My '66 F600 has single circuit brakes, with no booster on the firewall.
However it has a large remote vacuum booster on the frame under the cab, and can lock up all 6 with ease.
Anybody here know if a '64 K20 would have had one like that?
J.
