Repairing a $700 Auction Crane Truck!

so so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so so so [Music] you know i don't some days i wonder why i even get out of bed yesterday after not starting for months the crane truck started up okay i mean it cranked a little while but it popped off and it fired up today and it ran great yesterday too i had it sitting here running for a good while it idled real nice running pretty smooth the carburetor definitely needs rebuilt on it but i mean it was functioning fine today i've had the truck hooked up to it charging on it and been cranking on it and cranking on it for every bit of 20 minutes now and this thing will not fire for nothing what's up everybody welcome back to diesel creek if this is your first time joining us my name is matt behind me this beautiful 1988 89 f-700 crane truck that i bought at an auction last year uh if you haven't seen it there's a whole series of videos on bringing this thing back to life i paid 700 at the auction for it i had to yank the motor out it was all locked up tore it apart got it running again slapped it back together and lo and behold that beautiful crane stretches out like 53 feet or something like that works like a charm it's perfect so uh the trouble i'm having right now as there was some odds and ends that i never completely finished up from yanking the motor and putting it back together it came into the cold time of year and i just moved on other things i got project add like that so so in today's video we're gonna be focusing on getting those little odds and ends that i didn't do last year finished up tied up all the loose ends and oh yeah it doesn't run anymore i don't know what happened sitting over the winter i come out here occasionally and i'd start it up and it ran i pulled it up to where it's sitting right now stretched it all out and got ready to use it to pull the engine out of my grader project which if you haven't seen you'd probably want to check that out too it's a pretty good one but anyways i parked it here and was planning on pulling the motor the next day i came back out hit the key again it was running fine the day before i hit the key and it just cranked and cranked and cranked and cranked and cranked and it would spit and sputter like it wanted to run but it just wouldn't run so i know we have a fuel delivery issue i never touched the carburetor on this engine it is unfortunately a gas engine if you didn't already know i never touched the carburetor when i did the motor job so there's probably all kind of problems with that carburetor it didn't run the hottest but it did run good enough to use it around here at the farm i don't plan on taking this thing on the road anyway today we're going to zap that carburetor off of there take it home tear it apart and uh rebuild that thing so she runs like brand new also before i forget if we get to the part where this thing's running and it sounds like crap and it sounds like it's missing there's a big exhaust leak and everybody tells me i'll fix that but it's not worth my time these exhaust leaks are always a pain on these trucks it's a ford it has to have an exhaust leak what good is a ford that doesn't have an exhaust leak it just another gas engine in case you were wondering what locked up the engine in the first place i was told it's this poor design right here see there's kind of like a puddle of water right there that's a bad design on ford's part that water all comes down from the split in the hood here even when the hood's shut if this gas gets bad which it's very bad the water just comes down here and collects in this bowl that is the top of the air cleaner and it finds its way down into the engine and locks her up tight if you're not running it a whole lot now i have a mud flap that i was keeping over top of this thing but apparently in a fit of rage the last time this thing wouldn't run i forgot to reinstall it so here's to hoping that water didn't find its way into the engine again well the good news is that i don't see any signs of water getting down in there so we might be ahead there so this big ugly monstrosity right here is what i believe to be the culprit of most if not all of our problems uh fairly straightforward to take off i think there might be a couple vacuum lines got a couple throttle cables throttle linkage fuel inlet hose a couple wires and it should pop right off all right should just lift right up off of here now yeah look at that oh i see liquid down there hopefully that's just fuel yep luckily it's just fuel so she was heavily flooded and dumping fuel into one side of the engine and bone dry in the other so that could be a lot of our issue yeah interesting well i guess i'm a bit ashamed to admit that this carburetor has since i've taken it off crane truck has just been chilling on my workbench getting progressively buried and unburied for the last four months or so so i've had the carburetor kit since like two days after i took it off just i haven't got the gumption to dive into this thing but i would like to get my crane truck back to usable so we'll go ahead and dive on in i guess you guys want to know a secret i've never actually torn apart a full-size automotive carburetor this will be the first time right here on camera for thousands of people to mock me actually while we're admitting things on camera when i tore the engine down in the crane truck that this guy sits on top of and did the old shade tree rebuild on it that was the first time i'd ever torn apart a v8 on my own i've messed with some smaller stuff some inline sixes things like that there's some rust in that guy but uh yeah first time i'd done that this guy got to come over here so there's like some sort of crossover or something or other here can't tell if that's a bolt i think this should just come off here don't force it get a bigger hammer something's happening this does say remanufactured on here so they're not original yeah that's not horrible but there is some rust down in the bottom of the bowl [Music] [Music] [Music] well everything seems to be about as clean internally anyways as clean as it's gonna get um i think it all looks pretty decent it really wasn't bad at all like i said i probably just had some water frozen in the line and it wouldn't pick up any more fuel that's my guess uh but this was a learning exercise as i stated glad i did it i did kind of figure out you know i'm just guessing now i've never done it but to set the floats on these things i'm guessing that this is a level screw and you pop that bad boy out and you start turning this thing up until the fuel starts coming out of that hole and then you go back a sea here and then crank that locking nut down and imagine that should be your proper flow level but uh if i'm wrong i'm sure you guys will roast me in the comments [Music] [Music] all right well of course the camera died right as i was nearing the end of the assembly but it's all done i think it looks good 99 sure i have everything back together correctly let's go out and throw this thing on the old crane truck there once we have it installed i'm gonna go ahead and check these float adjustments all right so here just illustrates another great reason i love flatbeds now i've got a working platform i didn't actually touch the truck i think my strap rubbed it a little bit no big deal it's not like she's got a beauty queen job ahead of her or nothing anyway it's real easy we can just stand on the back of the truck here and work like a human being instead of up on a step stool or something stupid let's see if we can't get the old hood open here ah there we go i wondered where that went i think it took me longer to rebuild the carburetor than the whole stinking engine when i did that there's the gasket that was on it when i bought it it doesn't look awful but i think i'm going to go ahead and change it one that comes with our rebuild kit looks a bit nicer than that side note watch these little spacers this one almost went down our throat hole there and you can't even fish it out with a magnet so that wouldn't be good well i probably already just fixed part of the issue from before i didn't realize this port right here was going down into this egr system thing that i've deleted um i didn't realize though i thought this port was going in here and it was blocked off because it's a separate flange i stupid me i should have checked it so anyways this port was sucking air the whole time that i had it running previously to this we should be able to reinstall this guy and the old four barrel i'll just pull this dipstick here and maybe you guys can tell there maybe not it's way over full it's very thin and it reeks of gasoline so this thing was just dumping fuel uh letting it sit on top of the rings that's why it wouldn't run before it was running crazy rich apparently so that means that we're gonna have to change the oil now because that won't properly lubricate anything and i think we're just going to go with some 1540 because that's what all the other youtube mechanics are doing these days and it does kind of make sense to me and i have a lot of it so i think and we'll get this thing running and drive it up onto the hard pack so i'm not laying in all the mud down here and we'll go ahead and put some better oil in it all right i just threw some fresh batteries in this thing it's about time to see if the old pig's gonna fire up i have no small funnel to get the fuel down in here oh that's plenty might take a bit of cranking it's been sitting quite a while contact that was close so well it's running huh not the best even if it died right now i could be happy because i can move it around with something else it's been stuck like that with those legs down for four months so that's that's an improvement so [Music] [Music] it has occurred to me that changing the oil would be futile without first fixing the problem what ruined the oil in the first place so let's go ahead and adjust these carb float bowls because i'm pretty sure that's causing our issue here with the fuel one i did do some research and watched a quick video to make sure i was going to do this right so you take off this little screw on the side there and crack those locking nuts loose but basically we just have to adjust it until we have just the teeniest little bit of fuel coming out of here in our little side viewing port here all right well i finally got that figured out here the videos of the carburetors online that i had watched their nut was the adjuster and the screw is the lock but this carburetor is actually the opposite um so i just turned the screw in to lower the level of the float and uh pretty easy to set those it wasn't too bad and you see how much blow-by i got going on this thing i knew it's going to have some blow-by and uh it i'm sure it will continue to have some blow-by but the paper-thin oil gas mixture that we got in the engine right now isn't helping anything so we're gonna go ahead and get that drained out now that we got these floats set right we'll pull it back into the little shop there and work on that hooray we made it good lord i was worried let's go ahead and get this nasty gas polluted oil out of this thing if you work in heavy industry a lot you'll know that there's a big safety culture among everybody and one of the things that they always talk about is a near miss they want you to analyze and talk about things that nearly went wrong nearly could have been catastrophic but didn't i am more of a safety second maybe even third kind of guy uh i do i do appreciate safety so there's always people giving me flack about safety i believe that safety is something you should take personal accountability for and it's not everybody else's job to keep you safe now that being said if you see a giant something rather going to smash your buddy you'd probably speak up but anyway back to the point a near miss looks like that i nearly wiped out the truss on my building because i wasn't thinking about overhead clearance when i pulled in there you can see the drag mark there we did ever so slightly kiss the bottom of the truss as we pulled through there luckily they got a little bit of flex to them that was not catastrophic but very well could have been you see the truck actually has a couple low tires back here and i almost inflated those before i moved them but i said nah the low tire will actually help me while i'm down here in the mud that'll give me a little bit better traction i'll inflate them after i'm up on the rock if i would have inflated those tires we'd have been a couple inches higher and probably smashed into that thing all right well sometimes fixing the stupid little things actually can be more rewarding than uh fixing the entire project since i've owned this vehicle nearly every time i've gotten in and out of it i've ended up stabbing myself on the rusty remnants of what used to hold the armrest on here so we're gonna fix that real quick a little bit of andrew camerata style interior work [Music] oh that's dandy you think one more for good measure probably that ain't going nowhere well time to see what kind of gravy she's got in the pot i'm betting it's going to be pretty thin oh yeah you see how fast it's running out of there she's thin very thin it's already hot too so it's really going to fly shot clear over to run off the leaf spring said lord no metal chunkage on the uh the drain plug though that's good well she's just she's just peeing that is a lot of gas in there enter your laminar flow comments below at least i think that's how you say it it seems like every time i do an oil change on video that's all i get is comments about the flow we got one last thing to do underneath this truck and that's try to get rid of this god-awful belt squeal i've tightened every other belt up and this alternator belt is the only one left to get and of course it's also the hardest to get to uh yeah let me grab an extension and we're gonna get this thing tightened up no wonder i didn't adjust the thing properly it's quite miserable to do oh yeah that's better thank goodness she just stays tight let's tighten that adjustment bag up you should be good to go [Music] all right i'm excited this thing might not squeal now i think that was the belt that was causing the issues the whole time let's go ahead and dump some oil in this thing and fire it up okay contact no mouth wheel [Music] some days a man just likes to wonder why he does all this stuff i just pulled the truck up here and the little blinky light was gone on the camera when i walked away to go get the truck to pull in here for this shot came back camera had died right as i got out of sight didn't even catch a wink of the truck driving up here i said i'll do take two i'll fire the truck back up and drive back around the corner to get the shot and i hit the ignition and it started up and as soon as i let off the ignition it died again and if you've been following this project for a while you'll know that's happened before so plea pay close attention now to the rpms and the ignition switch here [Music] oh now it's gonna work oh this piece of crap anyways what was happening is i was turning the ignition and it would start and as soon as i would take the key out of the start position the engine would die like you were shutting it off so what happened last time is that the ignition switch down here on the column probably can't see it anyways that ignition switch went bad and almost a year ago it was november of last year i replaced that and i just called the parts store and said hey this thing didn't last a year and i barely used the truck i said okay bring it in for a new one which i appreciate but you got intermittent issues like this it's very frustrating after i realized i missed the shot and i came back for round two and the truck wouldn't start i came back here and i could hear air hissing this tire old and dry rotted has just decided to spring a leak in the sidewall here so so this tire is pretty much junk i do have a set of rims and tires on a parts truck that should bolt right onto this thing so so i've got some new rear view mirrors to throw on this bad boy and i've got a set of usable headlights in the truck because this one turned into a fishbowl and this one is no bueno just realized we should fix this too this platform as you can see it's pretty well bent there so just needs a little bit of work with the uh the old body hammer hmm [Music] it isn't quite perfect but it's perfect for what we're doing i'd give that about a 9.5 on the old uh bodywork skill level there all right so in one of the previous videos i discovered that nearly all the bolts on the turntable here and that's what holds the crane onto the frame nearly all those bolts were backed out loose and cross threaded so i had to pull them all out one by one tap the holes back out and then put the bolts back in and at the time i did not know the proper torque spec and i just snugged them up as best i could with a half inch breaker bar since then i have learned the torque spec and had to go buy a new torque wrench for to achieve said torque spec now that is a torque wrench that's three quarter drive i got from tang tools i've been looking forward to using this beauty [Music] we got to torque these uh bolts to 370 foot pounds and my current torque wrench didn't do all that high all right we got this baby set to 370 foot-pounds go ahead and see if we can't get these things torqued down here that's some pressure there we go i'm going to try to stand the boom up that way i can get to all the bolts a lot easier and we can actually rotate the uh crane around to get easier access to them i'm also gonna mark each of these bolts as i torque them i'll give them one line will be the first torque sequence and we're going to do them all twice so after the last one's torqued we're going to go back around and recheck them and then at that time i'll mark them on the side so that i'll be able to see if they ever loosen up [Music] all right we got all these bolts torqued down to spec i'm very happy with that they were actually a lot closer than i thought they were didn't take that much to get them into spec i also added some marks all the way around the base here to let you know when you're perfectly in line to drop down into the cradle because when you're standing here and you have the boom up in the air you kind of get it close but then at the last second when you're almost into the cradle you usually have to turn the uh turn the crane a little bit and extend it straight out like that it gets kind of makes you sway around a little bit so if you can get that baby lined up perfect before you uh start to lower the boom everything's just smoother that way so that should help me out so right there we have the boom all the way down as low as it'll go and i want to fix this thing i don't know what this thing's really called stupid stink bugs are these things bad where you guys are at because they're terrible here anyways this thing needs a weld on it [Music] [Music] [Music] bam that's fixed [Music] so this bezel broke in half so we just gotta put in the half we got [Music] looks kind of like an eyebrow [Music] well i got both the headlights in there unfortunately this uh marker light down here the housing was sitting on the back of the truck for about a year now and it got broken somewhere along the way so i'll have to locate another one of those that's not a big deal let's uh hit the switch and see if they all come on [Music] look at that we got headlights i guess that was the high beam well we got low beams great success all right let's move on to the mirrors wow even the taillights work i might as well put this thing on the road huh well the next issue to tackle hard to back up with uh no mirrors the glass has gone from these two and the other one isn't even there and you think you could see behind you but you really can't see out of the glass at all like nada so i got us some new mirrors let's get these installed those look like they're gonna need some croil that sucker was on there this is a common problem with mirror brackets i don't know why they do this but they don't clamp onto the bar whenever you tighten them basically they just wobble around here and then you can't ever get them adjusted right because they're always moving every time you hit a bump or slam the door i think i'm just going to run a self-tapper down through this bracket this is quick and dirty if this was like a nice truck that i took on the road i'd care a bit more about it but for around the farm i think i'm just going to run a self-tapper down through the bracket closer to the pinch point there and try to tighten it up that way there we go solid as a rock it's not a very satisfying peel is it in fact it's kind of infuriating i didn't want to take it off of there until i installed the mirror but that made it quite a pain to remove there we go i prepared that one to be peeled a little bit better all right so this tire i heard leaking before of course it is completely flat now and i don't suspect it's ever gonna hold air again and then maybe you can tell that tire over there on the inside she's uh got a small small hole that you could stick your fist through on the sidewall there so she's no bueno i think it's time she gets some new rims and tires oh that exhaust leak is not worth fixing but i wish i could hear this thing without the exhaust leak like one time [Music] chipotle [Music] okay so wow all right well we're here at the diesel creek tire farm where the finest black circles are harvested sustainably and ethically all year long we've got some beautiful good years here on a parts truck that i have and they should slip right onto that guy so time for the old switcheroo going up [Music] picked this thing right up like it was nothing now the reason i have this truck was bad bad rust the rust jacking is so bad the frame is mushroomed up like in inch in places so you know these lug nuts are going to be a real fair to get off better soak her down what i'm talking about that's a good start hey we got one oh it actually moved look at that tire gods are smiling on us today maybe [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] boy that sucked i got my workout for the day i'm good [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] well good gravy that was a struggle those rims were rusted onto the parts truck which was a salt truck and it didn't surprise me it was a fight to get those off but at least they could get to both sides of those these ones i didn't expect to be all that bad but man they put up a fight but finally got them on there and for the first time since i've owned this truck we should be able to let her down to four inflated tires that's gonna be crazy so don't ask me why but i had to walk away from this project for a week now you might notice the scenery change but look at how impressive that is i promise i have not doctored this at all that truck i don't think it's moved an inch since we left it over a week ago that's pretty darn impressive if you ask me um i really don't see a use in putting back the four other tires back on this truck if i need to move it i can just pick it up with a forklift and move it so i think i'm just gonna set one of the maybe both of the deflated rims underneath the pumpkin there set it on that so that it's up off the ground still and uh yeah i like it but the crane is working out fantastic boys and girls i mean i am so happy to see that this thing didn't bleed down even a little bit over the course of a week over a week [Music] you know what i think it looks good with one rim [Music] [Music] well then this video has been a long time coming i've actually owned this truck over a year now i believe and i've been using it in various states of repair and disrepair and i finally got it to a point now where it's turnkey good enough to run around the farm and accomplish tasks for me it's already proven itself extremely useful so if you haven't watched this series all the way from the beginning the very first video i went out to the richie brothers auction and picked this thing up and i had bought it sight unseen i just happened to jump onto the app there at the very last minute i saw it going cheap i figured i couldn't couldn't go wrong for the money that it was i really didn't want it but for the money how could i say no and i think it's been a good purchase i initially when i brought it home and the engine was stuck you know i really didn't think i wanted this thing i figured i'll probably just fix it and boom right back into the auction and hopefully turn a couple bucks on it but now that it's been around the farm here for a year and i've used it so many times even though it wasn't even really ready to be used and it still came in very handy so now that it's turnkey ready to drive around and actually work around here i think it's going to be very handy and i don't see myself getting rid of it for quite a while at least got all the weight sitting on these tires they look really good they're not bulging or squatting or nothing i don't see any dry rot in them both sides look really good and i tell you what just to drive it out the driveway here it's already more stable with four inflated tires rather than one inside and one outside tire inflated well it's been sitting around here at the farm long enough that the auction sticker has peeled and tattered on it so you know this project is well marinated but like a fine wine i think it turned out really well i'm quite happy with it i just washed the windows on the truck before i drove it out here this was a clean rag i'm sure this truck is going to make plenty of appearances in upcoming videos i'm sure that i'm going to be using it for all sorts of things that i i just have no idea right now but it's super handy and i'm glad i have it it's my hope with some of these videos that maybe the people that don't really think that they could go out and do something like this would be a little less afraid to go out and throw your hat in the ring on something like this and uh fix it up and you'll have a really handy toy tool for a fraction of what it would cost for you to go buy outright let alone rent one for a day or a week or a project or whatever you're doing um is this thing job site ready osha compliant not even close there's still a myriad of things i'd like to fix on it but in reality it's good enough for the farm i can't justify dumping a fortune into this thing just to kick around here and fiddle around doing the things i do i'd like to replace the cable on it the cable kind of scares me even though it looks pretty decent i would really feel comfortable replacing the entire cable there is a hydraulic cylinder inside of the boom that extends the boom and in certain positions it leaks hydraulic fluid and you'll know it because all of a sudden it's got hydraulic fluid dripping out the end of the boom while you're trying to lift something so ideally that's something in the future we would tear down and figure out why that's leaking i'm imagining it's either a scar on the chrome or just the packing is blown out but it doesn't make sense why would only do it in one position if that's the case one of the other things i'd like to do to this truck is of course pressure wash it clean it up a bit and i'd like to paint the boom because obviously somebody primed it at some point and never finished painting it that's just primer that's on the boom so let me know what color you guys think i should paint it and i'm thinking a really nice diesel creek decal right down the boom would look really sharp all right well as i mentioned guys this video has been a long time in the making and there is a tremendous amount of work that goes into filming a lot of these videos so do me a favor if you like the video please hit the thumbs up button doesn't cost you guys a dime and it helps me keep producing good content for you guys another great way you can help the channel if you'd like you can go over to dieselcreek.com buy yourself some sweet merchandise over there we got a whole store set up for you and last but certainly not least if you're not already make sure you're subscribed so you can see this crane truck and all my other projects in action in future videos thanks for watching i'll see you on the next one [Music] you

Channel: Diesel Creek

Views: 584,679

Keywords: crane, boom, picker, national, stinger, ford, gm, truck, f800, winch truck, auction, big block, engine, swap, 429, 460, 370, f700, heavy, equipment, digger, farm, woods, ranger, v8, lifting, ritchie bros, heavy equipment, bulldozer, trackhoe, loader, roller, compactor, diesel, cummins, international, caterpillar, doosan, jcb, hitachi, john deere, komatsu, takeuchi, bobcat, forest

Id: YGQOibqVCp8

Length: 57min 18sec (3438 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 30 2021