Posted by Galen [162.158.79.38] on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 07:40:28 :
As mentioned in the last forum, I was feeling a bit down with regard to the future of me and my truck. With you all providing uplifting feedback I will keep her and as soon as it warms up take her off the stands and get my Dodge back on the road. As mentioned, I have replaced the original oil burning engine with a later 251 that I purchased from VPW (Israeli rebuild) several years back and modified the radiator configuration to get it to fit. At the time I used an electric fan but always hated the way it looked and it never cooled as well as the original so I removed it and now use a low profile 251 water pump and pulley which gives me about an 1/2 inch to spare between the fan blade tips and the bottom tank of the radiator. I am using an alternator also.
One thing I need to do is re-spool my winch drum with wire rope.
What length, diameter and type is recommended? What about the chain on the end- type, length and so forth. And and any on line suppliers that are the best buy?
G.
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