Maintaining The 1941 Chevy G506 Boom Truck
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- čas přidán 25. 04. 2024
- With a nice spring day I figured I better fire up the old G506 boom truck and do a little wrenching on it!
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Keep things rusty, except your tools! - Auta a dopravní prostředky
Good to know that Alascans, like Australians, are not afraid to use a 'bugger nuts ' backwards, (shifting spanner or adjustable wrench). So many toys, love your work.
Or in the uk the universal nut buggerer 😂😂😂
That's what the Band of Truck Brothers are supposed to do - help each other out! That JD corn grease was an awesome pro tip. Another winning video - enjoy riding ALL of those wonderful rigs!!!
Man I love these old trucks. Great video, you need Yukon gear to be a sponsor and throw some lockers in them girls.
Austin I love your toys. It's so refreshing to find a young guy who knows the ropes of repairing and maintaining technology many times older then yourself. Cheers 👊😎👍
"Don't tell me how to live my life!"
I love it! 😂
Glad I stayed up!
I once was on a crew lifting a Super Cub with a collapsed gear leg up onto a trailer. If boom truck was available we would have avoided bending its wing strut. So a boom truck is a good thing to have at an airport….. it’s good to have humans with good brains too.
For sure! I’ve seen a lot of these trucks for lifting cubs and other aircraft. They come in handy.
Great work taking care of another old relict 👏👍👍👏
I think that’s my favorite of your trucks. “Don’t tell me how to live my life”. Keep that attitude young man.
I love all of your old iron its great to see and watch it in action, it maybe old but its not broken Thank you so much for sharing your passion with us.
I've watched your channel probably from the beginning and still find it so unique and addictive. Watching you work on these old simple trucks with space to work around the engine makes me wonder what we have learned about vehicles in the past 80 years that we need so many warning systems and electronics that can only be fixed by an expert and not on the side of the road like it used to be. I sometimes despair you know, I'm79 .
Anyway, thanks for sharing and best regards from Ireland.
Cool old Truck runs very well thanks 👍👍😔👍👍
One relic assisting another relic. Relics UNITE for the cause!
I'm not a drama queen. But, at least here in the states, those relics might become the only things you can depend on should the world turn dark(er). The simpler the better and those machines will run forever with proper maintenance.
i love how you keeping old trucks keep going you need make home made muffers
“Don’t tell me how to live my life”. 😄👍
The us navy and the us army ran the boneyards with the big chevy boom front trucks in the salvage yards moving airplanes and military vehicles around as well
Superb video! That old Chevy is what real trucks are made of 👌
Thanks for the videos on these old trucks, so much history and coolness about these vehicle's in your collection, best regards.
Glad to see you keep the old girls working. I really like your repair on the cable. Thank you for sharing you maintain the older ones who wants to find and keep them running. Thanks for sharing. Always look forward to the next project.😊.
Thanks for watching!
Those stove bolt sixes churning in super low gear have a sound that's better than the morning!
You welded that clamp 😁😄🇺🇲
Impressive options on that old girl! Ventilated seats....4 lever security system. I also liked the use of "kinetic" chains to pull her out. Thanks for the video! That was fun. 😊
Well done young man. Keep investigating, discovering, and learning about this old utilitarian iron. Not many interested in it. Takes me back a long way.
Love it! Fantastic display of history WW2 still active !
It's great seeing and hearing how well you handle a non synchronized gear box.
There are very few peeps from your generation that even know what it means to double clutch let alone could they drive such a standard tranny to begin with even if they have a 5 or 6 speed rice burner in their driveway.😅
Your attention to these relics is inspirational. There will be more from your generation that will be watching you and then go out in search of old iron in a field or abandoned in a over grown tree line on some nearby farm, I can hope so for the youth today needs to put down the dumb device that kills the hours of real living in real time. ❤
Thank you!
A sight even a Ford guy can love…an M37 towing a Chevy!
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Kidding aside, such a beautiful utilitarian beast. Glad you have her
Being a total military MV nut, I always thought these trucks would look better returned to their old wartime look...having watched so many of your videos, I actually prefer you keeping them the way they are now...they're just as important historically as they are in the present day...love your work!!
She is a jem !Your keeping can-do history alive .I like the DPW M37 cameo .
Love your attitude lad you cant do that oh ya just watch me. Nothing wrong with a little tude eh. thanks for the vid always enjoy the old iron.
The grease idea we used in the Uk years ago in series landrovers that leaked .a very similar set up to the dodge .the Defender uses a cv joint while the series uses a uj .the defender uses grease .not unlike the John Deere stuff instead of oil .so we used the grease for the defender in the series hubs and that cured the leaks ..👍♥️🇬🇧🇺🇸👍
On today's episode.. Austin takes His favorite snowdrift for a ride. 🤓
Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes to You and Your Family.
Legend has it you can practically restore a '68 Charger with one of these
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Great video! I always look forward to your work, creativity and your dedication to preserve! 😊
Made my day. Couldn't sleep looked at phone fond your channel with a new content. Another plus is they are cheap to fix. Great video.
Nice trucks man i just love the fact that you are keeping those relics in shape👍
Great old truck thanks for sharing
Interesting machines it's also cool you have a use for them. I enjoy videos like this it inspires me to get my own machines repaired.
They’re old iron for sure but way better smiles per gallon than todays soccer mom pickups
Someday you'll have to find a oil filter canister that uses a toilet paper roll as a filter 😅
I’ve been waiting haha
@@BackyardAlaskan JCwhitney.
Looks good my first truck never made it to the road but 63 f350 tow truck with utility box safely yellow. I used it to plow the driveway and me and my friends would lower ourselves down the bank behind my house for fun . never new much about safely at 14 but i did make sure everything was in one piece 😂.
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Peter
Great Toys
Very cool truck
Great job, Jack, RI, USA
I have used that zinc additive on flat tappet engines driven daily, but you only run those a few minutes a year save your money. For the gear or steering boxes, cv joint grease, much cheaper and easier to get.
Good to see you bringing these old war vehicles and antiques back to life. Are you any thoughts or planning on restoring any?
grease does liquefy where heat is generated like between meshing gears and bearings the rest remains solid.
I have a monster size hook and clevis, but shipping it to Alaska from Texas would be cost prohibitive.
True That, USPS or any carrier besides don't cater to the private party as my sister found out just to send a quilt to Hawaii from Arkansas via USPS cost $100.
Amazon locked in a deal with the USPS wherein they lose on near every delivery.
We make up the loss.😢
Thank you
Cool stuff you’re doin !
I enjoy watching !
From Northern Alberta, Canada
I know about improvising 😂
If that thing could tell its entire story, perhaps it wasn't deployed to the western front battlefield but it still has 80 plus years of a story to tell 🇺🇲🙏🏻
Dang phone brim hook lol
if these beasts could handle the Bulge battle then they can handle Alaska...loce these trucks..thx BYA for the content..
Couldn’t help noticing the double clutch shifting,my truck has a non synchro four speed.
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Fla bream hook
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You have the best toys. What's the huge spring for on the base of the boom?
Be careful with that hook, it looks like it may have been stretched under a heavy load and spread out a little, good to see the old black betty getting some love and attention
I noticed that as well! Thanks for watching
@@BackyardAlaskan I said that about the hook before.I washed the part with the welded shacone thing you can do with that old cable to make it a little stronger is put a trucker's loop in it and break it with itself and then put the shackles on it
I try to emulate you at my place in Mercer Wi. My wife is not to impressed with my activities
How many quarts to change the oil. I use marine high pressure lower unit lube in my pto winches, haven't had one fail and it doesn't leak out. Its funny the cable clamp installed "properly" failed how about that dead horse.lol
5-6 Quarts on an old Stovebolt GM
Is this truck different than the others? It looks beefier... Does it have taller springs, or bigger tires maybe?
Taller tires, and the frame has been reinforced.
nice drivin old relic. how about that girl wantd truck does it run?
Bet in another 80 years that old girls still going and working, but this modern shit will be distant memory, or pill of broken plastic crap.
I'd paint that wire rope with the used motor oil.
Nope. It attracts dirt into the wire, dry cable only.
That unit would be perfect for deer skinning nice😊
Many folks used them for handling moose skinning up here!
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