Looks like work Todd

 

Maybe a chest of gold in there! LOL Going to turn it into a parking lot JP?

 

Holy!!!!!!! Todd...what the?! Glad it didn't give out.

JP, that's a nice find! Maybe you'll have some money making antiques for Pawn Stars!! LOL!!!!

 

No pot-o-gold yet! Lol. It's already turning into a parking lot with my 5er and Harley truck there lol

Yup it's a pretty cool old place. Tons of old posters and handfuls of old Coke and 7-Up bottles. My intent is to clean it out, get all the mill stuff out, and make it a shop. My gf wants to tear it down but I won't let it happen!

 

That is so cool!! I love stuff like that. Really makes you look at it and think "I wonder what this was like when it was up and running." I love taking pictures of old buildings.

Congrats JP!

 

Good for you, JP. I can remember going to an old feed mill like that with my grandpa as a kid. I can still smell that smell in my mind. Nothing quite like it.


YIKES, Todd. Glad you caught it before it went much further. As I have heard Bill say recently, I'd say you were "beginning to wreck"! I guess at least now you have time to wait for the class V hitch you need. Make sure you get a class V and not a (nearly identical but not nearly as strong) Class III.

 

Agree with ALL that and ASAP

 

I agree with the class V! Especially if your gonna use the ol gal for real work!

I'll try to take some better pichers sometime this week. I'm into old stuff like this! You oughta see the wires running through this thing. About as big around as my thumb lol

 

Very very cool JP! Get together at the old mill!

Yeah I'm definitely going with a class v.

 

Get some pics JP. My favourite part of road trips is scenery like that. The neat old stuff

 

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These are awesome, I don't care what anyone says.

 

Those are great Mike!

Just an update for anyone who cares, but I wanted to post the results (and differences) of my second compression test on the engine in my truck. The first one I did last winter, was with the engine cold (really cold) at about 20* ambient temperature. I tested it again last night with 2 different gauges and the results were a little better. I posted last week that I saw no difference between the results in compression on a different motor between operating temperature and 72* ambient, but this time, with the wider temperature difference I did see some difference.

Here are the results:

20*Amb. 175* EOT
1- 315----340
2- 310----340
3- 315----360
4- 320----330
5- 315----330
6- 325----340
7- 315----340
8- 295----335

I don't want to get into the details of the engine or issues I'm having in this thread, but for anyone who plans to do a compression test I would suggest doing it on at least a warm engine. It's hard to tell in this case whether the difference was caused by the difference in cranking speed due to colder, thicker oil at 20* or colder batteries with lower voltage but at any rate I thought the difference warranted a response.

Also, as a side note, I can't explain why it makes a difference but having the grease hose compression tester adapter works a lot better than using a hard pipe adapter. I have no idea why, but suffice to say it does.

 

Nate, good info there. What are the normal values for engine compressión? IIRC should be near 400?

 

I think Ford spec says new compression is around 400 PSI. It's funny because you can't really find a definite answer.... The important thing is that all the cylinders be close to a +/- 10% variance. If you have one that is more than 10% off that can be a red flag that something is amiss...

Generally what I'm reading is that as long as you're getting 300 PSI or better you're in okay shape. I'm not sure what I will do at this point. I don't see much reason to swap engines to gain 20-30 PSI on a hole or two...