The great thing about buying a farm truck is the low milage and if stored in a barn, minimum rust..... but a farmer never takes a farm truck to town to clean it.

My number one retirement job this am, at daybreak, before it got hot was to remove the tranny on my 66 parts truck.

1 1/2 hours after starting, I took these pictures. The dirt on top of the bell housing measures 3 inch thick. This is red clay which is nasty gumbo when it gets wet. It does a surprising great job of preserving the original paint.

 

I found the same same thing. Once you get the muck off, the paint is brand new.

 

That's exactly what mine looks like.

 

Carrying around a lot of extra weight there.

 

It is a cheap form of sound deading .

 

Mine had asphalt stuck (cal dept trans truck)on used a hammer and chisel to beat it off