Last night I went to a local repair shop/wrecker service I do some part time work for. The owner needed me to look at his 89 Chevrolet C30 wrecker, said it acted like it had no compression and wouldn't start. Diagnosis - broken crank. He also has a 93 GMC equivilant of a Ford Super Duty. It is down with a broken starter bolt that he tried to drill and use an extractor on. He drilled off center and broke the extractor. His last wrecker is an 87 Ford F-super duty, it has about a million miles on the 6.9L Navistar and won't start hot without help. He had to use it on a State Police call while I was checking the Chevy. He ran out of fuel while coming back. Since non of the other wreckers were operational, I had to go home, get my 86 F-350 duallie and go pull him off the road with one of his chains. After we got fuel in it, we couldn't get it started on the batterys. Well, I had to pull start it with mine, wouldn't have been too bad, but at one point, I had a good long run ahead, signalled him I was going and hit mine, wrecker, Neon on the roll-back etc. I lit the duals pulling off. The chain was trailing down from the V5 receiver and ball to his front axle so it wasn't lifting the back of mine. His eyes nearly popped out of his head with that. Since it took a bit to get the system purged, we went almost completely around the large parking lot. I lit the duals a couple more times. The truck is a crew cab DRW with 460 engine and 3.55:1 open rear, can we say TORQUE! Only engine change is straight up timing set from pre-72 engine.

 

haha sounds like you had a busy night!

 

Ya gotta love showin off your truck!