i loving ever minite of it to the swaped the d60 out of the panzer i can know dirve it with the fear of not haveing the power to restart of the light going off when driveing and just jumping in and driveing it stuck a good fealing dont worry the rest of thw money went in to the bank

 

Swap the frontends then sell the panzer. Good luck with the new truck and take care of it and it will take care of you.

 

i think i might cheep the panzer cut down the bed and make a diesel power cralwer and yes star i plan to take realy good car of it i just waxed it

 

Glad you finally got a rig to be proud of.
You can keep and have fun with your panzer but will it be worth it you will be spending your spare change on it. Much easier to keep up one pickup (coming from experiance here). I say sell it and use the money to personalize your new rig. Or just save it for that rainy day. At your age eventually you are going to make some changes move to a different area for a job or something where two vehicles will hamper you.

 

the panzer not going to be street able when i done with it but i think about what said star cause ian going to be ur next door nabor and iam going to park nothing but dodges in ur front of ur house i plan to cut all but one foot off the bed and right know i have like 7 parts truck a lot of frams went under this year and a lot for 350 can avable so *** for right know i have 7 truck all with d60 all bought for about 100 bck at auction caouse they dont paper and some are rust bucks but they all run can u say l steel

 

What I'm talking about Joe is your young and eventually need to get a plan for your future. When that happens having a bunch of trucks will hamper you not saying they are not fun to have.

As an example my son has two off road rigs he rock crawls with one and mud bogs and mud drags with the other, two 3/4 tons one he pulls his buggys with and one is just a work truck, an antique that he hasn't started on yet and several parts rigs plus the 2008 that he has to make payments on.

Now yesterday he took a camp job in alaska (he has been wanting this) but can't even bring even one pickup it is fly in only. He will be in this camp for 6 months and now is scrambling trying to figgure out what to do with all the stuff he has no real need for.
This is the kind of thing I'm talking about.
I am in kinda the same boat as I don't want to spend much time in NM anymore and I have a bunch of junk I hate to get rid of but I am kinda thinking I am tired of letting all my junk dictate what I do.

I know Joe that colledge is not on your future and that is fine, but have you thought of something like Wyoming tech as you apperently like the mechanic side of things it could be a good carear for you, and we will need good mechanics for longer than your lifetime.

 

though about but i wrech as a hoby and alot freinds turn hobys into job now they hate there hobbys but i know what ur saying i just dont want to hear it lol hey come to cali and i take all ur junk and ur sons junk lol

 

The last time I moved, I hauled 6 non operational and 2 not street legal vehicles 75 miles. I turned over a thousand miles just to move my projects/ part outs. Thats not to mention my garage shelves full of small parts, tools, and big parts (engines, trans, differentials, body parts). I've done this 4 times in the past 8 years.
This hobby becomes a real PITA when your life or situation changes.

Jason

 

I wouldn't waste the money on wyo tech or UTI I went to UTI and it was a joke learned almost nothing that aplies outside a class room. Got all kinds of certificates no one cares about. The onley part of it that was good was the Ford FACT training it was really good of coures I ended up going to an international training coures and working on them, atleast my work paid for that and I've worked there long enought not to be an endentured servent any more. As soon as I get my medicle records Kiaser is taking there sweet time with I'm guna join the Marines.

Joe on advantage you have if you decide to become a mechanic is you could use the money you have left over to buy tools. Thats what kills most guys includeing me when they start out if you deduct what i pay for tools every week from my pay I make about $9 an hour they pay parts runners $12 an hour I don't get why I bet if they gave me enough bananas i could train a monkey to run parts.

 

I know quite a few that came out of wyo tech with a pretty decent job.
The ones I know are not in the automotive field trucks and heavy equipment.

 

The only real use for either school is to get your foot in the door if you have absolutely no way to do it on your own generaly you will start at what you would have worked your way up to in the time you were in school and have alot more debt, and the student loan company they will make you go through at UTI is very shady to say the least. Alot of the people i know that went into the automotive field out of UTI wre laid off and could not find another job in the industry the market is virtualy floodded with good mechanics that are out of work. The nice thing about all the other truck shops around here having lay offs is we get more work because we don't have a waiting list to get a truck in the shop.

 

My son recently got out of UTI in Sacramento (Top 3 honors BTW), He liked it, especially the Ford FACT program, He liked many (not all) of the instructors and had a blast with the extra activities they did. I don't know for sure what they did but it had to do with 5.0 Mustangs and a Dyno competition.

The wife and I are not happy about the lack of assistance they bragged heavily about!
Like housing, Job search, etc... etc... They did NOTHING, Provided NOTHING that they said they would.

After graduation they did nothing to help him find a better job, Not even a list of places to try!

After a couple months of trying to find a better job in the field we decided we could no longer afford to let him stay out there so we brought him back to Maine, About a week later the local Honda dealership called him, 2 days later he was working full time and likes his job and most of the folks he works with.

-Enjoy
fh : )_~

 

Even the local votech school at home does better than that every one that does decent in school goes somewhere cat uses a lot of them. But again this is heavy equipment and trucks.

 

I knew I wasted 5 years of my life for that college stuff - I got me a $100k engineering degree and not job or even job prospects...

Joe, out of curiosity, how much you ended up spending on this new truck?

 

Back in the early 70's only two years out of high school I was working as an iron worker hanging steel.
Making 20 couple dollars an hour while my friends were all in college running up student loans.

Yeah I worked harder than they did after they got out of school, but I an still making as much money as they are, and I can still fit in the same size clothes I wore in high school.

None of them can say that from what I saw at out last reunion.
And I know I had more fun than any of them did.