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Stumbled upon this thread just a few days ago, what an interesting and informative read! It’s cool you were able to get a long bed trailer with matching color scheme. By chance, was there an Allis Chalmers dealership years ago in your neck of the woods? That orange and white sure looks a lot like the Allis Chalmers corporate colors, dealerships back in the day would have their service trucks and salesmen trucks all with corporate color scheme.
Love the update, is that a yamaha blaster? Those are so much fun
That would be a late 90's Chinese clone with a Suzuki engine. Super weird and impossible to get parts for. The carb has an epoxied on aluminum ring to size it up to fit. I had to 3d print an adapter for an aftermarket carb only to go back to the original carb and swap some parts from the other into it. Force fit some odd brake master on it,. It's real peachy after sitting outside for 20 years. Took me months to fix it. I'm not even sure why it runs now but it does. Fix it was part of the trade for the bobcat I got back in June and the parts for it are a trailer I need to go pickup from him when I deliver it. Same place the tractor came from. I've ended up with all kinds of stuff out that place.
Stumbled upon this thread just a few days ago, what an interesting and informative read! It’s cool you were able to get a long bed trailer with matching color scheme. By chance, was there an Allis Chalmers dealership years ago in your neck of the woods? That orange and white sure looks a lot like the Allis Chalmers corporate colors, dealerships back in the day would have their service trucks and salesmen trucks all with corporate color scheme.
That is a factory color. Wimbledon white and Calypso Coral. The trailer was a parts truck I picked up in Oklahoma then swapped boxes around. The wife had to have a color matched box with the toolbox just like the truck or I couldn't swap it. I'm told kubota orange is pretty close.
That would be a late 90's Chinese clone with a Suzuki engine. Super weird and impossible to get parts for. The carb has an epoxied on aluminum ring to size it up to fit. I had to 3d print an adapter for an aftermarket carb only to go back to the original carb and swap some parts from the other into it. Force fit some odd brake master on it,. It's real peachy after sitting outside for 20 years. Took me months to fix it. I'm not even sure why it runs now but it does. Fix it was part of the trade for the bobcat I got back in June and the parts for it are a trailer I need to go pickup from him when I deliver it. Same place the tractor came from. I've ended up with all kinds of stuff out that place.
Sunday I took Skeeter for what would have been his longest drive. It may have been anyway actually. About 150 miles round trip. Shortly after mile 100 the fuel pump just completely stopped. No warning, truck shut off on a major 4 lane divided highway. It had maybe 1000 miles on it. Luckily my trailer was still hooked to my Silverado from auction adventures the day before. I really wanted to buy a 70 f100 at that auction but it brought more than I wanted to deal with considering it had no axle or springs so hard for me to move around. My buddies did buy some goodies though.
Anyway my wife wouldn't bring the truck 50 miles down to me so my buddy went to get my truck but he had to back track 20 minutes. His truck and trailer was still loaded from the day before and my trailer has a winch. 2 hours sitting on the road and I was rescued. Warrantied the pump Monday and had it up and running again. Took it to work today and all was good again. Auction buy #1 for the day. The friend that bought it wasn't even there. He had to come up with an extra trailer. This was my second trip. Auction buy #2. This is a fairly nice truck and sitting for 60 years. It's ending up on a suburban 6.2 diesel chassis Auction buy #3 but our first haul home. Sketchy drive home. My winch wouldn't pull it up with a locked up rear end and the telehandler loaded it backwards. 35mph 45 miles home. sitting on the side of the road At home in the front yard. Fixed it on the trailer. Much easier to get up and down on there. The nearly free trailer has come in handy here recently. Hauling my truck, friends trucks, golf carts to an auction and a buddies tractor home from that auction.
