Today I rolled my 1979 L345DT (sans FEL (L1720) which I detached) out of my shop for the first time in two years!
Backstory on her is mostly unknown except she started off in Kansas City, spent most of her life in South Texas then made it over to south Mississippi before I got her 2 years ago and brought her to Eastern Central Mississippi.
She’s had a hard life and a deep freeze ~5 years ago cause a casting/freeze plus to push out. So I picked her up for next to nothing and brought her home.
ALL new freeze plugs installed, pulled the wiring harness off so I can make a new one, drained all fluids out of her.
Just got done a good deep pressure wash to get years and years of grime, grease, and mud off of her.
She’s still got lots of compression and no water in any of the fluids so she’s still got life left in her. Hours are unknown because the tach cable long since departed.
Rolled her out today to get her ready for reassembly. Got new battery, alternator, voltage regulator, all filters, fluids, starter, seat already to go on. Already put in a new decompression cable (also had long since departed) and tech cable and the tachometer works. Ordered a new triple gauge (water temp, oil pressure and batt voltage) gage to replace the factory oil pressure gauge.
Hoping to have the harness together in the next two weeks and get it installed, then new hoses and should be good to go!
I was told by the previous owner everything worked as intended when he parked it before the deep freeze.
I can’t wait to her her fire up for the first time!
Once I hear her come alive again she’ll get sanded and new paint as well.
Backstory on her is mostly unknown except she started off in Kansas City, spent most of her life in South Texas then made it over to south Mississippi before I got her 2 years ago and brought her to Eastern Central Mississippi.
She’s had a hard life and a deep freeze ~5 years ago cause a casting/freeze plus to push out. So I picked her up for next to nothing and brought her home.
ALL new freeze plugs installed, pulled the wiring harness off so I can make a new one, drained all fluids out of her.
Just got done a good deep pressure wash to get years and years of grime, grease, and mud off of her.
She’s still got lots of compression and no water in any of the fluids so she’s still got life left in her. Hours are unknown because the tach cable long since departed.
Rolled her out today to get her ready for reassembly. Got new battery, alternator, voltage regulator, all filters, fluids, starter, seat already to go on. Already put in a new decompression cable (also had long since departed) and tech cable and the tachometer works. Ordered a new triple gauge (water temp, oil pressure and batt voltage) gage to replace the factory oil pressure gauge.
Hoping to have the harness together in the next two weeks and get it installed, then new hoses and should be good to go!
I was told by the previous owner everything worked as intended when he parked it before the deep freeze.
I can’t wait to her her fire up for the first time!
Once I hear her come alive again she’ll get sanded and new paint as well.
