Abandon Plow Truck Save. What Did It Cost $$$
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- I picked up this 1997 dodge ram 1500 from a friend who parked it after a no run condition. its been a few years and the rust took over, this is the last video in a 3 part series.
This guy is brilliant! Every episode is a masterpiece 👍
a Mustiepiece if you will, i think that is a fitting word.
never a boring project here, good day to all.
And fearless. No way I’d get those rusted PS lines off.
@Maria CANCER Now you're trolling....
Mustie is an old school mechanic that was taught to think and troubleshoot with out a computer. He uses a lot of common scene, ,notice no fancy tools and gloves and he doesn't run to the internet for answers. .
There is NOT oil already on those rusted power steering hose threads because the oil is sealed off at the flare, well to the inside of the threads and the tube hole where the problem rust is, therefore blaster oil or acid and/or heat and or shock waves definitely help. Same for brake lines. So his aside comment was wrong.
That doesn't mean he is not usually way ahead of me, but he is not infallible.
What always works for me, especially on stubborn power steering systems, is to lift up the front of the vehicle and turn the wheel from lock to lock with the engine off until the power steering fluid level stops dropping. It pushes all the air out without aerating the fluid. Since I've started doing that I've never had so much as a peep from the pump upon startup. Less mess and less struggle.
I do the same, works great especially with 2 people.
1 turning the wheel and the other keeping the fluid level at the same level.
yea I have a video on this I was the first person to show it back in the day then everyone else copied lol
Good idea to raise the front end and turn the steering wheel twenty times stop to stop with the motor off and then with the motor on to avoid damage to the pump or rack.
Certainly one of the best Mustie1 series I've seen so far. The variety of problems diagnosed and solved was truly impressive. The camera work and editing was really excellent. This was a complicated project with several twists, turns, and formidable challenges. Mustie1 turns it into a very watchable story, which let's us in on how one guy just using his experience, skills, and plain grit is able to manage to overcome a host of difficulties and resurrect a useful tool to functionality. Honestly I found it more than merely interesting, for me it was inspiring.
I guess you haven't seen older Mustie1 videos/episodes/series. There are definitely a lot even more interesting videos/series than this one.
Best regards luck and especially health.
Just love how you talk to us, sometimes wonder how many actually cover their eyes when you say "watch your eyes"!! Love being 'with you' on all your projects - thanks for having us!
I recently dumped all of my miscellaneous nuts, bolts, screws, and washers out onto a board and began the tedious task of sorting through them. I then organized them into Plano fishing lure boxes and various clear plastic containers. The entire process took about 3 days. Was it worth it? Absolutely. Because I found several items that I regularly had to buy to finish various projects. I had them all along in those piles. When I was a kid, my Dad did the same but used glass Mason jars. There were a few incidents in my Dad's shop which involved broken Mason jars, so I used plastic.
Plastic is way better than glass. I've sorted a lot of hardware. There's methods of speeding the process up. The slowest way is agonizing over every piece. Where does this go where does that go takes a long time. A lot of yes no decisions is more efficient. Does it have threads? It goes to the left. No threads to the right. Then you sort those piles. Machine or wood threads? I call it the enrichment method. You work down to finer and finer categories. After a few iterations things tend to define and sort themselves. At least it becomes more clear what you're dealing with. In the end you're always left with a pile of indecipherable random crap too. But that's OK. That's misc. It becomes its own category. You look at items there and think, someone needs one of these real bad. I've no idea what it is but I bet it's important.
Good morning Mustie fans……👍💪🇮🇲
Good morning 👋🏼
Good morning to you!
Good morning
Good morning to you as well!
Goodmorning
Am I the only one being driven nuts by the spiderweb in the one bleeder scene? XD I have a ‘93 Dakota and share all the feel about rusty lines. Great video as always!
Store your old /used hardware in a 5gal/20liter pail. When searching for a particular fastener.. Dump the pail contents on to an old bath towel .. Spread the 'collection' out as needed to search for the elusive 'unicorn' fastener. When the fastener is found (or not) gather up the corners of the towel and funnel the 'collection back into the pail. Hope this helps for your next 'rescue ranger' search.
The really value of your videos ( in addition to the entertainment ) is from you sharing how you overcome all those tricky, awkward situations and problems 👍
I just restored an old honda gx22 on an old strimmer (98). Having watched your videos I was able to identify every issue. verdict: Old oil, water in the fuel. blown rocker gasket, jammed rod. started on 3rd pull! Thanks, mate.
Mustie, FYI, When you have to clean contacts, you should use 91% or 99 % Isopropyl Alcohol (do not use less than 91% IPA, less than that % leaves a film on it the contacts) to clean the carbon contacts or get some Deoxit contact cleaner do not use sandpaper on the carbon contacts. Also, you can get carbon paint to replace them.
Contact cleaner is cheap. He needs a can or 2. Lol. Alcohol just doesn't work for what he usually needs it for. Usually by the time mustie gets it, it's so bad the contacts are caked with shit. When I seen him moving wires I knew what he did. Seen it happen before. Seen those remotes release the smoke before. The price has gone way up on those since I had to install a plow.
@@waffalobill Not to mention, that ground wire was RED!
Deoxit is one of the best electronics anti-corossion product I've ever found.
I used to use it when I lived in the Florida Keys on jukeboxes at tiki bars, boats, vehicles and other electronic and electrical connections.
Gold average temp
Red high temp.
Wipes, spray, drip and brush can depending on application.
It cut down amusement vending equipment service calls tremendously.
It's exspensive but worth every penny.
@@pinwizz69 just had to get another can. Was $16.99 for a 5 Oz can
@@mountainjeff when they install them they dont color code a thing. Never have . They use what ever wire they have the most of. I seen them installed using all white wire, all red wire.
I'm nearby you in North Central Ma. That storm that pretty much missed you left about 20 inches of miserable wet snow in my area. I would have loived to have you test out your plow on my driveway. But I don't know it that truck could have made it to here without rusting apart. Even the big town trucks had trouble with this storm.
You always joke about one of us holding something for you or stepping on the brake or whatever. Just reach out an I'm sure you'd have plenty of helpers.
It is always a joy to wake up on Sunday morning and watch your new video. Thanks for the educations.
Nice save! Surprised you didn't fab up some shoes for your blade.
Enjoyed this series. 👍
Watching this in balmy Baton Rouge, it makes me so thankful that undercarriage rust, is pretty much a non-issue down here. When it snows, they just close everything down and the roads- and we all go out and play In the 1/4 in dusting or more likely wet snow. No road salt!
Good olde fashioned frugal New Englander know how, Who doesn't love getting a winter beater running pretty mint for a grand? Awesome brother! Good for you Mustie1, you are a legend
And once again, a Mustie1 resurrection. Yay!
I started watching for the VWs years ago and just stuck around for everything else.
WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?!? Oh no, I have become a Mustonian (saw that in a comment today and liked it). There are worse fates.
Thanks for always taking us along for the ride.
Mustonians unite , no brown outs ,no brown outs . Great job power company .
Mustonian! Yessss!! Chuckle.. now comes the T-shirts! (Grin)
You remind me of my great uncle. Everything you do is the exact same as he did when I was growing up. So many memories so many fun times. Miss those days. And watching everything you do and how you do things. Brings those memories back. Thank you.
G'day, mate, from Brisbane Australia. If a car here, has the slightest reddish stain underneath, it is described as corrosion evident. We never see cars like this unless they have been driven on the beach for years. Most old cars go off to the wreckers completely rust-free. I have watched your videos for years before the new shop. I loved your custom-built mopeds. I am fascinated with snow blowers on your channel, and yet, I have never seen snow.
Awesome content as always.Thanks for sharing and taking us along
Congrats Mustie1, you got the old dodge plow truck running good. good job..
I run into this problem ALL THE TIME with remote controls and video game controllers which function the same way as this remote controller.. The back of the buttons have conductive "pad" that connects the two halves of the circles on the printed circuit board when you push them. Those pads get glazed and made non conductive. But there is a very easy fix I've figured out.
Just get some copy paper and drag those pads very lightly across the copy paper like it was an eraser. It will leave some light black/grey streaks on the paper. A couple of drags for each button is all it takes. I have repaired hundreds of remote controls and video game controllers using this method. It is a VERY common problem and this works very well. Just be gentle with the rubbing of the pad across the paper.
Hey Mustie, You can probably take that controller apart and fix the burnout items inside of it.
You are pretty good with electronics!
It's definitely worth a look inside of it👍
Ye the weather sucks one day hot night storms,,nice in the morning, raining in the afternoon, next day 😂 cool plough ,thanks for sharing, all the best to yous and your loved ones
Nice snowplow for around $1000. Great video. Thank you Mustie.
Desert at 10pm and watching a fresh Mustie video on a Sunday night, can’t get any better!
Where are you?
@@ebutuoyebutouy Sydney Australia
Desert or Dessert?
@@Hjerte_Verke lol dessert my bad
I'm glad you don't beat yourself up because of making mistakes, you're doing a great job, I've done some really bone headed stuff myself, I couldn't figure out why gas wasn't getting to the carb on a minibike, tore it apart, traced it to the tank not having any gas in it. We learn how to laugh at ourselves 🙂
In kits to install receiver hitches they supply a tool for fishing bolts into holes in frames. One end of this tool is a wire that has a coil on one end that threads onto the bolt. You then thread the wire in through the hole and pull the bolt in place.
You might want to keep this in mind for the next time.
..good trick...many applications
I agree Mustie1, it's an old truck needs to much work. That's the best use for it, a driveway plowing truck.
Yup, another NH warrior of broken, corroded and clapped-out junk showing us all not be afraid to take on our worst nightmare. Best wishes from Jackson, NH!
I tell you what, most of these fixin channels must have the patience of job with not ONE four letter word being used, it at least recorded. I'd be one my 16th muther . . . by the first power steering hose. Great video for those who think their husbands should be able to fix their cars real easy! Working on old Rusty vehicles is almost as hard as new vehicle repair ( too complex ). Love your work
Fisher plows are good heavy brutes. My dad got one on his 67 Chevy and it outlasted three trucks. The lower edge flips down to trip. Once in the blizzard of 78 i wound up tripping the blade and grabbed the end of a fallen tree. Took me a few hours as a 16 year old to figure out what I did and dig/saw my way free.
If you are going to plow the lake road, please take us along!
That road is so irregular with rocks and trees it’ll be epic!
Hi Mustie. Just subscribed due to an old iPad. Love your videos. I have watched all of them. You are awesome explaining things. I have told a lot of my customers about your channel. Thanks for all of your hard work filming. I am a Darren too. Thanks again!
Wouldn’t it be grand if Mustie could fix our ‘old tech”!.
I still have my sons first generation iPad. Useless but, good for mail, music and photos.
@@lesoram6236 Limited use.
What a guy. Certainly the best there is. Best approach and attitude to everything he does. Not afraid to have a go at all things fixable. Many thanks for the most excellent production and sharing.
I spent many years dumping spare fastener cans over and sometimes leaving them on the floor/bench.
Everything changed when I came across a used draft file cabinet at a good price. It was then possible to leave nuts and bolts spread out in their respective drawers.
Time and money saver both.
Thank you again for the videos. I like the longer ones because I can kind of watch them through the week although this one I've watched all at once. Lol. That truck in New York would need to have the unions changed and the brake lines and the tires and that puppy would be on the road!!!! You could probably make a little bit telling somebody in New York!
I use a Dremel tool with a flex shaft extension and their mini cut off wheels for tight quarters like that. Back when I lived in snow and salt country before I would work on something underneath a vehicle I would hit the frame ( if it had one ) with a hand sledge to knock off some of the loose rust & crust. Don't miss that at all.
I keep my plow connections slathered in dielectric grease. I buy the stuff in an 8-10 inch tube and wad it on when I hook up the plow, and when I disconnect it. Never have a corroded pin. Those connectors are out in the wet and salt all winter. This really works well.
Hey mustie my granddad always said if you learn from your mistakes it's a good thing. Thanks for taking along with you and helping us to learn about all the different things you work on. Always look forward to seeing your next project. Take care and God bless you and your family
Yeah I've been watching your channel for the past 4700 days AKA 13 years, I love your channel dude.
Try’n to learn a lot from you and your mechanical knowledge. Thank you for another great video. In your video’s you always make me feel included in the repairs 👍
Very cool, Daryl! For the price and your troubleshooting, hard work, you have a winner! To me, it is really amazing, how you have saved yourself big, $$ .Like you said , you now have a ready snow plow for next season and many more to come!
Thank you ,for the time you took to explain, and video/ editing!
For all that had to be done the truck sounds like it's running really good and strong and will move the snow as it should, good job bringing it back to life as well how it sounds in the way it's now running !!!
Great video! Learned a lot so far with this series on the Ram 1500. Thanks for continue bring this truck back to a useful life.
Mustie made a video long ago about frame repair. Great video I’ve watched many times. This video reminds me of that rust repair he made.
Good morning Everyone. That pump and truck could be from Minnesota, you haven’t worked on cars till you have in the salt great fun.
Another Minnesotan here.
Here too. They seemed to have cut down on salt, but pooty sure that’s our left leaders reducing our carbon footprint for us. New England kinda looks worse for salt, and worse fer sher for mice.
Always great to have the plan conclude with success on Sunday Morning's with the Mustie 1!
Especially when, on my end, everything is a frayed loose end.
Thanks Darin!
Good morning 🌞 much love from Detroit 🤙
Thank you for sharing. Very much enjoyed.👍
We have a f 250 at work that does some weird stuff with the plow. When you 1st start the truck for the day it needs to run for about 10 minutes before the controller will turn on. Then it will work fine the rest of the day. So I'm really hoping by the end of this video I'll know enough to fix it myself. Haha thanks for always sharing your knowledge Mustie.🤙🤙
I like your show. You have a lot of very practical knowledge of and about mechanics. Nice to know things can be fixed instead of just replaced! Keep up the good work and shows!
Plowboy
2,3XX! Unreal. I got here 19 minutes after this was posted, yet some 2,300 viewers already saw it. Pretty cool 😎.
Good morning, all! ☕
I enjoy watching someone besides me scraping my knuckles! Once I hit 70, my list of repairs I will do got very short!
Darren, I was watching your video and my tomcat decided he needed to watch, too. Not sure what he learned, but I'll have to keep my keys away from him. 😁
Good deal! For what it's worth I've had great luck hitting on those bleeders with a four lb. hammer and a drift. You can also cut off the bulb end of the bleeder after to get a decent socket on it. Good luck.
Love the humour,slight adjustment with the hammer, 😀❤️🦘🦘🦘
What a neat ,Sunday afternoon after church, feet up, coffee, and watching another Mustie 1!
Excellent video Mustie 1 :) also on plow would paint up also get clear coat on plus put spray silicone on keep from rust up also bite in snow also ice to nicely! Do to my plow on my tow truck 1995 4×4 Dodge D350 Extended Cab Cummings Desiel every year also snowblower too!
Radio Free New England... still on the air during snowstorm and brownout! Time for a big genset project. Youll need the blackout curtains though so the neighbors dont come knocking.
It's always good to watch your adventures.
That plough controller looks like it is filled with high power diodes. If the power connection was reversed it has probably blown one diode which protects the others. If you have time, I would lift one leg each of the diodes to see if they are either short open circuit. I would test the one that is first in line to the power input, it will probably be configured so that it doesn’t conduct when the power is correctly supplied but will conduct and then “short’ across the supply if you accidentally reverse the supply. So you might save that old controller for the sake of a $1 diode.
I have 1998 Dodge Durango. You are just getting started
Watching videos of automotive stuff in the rust/salt belt makes me infinitely glad that I don’t live in an area that salts the roads. I would never have survived working as a professional mechanic if this is what I had to work on. I have an almost identical Dodge Truck (with about 260,000 miles on it) without a speck of rust on it. A truck like this would have been crushed a decade ago around here.
I've found out that with an oxie acetylene torch, you can heat the bleeder fast enough without overheating the wheel cylinders and get them loose the majority of the time.
Darren- I found a really easy way to bleed the brakes. Put a tube on the breather and run it into a jar 3/4 full of fluid. Then just pump the brake petal just keeping the level up in the master cylinder. Work very well. Every pump will push air and crappy fluid into the jar. I put a loop in the line in the jar and the dirty fluid settled to the bottom.
As a snow plow, she makes a pretty good bulldozer. Hope the carrying shoes make that better. It looks like she wants to go to work. Won’t you be disappointed if you don’t get any more snow this year. 🥸👍✅
Great job. I deal with those type pad buttons on remotes everyday. What happens is the carbon rubber looses its conductivity and it doesn't shorten out the contacts on the board. What I do to remedy that is punch out with a paper punch little round buttons from a soda or beer can and crazy glue them on the wore out rubber pads. It will completely restore the function of your controller.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that works on junk. Something satisfying about it....
This nearly went full……AvE. “ sometimes you’ve got to adjust you’re tool, to fit in the hole” …….lol. Nice one Mustie…..😂😂😂👍🇮🇲
Ok I’m not the only one thought AvE wrote that 😂
@@Leroys_Stuff great minds think alike eh….😂👍
Yep, tried saving a few of these my self. Old trucks are simply a money pit. Rust eats them up as their owner chases after the next repair. never stops.
I’ve replaced the timing sensor behind/under the distributor on my old Dodge plow truck as well. 4 hours of my life I’ll never get back 😂 but it did the trick! Mine was just as rusty. My favorite repair was changing the passenger side downstream O2 sensor, 3’ breaker bar with a 6’ length of galvanized pipe passed up over the transmission crossmember. I had to ratchet strap it to the frame under tension while I heated the sensor and dowsed it with PB. It finally let go! Chased the treads and twisted in new one, good times 👍👍. Thanks for the stroll down Rusty Dodge memory lane!!
D,thanks for going through what you do, so we can see ..I myself,really appreciate what you do,I've learned a lotta stuff watching your vids..thanks
Sitting here drinking my coffee loving a good mustie video
thats an old Fisher Minute Mount/MM II setup. if the blade ever completely rots out, you should be able to swap for a Western plow from the same era. a Diamond plow should fit since Diamond are pretty much direct copies of Fisher. the lights wiring are in that rats nest by the battery, in the plug with the 10 or 12 pins.
I know some of those shots you probably spend more time than you'd like fiddling with the camera.
Thanks for bringing us along, every step of the way.
The perfect pair to a good cup of coffee. Good morning Mustie fam✌️
We've got trucks like that up here musty in New York them things are held together with duct tape and spit and they're still running plowing You got yourself in our eyes up this way on top of the line truck man thank you for showing the second video of working on it have a great week coming up yeah but they don't get the lake effect storms like we do we've gotten hammered three times this winter and the plow trucks run literally non-stop when that happens
Mustie lives in NH. He's literally "up there" with you.
She's a pusher!!! Always fun to tag along and shout at the computer screen when we see something about to go sideways. :D
Did a similar thing 1month ago. Bought a 400€ eastern european econobox, that was sitting for 3 years in a muddy forest(ew…). Its advantages were new timing belt, new head&headgasket right before parked.(mostly due to covid) even the oil in it is new. The biggest reason i got it is the LPG, liquified petroleum gas, which is half the price of petrol. It uses only 0.076$ every KM. By far the cheapest car to run I ever had.
Of course it has its flaws ( A LOT of rust) which i badly fixed with a lot of bondo and fiberglass. Its good for now. Maybe one day i will cut and weld properly, but for now its awesome.
you made it into a heck of a deal and the sound of that engine, exaust is sweet
Thanks Mustie1, looks like it'll work maybe some weight in the back. I haven't heard the term "brown out" in a long time.
Central California watching.
Happy happy happy morning because I had a new Darren Mustie1 a new plow truck episode pop up in my Sunday feed.
He makes the most mandane work fascinating to watch.
I'm pretty sure that there's someone out there watching and finding out what's wrong with their plow.
When you're plowing, right before the end of travel, lift the plow to push the bank back. She back drags nice! Thanks Darren
Ok 14:58 I have to tell you me 2 I had a bucket for bolts and nuts etc. just dumped it on the floor about 12 yrs. ago and Shes still in a pile 😂...nice and easy getting a replacement faster now. Thanks for the videos Mustie1!
Great video series. Coherent and well-detailed.
we all do that some times short out . usually when getting in a hurry. love all the variety of items on your videos
Easy way to bleed brakes. Press small hose onto bleeder, run other end into can of brake fluid. Open bleeder and push pedal down. Air comes out and only fluid gets sucked back in. Do it a couple of times and your good to go, just check the master to keep it full. 😊
Great stuff as always mustie. To bad about the controller. Make sure you put winter hydraulic oil in it or you'll burn out the pump
Turned it into something descent so that's a plus bro, great video too. Safe travels
If it's just going to be a yard truck throw a set of tire chains on it and get a loader bucket of sand in the box for weight. Great video as always. Thank you
Inside most TV remote controls you can find similar conductive pads that perform switching. I clean them with Q-tips and alcohol. This usually restores switch function.
Plow guy here sir. You figured it out but the web is handy for all the different brands . Good score 👍. I only plow in low it saves on parts if not time
It's a shame that the controller is messed up. Glad you found one to replace it. Great job Darren
Its great seeing you work on the old dodge again.
When you’re trying to take lass dirt, don’t let it fall into float. I used to lift it just a hair, to keep it off the ground slightly.
Cool beans. I think there is too much slack in the lift chain though. From what I know about plowing when I worked for the city is, the ram shouldn't be that fully extended to lift the plow. I used to have to put one of these on a dump truck. Talk about a pain in the backside to line up! LOL
You just make everything look easy Mustie. I love it.🔧👍🇬🇧
I've had fisher plows for quite a few years now so I was kinda yelling at you through my monitor. 😁 They work much better on frozen ground of course which we had very little of this winter, kind of annoying. If you don't like how quickly the blade drops, I believe there's an adjustment for that on the pump.
Thanks mustie really enjoyed following this truck. it's great content as always. Take care too.
Enjoy watching every project.
I had one of those trucks, same year, mmm comfortable leather seats, same interior colour, I had it pinned at 168km/hr for an hour and half straight once back in the day.