73 beast

[Scooter]

Slowly moving along. I drilled 6 holes into the new floor for the mounting brackets for the rear bench seat. Still need to drill one more for the rear seat belt.

Old piston wrist pins come in handy. Had a collection of them from when I scrapped some messed up no good motors and recycled the cast aluminum pistons.

Before I permanently mount the rear section of the floor above the fuel tank, I added a spacer in the rear most channel that the floor sits on. Basically an anti compression spacer when the bolts are tightened up. This will help reinforce the mounting bracket foot for the rear most hoop of the cage I'm building. The factory mounted spacer thingy is for the body mount bushing bolt. More photos will pop up when I actually start bending and building the cage.

 

[overdrivesteve]

today, since I had a change of plans, and had some spare time, I swapped steering wheels from my barrel rolled 74 Scout. Granted, both wheels are identical, but the old one was coated with bed liner. And I didn't care for it much. Not only that, I wanted to be able to utilize the grant steering wheel locking option I had readily available....

Now I need to find the actual locking cap. For those times when I do take the steering wheel off I can put the cap on in its place to complete the lock. The way I figure it, is that this is like the best deterent in a theft of this rig. If the steering wheel is not there, how is the thief gonna drive off with my rig.

Hi

nice trucks!

I just want to mention, based on my experience, most thieves don't drive away with a specialty vehicle like our IH's, rather they hook and book, just drive up, hook it to a tow truck and take off. I've had 3 vehicles stolen in my life, two non-driveable. Most recently was a '54 mack crew cab firetruck with locked air brakes and a partially assembled engine. My 68 Ford fairlane, without a scratch on it, but non-driveable, was stolen from my chain-link fenced front yard, and my mack was stolen from a fenced, "secure" vehicle storage yard. I just want to say don't depend on a missing steering wheel alone to prevent the theft of your trucks, that is just a deterrent.

In another forum someone had their highly modified Scout stolen. They said a neighbor saw it going down the street on the back of a flatbed tow truck but it never occurred to them it was being stolen. If I ever find that post again, I'll edit this post with its link.

Steve

 

[Scooter]

Thanks steve

I have actually been considering doing away with that option anyways. The adapter being roughly 6", brings the steering wheel too close to the chest. I have read pretty much all your threads, so I'm aware and sorry to hear about your loss of them. If the thieves want it(what ever it is) bad enough, they will go to any great length to get it. I have even seen a few of these hoodlems in my area, drive their own vehicle with the front suspension held on by one or two bolts without regards to safety for any one.

Even though I have two dedicated parking spaces available across the street in the parking lot for this building I'm in, I don't use them. All 5 of my vehicles are currently stored inside my man cave. If any of these crooks really want any of my non running vehicles, they would need a torch to cut open the roll up door, or crash into the brick wall to knock a big enough hole to pull out vehicles. Or have a key into the space. For added mental security, having insurance does have some piece of mind. Mainly for any type of loss, like water and/or fire damage and theft.

 

[overdrivesteve]

thanks steve

... All 5 of my vehicles are currently stored inside my man cave. If any of these crooks really want any of my non running vehicles, they would need a torch to cut open the roll up door, or crash into the brick wall to knock a big enough hole to pull out vehicles. ... [/quote ]

out of sight and out of mind - I think that is absolutely the best deterrent of any . they won't want what they don't plainly see easily sitting outside .

an unrelated story - when I was in high school I was working in the corner liquor store when it got robbed . the thief was shacking so badly I could see the gun going off unintentionally, but it didn't . but he was so nervous he never saw the roll of quarters sitting on the counter at that time .
the owner then installed a silent alarm . a little later he was robbed again but I wasn't there that time, but the owner was, and he set off the silent alarm . shortly thereafter, rather than calling the police, the alarm company called him saying there was something wrong with his alarm because it went off . needless to say he was not too happy with that response .
sorry for the hijack .

steve

 

[Scooter]

Shortly thereafter, rather than calling the police, the alarm company called him saying there was something wrong with his alarm because it went off. Needless to say he was not too happy with that response.
Steve

Sounds like the typical car alarms that go pretty much ignored when they go off. Especially when some knuckle heads set their alarm at the gas station when they go in to pay for what ever they're getting only to come to set them off when they get back into their car.

As a side note, I haven't really gotten much done with the beast these last two weeks. Temporarily mounted the rear bench seat in order to mock up some storage cabinets in the bed behind the seat. Overall plan is to relocate the main battery, and adding a second one, to the back. Along with other goodies. Plus, I'm contemplating having the inside of the whole tube lined with some type of bed liner. I already have been talking with a good friend of mine who works for a powder coating company that does bed liner. And this maybe something that I might do before I actually build the cage. Do to how thick or thin the liner will be

 

[Scooter]

Damn, I'm hating on my landlord of my man cave, along with a tenant or two that lives upstairs. piss poor sewer plumbing that was installed when they remodeled upstairs in order to add a two bedroom apartment. The pipe got plugged up and Friday morning when they were taking what sounded like a shower, one of the common area bathrooms upstairs over flowed which leaked threw the floor and ceiling into my space. This is the second time in pretty much exactly three weeks I had to lay out roughly six 5 gallon buckets to collect the water, and that still wasn't enough. Inside of my space basically turned into a rain forest from the over flowing drain pipes in one of the bathrooms.

After several phone calls and emails, I was first told that the owner of the building was going to stop by, which he never did. Then I was told that the earliest that they can get to it is Monday. Wtf - so I immediately shot off a not so pleasant email asking them if they expect me to deal with these clogged plumbing issues for the next three or four days. Not only that, the mention of being totally un-sanitary, even if at the time it was just shower water. All that crap ultimately gets mixed in with raw sewage from the toilets every time ones takes a $hit or piss. So they finally caved in and called up a plumber to come in on Saturday, mid day, to snake the drain. Due to the piss poor install of pvc fittings that was combined with 30 or 40 year old cast iron pipe and fittings, the guy mentioned that he had snaked out a bunch of vegetables that got caught in the maze of fittings. I'm not a plumber, but I have been around cast iron fittings and iron pipe for almost 20 years, since the company I work for, during the week, manufactures cast iron fittings and iron pipe for the sewer lines that you see installed in buildings, and this addition of pvc tied into the old iron aint installed properly

needless to say, I'm furious about it. This over flow of sewer pipes is just one of a few issues that I have been dealing with. So, I'm actually starting to look for another place, once again, to move my cave into. And once I find another place, I'll just pack up all my rigs and tools and move out while no one is watching and not say a thing until I walk into the office to hand over the keys.
Rant over for now.

 

[Patrick Morris]

Just curious, what inspired the world-war-1 style camo pattern on those trucks?

 

[Scooter]

Lol that's kinda funny. It's not exactly my first choice in a paint job.it was painted like that just before I purchased this Scout. I will most likely repaint it once I get closer to driving it.

 

[Scooter]

Not much to update. I have been kinda stalled the last couple weeks. I'm at the point now where I wished I had a sheet metal brake. Since I'm a cheap bastard, I decided to make my own, so, I spent a good part of this weekend making one. If it works for what I am working on, I will post up photos.

Last weekend, I did work on the 33 gallon fuel tank that I'm planning on installing. One thing I wanted to do is have the option of threading in plugs or pipe nipples into the location of the five 1/8" vent tube holes. I cut a piece of 1/2" thick flat stock and then drilled & pipe thread tapped five holes. Then had an interesting surprise when I cut out the old vent tube section. They were ultimately useless and pointless. Had I known, I probably would not have done this. Too late to turn back now.

Here's the old vents that I cut out

It's like, why even bother going through the trouble of adding those vent tubes, if holes were not drilled through the sheet metal
here's the new piece welded into place:

 

[Scooter]

Well, while I wait patiently to win the lottery, but need to play it though, to purchase a few things for this build, I was in some ways getting tired of the paint scheme. Which kinda cured my boredom for the time being. So went to town in stripping and sanding paint down to metal. Not sure yet what the end result will be. But here's where I'm at now.

Lot more bondo on the rear left corner of the cab than I thought. The driver side front fender has semi major rust down at the bottom near where it meats the door. I May end up using the spare one on the shelf that I picked up from Mike from IHPA. But them again, I May end up beating on it on the trails. Passenger door had several 3/4" holes among a few other 1/8" holes, all from old side mirrors. Which I patched up with a weld-in plug, and I'm in the middle of minor bondo work. Just ordered up some threaded inserts so I can mount new(used) side mirrors

 

[Scooter]

After patching up a few buggered up holes from the old side mirror mountings in the doors and the non existent moldings and a couple coats of paint, both doors, one fender(passenger side), and the hood are painted.

The driver side fender has rust issue, between wheel well and door. Debating weather or not to leave it or use the spare one that I have on the shelf. Since I most likely might bash it against a rock or treecrazy: hope not) I May just use the rusted one. In the mean time, when the paint dries, I will re-install the door handles and locks. Along with mounting side mirror brackets.

 

[IHRunner]

I have mountains of respect for the work you do scooter. You are one of the most talented crazy basket cases I know.

Mega IH points.

Dont expect my posts to be this kiss assy all the time. I have a reputation to uphold here

 

[Scooter]

I have mountains of respect for the work you do scooter. You are one of the most talented crazy basket cases I know.

Mega IH points.

Dont expect my posts to be this kiss assy all the time. I have a reputation to uphold here

Thanks for the atta boys. Not sure about the talented part, but a crazy basket case I can agree with. You're young enough to stick with it and learn a lot of this stuff too. I wouldn't expect any body to be kissing my butt, unless I didn't like ya and when I need to go pinch a loaf

this build is just a taste of what I have been tinkering with for years. Mostly all self taught, with a little taste of hanging out with other gear heads. If I actually owned a few other pieces of equipment, I'm sure I would add a little more twist. For now I currently have access to a vertical mill and lathe at work, only on my own time, which I learned on the job how to use.


As far as the paint job goes, it's all gonna be rattle canned. When I started stripping old paint from the exterior of the tub, lots of bondo was uncovered. And both end caps, that hold rear tail lights, are all beat up. Passenger side worse than the driver side. Yesterday, I was talking with another tenant here in the building who does body and paint on mostly ole classics and offered to help paint my rig. But, since I plan on hitting the trails with this beast, I most likely will be bashing it on a few rocks and trees here and there. I will just carry a spare rattle can and maybe a band aid or two for a little touch up when needed.

 

[IHRunner]

Im referring to your work in general. Ive looked at all your builds and you take time to do schtuff right. So well dun. Git yer old craggy rear in gear so ya can bring the wee rig up to rmihr sumtime

 

[Scooter]

Needed to clear up space off my saw horse make shift work table and mounted the right fender. I will end up pulling it back off at some point. I pulled a dumb blondie moment and forgot to mount the antenna. But for now, this is where it sits

 

[Scooter]

Didn't get much done. But this contact high from fresh coat of primer has definitely gone to the head I won't be painting the top just yet. When I pull it off and down on the ground, I need to finish up some of the po virus repairs. Granted, that red top didn't originally come with this particular Scout. The old one was so rusty that chunks of rust fell in your lap every time ya hit a pot hole. So it was chopped up with the plasma cutter and then recycled with other scrapped up body parts from my rolled Scout

I'm also getting side tracked working on 72 IH pick up. Replacing the original oem rubber brake lines that should have been replaced a decade ago at least. Surprised they lasted this long. Fairly crusty.

Btw - that dark greenish/blue Scout sitting behind my beast is my very first Scout(72), and first IH ever, that got me hooked.

 

[IHRunner]

Hey scooter. The bucket seat base goes in the truck...not under it.

And im sorry to say but by cutting speaker holes in it you have here by voided any and all warrenties that May be provided :d

 

[Scooter]

There's a reason behind the madness of why the seat base is under the beast and not in it. I forsee a roll in bedliner in the near future

warrenty? who woulda thunk it. I think the warrenty had gone sour 2 or 3 po's ago. Just wait till ya see what will be put in place

 

[Steve Grant]

Good work scooter. Inspiring. IH runner I saw yer loadstar deal too. Good work.

 

[Scooter]

good work scooter. Inspiring. IH runner I saw yer loadstar deal too. Good work.

Thank you for the kind words. It's work in progress. Wish I further along. All this walking is for the birds.

Loadstar? Did I recently acquire something that I'm unaware of? Be nice, that is if it actually ran and be drivable.