The Sonjamotor Lives!

Dunno, almost looks like it blew up on the way out and the tire is all you found left:

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About 15 minutes after the shot of sonja's azz was taken I gitta call...help!!!!

Bill had just driven up the drive also to foller her home in case the motor blew up or sumthin'.

Driver side wheel and brake drum has passed her on the left goin' downriver! She watched 'em disappear in the mirror.

After wrasslin' the ride onto the shoulder right in our boarding kennel dude's driveway, she checked her shorts and shore enuff...

'bout that time bill drives up on her and sees tha driver side wing on the ground....but he'd already seen the wheel/tire up in the tree before he saw the Scout!
 

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If ya go back and look at post #69 in this thread ya might find root cause for this excitement.
 
Yep..someone forgot to wrench down the lug nuts...one of two texians workin' on the pos and it weren't the old fart either!

And anuther 50 ft. And the passenger side woulda gone away too.

If it hadn't been for that cedar, that wheel/tire would either be in someone's livin' room after comin' through the winder...or it would be fish habitat in the mckenzie.

We scrounged purdee guud but can't come up with the brake drum which is most likely about 3" smaller in diameter anyway.

So aaa gits a call and I'll be dam...they dispatch from blue river service and who shows up...tha kid j.d., a feller firefighter here on the mckenzie valley dept. Along with sonja and bill! And tha last time I saw j.d. He wuz in diapers and pushin' arount a pedal car! This kid has a driver's license??? And a cdl ? And moves arount a tow rig???

So j.d. Hooks that pos and sticks the wheel on so's he can play likea repo-man. Guess where tha bitch spent tha nite??? In the exact spot she'd just left after four years????

So's I ring up mr. Scoutmikefiock and tell him he's gotta customer for a Scout II/d30 "finned" front drum brake setup, driver side, get one torched off an axle, tha kidz are on the way! Mike has hundreds of those 'cause nobody wants 'em, so guess what bill gits to do tomorrow while I watch???

Funny ending...just before bill left I advised that he oughta service the front hubs when we do the 500 mile checkup. Guess he'll push that chore to tha front now.

Last I heard last nite when they drove up the drive...again...together...in tha dodge...wuz sumthin' that sounded like "yore azz is cut off!".
 

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Wow, guess some vehicles just don't like to leave your place!:thumbsup: :nonod: glad the issue only ended up as bad as it did!:eek6:
 
I am glad no one was hurt and the Scout is still ok. :thumbsup:

but I have to ask... Where did that fresh looking puddle under the Scout come from? :icon_eh2:
 
monte lauer said:
I am glad no one was hurt and the Scout is still ok. :thumbsup:

but I have to ask... Where did that fresh looking puddle under the Scout come from? :icon_eh2:
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That puddle??? Sonja's shorts??? Wet floor?? Ventilated Scout II floor pan???

Naw...ya know how that dam dipstick tube onna dam sii motor is sumbody's idear offa bad joke (hell of a way to dipstick a motor!)??? Sumbitch leaks when a ride like this one's got a broke wing.

And...don't ask who put tha tube in tha hole! But I did advise to use 3m trim cement on that tube, guess now we'll gob up some muffler cement on it and the touch up the pint on the pan.
 
michael mayben said:
if ya go back and look at post #69 in this thread ya might find root cause for this excitement.
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Yeah, that was my guess...

My preferred method of altitude manipulation is just to let the air outa' the front tires, then pump 'em back up. My preferred method of attitude manipulation is canadian club... :icon_biggrin:
 
Sweet horny toads! If I didn't kno better...an I dam shore do...my guess wudda ben yawl texians dun let jerry grab aholt uh the dam hiss-n-rattle rensh!:frown2:
 
scoutboy74 said:
sweet horny toads! If I didn't kno better...an I dam shore do...my guess wudda ben yawl texians dun let jerry grab aholt uh the dam hiss-n-rattle rensh!:frown2:
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I don't know what distresses me more, the fact that you and mm write the way you do, or that I can read this maybenezz shit likudee split and not even look twice to fully understand it.:arf: :sosp: :gringrin:
 
Robert kenney said:
I don't know what distresses me more, the fact that you and mm write the way you do, or that I can read this maybenezz shit likudee split and not even look twice to fully understand it.:arf: :sosp: :gringrin:
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I hav to reed it 2x :icon_eh: :gringrin:

you guys are as bad as me jawing with a neighbor while changing oil and forgetting to tighten the oil filter... (25+ years ago)
 
I don have no trouble learnin' what I say...jes' trouble rememberin' what I say.

Bill and sonja took the day off for turkee herdin' and then recovery from turkee herdin'. And yestidy there wuz four inches of water under the rig too.

But they finished her off this afternoon...again. She be spendin' the nite at her house tonite for the first time in many moons!
 
Boy, Mike, once a rig has been at your place for that long, it never wants to leave. I saw the pic of the tire in the tree and went back to the pic of them driving up the driveway and thought, "no, it can't be!". Then I scrolled on further. Wow! What an ending!

Lyle
 
lyle wiese said:
boy, Mike, once a rig has been at your place for that long, it never wants to leave. I saw the pic of the tire in the tree and went back to the pic of them driving up the driveway and thought, "no, it can't be!". Then I scrolled on further. Wow! What an ending!

Lyle
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Everybody must go home...eventually!

Even the statute of limitations has run out on "wilbur the 1300 flatbed", curt has agreed to part him out (we'll keep the motor though). Needa dual wheel timken axle??

But..this news just in! Sonja has a '82 f-350 dually/flatbed witha 400 motor/c6 combo that's runnin' propane but is too far gone in the front end to be safe to drive. So she's gonna part it out.

Best part...it has a j&I steel bed on it very similar to this one:

j&I manufacturing - truck beds for farm, ranch, welding, oilfield and industrial applications.

So today, the rig moves up here for bed removal...it is now mine!!! Once the bed is off, the rig goes home with sonja and bill for disposal of the rest of the schnizz! The propane combo is gonna be a hot ticket for someone.

The bed is gonna git cut down to short wheelbase config and go on the beatertruck upgrade.
 

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michael mayben said:
so today, the rig moves up here for bed removal...it is now mine!!! Once the bed is off, the rig goes home with sonja and bill for disposal of the rest of the schnizz! The propane combo is gonna be a hot ticket for someone.

The bed is gonna git cut down to short wheelbase config and go on the beatertruck upgrade.
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Perfect!! You are going to have a very nice service rig when you get finished with it.

By the way, when are you going to get to work on your own stuff?? ;)
 
That j&I bed will come off the Ford today some time, the sun is out and it's not raining like normal! It's in outstanding condition...I'll remove it inside the shop so it will be adjacent to the cutting/welding gear for modification.

Since I already have that pro-fab aluminum crossbed box, it will be incorporated, I also plan to set up at least two more boxes either on top or underbed once it's test-mounted for initial fit. Provisions are already in the bed floor for a flip-over gooseneck setup, so once the bed is mounted that will be beefed so that a fifth wheel hitch can be mounted to the flip-over as well. I want this rig to be set up to tow any trailer combo I might be able to beg/borrow/steal...especially lyle's trailer ( I know he needs a place to store it that is more convenient to me)!

An update for the sonjamobile...miles have been accumulated and surprise...surprise...the rotten fuel tank syndrome has struck. This was an existing problem before I ever hooked up with sonja.

So the fresh 2300 carb is trashed again, it's on the bench this morning for another clean-out session. And I'll go ahead and revise calibration now to hopefully fix the drivability glitch. Once that is solved, we'll do an electronic distributor setup using a mag-trigger conversion I'm assembling currently.

Sonja and bill snaked a nice sii tank from a diesel rig at Mike fiock's yesterday that will go in tomorrow or Saturday (we'll be in oc for the IHSTO pardee tomorrow). Being diesel, the tank is pristine internally. Bill is an accomplished wrench and can easily handle this deetale!
 
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This tale is actually getting better now...the brake set that bill installed actually works!

And...for a IH noob, he even managed to get the fresh fuel tank swapped and all the plumbing squared away, installed it by himself!

Then we scruud with the carb some more a few days ago...no dice.

We knew that this carb was a Holley 4412 which basically can't be made to work on these motors. But sonja swore it ran just great with that carb after she had it installed years ago. But I kept tellin' her no...it can't!

So she looked at it hard one last time...and then the bulb lit...this carb is not the one that was on the rig when she left it with the azzhats way back when that ripped her a new one!!!! That one had a glass window in the fuel bowl (standard on a few versions of 0-7448 list back then). She also noticed a few other differences, stuff that I did not do.

So them sumbitchs stole the 7448 off the ride way back, and subbed a 4412. Since she never actually drove the pos after that, she had no way of knowing the carb was wrong...and to the average person they look identical.

So me and bill built an oem 2300 from about a '69 345 outta a pickup, manual choke. But I stuck on a center-hung fuel bowl so at least the mixer would look like the real deal from long ago! Ended up totally re-working the accel linkage along with the kickdown stuff since this carb is quite different in that area

that cured the problem, bitch hawls the mail now and ya can actually accelerate from a dead stop without stumblin' over the front end.

So now sonja's got a real dd with a choke that will work. Bill also figgrd out why the heater ain't heatin'...after all, he's a dam electrician. Guess what...the blower motor was unplugged...musta done that when he torqued them lug nuts...the first time.

One thang left to address now...the breaker points in the fresh distributor. Since this one already has a msd six box, it's gonna git a serious Holley distributor set up with a mag trigger to take advantage of the msd sparker, that'll happen next week, then we can jet this carb for the final time and be done with it.
 

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At this point, after accumulating some runtime, the lifters seem to be liftin' just fine! Just plain old typical rattley IH valve train noise that adds to the ambiance of old iron!

But...if sonja hears any additional noise at all, she'll call 911 and we'll handle a lifter swap immediately! She ain't gonna tolerate anymore a that shit!!

Even the gauges have come to life now out of the blue!

Bill is gonna lern how to give luv to thse shitball IH bulkhead connectors, instrument pod circuit board connectors, and replace all the instrument lamp bulbs that were prolly stolen by them scruuhaids too! But that's bill's problem, not mine! But his four-way lug wrench is duktaped to the tranny hump now right behind the shifter.
 
Good day mm:

in reading your motor rebuild thread, I noticed that it's a couple of years ago. I was wondering, are all steps in your thread still applicable? Or are there maybe newer better "improvements" in your step by step instructions? I sure got a lot out of your thread and wanted to get into my own build. Learned a bunch.

Thanks,
 
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