Got my oil changed in the hi mile Durango after work today. Been trying to get to it for a week now. Been driving the pickemup so I don't put too many miles over on that Durango.
Oil changes are one thing I have always been on top of... I don't let them go over by more than a couple hundred miles max. If I'm between changes and were gonna be on the road I'll throw the materials in with me and change it on the road. I don't pay anybody to work on my stuff. Any more than I absolutely have to. Things like wheel alignment, machine shop stuff that's about it. And every time I do I wind up P.O.'d.
I just rebuilt the trans in that Durango (see what I mean about not paying anybody to work on my stuff). about 1400 miles ago, so far so good but it was time to get underneath and check for leaks and things I might have forgotten to tighten when I put it back in. I didn't feel bad about that transmission dying as I'm over 300k miles on that rig.... And it hasn't rotted back to the earth so it stays.
And 1967 craftsman,
I love 318s. I've had many. Good workhorse, great bread and butter daily driver engine. And contrary to belief they can be made to scream.
No you don't have to throw them in the ditch for a 360.... Back then there was too little difference in performance between them to matter. Stock, anyway.
I never had the money to build one the way I would have wanted to.
I've had many of both engines.
And on another note my son brought me the 275 gallon mini bulk tank home today. I'm building an outboard engine run tank out of it. I have a 115hp Evinrude here with no boat to use it on that's just taking up space, came from my dad's garage. It's too big for a 55 gallon drum and back when I played with outboards more, I never seen these bulk tanks anywhere ,/ but now they are everywhere.
My brother replaced the back stairs on moms house before we could put it up for sale, and the yuppies have overtaken the town I grew up in //so you can't have a bonfire in your own backyard there anymore nor a whole lot of stuff we used to do and take for granted/ , and since I have the truck and trailer in the family, I got "voluntold" to get it outta there.
I hauled some off to work's burn pit, burned some right here in the ditch in front of my house (not a soul complained) and I saved one section exactly for this project. I have to cut ithe staircase down more than I thought I would, to fit it inside the tank with 3/4 of the top of the tank, cut off/ (left a little on the back as a splash guard)/ but that old stair case "nose down" inside that bulk tank is going to be my test run tank to help me sell that motor ... and then once this motor is outta here, then the rest of the old staircase will become firewood....I started on that tonight after work.
My son got the tank from work and brought it here first, but once I sell the outboard he's taking that tank home as a scrap metal dumpster of sorts.
I did some window shopping last year looking at various boats (I have had a couple of those over the years) hoping to find one "with paperwork" that needed a motor.
But while I was looking for something set up for an outboard it seemed like every one that came my way was inboard powered .. figures. Seems like 25hp and lower bring as much money as bigger ones do.... I have 2 smaller ones and eventually the 18 will go once I find a lower unit that doesn't take on water for it, and the 7-1/2 hp isn't going anywhere whether I ever find a boat for that one or not. All Evinrude.
