With a 360 and 4x4, 4 sp. Old plow truck. New house has a very long driveway and have been looking at quads until I saw this? Other than rust, concerns?
With a 360 and 4x4, 4 sp. Old plow truck. New house has a very long driveway and have been looking at quads until I saw this? Other than rust, concerns?
Rides like a 1 ton truck, poor mpg, split rims? If all it has to do is plow I can't think of anything better.
Yup. Plow truck
Aside from rust that should be pretty much an anvil. Ideal plow truck if the price is right.
Great hardware. I think that's the smallish hubs which you hear is weak but I think people like to sound smart so they pick something out no matter how unlikely it is to break.
My friend had one with 38" tires, stock gears and a Slant 6!
Ever since I first saw the mid to late 70's vintage Dodge pick-up watching Simon and Simon, and I'm not sure if that is even anything "Power Wagon" by definition? I've always had a soft spot for these. And with prices I've seen for some quads, I like this vs a quad.
Flush the heater and run it.
FWIW, it needs cab supports and the bed is crusty.
Quad would be more fun and more usefull. And it would take up less room in your shop and not piss oil everywhere and not always need a part that is a day away just when you need it and not have a gummed up carb fromm sitting all year with stale gas and not be a project that you HAVE to work on to plow your driveway when you really wanted to spend the morning working on a race car.
Built when pickups were really trucks and CHEAPER than cars. Rust is the enemy of most vehicles built in the 70s.
In reply to bearmtnmartin:
And therein lies the conundrum. I need something to plow and haul garbage and recycling. In the summer my diesel tractor will do the trick, but 2wd and diesel aren't a good combo for snow. The drive is over a 1/4 mile long. OTOH, a quad is 2xs the money and will take 2xs as long to plow with no heat...
A quad would be handy at the track too.
9mpg. 6mpg when plowing
Split rims? berkeley that E36 M3.
Someone's there looking at it so this whole exercise may be pointless. E36m3
Time flies! 20 years ago I was a live on site maintenance guy at a mountain resort where it snowed allot that had the same vintage power wagon 4x4 for the plow truck. 318 instead of the 360 and it was a 1 ton ex Pacific Gas and Electric line service vehicle. The engine had fantastic access from all angles. Everything did- super easy to work on the few things there are to work on. Much of the plowing was on dirt roads with granite boulders lurking like icebergs. The front CV joints are these giant castings that iterlock and slip like bone on bone joints with the help of copious amounts of grease. One of those blew up when the blade hit a boulder with the steering at full lock and that was a cold miserable mid winter fix but IIRC just the spider broke. The axles, transfer case, diffs and transmission were all super tough. Even way back when we needed to change out the cab mounts and weld some sheet metal over cracks from all the flexing the cab and bed would experience. But it didn't matter. Its a hunk of steel- add more steel if needed, rattle can the scar. I bet it still runs. Plowing snow with a big blade on the nose of a big truck with chains on all four wheels slipping and sliding around in the middle of a blizzard is one of the funnest things I have ever done. Machine bliss. I would rock one and it would be a good end time vehicle if the end time crops up!
markwemple wrote: With a 360 and 4x4, 4 sp. Old plow truck. New house has a very long driveway and have been looking at quads until I saw this? Other than rust, concerns?
If you are really bummed that you might miss it, then there's your answer! If you thought you were about to lose it and it didn't really bother you, then you probably didn't really want it.
Good point. I'm under the weather and its 1.5 hours away. Without seeing pics to know how rusty it's not worth half a day.
Pics tomorrow. Supposedly, anyway.
You want to clear snow and haul trash to the road, I would put a loader on your tractor. Then your tractor is way handier and you aren't adding a vehicle to the fleet that needs repair and maintenance.
I have never been able to find a loader for it. Its a 1984 Bolens h1502
Tire chains and a block heater on the tractor?
That's the eazy part. Finding a plow is tough. Honestly, if it were 4wd I'd hunt harder but if I found one it could be 2k easy. Its hard to find stuff thats specific to this tractor. I love it but should have purchased a Kubota.
markwemple wrote: In reply to bearmtnmartin: And therein lies the conundrum. I need something to plow and haul garbage and recycling. In the summer my diesel tractor will do the trick, but 2wd and diesel aren't a good combo for snow. The drive is over a 1/4 mile long. OTOH, a quad is 2xs the money and will take 2xs as long to plow with no heat...
My ex's parents plow the driveway at their farm (also about a 1/4 mile long, plus parking areas) with a 2WD John Deere front end loader. They have an old Ford Ranger for hauling the recycling. They burn whatever trash that doesn't go to compost in a barrel.
That truck won't have split rims, it is really just a W200. They used the Power Wagon name then for the same Reason they use it now; to sell more Trucks. I had a 76 SnoCommander and it was a beast that did every thing "trucky" well. Gas was 1.00 then so it wasn't a big deal that it had horrible fuel economy.
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