Well folks here she is, my new ride, now stop laughing, I know it doesn't look like much, but neither did my trailer when I first got it,rite!! the new engine is still in the bed when these photos were taken, its under the hood as of now, I swapped it out last week and it runs great, started right up. She's a 1987 Chevy, camper special 1 ton, 4X4, manual locking hubs, P/S, P/B, tilt wheel, A/C, 6.2 diesel, 4 speed, bought it off the original owner, the motor that was in it was tired and smoked, so he picked up a used 6.2 with only 25,000 miles on it to replace the old motor, got the old motor about ready to come out and lost interest and bought another truck instead, good deal for me, the tires are 90% and it has a new clutch and brakes, the body is strait, but could use a paint job, Arizona sun takes it toll on paint. Interior is so,so but not to bad for the year, dash pad is cracked from the sun, but a cover will fix that as its only cracked on the top, seat is good and a new carpet for the floor should take care of the inside, OH its got a sliding rear window, some people don't care for them but I do. It has twin fuel tanks at 20 gals each, which is a plus, I'll use one of those for diesel and the other for WVO, but I have to carry more WVO than that so I'll look for a tank to put in the rear bed, 100 gals would be nice. The 6.2"s are good for about 22 miles to the gal, so 100 gals or so should be good for at least 2000 miles, not bad for a full size pickup.
I'm in FL right now came out here on last Thursday from Arizona, it took two days of driving in my Isuzu, arrived on Friday nite, total cost for fuel $40, I used about 60 gals of WVO mixed in with 10 gals of diesel ( that's where the $40 went on the 10 gals of diesel), the diesel cuts the WVO just enough to make it more burnable. I'm staying here two weeks than its back to AZ and the Chevy. I have a load of stuff to bring back,( all you guys out there knows what stuff is, we can't live without it) and a small 10'X6' trailer I have here should do the trick, more towing, I love it!!
Well that's it for now, Happy Trails everyone
