BUYING A 1983 CHEVY C-30 DUMP TRUCK FOR $250!! SITTING FOR YEARS, WILL IT RUN?

[@The_Home_Pros]

Be on the lookout for part 2 we’re we clean this old girl up and get her back on the road after fixing the rear end and many other issues. Thanks for watching!!

[@TheMatsan]

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[@The_Home_Pros]

@@TheMatsan 🙂

[@michaellynskey7124]

Another successful repair which thousands of first time mechanics would not attempt, You deserve all the praise and hopefully good news about your medical condition, Just take one day at a time, 🇮🇪.

[@The_Home_Pros]

thank you very much!! I’ve been doing much better lately still not 100% but better than I was🙂

[@jeremyedgell9989]

Man what a DEAL!!! I could never find a deal like that around here. So glad some one got it that will fix it. And use it! Not scrap it or flip it. Awesome. I'm trying to find me a dump truck my self. Can't wait to see more about this truck!!!!

[@The_Home_Pros]

Thank you so much my friend!! I’m like you I hate seeing things go to the junkyard that could be fixed!

[@craigdreisbach5956]

Great video. Most of these electric hydraulic pumps use dexron II transmission fluid as their hydraulic fluid. Replacing the bendix clutch on your starter motor is an easy fix...you don't need a rebuilt starter motor. Kind Regards, Craig

[@The_Home_Pros]

thank you so much!! I wonder if I should drain the fluid or if it will be ok?

[@craigdreisbach5956]

@@The_Home_Pros I think it would best to drain the fluid and assess it. If there is any evidence of condensation/water w then I would change it. Be sure not to top off the tank, (as I have done) and then find the fluid over flowing as the extended hydraulic cylinder collapses while lowering the dump body. Kind Regard. Craig

[@CountryBoyGasGarage]

Dude! What a score! Love the old Chevys!

[@The_Home_Pros]

Me to

[@j.walker3498]

The rear end is a GM "14 bolt". might be able to find one with disc brakes. or buy a dial indicator, torque wrench and pinion/yoke nut socket. Some calibration in the swap is needed. Looks harder than it is. 4:10 if you don't do much highway speeds.

[@The_Home_Pros]

yes sir check out other vids on it

[@j.walker3498]

@@The_Home_Pros lol found rm right after I commented.

[@andrewgrace4410]

Great restoration 😊

[@stevenbenavente1229]

Great find.Good job

[@The_Home_Pros]

Thank you Steven!!

[@bhurley5243]

That motor sounds great for sitting so long.

[@The_Home_Pros]

I know rite!! It runs great!!

[@texascottonfarmer]

I would first put in a decent pinion gear to see if it will move. If that works, you could do a full rear end rebuild later.

[@The_Home_Pros]

Thanks I prob will end up doing that

[@aaronjohn6586]

Wow, what a sweet find plus with some work may not be pretty but should get the job done.

[@The_Home_Pros]

Thank you so much my friend!! I plan on cleaning and fixing it all up and doing a restoration on it

[@brucebonkowski7253]

That is sharp I wish I could find something like that

[@The_Home_Pros]

thanks! their out there just hard to find sometimes

[@brucebonkowski7253]

@@The_Home_Pros I know I lost my last one due to the State of Michigan

[@The_Home_Pros]

Aw man that’s tough ☹️ We have a cottage in Southaven mi and if u live in the rust belt u gotta fluid film everything

[@robertsprafke9376]

Pretty common axles just check around the junk yards. Just measure between the backing plates for width.

[@The_Home_Pros]

Thanks for the tip! it was the spider gears check out the other parts to series if u want

[@Ants_Pants]

automatic windowroller3000 XD haha. for 250 u cant go wrong, its even worth more scrap value, good buy man. Looking forward to the part2.

[@The_Home_Pros]

Haha thanks man!! I couldn’t pass it up for the price I’m gonna get it all cleaned up and use it with the mini ex if I ever go back to work lol

[@Ants_Pants]

@@The_Home_Pros looking forward to that day. Do you have your own company?

[@The_Home_Pros]

Thanks ants! Yes I own my own company called the home pros but I haven’t been working for about a year because of the health issues, I’ve done a few jobs but not many, I get calls everyday but it’s hard to do them when I feel like poop, I’m sure it looks like I’m fine in the videos but I’m actually in a lot of pain and just try to put on a good face for the camera. Thanks for everything ants and again congrats your channel is doing so well!!, I’m sure your making good money now and should have sponsors contacting you, I only make about 180 a month off u tube and super clean sent me some free stuff but that’s about it. Take care brother

[@Ants_Pants]

@@The_Home_Pros A punch have yes, i have turned all of them down so far. yesweld tried to send me a mig melder, but we ended up not going through with it because the shipping + tax would have cost more then the welder was valued @ lol haha. 180 a month seems okey bro, it helps some. Here in Estonia the rates are not that high as in the USA so i make quite a bit less down here, Plus the estonian goverment wants 20% tax on whatever i make where ever i make it. For example usa scores a 4% tax on me and my gov wants 20%. This is so messt up. I hope you feel better bro. Has it gotten any better for you considering the last few weeks?

[@The_Home_Pros]

Dang that’s awesome your doing great! But that sucks 20%!! But I guess you guys have free health care and all I think? I know nothing about Estonia other than it’s beautiful and there’s a awesome you tuber over there haha

[@davesworkshop2714]

That's a good buy Darrell! Especially considering it came with a free vice grips! Runs great. I still find it hard to believe how popular gas work trucks are there, we just don't get them here, and probably haven't in any volume since the 60's.

[@The_Home_Pros]

Hahah thanks Dave!! A free pair of vise grips are always good lol. I’m not to proud of how wasteful we are in the us, I wish we had more 4 or 6 cyl Diesel engines instead of gas guzzling v8s, I’m with Andrew camarata on this subject and think we should have a few simple vehicles that don’t rust out and easy to maintain instead of every year a new peice of junk comes out. We need to simplify things and get back to how things were back in the older days

[@davesworkshop2714]

@@The_Home_Pros oh don't worry, we make plenty of junk here too 🤣. As for gas guzzlers you should see how much the 2.9 TD6 in my range rover burns! That's a great buy though! Looking forward to seeing more videos of it! Hope you're feeling OK 👌.

[@davesworkshop2714]

@@The_Home_Pros funny thing is theyre trying to get us to move away from diesel here and back to gas hybrids or electric. Ill be sticking with diesel though!

[@The_Home_Pros]

Thank you so much Dave and I hope you and your fam are well! Awesome Italy trip, I need a vacation lol I wish, thanks for everything Dave!

[@brucebonkowski7253]

I alert remove gas line from tank to pump next use a mixture of transmission fluid and gas or 2cycle fuel mix to lube engine until oil pumps

[@The_Home_Pros]

yes that’s a awesome tip I actually sprayed some fogging oil in it off camera

[@andrewgrace4410]

Great find😊

[@JohnWhite-Iowa-City]

GM corporate rear-end. They made ones with two bearing and 3 bearing pinions. Most cab and chassis are 3. They are all so narrower than the pick up dual wheel variety. The two bearing variety would get sloppy and eat the pinion. The 3 bearing Pinon ones are, were popular with truck pulling guys in my area so they were kinda hard to find.

[@The_Home_Pros]

You sure kno your stuff! This had the 3 bearing

[@brettwalker5318]

Most likely need a ring gear on the flywheel to fix the starting issue

[@The_Home_Pros]

the gear was actually fine it was the bendix on the starter

[@joeloyd56]

I appreciate the video.

[@The_Home_Pros]

😊😊

[@darrellroeters4951]

Great buy

[@The_Home_Pros]

thank u

[@Ants_Pants]

cant belive that thing just fired out and ran like new

[@The_Home_Pros]

I seriously couldn’t either!! I thought I was gonna have to clean the carb or do somthing with the distributor or somthing!

[@karlmorgan2551]

Man that thing started quick

[@The_Home_Pros]

I was really suprised

[@johnmcdonald323]

I've had a 1981 Chevy C-10, a 1974 Chevy C-20, and a 1977 Chevy Silverado C-20. My 1977 Chevy i had the longest 20 years!!! Drove like a champ! Those trucks will last almost forever if just take care of them!!!

[@The_Home_Pros]

they sure will and even in some cases if u don’t lol

[@09FLTRMM77]

MM77 Approved 👍🏼👍🏼………………YES!!! You got a good buy!!!

[@The_Home_Pros]

thank you so much my friend

[@markamcampbell6340]

is that what they call an open diff?

[@The_Home_Pros]

hahaha it’s def open lol

[@stevenherner298]

Utube reseasly I watched someone rebuild 1v9f those axles

[@briansaxby5357]

Man wish I could find them for that price

[@The_Home_Pros]

yeah, prices are pretty crazy right now

[@NilsKall]

Wow, that was a great deal! Can hardly get a wheelbarrow here for 250$

[@The_Home_Pros]

Hahahahahaha!!! Thanks that was funny nils!!

[@morgansword]

Well my comment will be different than the others.... I have the 84 model one ton with a corporate rear end an it was a 4.10 which is fine but mileage sucks.. I took it out and used the whole rear end out of a international one ton and a half... the plus side was it was a electric two speed and positraction. I did have to move the spring mounts a couple inches which is not hard to do an the shocks and all hooked right up. I see rigs like this one sell for fifteen hundred to even twenty five hundred. I do get nervous with all the trash floating around as my grandson got some small gravel or something down mine and busted three pistons in about two seconds so get that cowl and stuff blown off please. I don't guess finish means a lot to you but rust will start under that grim on it so why not at least give it a bath and do it right for just once. My two speed gave me 3.73 on the high side and 4.32 on the low side which will crawl up a tree. We push over six feet of snow with it here in alaska. Mine has a holmes wrecker body on the back of it. I used to have videos of it pushing snow that was over the hood and it was in third gear, shoving snow like nothing. You can just take springs and all off of the international and the only difference then is the front hangers have to be moved about three or more inches ahead.. drill new holes and bolts right under and drive shaft even hooked right up. If I remember right, we used a new joint with one side fit chevy an the other was just one size bigger and it fit the yoke on the international rear end. The springs were heavier and held the enormous loads we put on it. The holmes wrecker bed with wheel lift is quite a load in its own right but mileage was good for a truck at about twelve and times more. After my grandson blew up my engine, I took a twelve valve and its doing phenomenal!!

[@The_Home_Pros]

thank you so much for the wealth of information!!! I will def look for a international axle if love to have a two speed!!

[@morgansword]

@@The_Home_Pros I was really happy with it... I think the truck I took it out of was a U-haul truck in its former life and it was around 94 or 95 light duty... it was torn up in front and I got the whole truck for five hundred but it still ran also. Find one for just the rear end and who knows.... parts are a lot higher now because of covid.

[@philbascombe6346]

4:10 gear ratio for power but low top end , 3:73 for better speed but less power , i have a complete diff out of a 70's welding truck , 454 4 speed , but it is way to cold and wayyyy to far for you to pickup , and i think your one ton is in the 80"s , god luck with your repairs , chevies also rust out brake lines half way up the frame

[@The_Home_Pros]

Thanks a ton for the great info!! You are correct it is a 83 not a 73 I dunno why I put 73 lol appreciate your help!!

[@petermarsiglio9464]

do your self a favor and lots of work just replace the ring and pinion gears easy fix, to determine ratio if need to just divide the pinion into the ring gear teeth and that's the ratio.

[@The_Home_Pros]

thanks a bunch, I think that’s what I’m gonna do

[@swatson0061]

R10 is just the code for the 87 year models. Same as C10. R10, R20, R30.

[@SamCanada1]

👍

[@donaldelrod9172]

you might want to check out steve summers you tube channel. he is currently restoring his old sq body chevy and replacing the running gear.

[@The_Home_Pros]

thank u so much I def will do that!!

[@daviddzedzy9194]

R-30 1988 HAVE 3 TRUCKS IN BARN

[@The_Home_Pros]

that’s awesome

[@davidhughes3765]

I see you made a goodbye

[@The_Home_Pros]

huh? 🙂

[@kellywood7128]

I have a truck for parts if you want it

[@The_Home_Pros]

Kelly that is so kind of you and I would def take you up on that offer but I bet you live far away from me, I’m in smiths station Alabama

[@kellywood7128]

@@The_Home_Pros Not really I live in Montezuma Georgia probably an hour and a half away from you on closer examination your truck is a smaller than mine mine is a two ton and yours is a 1 ton but I will keep my eyes open for a one time your axle if I see one I’ll shout out to you

[@The_Home_Pros]

Thank you my friend!!

[@chuckmiller9469]

I got 666 Oh no

[@The_Home_Pros]

huh?