Northwind Posted August 11, 2009 Report Posted August 11, 2009 Hi there First time poster to this board and am sure glad I found it. My partners and I have a 1953 Dodge B-4-GA-152 dump truck that we are just starting to put running order. It has been sitting in the black spruce & birch forests of Alaska for the past 12 years and cost us $50.00. The last time it was licensed for road use was 1960-61. Then it was used on a homestead for 10-15 years and then sat for 22 years until 1997. A family of squirrels helped themselves to most of the padding in the seat although there were some mice that helped themselves too. At one time there was a yellow jackets nest on the bottom of the dump bed. Took us one Sunday afternoon to clean out the gas tank, carburetor and the fuel pump and it fired right up. The gas we drained out didn’t even smell like gas. Have been reading some of the past message threads and am finding a lot of good information. Unlike the lower 48 states we don’t have the resources available to us like you do so will be asking “where is the best place to find xxxxxx” questions every now and again. This will be a semi-restoration as we have a job for this old fella hauling some ¾ minus ballast for our outdoor railroad (another vice). Paul in Wasilla, Alaska aka “Northwind” Quote
Jim Shepard Posted August 11, 2009 Report Posted August 11, 2009 Welcome aboard. There's lots of good info and advice here. Just ask... Quote
MBF Posted August 12, 2009 Report Posted August 12, 2009 $50 whole dollars wow-wanna double your money?? Seriously nice find and glad you're having fun with it. Bringing these back to life is therapy to most of us. Keep posting pictures. Mike Quote
grey beard Posted August 12, 2009 Report Posted August 12, 2009 Does that good lookin' dump truck have two carburetors and a split exhaust? Some of them did. Good Luck Quote
Northwind Posted August 12, 2009 Author Report Posted August 12, 2009 No this is a stock Carter BB single version. There isn't much of the exhaust that is usable except for the manifold. There is about 18-20" of flex pipe grafted on the exhaust flange. Will probably have to make another flange and some sort of exhaust pipe/muffler arrangement but that is down the road a ways. Trying to sort out project that we can do in the shop over the winter as neither of us has a shop big enuff to put this beast inside. I actually could but then SWMBO would have to park her car outside in the cold and I would wind up sleeping next to it too! The front bumper mounts have been torched off as at one time there was some kind of a homesteaders special snowplow welded on the front of the frame. There was some kind of a boom arrangement on the dump box that when it was raised the plow was raised. Told you it was a homesteaders special! It does have the 2 speed rear axle which we hope still works. The vacuum system disappeared sometime when IKE was in office I would guess. Just little things like that and brakes, lights. Paul NorthWind Quote
Frank Elder Posted August 12, 2009 Report Posted August 12, 2009 Nice Dumper Northwind! Here's an advertisement picture for your collection Quote
coW52Dodge Posted August 12, 2009 Report Posted August 12, 2009 Welcome, Paul - cool truck! Rem in CT. Quote
carl b51 Posted August 13, 2009 Report Posted August 13, 2009 Allways good to see anouther Dodge. Welcome! carl Quote
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