83 359 pete good idea/bad idea-good bad idea

im guessing if i do get it,it will probably take me a year or two to actually get it finished to the point of putting it on the road again. if i do get it there will most defiantly be video's of it on youtube. if enough people were to want to watch it be restored it could potentially help offset the cost some. im thinking i still currently want it but i also think im going to hold firm at my offer on it. so i guess were see. i really wasn't looking for a new project right now so i could live without it..lol

the nice thing about finding one local is its easy to go look at it multipul times and little/no transportation costs to get it home. if you had to fly somewhere to look at a truck and then pay to have it transported could easly add 1000's to the price. this truck is parked along my route between my shop to my house. witch is how i found it without looking for it.....lol

 

well there is a picture of it sitting in front of my shop. I would guess you know what that means......lol

 

well i didn't exactly get my offer for it. he would have done the 7500 without the new roof cap and sleeper boot he had for it. i ended up giving him 8500 to include those parts and a decent front bumper. he has to go pick up the roof cap from some other place and bring it out to me yet. but i figured those aditional parts were probably worth the little bit extra vrs having to source them. pay/ship them. so i caved a little we went back and forth on it a while. but it really runs very good. fired right up within a half a second on a cold start (well as cold as the engine could be on a 75-80 degree day) drives down the road pretty good trans feels nice and tight. shifts better than my mack. although i did end up having some issues with both the range select and high low split on my way home. thinking air line issue but it got cought half way threw the shift and wouldent engauge back in till i stopped. if it was one or the other i would suspect somthing in the transmission but both and the fact it also shifted flawlessly other times makes me think a air supply issue. will have to do some poking around on that. and the jakes are not working. but the engine runs very smooth with no visable blowby. its very responsive and spunky bobtail. ran clean. a little black haze when you would step on it but it wasn't rolling coal.