Well the weather cooperated. It was clear, cooler and felt like the breeze was coming off a frozen lake, but clear. Got the bed of the parts truck cleared out so it's almost ready to go to the scrapper. Hopefully some afternoon this week we'll be able to get it loaded on the trailer and I can pull the last few pieces I'm saving. Air bags, rear axle, springs, driveshaft, wheels, and reciever hitch for sure. There's also a few harness connectors I want to identify under the hood and save to for the V8 swap.
I'll have to see how it looks once on the trailer, can't see underneath very well right now, but I might save the exhaust too. It's definitely got aftermarket dual exhaust, looks like it might be 2.5". I'm sure it splits at the muffler, but it might be a good start to an exhaust system for the V8. If it works out I'd just need to get a dual in/out muffer and some small sections to connect it all together.
I thought craftsman was supposed to be red. Aside from color it looks very similar to one dad used to have and my compressor motor came from, but that one was belt driven.
We've almost got mine together. I'd gotten a new pressure switch for it week before last because PO had damaged and/or lost part of the original. Dad installed it last week but it wouldn't stop leaking. He couldn't tell if it was coming from the body or the relief valve, but it was an Amazon purchase so I decided to send it back and pick up a Porter Cable one from Tractor Supply. He called me Friday after I'd dropped off the return and said that he found the cause of the leak and the switch was probably good. Oh well, the Porter Cable is probably a better quality switch anyway, same manufacturer and switch as his big Kobalt compressor.
Those pressure relieve valves are supposed to bleed off pressure between the pump head and the tank, but for that to work there has to be a check valve where the air enters the tank. Well the check valve body was there, but for some dumb reason the PO had gutted it. The pressure relief valve was draining the whole tank.
I was already questioning POs intelligence, but wow!!
New check valve arrived today. I dropped off new switch and hose today, but discovered I had purchased a 1/4" regulator when it needed a 3/8" regulator. Also need a 3/8 close nipple to mount the regulator and a 3/8 to 1/4 reducer for the hose, but score one for the parts truck. As I was cleaning out the bed I found an old regulator and filter setup burried in the junk from PO. Unfortunately the regulator and filter were waterlogged, so they both went in the trash, but it had exactly the fitting that were needed.
I might have known someone to get rid of a few of those when I was little because they kept knocking holes into the front porch columns. They are neat, but they can be destructive and annoying as hell.
As for the browser going nuts, try an ad blocker. I have seen some ads on this and other sites cause problems like that. I'd be surpirised it it is actually this forum's code that is causing the problem, but anything is possible.