Junkyard Rescue! Saving a 1950 GMC Truck - Roadkill Ep. 31

bleed the brakes and then hit the road and drive home without any problems, that's the plan and then get on the phone to order that master cylinder. At this point, okay, it's day three of our trip and we've technically only gone about 300 meters around the

junkyard

, but on the plus side, we've rebuilt almost all of the brake system wiring lines. She's ready to move one more piece tomorrow morning. master cylinder and I think we'll be on our way, stay and thank God for classic performance products because they had a perfect master cylinder for a

1950

GMC and this is the last piece of the puzzle, once it's in the

truck

we can drive it.

Outside the yard we may not have lights, we haven't tried that yet, but at least we can get out of the yard and get home to our wives because we've been in this

junkyard

for almost five days and they're all gone. We're not, but they're one, two, three, holding on, ah, not a good way. Not good, a line broke back here, that'll take two hours, it's the line that blew up right there. We are reinstalling the entire

truck

right now. Fortunately, it's pretty simple. I think the overall line replacements will probably only take us about 45 minutes.

I'm going to go to the front left and turn that one over and then we can bleed the brakes again and then leave and then leave, we'll leave and drive home in three hours, okay, open two, it's a pretty solid liquid, okay, I'll move to the next, the thing is that after all this we are anxiously trying to get away to go pay Jerry and leave. We've never powered this on six volts before, so I hope it works, it's 5 o'clock. We were supposed to leave about 8 hours ago, in those 8 hours we have blown the entire brake system on this truck 2 or 3 times and we are good at it.

Finnegan finally solved the fuel system. Here we are about to turn it on. Look, Jerry paid for this crap and hit the road, it works fine, just stop right there. I worked really hard on that, let's find out. Ready, yeah, brakes, okay, let's go see Jerry. I never cared about brakes in my entire life, but after suffering through two. some days, yes, a little pride in that, well, what do you think, Vasia?, it had the 1988 license plate, we fell in love with it in the last few days, it's probably a touch-up, let's go in and make it ours, yes, Hey, your money, so what do we owe you in total?

I think mm oh yeah, that's right, just keep the change. We stole enough bolts and stuff. It's getting dark and we've never figured out how to make headlights or beacons. the taillights work on this thing, we figure we can probably live without taillights, we're not going to live without headlights, so the plan is we're going to make some kind of bed here with some junk we found tied to our generator. of our video equipment and we run an extension cord to the front and we put our work lights on the front of the thing, so we'll probably get pulled over for having our lights too bright, obviously, that's really impressive, turn it on.

Wow, that's really good. Awesome, it's overheating, not good, look at the rear main feels puking pretty good, yeah, the clutch is all wet. Brother, about 20 miles from Turner's Pigpen, he finally told us why it has been parked for 30 years, we have been defeated, unfortunately, Pigpen has probably seen its last engine lost in a mile, this is probably the reason it was originally at the junkyard the idols are really cool but you get it on the road and it starts hitting the dipstick and this right here is basically crankcase pressure it's not overheating it's not overheating it's oil coming out. off the valve cover so we'll leave it here and now we have a trailer and we'll haul it home and hey we'll rebuild it yeah that's an awesome truck we still salvage and recycle that truck they make pictures of speed parts that do. we can put a GMC 302 and turbo in it, look there's a reason for everything, it's hard to call a big win in this

roadkill

episode, a win would have been driving this thing home, but I'll go with half. win, the thing had been sitting for 30 years and we got it running and driving and we got it off the property where it had been forever eventually, we'll probably get this truck running and buy it eventually, I mean in another 30 years.

It's a

roadkill

, we know how to make the garbage turn over, we know how to make the garbage run, we don't necessarily know how to get home, this time in a roadkill, it's the clapper. Wow, I fixed it by driving backwards, dude, he came back with a 30 year old kid. toy, oh yeah, tomorrow we'll show everyone how to turn a three-hour drive into a two-day adventure. I will make my way further. Bank on the fire, you know, on this trip I'm guaranteed a sunburn, oh yeah.