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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonimus" data-source="post: 26612" data-attributes="member: 12914">Sometime around '92, my Grandpa bought a new '92 Dakota. I went on a bunch of fishing trips with him in it. Always kept his fishing gear in the camper shell. The back always smelled of used tackle. He drove it pretty much exclusively until he passed in 2015. <a href="https://flic.kr/p/2rHWtcZ" target="_blank"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54952215651_92e9951575_z.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/bigangryscot/9062n6avk7" target="_blank"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54952209226_d6e6ba6442_z.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>My cousin ended up with it and drove it for a while. Ended up with a DUI and the truck got parked. Fast forward a few years, he learned his lesson and had bought a new truck, so Grandpa's was sitting. His apartment complex was giving him grief, so this past Thanksgiving he asked if I wanted it. That Sunday I dragged it home.<a href="https://flic.kr/p/2rJeLtP" target="_blank"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54955590661_dea988ceff_z.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Starter wire needed repaired. Fixed that. Fuel pump is toast, so I got it fired up by bottle feeding it.<a href="https://flic.kr/p/2rKDSra" target="_blank"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/31337/54971609875_17df1da1dd_z.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Son and I pulled all the bed bolts and lifted the bed off in preparation for pump replacement.<a href="https://flic.kr/p/2rLdNtn" target="_blank"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54978035243_65ec1bfa44_z.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>In desperate need of a cooling system flush, so we yanked the radiator and cleaned it out. Water pump and thermostat will be replaced next.<a href="https://flic.kr/p/2rLtwCS" target="_blank"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54980908650_e3e5a86ce0_z.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Slow going. Just working on it here and there with my oldest. It'll be neat to have it running again.</blockquote>