This Sunday A. and B.H. met me up in Finksburg to finish hauling off an engine and a top from the seller we’d visited last weekend, and within about an hour’s time we had a 345/727 combo loaded onto a trailer, with three spare tire/rims and a Traveller top secured over everything. After a brief detour to pick up another 727, we headed down to A’s shop to begin disassembly of the roller Scout in earnest.
In about four hours’ time, we got:
- The engine stripped down (it’s waterlogged and stuck, so the distributor is stuck)
- The hood, inner fender, heater box and grille off
- The windshield off (it’s in great shape minus a little rust around the edges)
- The top unsecured (it’s also in great shape, even though it doesn’t have any gasketry)
- The dash completely broken down–lots of good spares there
- The emergency brake assembly out
- The rear driveshaft mostly disconnected (the U-bolts are gunked up)
- The tailgate off and stripped (the license plate assembly came off with a chisel and the latch mechanism popped out easy as pie)
- The doors removed (they are in decent shape, although there’s some rust around the inside bottom metal)
- The door hinges off
- Some of the evap/emissions gear off
- The fuel filler neck off-B.H. will use it to replace a wonky fiberglas filler neck in his rig, which is awesome
Meanwhile, A. had already started unloading the parts that were inside the rig, and it was amazing how much stuff kept coming out. Under the spare fenders we’d piled in back, there were
- Four chrome bumpers (plus the two on the rig)
- Two hood mount bars
- Four fenders, two right and two left-including one exceptionally clean passenger side that was an unknown bonus (it was under the Traveler top, and B. and I never saw it until the day we hauled it away)
- The other inner fender from the roller
- A complete interior AC unit, including uncut hoses
- Assorted side trim
- Another heater box
- Assorted door glass
- Assorted electrical gear-two looms, one from a late-model rig with large fusebox
- A 4-bolt clutch fan
- A set of engine plastics in good shape
- Spare gas tank evap gear
This doesn’t include the five crates of other parts we got, plus other gear that was in the front of the rig. I know there’s a bunch of other stuff I’m forgetting, but that’s off the top of my head. I left my camera down at A’s shop, otherwise I’d post some pictures here.