Tow Pig Resto - Getting the Bugs Out

Thanks man I'll have to check that out. Have you ever used sea foam in your diesel?

If you pay me for shipping and handling it's yours. I'm not sure if it works though.

I need to catch this thread up.

Here are some pics after I had it towed to my house.





You can see my Ranger in the background.



The bed was full of pine straw and a weed was even growing in it!






Most of them scattered before I could take a picture but there were a good amount of roaches in the bed.

Here you can see how big the root of that weed was.



Bed mostly empty.



The engine bay was full of leaves and spider webs and I found another ant nest this weekend in there.

definitely coming along nicely. Until reading that article you posted, i never realized how high the compression was on the 6.5! but the diesel shop I work at mostly sees 6.0 powerCHOKES, cummins, and big rigs

Have never run sea foam in the diesel! But in project ruining low yes! It came highly recommended! And have been very pleased with way it has helped clean fuel system after sitting so long! Also hear you can put sea foam in the oil! Have not tried this! But wouldn't be afraid to ! I may put some in the 7.3 just to see if it will clean injectors any!

More of the engine bay







Mostly Clean



Interior before starting the clean up

More of the interior, pretty much any crevice was filled with pine straw and leaves that the ants and roaches were living in.



Learned a lot about roaches, supposedly roaches communicate through pheromones and to us have a musty smell.



Well when my gf helped me move the truck ants started coming out of the roof like when a kid kicks an ant mound so I started stripping the interior.

It seemed like when ever I found spot where the ants were collecting they moved to another location.







Someone had spilled a bunch of soda in the past on the passenger floor board so I figured the ants were eating that. I didn't take any pics when I first found them under the carpet so here are the remaining ones. I couldn't see the floor when I lifted the carpet, just ants. They had made a nest out of the carpet.



I seemed to get a hand full attached to every panel.

Seemed like just about everytime I came out to the truck I would find another dead roach somewhere.



Almost ant free.


Someone's homemade speaker mounts swelled up from the moisture.




It was time to start troubleshooting the electrical and hopefully get this thing running.