Old Lang 84D Refurbished

[jcam222]

Many of you know I got this old style 84D in Nov 2020. Paid $2000 and thought it was a 60 only to learn it was bigger lol. Finally started cooking on it on the spring of 2021 and fell in love with cooking on it. Decided to give it a facelift. Here it is at the place I bought it. Quite a bit of surface rust is all I knew at the time. Later learned it had about a half inch gap in the diverter plate at the firebox.

Sent it out to have the diverter plate patched, completely blasted and painted. Here it is after sandblasting

Here is the finished product.

I treated her to a new set of chrome wheels, just seemed right lol. The guy also fabbed me a missing damper wheel and new fire grate as well. I’m all in on this at $3950 between purchase price and facelift and couldn’t be happier. I need to fire it up this weekend to bake the paint for awhile. It’s triple coated with Rustoleum High Temp BBQ and Grill paint. Thanks for looking!

 

[BrianGSDTexoma]

Thing of Beauty! Nice Job.

 

[Nefarious]

Wow, awesome device. Are you cooking for all of us here at SMF?

 

[sawhorseray]

Great move Jeff, always enthralled by the cooks you post, looking forward to the next one! RAY

 

[negolien]

That's freaking amazing my friend. TY for sharing

 

[pineywoods]

Jeff that is the identical smoker I have but yours certainly looks a whole lot better than mine. I had to repair the plate at the firebox on mine to and it wasn't any fun. That thing looks brand new

 

[radioguy]

Looking great now to get it a bit dirty. Good call !

RG

 

[jcam222]

Jeff that is the identical smoker I have but yours certainly looks a whole lot better than mine. I had to repair the plate at the firebox on mine to and it wasn't any fun. That thing looks brand new

The guy that did it is a whole lot smaller than me. He said he ended up cutting out the slide channel for the upper rack and climbing in to do the work. Told me he smelled like giant bacon after haha.

 

[Gonna Smoke]

HECK YEAH, Jeff!! Show us what you got there brother...

 

[bauchjw]

Wow! What an incredible find and great deal! I’m excited for you! Looks incredible!

 

[pineywoods]

The guy that did it is a whole lot smaller than me. He said he ended up cutting out the slide channel for the upper rack and climbing in to do the work. Told me he smelled like giant bacon after haha.

Yes sir that was about the way I did it as well but didn't have to cut the rail I have long arms. DId he tell you he about fell into the smoker before he got in at 6' 3 and 300 lbs I wasn't fitting inside lol. I put on a set of disposable coveralls before I started thankfully it was a cool day. Thank goodness for doors on both sides I had a friend pass me the tool I needed at the time I needed it like the grinder, vacuum hose, welding stuff, When he wasn't laughing his a$$ off he did take some pics but I later got his phone and deleted them before he sent them to very many of our friends He and the ones he sent pics to still tease me about stuffing 15 lbs of sh** into a 10 lb sack.

 

[uncle eddie]

That definitely looks like a labor of love! You did a great job!

 

[xray]

She’s a beaut, Jeff!

 

[SmokinVOLfan]

Hell yeah Jeff that is a thing of beauty! Guy did a great job! You are going to have to tell your wife to park her car on the street that bad boy needs a home in the garage.

You couldn't pony up for the chrome spinners?

 

[Sowsage]

It looks fantastic!!.. Looks like they did a quality job for you on it.. The wheels look great too!!
Your neighbors are gonna thinkbyou went out and baught a new one!!

 

[Fueling Around]

Cleaned up nicely.
Ready to take to your school fundraising swaray (sic)?

 

[Brokenhandle]

That looks awesome Jeff! Are your neighbors lined up outside with hunks of meat yet?

Ryan

 

[SmokinGame]

She is a beauty! Bet she cooks a mean brisket ... or a dozen.

 

[phatbac]

Great looking smoker!

Happy Smoking,
phatbac (Aaron)

 

[Steve H]

Dead sexy rig Jeff!!