Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Red callipers :mm::mm: very nice

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Well tonight , while I was prepping my engine for paint , I got a text from Don . It was to tell me my hood bird I ordered had arrived at his place

The pictures from Don note they are of my bird on his hood

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...psmp6kifxe.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...ps6ygprbgw.jpg

I will post the engine pictures once I have moved it out of the garage , as the pictures where a little dark , by the time I finished .

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

keep jobbing mate… soon all those parts will be together again...:mm:

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Love the bird

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

just re read back a few pages, your making great progress, and shot blasting the front cross members is the way to go. I'd be like Rian and spend hours cleaning it and still not have it this clean. Think I might start using a shot blasters and Pr 15 on my next project.

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Well today was an interesting day . I had to go and fit a set of hand controls on a Tesla unfortunately nobody had done a kit for it. So off I went with a van full of all the parts we have acquired to make a kit from parts . Well it turned out really well .

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...ps7iclpjjz.jpg

These are the hand controls fitted . I managed to bring the fittings under the steering column , so there was no cutting of the plastics .

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...pslhnftcqm.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...pslfz7pm1i.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...pschendirx.jpg

I then went for a spin these things are FAST but with no noise .its got an Electric motor 416 bhp (310 kW), 443 ft·lb (600 N·m), Three-phase AC induction motor .

Once I got home , I started working on the truck , as yesterday I collected my alternator and power steering carrier . Colin in my bike club had welded it up for me. So first thing first was to clean and degrease it . I then painted it with a steel wheel silver colour that I had in the garage . Then fitted it to the engine .

Sorry about the picture as it was getting dark by the time I had finished

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...psycxlndoz.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...pshyaxhzqw.jpg

So that's another day over .

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Nice!!

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Looking Good mate...:mm: Not sure how I feel about a quiet Sports Car...:crazy:

Nice work on the Tesla...;)

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Thanks for directing me to your cab lifter details!
Cheers!

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

I like that, it's going to look very cool on yours. Good to see you are making solid progress :metal:

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Thanks Bill it's easier to work on the engine in the evening, and the welding only cost me three bottles of Newcastle brown ale. It's good to have mates who work for beer

You would have to play a V8 sound track when driving it

No problem it you need any more pictures just let me know I am glad to help

Thanks Kerry I hope so as well

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Here ya go mate...:mm:
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/737/2...dc71c0c2_c.jpgIMG_4977 by Donald Olivo, on Flickr

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Thanks Don
My case is getting heavier by the day . The sticker they sent looks cool as well . I am going to be a busy boy when I get back from our trip .

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Well today I collected my front wishbones from the Sandblasters . Unfortunately I had to drop my dog at the vets on the way there . He has had an eye infection for the last two months , the vet has been treating it , but it kept re-occurring so they had no option but to put him under a general anaesthetic and operate . So after picking up my parts we stopped at a local market near the Sandblasters . It was more of a boot sale ( flea market ) with lots of second hand stuff mixed in with new stuff . I did manage to pick up a little metal model T money box though .
Tomorrow I plan on getting the wishbones painted . There is a couple of marks were someone at some point , removed the ball joint with a grinder , and Hit the wishbone. So I will weld up these small cuts before I paint them .

My freshly blasted wishbones

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...psauhgxe1l.jpg

The blasters removed the shafts and stripped them for me total cost £40 about $60

One very upset rottie , and one very large vets bill £900 about $1350 . So pleased I have pet insurance . Just hope they don't take too long to pay me back . As I had to pay the bill then the insurance company eventually pay me .

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...psse86lfyd.jpg

The little model I picked up

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...pssj4pe7tx.jpg

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Kool looking bank.

Someone definitely does not like the cone.

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

I have quite a few of those old car banks I have collected over the years ,they are very cool.

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Cool Model bank and the Rottie sure doesn't look thrilled...:mm:

Get to work on those parts...:lol:

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Cool bank, and as mentioned, Bow (is that a girls name?) not looking impressed because the rest of the pack will be laughing at him

I know you claim to have been up all night with him, and are too tired to join me for the bootfair, but I smell a Rottweiler here. Did Amanda keep you up? :waah::waah::waah::waah:

See you later then........:mm:

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

I didn't get much sleep last night , as my big Rottweiler spent most of the night trying to get his cone off , or whining in pain . So the thought of walking around a field at 6.30 am didn't quite appeal .

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So today I got my engine all back together . Just got to collect the rocker covers , air filter and billet pulley from Don's in October to finish it off .


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After cleaning up the garage , I got the wishbones into the carport , and welded up the cut in one of the upper arms caused by a previous owner removing the ball joint with a grinder. I then cleaned up all the edges and removed and sharp edges or burrs .

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...psitknt9jk.jpg

I then got them cleaned up and primed ready for colour tomorrow .

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...pskufnm1ss.jpg

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Martin, your engine looks great, the wishbones are looking great too:metal:

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I noticed you garage shelves are very tidy with all tins and can labels facing forwards, very neat!

and the dog looks totally pee'd off!

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Parts are looking smart...:uhmk:

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Well today it rained all day . So grinding down the rest of the chassis was out of the question , as I need to put my two motor bikes ,the push bikes and the engine hoist outside while I do all the grinding due to the mess it makes . So instead I painted the wishbones . It's another job that needed doing . That way when the chassis is finally painted all the parts will be ready for assembly

I decided to paint them silver

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...psagcrhut0.jpg

These parts will be fitted to them tomorrow

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...pskxv46omo.jpg

The reason I painted them silver is I had seen this picture and liked the look so that's what I am going for

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...psw8qh15ze.jpg

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Well......

It seems the time fora confession has come...:waah:

Today, aaaaaand Yesterday...... I was working on a F@RD.

I am sorry.

Can you all for give me please??

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

This is what happens when working on a F$&@ :haha:
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/769/2...54a459ea_z.jpgUntitled by Donald Olivo, on Flickr

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

:but::ack::dohh::josh:

It's good you got that :mel: off your back. :lol:

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Well this weekend I had planed to do my chassis , but unfortunately my other half had other ideas . She decided to do some cooking, but unfortunately it wasn't in the kitchen, but her engine in her Ford Ka . So instead of working on the truck I made some calls to a salvage yard I knew and located another engine £240 and a nice low mileage engine was mine with only 22900 miles . It's handy sometimes being in the motor trade.

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...ps0aba42ro.jpg

So on Sunday morning a friend from my bike club Steve and his partner Zoe came over to lend a hand . Then a little later Rian turned up to help . The trouble with the Ka is there is no room under the bonnet (hood for you Americans ) and having air con as well didn't help .

Rian keeping the rear of the car on the ground as we jacked up the front . I am not saying he's heavy but it did keep both rear wheels on th ground .

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...psolsxq1bo.jpg


Old engine out and box out . We also did the top suspension mounts as they needed to be changed due to an advisory on its MOT .

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...ps5rpaasdm.jpg

Two very happy grease monkeys engine all back in and started first turn of the key

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...psof32h5om.jpg

So all being well truck time next weekend

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Glad it all worked out mate...:mm:

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Where's the car? I see the shop chair. ;) :lol:

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

I forgive you ,my wife owns a Ferd so I have to maintain it .

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

It was a good day out, despite us Not getting to our trucks, I always feel quite strongly that the girls need involvement in our hobbies or the havoc they create in our lives.

Zoe and Amanda really were outside, on hand the whole day. Steve has a gem in Zoe, she was collecting and sorting tools (there were a lot of them) all day, and if anyone asked for a 15mm ratchet, deep socket or whatever, she had them out faster than I personally could. She also "got" the photographing of silly moments very quickly, like the pic Don posted earlier. Amanda was the go to girl, and ended up carrying engine hoist parts through the house when I dismantled it as we were quite grubby by then and oily feet are not appreciated through the house (yes, everything has to be carried through the house as the side is blocked by bikes, axles, chassis etc) she also kept sandwiches, drinks coming through.

Just to put stuff in perspective, the driveway, though concreted, is at an angle of 25-30' so quite a slope, and the Mondeo estate parts chaser was anchored to the back of the Ka when it went up on the axle stands, to prevent it rolling/falling off.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psko0r6hby.jpg


Another pic, taken by Zoe probably made me laugh the most, as Martin's big ham fists, which were the smallest between him, Steve's and my hands could not fit into the tight fiddly spaces up front, so Amanda had to come get her dainty little sandwich making hands in there to tighten some nuts and clips.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psptos3qdo.jpg

It was great seeing Martin call her out at the end to start up the engine and then seeing her crazy Victory dance on the driveway with Zoe.

A good days work and friendship (plus learnings for me)

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

:metal:Sounded like a really good day for all of you.

Victory dance for all. ;)
:ennyd:

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Thanks for sharing the story and pics of the day's adventures...:mm:

Amanda rockin' the Studio Tee...:metal:

too bad there wasn't video of the Victory Dance...:lol:

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Nice team work. Now you just need the same team around when the V8 is going in the truck

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

4.5 weeks...:metal:

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

Today I managed to persuade (asked nicely) mate Martin to come over and help, and supervise the replacement process on my front end rebuild. Thinking we would be done before dark.

Yeeeeaaahhhhh Riiiiighht.

Started by disassembling the Wishbones, suspension and steering.


http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psawq7fuxl.jpg

Martin did not need to convince me very much to drop the front cross member, so that was a quick 7 bolts if I recall correctly.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psm6wrdybz.jpg


After my bits were removed etc, we also started to rebuild his suspension parts that were already cleaned, painted etc.

Still need to find a decent press to press the last bits in.

Different kits have different parts, weirdly.

Thanks mate for helping.

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Very pleased with the way he helped me "break" my truck even further.....


Mr Hetherington himself after all was said and done.

Thank you mate, looks like we are spending a lot of time on each other's problems.... Last week the engine swap, today tearing my truck down to further than I ever wanted.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...pshiyudj0u.jpg

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

I am sure glad to see people get greasy when they work. Seems like down here I come our looking like I bathed in grease/oil, while all my "mates" look like they picked up a dusty rag :rolleyes:

Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
 

That's probably because you are doing most of the work Bill . You only need to look at me and Stephen last week and then look at the others that's all I am going to say