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Your hard work is really paying off. Looking good!

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Your firewall looks great! That truck is going to look killer in that color. Good job!

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Thanks bill :metal:

Thanks Jim

Thanks rian, I've been pushing really hard to get it painted before it gets too cold out. I read all about your trip to Clem's, looked like a hell of a good time you guys had out there!

Thanks Matt

Thanks John, and yep it's sure going to look good

Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
 

Looks fabulous man. Wish my gun would behave and spray that nice. haha

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Thanks tj, this gun wasn't working very well either probably because of how cheap it was, but I sanded the firewall super smooth and then made sure it was clean of all contaminants, then sprayed and it turned out great. Thats how painting is unfortunately, sometimes it turns out great and sometimes it turns out terrible and you can't figure out why, can be very frustrating

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In my case extremely. haha Gun sprayed out primer wonderfully but when it came to paint it orange peeled like mad, had everything set to specs and paint mixed properly. Was a little cold and wet that day so that could have had a bad affect. Not sure. lol Gonna color sand and try again. :chevy:

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Well that progress was short lived, after I finished the painting on Friday I headed of to work to let it dry on the nice sunny day. When I was at work the weather started to change drastically and started to pour rain for 10 minutes. I just dried of all the water now and about 80% of the paint job got watermarks all over it. So I'm going to wait a while until the paint fully cures and try wet sanding it, I'm really hoping that it'll work and I don't have to redo it.

Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
 

Love seeing that fresh paint!

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Luckily it ended up that the watermarks were only on the very top surface, they came out easily

Thanks Craig




Made some more progress on the rear end today, I rebuilt the rear brakes with new shoes, wheel cylinders and springs, since I used the 78 backing plates and brakes I ordered the wider 2 3/4" shoes, so now its upgraded a bit better than stock

Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
 

A fresh coat of paint makes such an amazing transformation to things.

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Thanks man, it sure does

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Been making lots of little progress, just not much picture worthy... But I did get the heater all assembled and installed on the truck for good now. Tomorrow I'll be finishing a pushrod for the brake booster.

Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
 

Yesterday I finished up the brake pushrod and installed the booster for good. For the pushrod I welded part of the old one to part of the new one, it's threaded and has a locknut so I can adjust the length if needed

Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
 

I welded a nut on to the diff cover and put a short bolt through it with an o ring for making oil filling much easier.

Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
 

Clever Clever.

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:agree:

Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
 

I agree too, this is clever. Never seen it done before...thanks for the share!

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Time to go into business. lol

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Yes, thanks rian
:)
Thanks Doug, just a little something I thought up.
Maybe I'll have to see about that lol

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Still making decent progress here, just not many pictures. Just today I installed a new pinion seal.

Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
 

Beauty Nik! Keep plugging away at her.

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Burnouts be coming soon! :D

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Thanks Anthony
Oh yeah, I just might have to do them on a wet wooden bridge since I only have the six:lol:




Just the other day I purchased some hubcaps from a good friend in comox bc, I believe they are 67-69 camaro/Nova/Chevelle. They should be arriving in the mail soon.

Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
 

Great job on the truck. Things are looking nice.

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Thanks rusty.



Today at school I used the metal lathe to make some pieces for my hydraulic clutch linkage. I turned down some roundstock and used my tap and die set to thread them. The threaded hole on this piece attaches to the clutch master cylinder and the threaded stick-out part threads into the rod end. The lock nut is to make adjustments and tighten it so it won't come out of adjustment

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And the top piece here is threaded all the way through and attaches to the pedal and pivots on the rod end

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And here it is together

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I then installed the clutch master cylinder for the final time

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Here is the linkage all Hooked up and adjusted

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While I was doing this I decided to adjust the clutch pedal to a height that I like, it's about inline with the brake pedal (The angle of the picture makes it look out of line). I still need to add a pedal stop pad to prevent the master cylinder from bottoming out and also add a clutch return spring.

Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
 

As usual Nik, very nice work. Good looking hub caps too

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That T5 will make awesome 6 banger burnouts! This was on wet pavement but it does it just as easy on dry :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VynJxi-w8AM

Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
 

Nice machine work! Sure beats buying a part.

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Good job bud. :chevy:

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Thanks Dale, and the hubcaps were only $40!

Thanks Scott, that's awesome, can't wait until the spring or summer when I have it up and running!
Thanks Doug, I couldn't agree more.
Thanks tj😀

Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
 

On Friday I finally got the rear end all finished and buttoned up and I brought it home from the school shop. All it needs is a little paint on the cover and the adjusters to be set correctly

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And today I did some drilling on the frame and got the power steering box mocked up with the adaptor plate

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Another pic

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And a close up of where I had to redrill the box so that all of the holes lined up with the frame. Now all I need to do is weld the boxed portion of the frame back in place and buy some longer bolts

Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
 

Great work on the clutch hook-up