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WOW ,you have been busy ,looks good .

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Very nice truck man!

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Tonight's progress!!

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There is nothing no prettier than keeping the stock valve covers and painting the engine chevy orange. That looks great. Keep her stock all you can!

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Thanks, I've been trying to keep it as stock as I can! :chevy:

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I like what your doing. Looking great.

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Looking good dude!

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More engine progress :devil:

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Sweet build. Sweet truck. Great work you're doing as well. Gotta love those family vehicles that transcend generations.

I always wanted to tinker on car/truck projects with my dad, but he wasn't ever interested in autos. Quite bizarre, seeing as he'd worked on or around them his entire life. So, kudos on that.

What's more, kudos on having the space and tools to perform alot of this work on your own. It was difficult for me growing up, just to wrench on my autos, due to lack of tools and space at my folks' houses.

Hell, even now, as an adult, I STILL don't have the space to yank an engine out of any of my vehicles. I am, at least for now, severely limited to just minimally invasive wrenching. XD

Anyway, carry on. Have fun and keep up the good work!

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Thanks IHeartGroceries, yes I am SUPER lucky to have the space to work on my truck. We just built a new shop almost 2 years ago for working on all of our cars. My dad, me and my little brother did a frame off, show truck about 3 years ago and I gained a ton of knowledge from that. Once that truck was done we built the new shop which has a lift, tons on tools and so on and it makes it super easy to work on my truck. It has been a ton of fun working on my truck the past two month all by myself. But I would even have the tools or workspace if it weren't for my dad. Huge thanks to him.

Tonight I got the engine all finished up and it's now in the truck. Tomorrow I will reconnect all the wiring and possible start hanging some sheet metal!! I go back to school on Monday so progress will slow. Only able to work on it alittle but after school and on weekends. Hopefully I will be driving it everyday to school in the next week or two.

Also, anybody have any tips for getting the bolts into the engine mounts? I have the brackets bolted to the engine and then the perches bolted to the frame but I can't get the bolt that holds the two together to thread into the engine mounts. It feel like it is catching on the rubber in the mount. I tried lining it up with a punch and u got it all lined up but I just can't get the bolt to thread into re mount. It just kind of starts to thread into the rubber and then it doesn't tighten down. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Looks good!

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Lossen the mounts and towers, gives a little wiggle room. For really stubborn ones I've ground a little off the long bolts to make a slight bevel.

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Finished wiring the engine up and started hanging some sheet metal today too! :chevy:

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Looking awesome man !! Keep goin ..

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Got all the sheet metal hung and the engine wired, plumed and all set up to try to fire. Just have to finish Instalung grill, bumper, cowl and a few other small prices this weekend and she will be done! Hope to be driving her to school by Monday!! :devil:

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Looks sweet! I have a soft spot for blue and white 67-72's. I had a 71 and my dad had a 72. Looking forward to more progress. When you get it fired up make a youtube video and post it.

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I defiantly will if I can figure out how! :lol: Today I finished running the rest of the hoses, got the grill and bumper bolted on and aligned and all the little small pieces that were left like the headlight bezels, coolant, air cleaner and heat riser. I did notice that my inner grill has a broken tab so Im going to Try to find a nice original inner grill to replace it. My dad is at work until Sunday morning so I won't get a chance to fire it till then.

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Well today was the day, I finally fired off the truck!! Yesterday was a day of frustration as we could not get the truck to fire. It was turning over, we had spark and fuel but it wouldn't fire. We also could not get the distributed to fall on TDC. After messing with it for over 3 hours my dad and I gave up and called it a night. Today we picked up a new set of points and started to work. We changed the points and managed to get the distributer in and when we went to fire it up we had the same problem. So we went to check the plug wires and I had them off by 2 cylinders. After fixing that we went to start it and it fired right up!! Great oil pressure, temp and sound. It sounds awesome!!!! 315 HP and 300 ft lbs of torque. It is a completely different truxm now. I still have to blast the hood hungers and fit the hood but I plan on driving it to school this coming week. All the hard work and $ has paid off and it feels great!!

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Congrats on a job well done .

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I have been driving the truck everyday to school since I finished up the engine. Has lots of power and drives great. Only problem I am having is when I accelerate from a stop the engine almost cuts out a little bit. If I slowly exelerate it is not as noticeable, but if I put my foot down a little bit from a stop it almost dies, then after a little bobble it accelerates as it should. Any ideas on what it could be?

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And what's an update without a picture or two!

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Hey I'm 18, And I had that problem too, make sure the timing is right, and also make sure the carb isn't jammed haha I used to have that same problem.

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Could be a problem with the accelerator pump.