Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Looking good Rian :metal: pleased you got the bushes sorted, it will be back on its wheels in no time.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Thanks Ian, with the help, encouragement and knowledge shared on here, I have little option but to get it finished.


Progress is Progress as my good friend Ta2Don always says.

Today was primarily filled with family commitments, but tonight when we got in, I went down to the garage for a bit of Truck Time. I really needed a bit of clear headspace.

So a bit of rear end action was in order.

I have wanted to do this for some time, but of course there is always a sequence, and we all have different sequences, this is mine.

I bought a new, adjustable Panhard Rod from Performance On Line for the truck as the various geometries change when you lower the truck.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psvf2me7tt.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psu9zi9m18.jpg

Tried to undo the previously lubricated nuts keeping ithe Panhard Rod captive.... Fail.

Out came my faithfull rattle gun and in moments we were in business. This really is a great tool when doing a resto or trying to get 50 year old nuts undone.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...pst0p3v9eb.jpg

Wear and tear and rotten bushes.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psfp8mpaeu.jpg

Once that was done, I could at last do the rust converter on the prop shaft, diff and rear axle and trailing arms. These will all get painted black, like the rest of the underside of the truck.

I am in two minds about the lowered springs, the red Iput on them is looking worse for wear, being rattle can red, so do I paint them red Hammerite or black??

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

While I had the rust converter on the go, I did the under bed toolbox as well, next stop is paint and making a simple flat bar frame for it.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps8d3tyc68.jpg

In the mean time the weather got worse, wind and rain pumping away, so I called it a night, but thoroughly pleased I had got a couple of hours in the garage with the truck.

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Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Glad you got some time for the truck Rian. I would say considering your climate, to go ahead and repaint the springs before they get buried more.
The purple, red and black make an interesting combination so far on that chassis. ;)

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Thanks for the reply Bill,

The purple is just the Vactan, rust converter still being wet, along with the lights above that looks interesting, almost like an ultraviolet light.

It will be only black and red for the details.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

It is interesting as it dries though :lol:

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

When it eventually dries in winter you mean Bill.


Not much done today. House and family time with Nicola.

Martin called this morning early to tell me I had the Panhard rod wrong and needed to get my nuts wrenched again.

Aaaarrgghhh...!!

Rather now than later.

So, what did I do wrong? When I fitted it, I looked at some pics on other build threads and did what I saw. So the adjustment end was fitted to the stud on the pumpkin. And the fixed end into the chassis end bracket. Of course to adjust it all, you need to be able to drop the adjustment end and twist it in or out to make longer or shorter, so if it were fixed to the pumpkin you could not do that, but as a drop down, easy.

This is what I did yesterday and corrected today.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psu9zi9m18.jpg


The rust converter I painted last night on the chassis etc had not completely dried, so I could not paint the chassis and axle today, which meant little done.

I did manage to get the toolbox its first coat of enamel paint, and broke the one hinge on the lid. Hopefully that will not be a problem in the long run, but I may still find a small hinge to fit to it with some small nuts n bolts before fitting it under the truck.

Final color will be white inside and black outside.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psqcco2kab.jpg

Not a a lot done this weekend, but rain and cold tends to slow stuff down a bit.

Snow forecast for Thursday and Friday.

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Thought I had to post this up.

I love a lot of random stuff, from classics to RatRods

A mate in South Africa posted this in my trucks build thread and I loved what I saw.

In the style it is built, the builder IMHO has struck the balance just right.

Why go Willys when you can go Land Cruiser?

We know how badly they rust away.

Anyway........

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...pske3fpefe.jpg

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

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psthp3ut4b.jpg

And on the road.......

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psaqm7mjjo.jpg

He also builds Teardrop trailers.

Here is his Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/AllersRodsAndCustoms

More of what comes out of his creative pen.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps0ctkcyma.jpg

These may not be to everyone's taste, but it is great to see some good solid creativity come from South African builders.

The Internet has again helped in my education.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Those are just plain COOL .

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

That Land Cruiser is just awesome:metal: it's like Mad Max meets hotrod

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

looking good!!! just a thought on those bolts being a certain way round.. does it have anything to do with once the whole truck is put together and you want to take that part out the bolts have to be a certain way to it doesnt catch on some other part and wont come off?

I recall on my old land rover 90, I was taking something apart and had to cut the bolts off because the previous owner had put it the wrong way. the nuts should have come off and then slid the bolt the way there was space to do so....

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Those look great!

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

I really like the Land Cruiser. He's very creative

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Agreed

Land Cruiser is my choice too.

I guess it can be either way, but I prefer to put is back as it was.

I like different stuff.


So a bit like you then ;)

That's why I like his work.

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Got a PM on Garage Journal from a member with zero posts but registered in 2009 last week.

This week he messaged again, I had forgotten about the PM as I am a bit preoccupied with finding a new job.

Still, I called him to discuss the offer he had put.

He had a bunch of duplicate and unneeded plates in his collection to offer me, and was looking for some South African plates.

So I found him some nice varied plates from my vintage pile. And sent them off.

He has will be sending me these........

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psuwfcovc7.jpg

Yup, very happy and feel privileged.

It seems winter is here....

Saw gritters everywhere on the road today. Got home, planned to go work in the garage but the wind was pumping, and the temperature had dropped to a level where paint would not dry well.

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So on to "Plan B"

Nicola was going out with friends for dinner.

And when the cat is away....... This mouse will play. As Paul NevEno says, the house is hers and the shop is mine.

So I brought in some bits to paint.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psxkg51ucd.jpg

Job done, first coat on.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps4zdi4viu.jpg

Little by little.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

I dont see anything being painted in the house ,just being stored so it will stay warm. When I was restoring my truck it had quite a bit of inhouse storage .

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

:metal:

Niclola will understand mate!!!:mm:

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

She came in a few minutes ago and a friend had just popped in to drop off some tyres he owed me, on his way to work, he starts at 00.50 on the underground.

So a pair of tyres on the floor plus the painted parts,,,,,,

Not word said.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

good to see the activity at your shop… like the red tool box and springs. the additions to your plate collection are fantastic, pretty soon you will have enough they will become siding for the interior of your shop though not very good insulation for this time of year at least very interesting.

good luck with the job search…

yesterday, we had a powerball lottery that reached 1 1/2 billion dollars and i bought 5 tickets… had i WON both you and Martin would be in the USA and both would be building trucks and enjoying the good life. Oh Well, will keep trying...

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Thank you Clem, I trust the right job will come my way. Sooner the better of course.

Regarding the Power Ball....... Thank you very much, that would be rather good.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

That Land Cruiser is too cool !

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Rian, I have stuff in the living room closet, my closet, an the rest is in the garage! the house is insulated so my paint an things needing to be painted are in the house!

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Thought you may like it too.

Hey Chad, it's all about give and take..... We give them love, we take chance.

Nicola is very tolerant and know I would leave stuff as I found it.


Plans for today included removing the rear springs on the truck And painting them red.

I also wanted to assemble more of the new front end steering parts and get the stub axles cleaned up and ready for refitting.

In the end I spent about 10 minutes on the truck and teardrop trailer and the rest of the day on Nicola's car.

So today's update mainly has modern crapp and frustration to show.

Nicola's Peugeot 107 daily has had a leak for some time, I did repair what I thought was the problem last year. Clearly it did not work, and the problem,and water leaking into the rear got worse.

So today I looked into the boot/trunk and found this rather large puddle in the spare wheel well.

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

I had previously thickened the gasket around the rear light cluster, seems it was not the only place water got in.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psyovmzg88.jpg

So I went back to Google...... Found the Peugeot 107, Citroen C1 and Toyota Aygo all have the same problem, and manufacturers and dealers really are not interested in sorting it out, also there are at least 5 places around the rear where water gets in.

So crawling about in 1'C on the driveway for several hours, the car ended up this way.

One of the places suggested for the leaks was these two vents pointed out, some suggested removing them and then closing the holes with a plate, which sounded like a good idea, till mate Martin called and said not to do that.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps57mybhbj.jpg

So I removed them, cleaned it all up and put a thick bead of silicon around them once refitted. I also replaced the light clusters with silicon around the seals.

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


Typically, the last item, which is one of those suggested on Google was the rear high level brake light.

I removed it, and am pretty certain it may be the ultimate culprit.

Once cleaned up, more silicone and full reassembly.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psfmaw3cvs.jpg

After this I mocked up the new chrome smoothies and tyres on the teardrop. 5 stud Cevy/Ford fitment.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psncbauk2e.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psfiw6tm26.jpg

Next trick will be to remove the hubs, find someone who can fill the existing holes, and then drill and tap 5 stud pattern and machine away a little bit off the centre. New bearings will probably be a sensible thing too.

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

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

the land cruiser and the Vdubb are cool and the 41 chevy coupe project in the backround too .
the guy has some great ideas , I like his way of thinking ..

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Hopefully Nicola's car will be dry now. Good talking with you the other morning Rian.

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Happy birthday mate I will be over to give you a hand in a short while

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

:ennyd: Happy Birthday from the frozen north

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Happy Birthday Rian!

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Yup, Toyota based item my choice too.

Was good to talk to you as well Bill.

I hope that her car now stays dry.

Thanks Martin, and thanks for the help.

Yup, cool here too Ian.

Thank you.

Thank you again Bill.


Well, my birthday was good.

Spent time in the garage till we ran into a left hand and right hand thread proble.

Look below for full report and questions.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Well, today was my birthday, and thank you to all who commented, called, texted and did Facebook entries.

You all made my day even more special.

Nicola cut me loose to spend most of the day in the garage with mate Martin who came over to visit and play in the garage.

After Martin left we went out for dinner and to watch the new Quentin Tarantino movie "The Hatefull Eight"

So, back to the garage.

Plan was to reassemble as much of the front end as possible between the two of us.

Notice trolley out...... Axle stands in and chassis pulled forward in garage.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps7cuxwuag.jpg

Of course I do not feature in the pics I take......

The drums are on, and there are new brake cylinders fitted. I have new hoses and will be fitting new brake pipes everywhere. But currently the inner drums are empty.

New parts are good.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psrcj2wmom.jpg

Waiting for the brake drum rebuild kits to get here from the USA.

Ta2Don bought and posted them for us three weeks ago, then a week later the U.S. Postal Service returned the parcel as undeliverable to him........ So now we have a delay.

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http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psuhfti7uq.jpg

Good pic for Front End Friday submission.

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

While Martin was tightening drop link bolts I made him a 12mm thick copy of the spacer that came with my idler arm..... Thank goodness I saw some nice thick steel at the yard last week. So now he can hopefully get his set up right too.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psnd7jqed5.jpg

We actually ran into a problem at this point, after we fitted the wheels to the hubs. Nice feeling though. But a long way to go.

I will do a separate entry on the issue.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

its looking very good , and happy birthday too

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Thank you Jim, much appreciated.

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Getting up to this point with the reassembly, the last part was to assemble the Steering tie rod ends and their adjustable sleeves and fit it all together with the idler arm etc.....

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So..........


When we tried to assemble these parts, it seems I was supplied with 4 Right handed threaded parts. So two screwed straight into the adjusting sleeves, and two refused, till we realised there should be two left hand threads.

Martin and I also came up yo the house to call Paul "NevEno" in Ada, Oklahoma on FaceTime (Don't you love technology) to double check that we were right.

Of course when we removed all the parts from the plastic bags, we did not note which parts and part numbers were associated.

So its it like this....?

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...pskx7ghh1h.jpg

Or are they like this?

It's the 350 and 370. L/R units I need to figure out.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...pskx7ghh1h.jpg


One more thing, the thickness of the tapered inserts on the tie rod ends differ, the two that fit the original truck steering parts are 15.5mm thick and those that are wrong threaded are also 16.5mm at max taper.

So now need to figure out which parts I need to order, I think they are the inner tie rod ends with left hand thread and correct inserts.

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

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Happy Birthday Rian! :metal:

Nice progress on the C10... too bad about the parts delays.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

It looks like you have 2 sets of inner tie rods.(perhaps whoever boxed up the kit wasn't paying attention) On my truck the inners were much longer, (pictures below) sorry I can't help with part numbers, but think you need a pair of outer tie rod ends.

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Attachment 1489143

It they were put into the kit in error, the wrongly threaded ones may not even be for a C10.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

it sucks if you have to order parts from the US and they get it wrong… frustrating i know. but fortunately there's lot of different projects to stay busy.

how many weeks from the reorder till you have parts in hand?

just frustrating… hang in there partner. the job looks great so far.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Hi Clem, thank you for the reply.

You are right, it is frustrating, but of course there is always stuff to keep me busy.

It can be up to 4 weeks.

Though the LCA was only 8 days.

Ohhh, and yes.... Hanging in there.


Had a variety of errands to run today, as well as some admin for the job I got made redundant from.

So late afternoon I made it into the garage, probably about 4pm.

The plan was to get the rear end of the truck on axle stands, drop the rear and remove the springs, paint them red and then also do the rest of the chassis black, and leave pair of oil heaters on between the chassis rails overnight to help the paint dry. We had a forecast of -2'C for tonight.

Front end with wheels attached, mainly just as a backup to the axle stands under the front frame horns.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psrxkmgu33.jpg

Then to the rear where I removed the wheels, at which point my mobile phone on the shelf started ringing..... I did not want to answer it, after all, who calls me at 4.30 or whatever?

Thankfully I did answer the phone as it was the lady at the agency calling to formally offer me the job I interviewed for last week Thursday.

So I now have a new job, thankfully before the redundancy put me out of work, commencing on the 15th Feb. working in a secondary care specialty job in London again.

So this is where I left the truck as I came in to tell Nicola and text a few friends.........

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

Tomorrow I will carry on.

Woooot Wooot, real thankful to have a job again.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

VERY AWESOME!! congrats on the new job!!

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Congrats on the new job and the truck is looking great .

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

congrats Rian on the new job! truck is looking good as well!

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Great news on the job and I hope you get the steering sorted out.