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Good stuff, both of them!

Brian

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Got the "new" aprons stripped of parts and straightened out for sand blasting. I am thinking maybe having them powder coated as they the only kinda funky part will be behind the grille. But even then these are so rough from the factory it's hardly different where I worked the damaged areas.


Brian

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trucks looking great but i have to say the puppy stole the show!!!!

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I gotta admit guys, I’m feeling a little lost now that the truck is done. I go out to the garage and putz around but there’s really nothing to do. After pushing for months to get stuff done, it’s hard to quit cold turkey...

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Take things off and bolt them back on then wean off slowly. :D

I disassembled the parking brake stuff I just got and started figuring that out.

If anyone knows, does it have a pin through it to hold it into the the fender/cab bracket? The last photo is the close up of that. It has what looks like a pin in it that is broken off flush.

Brian

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Dang, if that Factory Assembly Manual had made it to you, you could look it up.

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If you're hurtin' now, there's no hope for you at all when the first 6" of snow hits! :(

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martin: if I remember correctly there is a cotter pin thru that hole that holds a spring and a flat washer in place. I will have to crawl under mine & look this weekend unless some one else chimes in. my shop manual doesn't show any details of the parking brake.

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I hear you Mark. Had the same feeling when I finished mine. Just don't do what I did... drive it a couple weeks then decide to "upgrade" most of the drivetrain. Now have a whole new set of bugs to work out but it's keeping me busy tinkering on the truck. A form of denial I guess :lol:

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I gotta admit guys, I’m feeling a little lost now that the truck is done. I go out to the garage and putz around but there’s really nothing to do. After pushing for months to get stuff done, it’s hard to quit cold turkey...
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drive around all over looking for deals on stuff related to fixing old trucks. buy the good stuff. totally fix it, sell it.
that gives you time in the truck driving around
the projects are small and have a light at the end of a short tunnel
if you get tired of a certain part or it is more involved than you want, just resell it
keeps your skills up
keeps you happy because you get to hammer the living S%$# outta stuff and work your frustrations out

post pics of your stuff (ahem, car parts) on here so we can keep tabs on you, lol.

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This might help. I hooked up the floor ebrake in my truck.

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Can be hard to sit still at times, but I'm sure you can find something to do. Always old junk needing repaired.

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Ordered some blanks to cut myself a few extra keys. I was sure I did not have any blanks that would match. They arrived and I went out to cut them, while setting up my key cutter I looked on my key board and saw a an entire stack of old GM keys. (Key on right) So I matched the key and tried cutting it, sure enough it was the right blank. I sure like finding stuff I forgot I had.

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usually you keep that stuff on a shelf or in a box and move it from house to house. then you finally do a clean out and purge the old stuff. next day, you need that part and have to go buy it.
looks like you need a 108638 cp pin for that shaft Brian. maybe a bit of ginding and a bushing on the and where it is worn down.

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I am trying to come to a color and am coming up empty. The large spray out card is 58 Corvette "red" and it looks like friggin mud! OMG it's NOT red, it's not orange, it looks like dirt was sprayed on the card. This Ford you see is pretty close to it, but still way more red. And what is funny is the color you see here taken with my camera and put on the net with you looking at it with an HP or a Mac, or what ever it isn't going to be even close to the real color. The second I took the photo of that Ford I could see it was WAY, WAY redder on the camera than in person. So right off the bat this is a waste of time for you guys. LOL

The small spray out cards are SPI colors with the reds really more what I want. But damn, I WANT a 50's Corvette color to fit the theme of the truck but damn this is not where I want to go. I am going to check the spray out card against Corvettes at the next Goodguys and see what they have and talk to them on their color. There are a few that are restored that I see that I believe are the correct color.

Brian

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It just cracks me up, that large spray out card isn't even in the same city let alone the same ball park as that Ford it's laying on in the second photo.

Brian

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I thank you SOOOOOO much, I printed that out, thank you! :metal:

Brian

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The '58 Corvette red was nicknamed "SOUP", because it looked like Campbells Tomato. Try looking at the '64 Corvette Riverside red. You won't be disappointed.

If you want to go completely crazy, go for the 2019 Ford Edge Ruby Red, http://www.brandonford.com/blog/2019...ption-gallery/

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The bummer is I want a stock GM color from the fifties. I want nothing on this truck that is later than mid fifties. But it looks like I am going to have to stretch the truth a little. LOL

I have to assume Harley Earl had access to redder reds!

Brian

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I got some welding done on my parking brake bell crank. Got the roll pin and cotter pins drilled out. Took my evening walk making a trip to the hardware store part of it and got some machine washers for the parking brake.

Got my five minutes in!

Brian

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I installed my speedo pulse generator. Now I face a decision:

The truck needs some work that's beyond my capabilities in a home garage so it must be taken into town. Trouble is "town" is an hour's drive on Interstate highways over three mountain passes with 6% grades. Hardcore road test, eh? I don't have a rig that can trailer it, and getting a tow truck to my remote location would be prohibitively expensive. Pretty scary driving it so far having just put the thing together and only driven around the block! But here there's no back roads, only the freeway.

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'56 Chevy Matador Red?

https://www.sw-rodandrestocustomcolor.com/colors/PCCL72

The same hue was on the Buick too:

https://www.google.com/search?q=1956...U8oLiiP0a5FQM:

...and the Olds:

https://www.google.com/search?client...30.hUY0xh1Ucr4

...and the Caddy:

https://www.google.com/search?client...30.vz8JWpa7YL0

...and the Pontiac:

https://www.google.com/search?client...30.qEM38Rxr0BI

...and here are the paint chips:

http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/chipdisp...&info=&page=11

Keep lookin'!

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I'll look into that, thanks!

Brian

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I share your dilemma. When the sun comes up i will be going to N. Bend (a 140 mile round trip) to see if they can fix the leak (again) on my newly rebuilt tranny. Coastal 101 has some real hairy spots near/on the ocean. I have AAA Premium as my co-pilot (200 mile tow) and could have had Hagerty insurance tows (unlimited 60 mile tows). If it were less than the 60 mile i would opt for the tow in a heart beat. Added plus is no gas cost!!!! (and you can go with both ways. Not a plug for them as I am a brand new customer ($@#@%@%!!!! Safeco recently DOUBLED my premium for no reason)

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Mark, I totally agree. it was hard work to get the truck on the road, now i go out there and stare at it. I may repaint a few parts come spring, but for now, I start it up and smile.

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if I remember correctly there is a cotter pin thru that hole that holds a spring and a flat washer in place. I will have to crawl under mine & look this weekend unless some one else chimes in. my shop manual doesn't show any details of the parking brake.

Brian: Just got a chance to look under my truck at the park brake & I was right. there is a cotter pin & washer on the end of the cross bar just like that diagram shows.

Mine is so worn that I don't trust it to keep the truck from rolling away when parked. so im looking at using a c10/ s10 parking brake assembly like others on here have done. but that's a project for this winter.

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Yeah, I welded up the worn area and will make it work like it should.

Brian

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I got out there and cleaned up all the parts to my parking brake parts. I need to do some detail work sand blasting then I will spray some black epoxy primer. I am not sure what I am going to do with the one bar that has the thingie around it to hold the parking brake by binding against it, see photo. Don't have a clue what these parts are called, I think, tubular thingie and flat thingie? Anyway, the tubular thingie really needs to be zinc plated or something because the flat thingie will scrap the paint off it. I don't know, I am not a thingie specialist.

The very cool thing that happened today, oh yeah, I am gitty over. I have been picking up quart cans at the hardware store when I spray epoxy to mix it and let it induce to shoot it the next day. The cans cost $4 and I figured, what the heck, being I haven't bought empty cans in so long I just figured with what a roll of masking tape costs now, I figured that was the going price. Today I went to the paint store and bought a bunch of cans for a little over a dollar each, geeeez.

Anyway, got something done, and on I go.

Brian

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Car show in your garage, every day.

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I fixed the leaking valve cover and took El Camión Verde for a little cruise...

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I got the underside of the front fenders and hood primed. And out of the blue I was going on a walk and saw that my neighbor across the street had his 37 Chevy coupe out side and I went over to chat. I ended up helping him a bit on it. He told me he has some AD truck stuff and handed me this new glove box and nice seat mouldings, wild! It's really funny in that he and I have lived here 20 years and really haven't talked much. He is the kinda guy who I watched a cop take an axe off a fire truck and bust his front door in to arrest his room mate. So things haven't been good. Lately we have been better and now he is giving me parts.

Brian

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Better be careful, those parts are probably hot, ha ha! ;) I still dig that Falcon. Did they have the Sprint model in '63?

If I remember my elementary Espanol, that means The Green Truck??? Nice elevated photo perspective; looks like a magazine shot.

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BIG DAY today! I took the '51 for it's first real road test. Yes, I'd already made a trip around the block, but today I took it out on the highway for the first time. I made a 20-mile jaunt to the next little town south to fill the gas tank. Started on two-lane road, everything felt good so I increased speed up to 50 mph. Stopped at the local truck scales to check things out; all systems A-OK so hit the freeway. Kept it at a conservative 60 mph just to be safe - plus I have no seat belts yet so felt a little insecure. My wife followed me in the family car just in case I needed rescue.

Everything couldn't have gone better! The new speedometer worked perfectly. The steering wheel could be rotated one spline counter-clockwise. Engine stayed around 160*. Steering seemed a little twitchy - is that typical of manual Mustang IIs? Will probably feel normal after I adapt to it awhile. Brakes, bearings, etc all stayed cool. Wheels and tires ran smooth, no vibration. Ditto for the drive shaft. After 50 years and multiple frame-up builds, maybe I'm getting the hang of this car building stuff, ha ha!

Sorry, no new pictures - everywhere I stopped I was instantly surrounded by admirers so no time for photos. LOL, might have had something to do with the open headers attracting attention!

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Correct, but El Camión Verde sounds much sexier than the green truck.

Glad you liked the pic, I usually take a bunch and one or two turn out...

Congrats on your successful maiden voyage. It takes awhile to develop confidence in a fresh build. After nearly 225 miles on mine, I'm finally able to relax and enjoy the drive.

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A very great day in a very cool truck! Congrats!

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Oh damn that is cool! :metal:

Brian

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Congrats on the good trip, always nice to know all your hard work has paid off with a good shake down run.


Worked on my fiberglass electric fan shroud. First time to work with fiberglass, it not to easy but I'm getting the hang of it.

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I've been doing a little basic assembly before starting phase 1 of the electrical install. I had the A/C unit in, but ripped it back out when I realized I hadn't put the sound deadener behind it. No big deal. At this point, 10 minutes means nothing.

I did learn one thing: Don't lower the hood without the fenders or latch panel on. It just keeps on going! No damage though...

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that's a great color choice. when you first posted pics of the ghosted firewall I could take it or leave it but now that its partially assembled it looks really cool. good work man. good work.