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And how did that bleeding go? Got brakes?

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not yet, thank you for asking, first we have to stroll together through adapter, reducer, inverter flare fitting hell

I think the OEM master cylinder runs 1/4 brake lines and my Wilwood proportioning valve wants 3/16 so I had to order some fittings accordingly, and of course NAPA closed at 5 pm on Sunday although their sign on the door says 7 pm and Oh'Really and AutoZone were completely useless

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"If at first you don't succeed, try again, if you still fail, try again, if it still doesn't work, quit, give up, go do something else"
~ The Good Enuff Garage


Electric C10 - Give Me A Brake

enjoy...

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Wow! What a PITA. Good luck with the manual conversion.

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Great video!
Really hope you can make it work

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thank you the parts are starting to arrive

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thanks Kirk, I love the years of your trucks in your signature!

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I swear I can now make brake lines in my sleep, sometimes I even put both fittings on them!

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Looking good! Glad to see you've had the time to get back on it.

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I need my garage back so I can do the brakes on our daughters Mazda 3 :lol::lol::lol:

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happy to report brakes are done and all working, son helped me bleed 'em! thank you Michael you won't hear me talk about them ever again, sheesh enuff of that, we have an electric truck to build!

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Congratulations to you and Michael.

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A quick update on the truck and what we are doing today


This Is Done!

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round peg square hole, how does that go?

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so you cut off the square part and what do you have left?

you can't make this stuff up folks:

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and the Toyota Prius electric power steering is back in

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got the Toyota Prius electric power steering installed short video


Truck Update: Steering

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Moving along now!

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thanks Robert, yes indeed, I need to go look at what you've been up to

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Gen 1 Chevy Volt charger and DC DC converter, keeping the Chevy GMC, Lexus, BMW, Prius, Honda, Tesla all stock for the purists

DC DC converter serves a similar role to an alternator except it takes high voltage from the big battery pack say 360 volts and reduces it to 14.5 volts or there abouts in order to charge the "12 volt" regular car battery

Why not just use a regular automotive alternator?
This would result in a lot of losses. Lets follow the power chain. We would start at the high voltage battery, feed DC power from it to our Inverter where we would change it to AC power to spin the AC electric motor, then the electric motor would have to spin the alternator using a belt, then the alternator would harness that kinetic (ie motion energy) I think again starting with AC and have to convert it to DC to feed it into our DC car battery.

Remember electricity lives in batteries in the form of DC (Direct Current not AC Alternating Current) it lives in the walls of your house as AC) yes Robert this will be on the quiz

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What I heard was it's going to have AC, a necessary commodity around here.

Oh, and about that quiz....

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ha ha, we build Hot Rods around here sir, which means, no power windows, no power seats, NO heated seats, no friggen automatic TILT steering columns, no radios, and no AC, oh and no vanity mirrors on the visors, almost forgot that one

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Ahh, hard core!

No ac in 100 with 98% humidity on a road trip proves it.

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got a new windshield installed, took the guy three hours, so glad I farmed this out, quoted me $330 but I paid him $400 I don't think he'll do one of these ol' Chevys for a while l0l I'm sharing what I paid cause the quotes I received were all over the place

here's a link to a C10 gest a new windshield

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What are the seats out of?

You are getting close to cruising around in the heat.