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That's BIG !!!

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Mounted my New Vintage USA tach. I wanted it near the gauge cluster but not on the column. My dad made me a bracket to mount it off the dash.

https://i.imgur.com/553jDHy.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/wFF4cCb.jpg

I like how it turned out. From the side, you can't really see the bracket because of the can the tach is in--it looks like the tach is floating in-place.

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Very clean! Can you post a pic from the side? What did he make the bracket out of?

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Congratulations! It would be cool to see a quick video

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Nice job

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The 28 second video is 29mb I had the wrong resolution set on the phone!

Thanks everybody!

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Picked up stuff from auction today. Holley carb, hydraulic throw out bearing, some water pumps, O2 sensors, big rack of a/n fittings. Bunch of other stuff and 45 Crower and Comp cams. I don't have a clue what they fit but they are in their original boxes. Most of them the lobes are not ground. I paid $10.00 each for the lot of 45. Also a few hundred pounds of TIG rod for $25.00 and an engine stand from the dyno room for $30.00.

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Just trying to figure out my gas tank brackets on the frame, something is amiss.

Brian

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Sounds like you had a fun day!

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Since I've painted my truck myself, I have to admit, painting is not one of my best abilities. I found some paint "cracks" and "chipping" so I thought I'd buy and learn to use a airbrush. You know, to do the "few" cracks I've found. Well after going around the entire bed and fixing those "few" cracks I ended up pulling the paint gun down. So now that the tapes been removed, it's again time to get back to the road.

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Took the day off to get ready for the MSRA Back to the 50’s weekend. The truck was pretty much ready until the hose came off the driver side defrost duct when I went for coffee and fuel this morning. When I registered last night I was car #10723 so 12,000+ cars is a real possibility. Even with rain in the forecast it’s going to be a great weekend...

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All this shiny paint assembly stuff is pissing me off!


Brian:devil:

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Use lots of blue painters tape and take it slow...

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congrats man. its an amazing feeling isn't it. you sir have created life!

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I finally got the water pump in the death rattle changed. I took some time to make a few spacers to get my belts running true. its happy as a demon clown about to eat a child. ive gotten my motivation back to continue on the systems. its back to being a driver. about time for a fresh coat of primer as well.

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sweet lookin ride. where's a build thread??

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Damn show us more pic of that sweet truck!

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Oh oh oh damn that looks nice!

Brian

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Got the tank going in, went to the hardware store and got all the bolts, made a spacer for the front one in the frame, looking good!

Brian

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Unique mounting - side tank in rear frame quadrant. Cool.

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Thanks For The Complements. Sorry No Build Thread

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Heading to the MSRA Back to the 50's weekend, Friday at 4:30 am...

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Mark, enjoy the show it's a great one...Jim

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It is, I don’t think I’ve missed more than a couple times in the 46 years it’s existed. We have Moms memorial service this morning so we won’t get there til sometime this afternoon

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Your mom recently passed? So sorry to hear, that's never easy. Prayers going her way.

Brian

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Memorial Day weekend Brian, thanks for the kind words

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today I did a couple of things on my todo list. ive been meaning to install some ground straps for a while as my truck has none. every now and then the motor will continue to turn over when the key is off. that's a ground issue. ive also wanted to look at my timing .the truck runs fine and starts great to. I feel like its missing some power though. a year or two ago my brother and I timed it by ear because the starter was dragging. its a gen 1 sbc and normal initial timing would be between 12-14. mine was at 4. I moved it to 10 and the motor smoothed out and the rpms went up. I moved it to 12 and again the rpms went up and the motor was smoother still. I revved it a few times to see if it was going to ping but it didn't. I adjusted the idle and took it around the block. it was a crazy difference in power. it felt really smooth too. I went back to the house to gather my stuff to run some errands. when i started it the starter dragged. I ran my errands which was about 10 miles with two stops. the starter seemed to drag a little less as I went on. im not sure how that works. i did notice a pretty good increase in power and smoothness. the truck felt fast. idle was already good but it improved. i got home with a bolt to go in the alternator bracket and a ground strap for the starter. i was so impressed with the difference some timing made that i decided to adjust it from 12 to 14 btdc. that's still in the normal range. my battery is in the bed floor. so i hook the timing gun to the alternator. i started the truck and i saw sparks. i reached in and turned off the truck but it kept turning over with the key in the off position. more and more sparks. i ran over and the clips for the timing gun were glowing. i pulled it off. the truck continued to turn over. i pulled the bat cable off and it went to sleep. i installed the ground strap, removed the alternator. i wanted to check on it since there was so much heat by the wires. sure enough one had burned through. fixed the wire and hooked the battery back up. when i turned the key i got power but it didn't even try to turn the motor over. im going to put it on a charger tonight but im pretty sure i fried the battery. i hope the ground strap stops that from happening again. so today my truck went from running okay to really well to not at all.

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Wow, scary.

And yeah, bad grounds will cause some incredibly weird electrical anomalies.

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That is scary! My brother recently had his hood prop rod fall onto the battery and the battery melted a hole in it sitting there on the firewall! This is his 39 Ford that he had in the seventies and sold in 92 and now bought it back last year. Two different guys owned it and did some stupid things, this hood prop rod was one of those things. He had it a very short while and hadn't noticed that the rod was long enough to do this. It fell off the little clip on the rad support rod when he was driving and fell on the battery!

Yep, he shortened it a few inches and no it can't do that...hmmm what an idea. LOL

Brian

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Had my truck earn it's keep yesterday by bringing home a couple loads of fir bark for the yard.

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Nice Truck cmayna.

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I love it! :metal:

Brian

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Yes, grounds or the lack of them can cause crazy things. In the mid 70"s, I swapped a '55 Cadillac engine for a '69 327 in my '54 AD truck. When it came time to turn key for ignition the temp gauge immediately went to "H". Engine is not running and has not run for several weeks so why the hot temp. Bottom line, main ground strap was not attached from engine to frame and the temp tube was acting as that ground. Finally figured it out before it melted that tube. Clay

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Drove my truck to day 3 of the Back to the 50's in the rain. When the rain finally stopped I got it wiped down, kicked back and watched the world go by...

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Then some guys stopped by to look at the truck and give me one of these...

In case you’re unfamiliar with Top 100, they visit 10 shows during the year and select 10 vehicles at each of them. By the end of the show season, they’ve awarded 100 winners.

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bet that makes you grin from ear to ear. congrats

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It sure does, and I hope it motivates the guys here that are working hard on their own builds. Good things can happen for us "little guys" too...

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Congrats Mark, hard work does pay off...Jim

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Before I ran off to a day wine tasting with the family I got out for my five minutes on the gas tank so I can get it mounted, should be able to get it in epoxy primer tomorrow.

Brian