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Two things went on today with little more than a clean up that are 45 years old. Fan shroud and glove box latch...and they looked pretty darn good. Amazing so much effort goes into rehabilitating, restoring, refinishing or replacing...and they're like, "just let me keep doing what I've been doing for half a century."
...unfortunately the shroud will come back off (like everything, one step forward, two steps back). It seems when they re-cored the radiator, they made it a 1/4" wider. My return rate on parts seems way too high...and it is muy agravante. |
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great job!
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That truck is looking great, will be one of the best on the forum.
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...the one that lifts all the boats, not floods your house ;) |
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Eric decided to go all Bill Nye today and clean up the under dash assemblies (parking brake, pedal mount) with science. They came out awesome.
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Cleaned up the kick panel vents the old fashioned way...a parts book, phone, credit card number and ship to address.
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Nice.....what's in the bucket? |
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....or Na2CO3 and H2O as good 'ole Mom used to call it. |
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Man...who knew cooking parts was this easy? We should've done our own chrome too...;) Maybe we could do a spin-off...Breaking Bad: BLAZERS. Unfortunately I'd end up being Jesse.
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Gentler on the skin than muriatic acid and a similarly good result!
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Looking great!
I did the sequence on the ball joints/ knuckles you sent to me and it did the trick..It's unbelievable how some things work. |
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That is going to be a beautiful truck when it’s finished. Keep the pictures coming.
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Well...this isn't going to work. I already had mixed emotions about not putting together a stock a/c set up. I definitely am not digging the "dealer-installed" compressor position.
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I was expecting a bracket and compressor position like RackMan's pictured below. I guess I'll be on the phone to Vintage Air tomorrow.
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You might want to try giving Classic Auto Air a call. I've been talking with them and they seem very knowledgable and know their stuff.
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OK...some things that we've learned on the Vintage Air set up. First, the instructions say to mount the pictured hose bracket to the battery tray. But that means the battery is sitting on a bolt head. Nice bit of fab work by Eric to weld that in and get our battery sitting flat (second pic).
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Also, I did not realize that the VA system re-purposes the factory A/C controls and actually omits the fan switch...it's the proverbial vestigial appendage. And unfortunately the replacement faceplate has a huge Vintage Air logo. I guess I could use the factory plate and just try to remember what the three horizontal levers do.:crazy:
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...a lot of discussion about what color to paint the firewall plate. Body color vs. black. I figured that visually you just kind of expect to see a big black box over there anyway, so black was my choice. I don't like that they want you to put a mounting plate behind the hood latch. My hood fit/release was so good before disassembly...I'm getting punch drunk and loathe another fight, it better not goof it up.
...I've got to redo my firewall markings...they got smudged. It's for the best though, I need to blunt my grease pencil...my markings seemed too sharp. I think I'm gonna add the J70 and go 4T instead of just T as well. |
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...dash painted.
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...they're not just a myth. Thanks for all your help Tim.
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Thats what I would do. |
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That's better.
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I expected the Vintage Air box to be huge and take up all the under dash space. I didn't count on having to deal with the drain tube...I should have spent more time considering the VA set up. It's nice for what it is, but I might (might) try to put together a stock set up if I had it to do over....or buy a truck with air. ;)
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Love that dash...best cluster in the history of trucks.
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Probably spent as much time looking for or thinking about this part as any other. As far as I can tell this one was the last NOS prop valve on the shelf in any dealership in the state of Georgia(Barnesville)....And I caved and went to Chevrolet last. There are a few on eBay, but they sure seem to be getting scarce. It turned out to be quite an exciting box to open.
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Excellent!!
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All wiring and plumbing lately, so no fun pics to post in spite of a lot of effort. Always one step forward and two steps back it seems. Very little goes on that doesn't come back off...once...or twice...or more. If things went together this way in 1970, I'm amazed they could crank out 50 a day. Of course we might get faster with the second one;).
I wasn't going to post these pics, was gonna wait for better, but I couldn't help myself. Ran over after work today and we got the column in. I've been sitting on that steering wheel forever. It was very satisfying to slap it on. Fingers crossed, we may turn the key in earnest next week (assuming we can get everything buttoned up). The goal being to start her before final paint...just in case. |
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Did you place a 5 gallon bucket in the truck put hands on the wheel and make noises like "vroom, vrooom...."? I would have. Awesome!!
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