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Re: A '54 named Busty
It's Saturday and on Saturday you need to pick your priorities, and you chose well!
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Re: A '54 named Busty
then went ahead and mounted the grille, just needed her to look like a truck again
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Re: A '54 named Busty
well after 9 hours spent trying to get a broken off rivet end out of the rivet gun
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Re: A '54 named Busty
and then this happened, and it made my day... she's 16 and her nick name is baby Hercules she busted off like three bolts already overtightening them... I couldn't be more proud!
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Re: A '54 named Busty
the hand slicer needed trimming and folding over
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all more better and almost accessible too
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Re: A '54 named Busty
here you go
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started mocking up the front bumper, not sure I want to run the stock one as it sticks out 3 feet
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Re: A '54 named Busty
can somebody tell me what the hewk this horseshoe U joint clamp thinge was supposed to be?
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thank goodness the person who stuck this on was a crappy welder, yes it takes one to know one, somehow I own three front bumpers allowing me the luxury of playing with them
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apologies for the poor back lit pics, I have a West facing garage and couldn't shut the door on her
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I found some threaded holes underneath the frame horns so I chased them in hopes of using them at least to hold the mock up bracketry on for me
these may have been for the Camaro sway bar I'm not sure |
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since one side of the stock front fender mounting brackets was already separated I decided to divorce the other side as well for easier installability and tinkerability
here I am grounding down the head of that rivet before pounding it out |
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meanwhile the new MOOG all Made in the U.S.A. steering components are trickling in nicely
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Re: A '54 named Busty
get after it dude, it looks mean.
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Re: A '54 named Busty
it does look mean (the truck)
Thanks for the pics and glad to see you are back at it
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decided to give her a little colonoscopy today, just had to know the 8.5" 10 bolt rear end digits so that I could set my speedo proper in HP Tuners
we can make out 16 41 followed by 1 77 so looks like it was assembled on 1=January in 77=1977 then we take the bigger number 41 and divide it by the smaller number 16 carry the one, times the circumference of the earth and we go ourselves a 2.56 tall gear rear end, good highway gears but this don't explain why she is so burly with that little 5.3L in her http://www.teufert.net/camaro/1977.htm apologies the pics are blurry Last edited by Gregski; 04-20-2021 at 09:49 AM. |
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started wiring up the Auto Meter Z-Series gauges last night, the wires will get cleaned up, zipped tied and loomed, this is just a moch up to make sure everything reaches and works first
even found a place for the Obi-Wan Kenobi glad that I didn't have to drill new holes, same for the MIL aka check engine light, I may just put the high beam light in the other hole, might not even wire it up just use it as a conversation piece |
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Re: A '54 named Busty
Don't forget to label that check engine light, lest you forget what it is. I'm not speaking from experience here, as far as you know....
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so it appears the previous owner did a Craigslist rebuild on the rear end, aka rattle canned it black right over the grease and rust, that's not right so I took her down to bare metal
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a little stare and compare of the before (dirty) bowl and the after (clean) bowl
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