My 63 farm truck build thread

[Tx Firefighter]

Plugged away at a few more issues that have been plaguing the truck.

First, very excessive oil consumption and plug fouling. Compression is good and there in no blow by. This one took awhile for me to figure out, but it looks like my beloved Edelbrock C3Bx intake is warped. Since this is my only driver I had to fix it quick so I took the cheesy way out and called Summit for the parts. Edelbrock Performer RPM and new gaskets. I didn't have the down time to spare to powdercoat the new intake so it's box stock bare.



Wired for trailer lights and hitch ball installed. Need to be able to drag my little trailer to the swap meets !



Out with the old dirty, dingy instrument cluster...



Restored extra cluster...


Replaced some old bulbs...


The finished product, so much nicer. I lubed the speedo cable while everything was aprt too.


I picked up a grille at the swap last weekend I am toying with. It's a big truck grille. Since this picture I have already removed the "Chevrolet" from the top of the grille so it will fit a small truck like mine. I'm a bit on the fence about this as I really like 63 grilles like I have now. If I decide to not run it on my truck it will still be a cool conversation piece for the shop wall.

I'm open to suggestions about the grilles though !