1969 Chevy Stepside Restoration/Build up

[matthew20061]

Originally Posted by BACKYARD88

Your truck looks really good man. It's been a lot of work but you stuck it out until the end and finished it and that's about as hard as the work Enjoy driving that thing!

Thanks, it's pretty fun to drive!

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Beautiful Truck!!

Thanks!

[matthew20061]

Well got a great birthday present today since today's my birthday! It was a Tach Conversion Kit! So I went right in and installed it. It was a pretty easy install overall just plug and play except for running the tach wire to the ECM. Here's some pics:


Out of the truck, time to install the tach.








All finished!

[matthew20061]

Picked up a Rear View mirror from a late model chevy truck at the junk yard today. It has the temperature and compass display so I grabbed all the wiring and temperature sensor from the truck too. Anyway bought the glue for the bracket and glued it on the windshield. While that was drying I went to work wiring it up. It was pretty easy to wire up, PINK-+12, BLACK-Ground, BLK/WHT-Temp Sensor, GRN/WHT-Temp Sensor. I just ran the wires around the windshield gasket and down though a small hole in the dash. Mounted the temp sensor on the core support for wind to blow over it when driving to get an accurate measurement. Mounted the mirror and turned on the key, and now I have a temperature mirror!






Here's the remote for the autostart!


Here's where the autostart's antenna is mounted, the wires for that are also run in the windshield gasket.

[seldomseen65]

Originally Posted by matthew20061

Picked up a Rear View mirror from a late model chevy truck at the junk yard today. It has the temperature and compass display so I grabbed all the wiring and temperature sensor from the truck too. Anyway bought the glue for the bracket and glued it on the windshield. While that was drying I went to work wiring it up. It was pretty easy to wire up, PINK-+12, BLACK-Ground, BLK/WHT-Temp Sensor, GRN/WHT-Temp Sensor. I just ran the wires around the windshield gasket and down though a small hole in the dash. Mounted the temp sensor on the core support for wind to blow over it when driving to get an accurate measurement. Mounted the mirror and turned on the key, and now I have a temperature mirror!






Here's the remote for the autostart!


Here's where the autostart's antenna is mounted, the wires for that are also run in the windshield gasket.

looks great on the truck ,,Matt,, now you won't get lost any were in Alaska, lol ,,happy belated birthday there youngster ,,wanna come down to Nevada and help me finish my truck?? :Chevy:
larry

[matthew20061]

Originally Posted by oldblue1968chevy

looks good i like the newer rearview mirrors...neat

Thanks, ya I like the newer rear view mirror to.

Originally Posted by seldomseen65

looks great on the truck ,,Matt,, now you won't get lost any were in Alaska, lol ,,happy belated birthday there youngster ,,wanna come down to Nevada and help me finish my truck?? :Chevy:
larry

Thanks, I don't think I'll be getting lost up here though, haha.

[matthew20061]

Got a lowering kit from Classic Performance Parts. It's a 2'' front and 4'' rear, came with shock relocates for the back, 4 new shocks, and 4 springs! Should finish up the truck. Recently I've been having problems with the in tank fuel pump I was using (the rubber line connecting the pump to the metal line inside the tank broke, and somehow the truck still ran under 1500 rpm haha was driving it when this happened luckily the fuel just recirculates inside the tank) so its time to switch to the external one I've been meaning to install. To complete the fuel system I also bought a Aeromotive A1000-6 Pressure regulator that should be here by the end of the week, its adjustable from 30-70psi. The lowering kit is on the counter waiting to be installed....Here's a pic of what the regulator looks like.

[matthew20061]

Finally got around to installing my external fuel pump, original sending unit, and my new Aeromotive pressure regulator setup. Now that it's finally installed again I drove the truck for the first time in weeks. It ran awesome with the new pump and regulator. I'm not sure what to set the pressure to though, I think the factory spec for the 5.3L is 55-62 PSI. But I set mine to 50 because if I went higher it seemed to be running rich. Tomorrow I'm installing the lowering kit and shocks.