What did you do with your truck today, Part 3

[DransportGarage]

I'm continuing to work on wiring, probably for about 3 hours a day on average. I've started by building up my relay panel on the bench because I don't want to be soldering under the dash any more than I have to

The American Autowire "Highway 22" kit is great, but I'm on my own lot of times because my circuits are not on their page. I've got 11 relays that they don't know about, for instance, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Now if I could actually settle on the wire colors BEFORE I pick up the soldering iron...

[idbeast]

Originally Posted by DransportGarage

I'm continuing to work on wiring, probably for about 3 hours a day on average. I've started by building up my relay panel on the bench because I don't want to be soldering under the dash any more than I have to

The American Autowire "Highway 22" kit is great, but I'm on my own lot of times because my circuits are not on their page. I've got 11 relays that they don't know about, for instance, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Now if I could actually settle on the wire colors BEFORE I pick up the soldering iron...

LOL, yes it does look a lot like mine!

[Dyslexic Dog]

Originally Posted by DransportGarage

I'm continuing to work on wiring, probably for about 3 hours a day on average. I've started by building up my relay panel on the bench because I don't want to be soldering under the dash any more than I have to

The American Autowire "Highway 22" kit is great, but I'm on my own lot of times because my circuits are not on their page. I've got 11 relays that they don't know about, for instance, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Now if I could actually settle on the wire colors BEFORE I pick up the soldering iron...

Interesting, As a sailor, I was informed by a Mate that solder had "no place on a boat or a car." As an electrician, I questioned it but now understand. If done correctly, it will work. Unfortunately most do not do it correctly. Proper flux and tinning. Crimp connections are best for 12V. Solder can melt under load plus it will corrode.

[nvrdone]

martin: if I remember correctly there is a cotter pin thru that hole that holds a spring and a flat washer in place. I will have to crawl under mine & look this weekend unless some one else chimes in. my shop manual doesn't show any details of the parking brake.

[mikebte]

Ordered some blanks to cut myself a few extra keys. I was sure I did not have any blanks that would match. They arrived and I went out to cut them, while setting up my key cutter I looked on my key board and saw a an entire stack of old GM keys. (Key on right) So I matched the key and tried cutting it, sure enough it was the right blank. I sure like finding stuff I forgot I had.

[dsraven]

usually you keep that stuff on a shelf or in a box and move it from house to house. then you finally do a clean out and purge the old stuff. next day, you need that part and have to go buy it.
looks like you need a 108638 cp pin for that shaft Brian. maybe a bit of ginding and a bushing on the and where it is worn down.

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by dsraven

usually you keep that stuff on a shelf or in a box and move it from house to house. then you finally do a clean out and purge the old stuff. next day, you need that part and have to go buy it.
looks like you need a 108638 cp pin for that shaft Brian. maybe a bit of ginding and a bushing on the and where it is worn down.

I thank you SOOOOOO much, I printed that out, thank you!

Brian

[MARTINSR]

I am trying to come to a color and am coming up empty. The large spray out card is 58 Corvette "red" and it looks like friggin mud! OMG it's NOT red, it's not orange, it looks like dirt was sprayed on the card. This Ford you see is pretty close to it, but still way more red. And what is funny is the color you see here taken with my camera and put on the net with you looking at it with an HP or a Mac, or what ever it isn't going to be even close to the real color. The second I took the photo of that Ford I could see it was WAY, WAY redder on the camera than in person. So right off the bat this is a waste of time for you guys. LOL

The small spray out cards are SPI colors with the reds really more what I want. But damn, I WANT a 50's Corvette color to fit the theme of the truck but damn this is not where I want to go. I am going to check the spray out card against Corvettes at the next Goodguys and see what they have and talk to them on their color. There are a few that are restored that I see that I believe are the correct color.

Brian

[DransportGarage]

Originally Posted by MARTINSR

I am trying to come to a color and am coming up empty. The large spray out card is 58 Corvette "red" and it looks like friggin mud! OMG it's NOT red, it's not orange, it looks like dirt was sprayed on the card. This Ford you see is pretty close to it, but still way more red. And what is funny is the color you see here taken with my camera and put on the net with you looking at it with an HP or a Mac, or what ever it isn't going to be even close to the real color. The second I took the photo of that Ford I could see it was WAY, WAY redder on the camera than in person. So right off the bat this is a waste of time for you guys. LOL

The small spray out cards are SPI colors with the reds really more what I want. But damn, I WANT a 50's Corvette color to fit the theme of the truck but damn this is not where I want to go. I am going to check the spray out card against Corvettes at the next Goodguys and see what they have and talk to them on their color. There are a few that are restored that I see that I believe are the correct color.

Brian

The '58 Corvette red was nicknamed "SOUP", because it looked like Campbells Tomato. Try looking at the '64 Corvette Riverside red. You won't be disappointed.

If you want to go completely crazy, go for the 2019 Ford Edge Ruby Red, http://www.brandonford.com/blog/2019...ption-gallery/

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by DransportGarage

The '58 Corvette red was nicknamed "SOUP", because it looked like Campbells Tomato. Try looking at the '64 Corvette Riverside red. You won't be disappointed.

WIf you want to go completely crazy, go for the 2019 Ford Edge Ruby Red, http://www.brandonford.com/blog/2019...ption-gallery/

The bummer is I want a stock GM color from the fifties. I want nothing on this truck that is later than mid fifties. But it looks like I am going to have to stretch the truth a little. LOL

I have to assume Harley Earl had access to redder reds!

Brian

[MARTINSR]

I got some welding done on my parking brake bell crank. Got the roll pin and cotter pins drilled out. Took my evening walk making a trip to the hardware store part of it and got some machine washers for the parking brake.

Got my five minutes in!

Brian

[MiraclePieCo]

I installed my speedo pulse generator. Now I face a decision:

The truck needs some work that's beyond my capabilities in a home garage so it must be taken into town. Trouble is "town" is an hour's drive on Interstate highways over three mountain passes with 6% grades. Hardcore road test, eh? I don't have a rig that can trailer it, and getting a tow truck to my remote location would be prohibitively expensive. Pretty scary driving it so far having just put the thing together and only driven around the block! But here there's no back roads, only the freeway.

[DransportGarage]

Originally Posted by MARTINSR

The bummer is I want a stock GM color from the fifties. I want nothing on this truck that is later than mid fifties. But it looks like I am going to have to stretch the truth a little. LOL

I have to assume Harley Earl had access to redder reds!

Brian

'56 Chevy Matador Red?

https://www.sw-rodandrestocustomcolor.com/colors/PCCL72

The same hue was on the Buick too:

https://www.google.com/search?q=1956...U8oLiiP0a5FQM:

...and the Olds:

https://www.google.com/search?client...30.hUY0xh1Ucr4

...and the Caddy:

https://www.google.com/search?client...30.vz8JWpa7YL0

...and the Pontiac:

https://www.google.com/search?client...30.qEM38Rxr0BI

...and here are the paint chips:

http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/chipdisp...&info=&page=11

Keep lookin'!

[MARTINSR]

It just cracks me up, that large spray out card isn't even in the same city let alone the same ball park as that Ford it's laying on in the second photo.

Brian

[MARTINSR]

I'll look into that, thanks!

Brian

[nvrdone]

if I remember correctly there is a cotter pin thru that hole that holds a spring and a flat washer in place. I will have to crawl under mine & look this weekend unless some one else chimes in. my shop manual doesn't show any details of the parking brake.

Brian: Just got a chance to look under my truck at the park brake & I was right. there is a cotter pin & washer on the end of the cross bar just like that diagram shows.

Mine is so worn that I don't trust it to keep the truck from rolling away when parked. so im looking at using a c10/ s10 parking brake assembly like others on here have done. but that's a project for this winter.

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by nvrdone

if I remember correctly there is a cotter pin thru that hole that holds a spring and a flat washer in place. I will have to crawl under mine & look this weekend unless some one else chimes in. my shop manual doesn't show any details of the parking brake.

Brian: Just got a chance to look under my truck at the park brake & I was right. there is a cotter pin & washer on the end of the cross bar just like that diagram shows.

Mine is so worn that I don't trust it to keep the truck from rolling away when parked. so im looking at using a c10/ s10 parking brake assembly like others on here have done. but that's a project for this winter.

Yeah, I welded up the worn area and will make it work like it should.

Brian

[MARTINSR]

I got out there and cleaned up all the parts to my parking brake parts. I need to do some detail work sand blasting then I will spray some black epoxy primer. I am not sure what I am going to do with the one bar that has the thingie around it to hold the parking brake by binding against it, see photo. Don't have a clue what these parts are called, I think, tubular thingie and flat thingie? Anyway, the tubular thingie really needs to be zinc plated or something because the flat thingie will scrap the paint off it. I don't know, I am not a thingie specialist.

The very cool thing that happened today, oh yeah, I am gitty over. I have been picking up quart cans at the hardware store when I spray epoxy to mix it and let it induce to shoot it the next day. The cans cost $4 and I figured, what the heck, being I haven't bought empty cans in so long I just figured with what a roll of masking tape costs now, I figured that was the going price. Today I went to the paint store and bought a bunch of cans for a little over a dollar each, geeeez.

Anyway, got something done, and on I go.

Brian

[MARTINSR]

I got the underside of the front fenders and hood primed. And out of the blue I was going on a walk and saw that my neighbor across the street had his 37 Chevy coupe out side and I went over to chat. I ended up helping him a bit on it. He told me he has some AD truck stuff and handed me this new glove box and nice seat mouldings, wild! It's really funny in that he and I have lived here 20 years and really haven't talked much. He is the kinda guy who I watched a cop take an axe off a fire truck and bust his front door in to arrest his room mate. So things haven't been good. Lately we have been better and now he is giving me parts.

Brian

[MiraclePieCo]

Originally Posted by MARTINSR

He is the kinda guy who I watched a cop take an axe off a fire truck and bust his front door in to arrest his room mate. So things haven't been good. Lately we have been better and now he is giving me parts.

Brian

Better be careful, those parts are probably hot, ha ha! I still dig that Falcon. Did they have the Sprint model in '63?

Originally Posted by Black_Sheep

I fixed the leaking valve cover and took El Camión Verde for a little cruise...

If I remember my elementary Espanol, that means The Green Truck??? Nice elevated photo perspective; looks like a magazine shot.

[MiraclePieCo]

BIG DAY today! I took the '51 for it's first real road test. Yes, I'd already made a trip around the block, but today I took it out on the highway for the first time. I made a 20-mile jaunt to the next little town south to fill the gas tank. Started on two-lane road, everything felt good so I increased speed up to 50 mph. Stopped at the local truck scales to check things out; all systems A-OK so hit the freeway. Kept it at a conservative 60 mph just to be safe - plus I have no seat belts yet so felt a little insecure. My wife followed me in the family car just in case I needed rescue.

Everything couldn't have gone better! The new speedometer worked perfectly. The steering wheel could be rotated one spline counter-clockwise. Engine stayed around 160*. Steering seemed a little twitchy - is that typical of manual Mustang IIs? Will probably feel normal after I adapt to it awhile. Brakes, bearings, etc all stayed cool. Wheels and tires ran smooth, no vibration. Ditto for the drive shaft. After 50 years and multiple frame-up builds, maybe I'm getting the hang of this car building stuff, ha ha!

Sorry, no new pictures - everywhere I stopped I was instantly surrounded by admirers so no time for photos. LOL, might have had something to do with the open headers attracting attention!

[DransportGarage]

Originally Posted by MiraclePieCo

BIG DAY today! I took the '51 for it's first real road test. Yes, I'd already made a trip around the block, but today I took it out on the highway for the first time. I made a 20-mile jaunt to the next little town south to fill the gas tank. Started on two-lane road, everything felt good so I increased speed up to 50 mph. Stopped at the local truck scales to check things out; all systems A-OK so hit the freeway. Kept it at a conservative 60 mph just to be safe - plus I have no seat belts yet so felt a little insecure. My wife followed me in the family car just in case I needed rescue.

Everything couldn't have gone better! The new speedometer worked perfectly. The steering wheel could be rotated one spline counter-clockwise. Engine stayed around 160*. Steering seemed a little twitchy - is that typical of manual Mustang IIs? Will probably feel normal after I adapt to it awhile. Brakes, bearings, etc all stayed cool. Wheels and tires ran smooth, no vibration. Ditto for the drive shaft. After 50 years and multiple frame-up builds, maybe I'm getting the hang of this car building stuff, ha ha!

Sorry, no new pictures - everywhere I stopped I was instantly surrounded by admirers so no time for photos. LOL, might have had something to do with the open headers attracting attention!

A very great day in a very cool truck! Congrats!

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by MiraclePieCo

BIG DAY today! I took the '51 for it's first real road test. Yes, I'd already made a trip around the block, but today I took it out on the highway for the first time. I made a 20-mile jaunt to the next little town south to fill the gas tank. Started on two-lane road, everything felt good so I increased speed up to 50 mph. Stopped at the local truck scales to check things out; all systems A-OK so hit the freeway. Kept it at a conservative 60 mph just to be safe - plus I have no seat belts yet so felt a little insecure. My wife followed me in the family car just in case I needed rescue.

Everything couldn't have gone better! The new speedometer worked perfectly. The steering wheel could be rotated one spline counter-clockwise. Engine stayed around 160*. Steering seemed a little twitchy - is that typical of manual Mustang IIs? Will probably feel normal after I adapt to it awhile. Brakes, bearings, etc all stayed cool. Wheels and tires ran smooth, no vibration. Ditto for the drive shaft. After 50 years and multiple frame-up builds, maybe I'm getting the hang of this car building stuff, ha ha!

Sorry, no new pictures - everywhere I stopped I was instantly surrounded by admirers so no time for photos. LOL, might have had something to do with the open headers attracting attention!

Oh damn that is cool!

Brian

[mikebte]

Originally Posted by MiraclePieCo

BIG DAY

Congrats on the good trip, always nice to know all your hard work has paid off with a good shake down run.


Worked on my fiberglass electric fan shroud. First time to work with fiberglass, it not to easy but I'm getting the hang of it.

[DransportGarage]

I've been doing a little basic assembly before starting phase 1 of the electrical install. I had the A/C unit in, but ripped it back out when I realized I hadn't put the sound deadener behind it. No big deal. At this point, 10 minutes means nothing.

I did learn one thing: Don't lower the hood without the fenders or latch panel on. It just keeps on going! No damage though...