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09-14-2024, 10:52 AM | #301 | |
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Thanks for noticing.
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09-15-2024, 07:05 PM | #302 |
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For those of you that love photos. Here is a photo of the underside and the ceramic coated headers and exhaust pipes. A close eye can spot the shelf with the linear actuator that I fabricated a mounting for to the replace the foot operated parking brake.
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09-16-2024, 09:42 AM | #303 |
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Do you have a picture or two of this bracket from other angles?
my son's 261 powered '46 2 dr will be getting MII front this fall. The suspension parts kits are cheaper than ordering individual parts but all the reasonably prices kits we find come with power rack. PS is a nice feature anyway. picture to fuel the internet |
09-16-2024, 10:36 AM | #304 | |
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I'll take a few photos today for you. The bracket actually was purchased from VintageAir when I bought the system for the truck. It's designed specifically for the engine, however my setup has headers instead of the stock exhaust manifold, so it didn't fit properly. The alternator at its highest adjustment still wouldn't clear the headers. Fortunately, I have access to a CNC plasma torch (Dynatorch) so I first made a cardboard template to increase the swing arc of the alternator, then I drew it up on the Cad software and cut a test piece on 18 gauge steel, then finally on 1/4" plate steel. I then cut the old section out and welded in my new piece.
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09-16-2024, 11:37 AM | #305 |
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Sidetrack time!
Any of you looked into eps. Electric power steering. Should be lots of room under the dash for one. |
09-16-2024, 11:51 AM | #306 | |
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I had already purchased an Ididit steering column and a company in Florida (EPAS Performance - https://epasperformance.com/ sells an Ididit column with an electric assist power steering unit already installed. I emailed the owner and he agreed to have me ship my column to him and he retrofitted my column with their electric unit. I was already familiar with the electric power assist units, since I had installed one from a European vendor for a 1969 Jaguar XKE that I had restored and knew that it transformed the car. I can't wait to drive the truck with this and power brakes, it should be enjoyable.
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09-16-2024, 12:27 PM | #307 |
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Good deal!
I sure wish I’d had that option 40-50 years ago. Woulda made a lot of my projects easier. |
09-16-2024, 02:10 PM | #308 |
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My '52 has 60s vintage c10 suspension and steering. I grew up without power steering and assumed I'd never need it for the '52. Drove it last year armstrong, then swapped to a 80s suburban PS box and pump as I thought the lack of PS precluded my wife from being able to enjoy driving it.
Power steering made it a lot more enjoyable to drive for me too. Without power it was always just a bit slower than people expect you to be getting around in modern traffic and parking lots. And harder work! EPAS would be a tight fit under dash with firewall hung pedals, at least with my C10 based setup where clutch and brake hang on opposite sides of column. |
09-18-2024, 03:34 PM | #309 |
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Almost ready to turn the key and see what happens. Just a few more wires to connect and all fluids to input (coolant, engine, transmission, and differential)
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09-22-2024, 04:11 PM | #310 |
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New photos of finished install and a link to a video of the very first crank of the newly rebuilt engine.
YouTube Video of Rebuilt Engine's first crank
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09-22-2024, 04:22 PM | #311 |
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sounds awesome! you must be pumped
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09-22-2024, 11:13 PM | #312 |
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You have no idea, after waiting for five months to get my engine back, I was amazed that it started on the first turn of the key!
I have a few niggling issues to deal with surrounding the electric fan, the electric e-brake, and an annoying drip/leak on the brake boost pump. I will work quickly to get them all resolved and then run the truck around the neighborhood without bolting the fender back on a few times, just to make sure I won't have to take them off again. More to come.....
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10-09-2024, 07:53 PM | #313 |
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I haven't posted anything since the video of the engine kicking over for the first time due to what happened the very next day. I went out to diagnose my thermostatically controlled electric fan not coming on during that first start-up, only to find that I could not get the engine started.
I mistakenly attempted to start the car without turning the electric fuel pump on, the engine ran for a few seconds, but then abruptly stopped. No amount of encouraging, troubleshooting, or swearing could get it started. After hours of trying everything I knew to do, I started testing for good ground to the engine and determined that both the body of my Vertex magneto was grounded (as it should be) but so was the grounding terminal, even when the grounding switch and grounding wire was disconnected. As a result, I had to pull the magneto and send it out to Joe Hunt Magnetos in California to have it diagnosed and repaired. I have my fingers crossed that this solves the start-up problem. I should have it back by the end of next week (I hope).
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10-09-2024, 09:22 PM | #314 |
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Look on the bright side, no towing bill was involved in diagnosing the faulty magneto.
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10-09-2024, 10:53 PM | #315 |
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Today, I eliminated the "kill/ground switch" that I had wired in to ground out the magneto and instead used something that Joe Hunt Magneto sells, although I sourced the same component myself locally. I wired in a relay to my ignition circuit, when the ignition key is turned on the relay is open and stops grounding the magneto, as soon as the power is turned off, the relay closes and grounds the magneto, thus turning it off. This way, the key switch activates both the starter and the magneto, instead of it being a two step process.
Now I'm considering eliminating the switch I wired on the dash to shut off the fuel pump and instead replacing it with an inertial safety switch that I bought a few months back. The inertial switch is triggered in a accident and turns the fuel pump off. It has a larger red reset button, in case it accidentally activates. After accidentally attempting to start the engine without turning the fuel pump on, I have been re-thinking the logic of having a push/pull switch on the dash for a fuel pump shut-off.
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10-09-2024, 11:50 PM | #316 |
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Having to flick multiple switches to start is very cool, 'race car'. I'd preserve all the switches, but make it so when the key was off everything was off. So you could leave the individual switches on and turn the truck on or off with the key.
And by all means add the inertial switch as well. Or, perhaps better, a timed relay to provide fuel pump power for starting with a oil pressure driven switch that takes over once the motor starts |
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