49' Patina bagged in PA

[49ads10]

read your build until 2am last night. have very similiar plan for my project but just took the 49 off the trailer so i'm no where on it. Hope you don't mind me PMing you tons of questions.... lol

[99 to Life]

hey 49' welcome to the board. I don't mind helping out, I get quite a few emails and PM's. I all I ask is to be appreciative and considerate of the info I or others give. I'v had some people seem a little too lazy about what they were doing and that can be frustrating, also a demanding sense of questions I'v had and that gets annoying. But for the most part its all good and I like helping out. I'v learned most of my stuff via the internet, never had anyone around me that was into mechanics or old stuff. Fill us in and make a post so others can follow, I feel its best to keep your questions organized in a thread so it don't clog up other threads, for the most part atleast. Good luck.

[99 to Life]

6-27 Got a couple hours in today. Cut 4 boxing plates out with a grinder. think I went through 4 discs doing so. got two welded in, got two more to put in the back. Figure the extra security back there will be nice. I'm also going to plate the stock leaf pearches where my link bars go in. I feel like you can box the frame all you want, but that area there is a weak spot in my opinion. I coated the inside of frame and boxing plate bf I welded these in.

brought my engine up, I gotta put the heads on this weekend. I forgot my lifters so I'll put intake on next weekend, I'll try and get it on the start stand this weekend and start plumbing it up so I can get it fired up. Got a nice polished WP off ebay and it was all messed up via shipping, so hopefully I get that new one soon. Still have a few more things to order up, just a couple odds and ends like dipstick, waterneck etc.

Frame will have 1 full coat of chassis saver by the end of this weekend. Still have the bottom to sand down and coat. Then I'll put final coat on next weekend and then I can set the engine in the frame and work on my suspension stuff as I go. All new poly bushing throughout, shock mounts, still have to order up some slotted rotors and some good calipers, etc.

[Advanced Design]

Looking good 99...is the Chassis Saver you are using spray or brush on?

[oldman3]

Moving along...Jim

[99 to Life]

yeah just brushed on chassis saver. I get the $1 nylon paint brushes from wallyworld, use em once and toss em.

[99 to Life]

6-30 dang, june is already gone geesh. had my 51' out all weekend and today. Ran outta chassis saver, used 1qt to coat almost whole frame. Have another on the way. I'll be top coating it as well, should be done with it next weekend. finished up the back half of boxing and put some bracing on the perches. I didn't fully weld them to the boxing plate JUST incase something ever happened and I needed to take the perches off to replace or whatever.

Reworked my crappy start stand I made 4 years ago. I cut half of it off and made a new back half so I can run a bellhousing on it. that will allow me to actually mount my headers and its much safer than having a flywheel exposed. gotta put the casters back on it still.

Got my heads torqued down today with some arp's. I gotta do a little port work on the intake and I forgot my lifters so I'll have it on the stand and hopefully all ready for a start up, can't wait crossing fingers. if not next weekend should be the following. Once its good to go and I have frame done. I'll be putting everything back on for good.

I still gotta wrap up the cab, weld, seam seal and I'm gonna go with some Hurculiner for the bottom of it and the fenders.

[IWanna49]

Love all the old tin sittin around. It's all starting to come together. Won't be long now.

[99 to Life]

7-5 Got top coat on half of frame, should have it all done by monday. Got intake on, adjusted lifters, got it on start stand. waiting on replacement water pump to show up, but I have one I'm gonna toss on there and try and get this fired up monday, hopefully. gonna prime it, check cylinder compression and if those check out I'll fire it up. There are sooo many open ports on this intake so I gotta block them off.

Since I'm running the vortec block as well as heads, they don't have a bypass in the block where the water pump mount. So I'll run a temporary bypass on startstand, but when its hooked up in truck I'll have a heater, so that will suffice as a bypass. The whole reason water needs bypassed is so hot pockets don't form in the heads. a standard WP favors one head over the other on circulation.

[Advanced Design]

Good looking stand 99. Good luck with the test start.

[IWanna49]

Henry did you build your start stand?

[99 to Life]

thanks guys, yeah build the stand 4 years ago outta crappy material I had laying around. last week I cut it in half and added the back half outta better material and so I can mount it with a bellhousing. I suggest making them this way because you can actually hook up manifolds or headers and you also dont run the risk of bumping into a flywheel (which I almost had someone do with their knee). its alot easier to mount this too. Once you get the front mounted it will actually hold the whole engine up until you get the back bolts in.

I still want to redo it and make it all collapsable but I just didn't have time. Still gotta make a few things for it, clean up the wire routing etc. But it gets the job done.

I was a bit torn on even putting it on the stand because my frame will be done monday, but would need to dry, so realistically I could have it in next week. I'm just short on space too, thats why I wanted to just start it in the frame.

[99 to Life]

7-7 Finally got final coat on frame. Now I gotta get all my poly bushings, brakes and rotors etc and get it back on its wheels.

Today I spent hours trying to get my engine ready for start up. Man tons of little things that just kill time. Stuff fighting me left and right, only had to make one trip to parts store because luckily I keep alot of fittings and hoses etc around. I primed it with a drill 60lbs so far so I'm happy with that. started cylinder compression test, did one and battery died, so I need to get a better battery.

I still have to deal with radiator hoses and pullies. I def should be able to fire it up this coming weekend, so hopefully all goes well. On a good note my replacement waterpump will be in by then and hopefully its not ruined via fedex again.

[Advanced Design]

I have a lot of those days with things fighting me too. Glad the engine seems OK so far.

[Larry Lindley]

good job,starting back on my 55.1st AD.keep at it.thanks for posting larry

[99 to Life]

thanks guys, I might try and fire it up bf I head outta town tomorrow, the wait is killing me!

[skymangs]

Looking good 99... Be a runner pretty soon!

[99 to Life]

thanks, hopefully I get it going friday. everything is behind so crossing fingers I can a take step forward.

[99 to Life]

7-13 Got engine fired up, so far so good. I got some tuning to do and I'll post a video soon. good oil pressure and vacuum

came up on a great 7.5' brake, can't wait to use it.

[Advanced Design]

Congratulations on the engine and the brake....would really make use of one! Just tough to move one that large.

[99 to Life]

thanks, well here is kinda a crappy vid from the first day, exhaust is terrible I know. practically an open header on the pass side so its running really rich. don't mind the pulley's and belt, those are totally temporary. other than that, I ran it today and camera ran out of memory. hoping to get some more footage. retuned it today, but def need some good exhaust. ran the rpms up a bit higher today, I can def feel some power so I'm pretty happy so far.
http://youtu.be/YZkIBKCT-xg

here is a pic of the brake I have to unload still, its a heavy beast. front and rear suspension out of a jaguar, not sure if I'll use it for a future build or not, up in the air right now. some more projects in the background. The one frame is a 60's 4x4 my friend has been wanted a lifted apache or 60's truck.

got frame back on floor, gonna start getting it back together, wrap this cab up and really start putting this thing together. got rear end coated with chassis saver, need a top coat soon. I'll be putting all new stuff on this later. wanted to be wiring in august, so that might be pushed back to september.

[oldman3]

99, engine sounds great, nice response on the throttle. Frame and rear axle look good.
Would love to have that brake...Jim

[99 to Life]

thanks jim, tried embeding the video but have no clue why its not working. anyway, I'll post some more footage tearing up the rpms with some exhaust, should be a little snappier cause its really running rich right now. the brake is a god send, I'm working it off on my friends 54' panel that I should be starting on soon. he moved so I gotta finish his rig for him.

[99 to Life]

7-20 Got my pullies finally situated. what a nightmare. If any of you are familiar with a serp style pulley with vbelt you'll know the hunt can be frustrating. I like the simplicity of it and reliability, not full serp, not full v. nice happy medium. These came on 87-89 trucks and also some other random stuff.
not sure if I'm putting on my polished waterpump or not, kinda like the black one, alternator is getting changed most likely too.

tried getting my bushings out of lower control arms, another nightmare. Just bought a 20ton shop press so I'll be pressing them out tomorrow. putting in poly bushings. Should be a roller by next weekend.

[TheBlueBomber]

Sounds awesome. Making me wish I went with the Vortec 350 instead of LS. Keep up the good work!