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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
A company called Con2r (pronounced Contour) displayed a set of gauges at SEMA that look like a pretty fair compromise between original and current needs
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
I'm liking the look of those! $1095 for the set!
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
beautiful! not to clog up husseys thread but if they make them plug in to a factory s10 setup (sounds like they do) I am a buyer.
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
^^^^^
No problem, I guess I kinda of opened up that topic for discussion. Anyways, to change the subject...I got my steering wheel installed. I picked up this silver metal flake wheel from Moon Eyes. It's 15 in. which is just a tad smaller than the S10 wheel. Horn is all hooked up too. Last edited by HUSSEY; 11-07-2016 at 02:24 PM. |
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
This build thread rules
Thanks for taking the time ! Where is your steering column drop mount from ? |
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
nice progress on the truck. Good tip on the contour gauges. they look great but 1k, not thanks, I'll do a conversion. Unless I get some customer that doesn't care about money. Those things look great and are the best I'v seen so far.
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
So a week or so back I was able to get my truck out of the garage, fired up, coolant system bled, and took it around the block a couple of times. After a couple laps around the block it started to run warm, about 235° F. It would never get any hotter but I figured something had to be wrong. At idle it would never overheat and the fan would kick on/off and keep it around 190° F. I did a block test on it and sure enough, combustion gas in the coolant. Wanting to be able to put it back together over the Thanksgiving holiday, I took part of today off, got the heads pulled, and was able to make to Noland’s cylinder head shop in KC before closing. They’ll manga flux them, check them out, and surface them. Hopefully I will be able to pick them up next Wednesday.
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
Well that stinks to have it just about done and find engine problems. Guess that's just hotrodding. Hope they identify the problem and you get it back together quick.
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
I think I was asking for it buying a motor out of Pick N Pull for $85. Everything else internal to the motor looked nice and clean. Hopefully there won't be any issues with the heads and a fresh set of head gaskets will be all it needs.
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
that sucks! hope its a fast fix.
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
That is a bummer about the heads. Now the head gasket leak tool is pretty cool. Tool looks new with made in Germany on it yet the box looks old. And I don't remember ever seeing one.
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
that blows, but hey maybe it is just a simple headgasket deal and you're done. coool tool indeed.
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^^^^^
Well hell, that's really generous. If I ever get into another non-running project car I may have to take you up on that offer. |
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
Gauges look really nice were they difficult to wire up?
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
There are quite a few wires to hook up though really not much more complicated that hooking up a car radio. The instructions were simple and easy to read. They also came with pigtails for the wiring so they diconnect easily.
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
So I finally got around to getting my motor put back together. Funny how it took me a couple of hours to get the heads pulled off of it and to the machine shop with the hope of getting the heads back and the motor put together over the Thanksgiving break. Well, I did end up getting the heads back before Thanksgiving, but the assembly didn't get finished up till Christmas break.
Anyways, I got in my first successful test drives in the day after Christmas venturing out a bit further after each return trip home. I made a trip to the parts store to get some coolant to top off the radiator...I think it took me 30 minutes to get out of there. I still have a long list of things to do but for now, I think I'll mostly drive it. Come spring I'll be back at it with a couple small things done between now and then. Here's a short video I put together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRtkcPPpmJw Last edited by HUSSEY; 12-27-2016 at 06:48 PM. |
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
this is the fastest part of the year, so many things going on. truck sounds great! all that exhaust work really paid off
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
Looks good, by the way the dummies name is Wilson
Keep on keepin on NC
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
congrats, looks and sounds great. the first runs are always the funnest/scariest.
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
Congrat's! Very smooth first run. Looks and sounds great!
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
Great work man, truck sounds amazing!
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
Man it sounds and looks fantastic. Are you not running a prop valve in the brake system? The theory of not having one is there, just wondering how it is without one.
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
As of now no proportioning valve. So far I've been fairly cautions in how I drive it and haven't made any hard stops. I'll have to find a good size empty parking lot to do a couple test stops to see how it performs. I'll make sure to follow-up.
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Re: "Albert" -- 1949 AD, S10 Chassis
What for?
![]() I just swapped the pads in my 4600 lb family van and did the brake check down the street...of course i live in an unfinished development so I got that working for me. I mean, yeah it looks like you live on a nice well established neighborhood...oh, and its not like you don't get ice or anything this time of year in KC. I mean why be safe? ![]() You've done a great job on your build. It looks awesome! |
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