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best picture i could find you can barely see it under the genII compac unit drilled a hole into the vent box and out thru the side ![]()
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smooth is beautiful ![]() maybe air brush them back in ???
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Thanks for the pic. That's kind of what I was thinking would have to happen, just unsure on whether I'll have to modify my kick panel to clear it that way. Thanks again.
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In another thread you posted pic of a radiator cover, did you make that or buy it?
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radiator cover is all ogre
![]() started with this ![]() ![]() taped cardboard on top of the radiator like this ![]() added more carboard and tape until it looked like this also added 2 L brackets to tie it in to the top two radiator bolts ![]() and this ![]() ![]() wax everything and started glassing like this ![]() ![]() ![]() removed it and added glass to the inside ![]() and trimmed it up to look like this ![]() ![]() ![]() then started filling and sanding, filling and sanding block sand, block sand, block sand prime, block sand, prime, block sand add a dab of paint ![]() ![]() ![]() before ![]() after ![]() the nice thing about fiberglass is that you can chose the shape metal would have been angular and not to my liking ![]() ![]() ![]()
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OK, Showoff. You have skills. Ask a question and get a play-by-play. Just kinding, THANKS _Ogre
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Your truck looks Very Cool!!
Harvey 1957 Chevy Stepside 1958 GMC Fleetside C4 project build thread: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...65#post5510465 |
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Great job on that cover.
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very very nice !
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Ogre: You definitely know you way around fiberglass. That looks great!
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your truck looks real cool
and a master in fiberglass skills too |
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![]() ![]() ![]() to the rest of you... thanks i had done no fiberglassing until truk read a lot of posts on fiberglassforums.com and just did it. ![]()
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What are you doing home? I figured you would be out at the Dream Cruise.....
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i try to avoid rookie day, but i caved and headed over there
it was a 6 mile long, 5 lane parking lot, no one moved from 11am till they shut it down at 9pm mostly minivans and new 4 door family haulers, it looked just like kmart parking lot ![]() i went wed and fri evening, pretty nice those days. stop and go cruising, slow enough to check out the rides. still too many new mustangs, camaros and challengers for my liking. but it is a public road lots of nice classics, modifieds and hotrods out there all days and where were you?
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this is typical view of the dream cruise
i count 11 cars in this picture, you can just barely see the corner of one chevelle it's still worth the effort to go, even using those percentages and 100,000 cars you will see 9090 cool cars ![]()
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They shouldn't allow anything less than 20 years old on a cruise.
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Next year I should take Friday off and go then. Would it be worth my drive? What day is the best to attend? Marc
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definitely worth the drive.
friday is my preferred day but even then once the sun sets it comes to a stand still we were out on friday from 3 to 7 and everything was smooth in that 4 hrs we drove 8 mile road to 14 mile road and back, 12 miles total i was out on saturday @ 3 and made it .5 mile in 1 hour i hit the side roads and got out of there they figured that there were 1.1 million people out there on saturday
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THIS is probably why i missed you. I was looking in the wrong parking lot.
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we may have passed in the event and not even know it
![]() had a good time on my 2nd power tour. i am definitely in for next year too. dallas to charlotte, woohoo! thanks for bumping my thread from page 6 oblivion ![]() ![]() ![]()
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AWSOME build and AWSOME thread! I know where to ship my next project, I'm sure you are bored with nothing to do now that your truck is done hahaha
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thanks newfisher.
i am bored and need a new project... thinking of doing this to my 59 panel ![]()
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power steering pump bracket
front end accessory drive brackets can get costly anywheres from $60 for a simple bracket to $2000 for a whole serpentine setup
i make everything. this is my $5 power steering bracket i had to replace my power steering pump this weekend and took some pics of the bracket a couple of 10 ga plates, some 3/8'' heavy wall tubing and a couple of bolts bare bracket ![]() ![]() mounted on pump ![]() 2 washers under the mounting stud line the pulley up with the crank pulley ![]() ![]() mounted on motor. uses the same bolt holes as the original truck front motor mounts ![]() ![]()
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the mustII rack on truk has always been a little twitchy, nothing really wrong with the steering just a floating sensation going down the road
i did a little research for using the gm saginaw pump with the ford rack and hydroboost i found that the saginaw pumps flow at 3 gal per min vs the ford pump flow of 2 gpm a couple of web sites and forums suggested changing the pressure and flow fitting in the gm pump to a lower flow fitting i ordered the fitting a yr ago and with the new pump install i was able to change out the fitting wow, does it make a difference. nothing noticeable now, i always noticed a floating sensation before. the part number is cpfcv-k do a google search. i found mine on ebay, but year one and cpp have the same part as do a lot of vendors. the fitting installed in the pump. ![]()
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when i went to murry's to get a new pump i asked the kid behind the counter for a 68 truck power steering pump.
nothing in stock... so i asked for any gm steering pump on the shelf, i tried to explain that they are all the same from the 60s thru the 90s, maybe even later. so we looked at 78, nope. 88? nope. 98? nope. just grab a pump, need a number. no, walk in back and grab a pump just to humor me. please. he rolls his eyes, walks in back, comes out with a pump, looks up the number, it's for an 87 blazer. we compare the pump to the old one, same pump. we changed the pulley right there at the counter with the rental tool (it took 3 kits to find one that wasn't stripped) i paid for the pump and told him to remember that all gm pumps are the same. never did tell him it was going on a 58 chevy truck. that would have blown his mind ![]()
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