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Re: Restoring Rusty
after some grunting, some PB Blaster, and some more grunting, both long bolts and body mounts were out
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Re: Restoring Rusty
I also removed the battery tray just so that I could have more wiggability, and then it was time to wiggle the radiator support out
I took my time and wore some construction gloves so I wouldn't cut my surgeon like hands, ha ha and soon enuff Bob was your uncle |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
This may be the justification you all were seeking for me pulling the core support out, surely many of you have removed an engine out of a car without removing the entire front end, right, well look in the bottom right corner of this structure, or the lack there of
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Re: Restoring Rusty
now lets take a looksie at that engine without having the grille obstruct our view shall we
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Re: Restoring Rusty
things were going great, I was on an adrenaline high, so I kept going
decided to remove the water pump, so easy now without the silly radiator in the way, ha ha four bolts later and it was off, by the way it must have square bearings cause it makes an ugly sound when rotating, needed replacing for sure |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
ah what the heck lets separate the radiator fan from the water pump
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#2782 |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
I was hoping to put in 2 hours tonight, but ended up putting in 4, so needless to say it was soon Beer:30
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Re: Restoring Rusty
oh almost forgot, can you tell what is missing from one of these pictures, one is a pic of my original driver side fender, the other of an OEM replacement I got from a junkyard off of a '79 Scottsdale 10 for the passenger side
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#2784 |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
Thanks, and yeah, this is one of the few design flaws of our beloved trucks, that silly lip in the bottom of the radiator core support catches water, dirt, and of course battery acid drippings. The other terrible design flaw is the taco hood. Another one would be the dumb always on blower fan in the cabin, so annoying. Then there's the lame fuel tank filler neck that you have to squat and hold the gas pump nozzle just right or it will run on the side of the truck, LOL. There may be one more, but I forget.
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Re: Restoring Rusty
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when the fuel filler location were designed the filler nozzles of the day were of the old type (like a diesel nozzle) they were not problem like the vapor recovery nozzles are. The "taco" hood was a DOT mandate to all manufacturers. before the event of the folding hood, In a front end collision the hoods had a better than average chance of entering the passenger compartment and under enough cases decapitating occupants. due to their flat design, the real cause of the hoods bending over time is lack of lube to the hinges. The blower on always was not a defect this was GM wide feature of their "Flow-Through" ventilation system. A lame idea in my book, but........
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I don't know if its true or not but read somewhere it was to create positive cabin pressure to keep exhaust fumes out of the passenger area.
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Re: Restoring Rusty
My 79 fenders are OEM and do not have the lower bolt hole.
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Re: Restoring Rusty
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I've had four of these 73-80 trucks that had hinges that were properly lubed by the owner. All of them had zero bends in the hood.
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Re: Restoring Rusty
Day Three of Leftie Loosies
Fun Level = 11 (a little Spinal Tap reference for you all, horns up if you got it) man I tell you working in a clean garage with an empty surface to put your parts on is such a big difference and a pleasure to work on your truck |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
we decided to move this party indoors tonight, and do a little wrenchin in the cabin
first we loosened up the shifter rubber boot |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
we were paying attention the last time we dropped the tranny so we learned (thanks to you all) how to press down and turn the metal cup to get the shifter stick out
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Re: Restoring Rusty
Hey, is this what they mean by Four On The Floor?
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Re: Restoring Rusty
then we removedatized the transmission turtle shell
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Re: Restoring Rusty
we disconjoined the go backwards light switch thingie
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Re: Restoring Rusty
Johnny are you taking notes, there will be a Quiz you know!
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Re: Restoring Rusty
next we disconbobulated the "Do You Know How Fast You Were Going Son?" cable
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Re: Restoring Rusty
then we had to suck in our gut (see Lowering The Truck posts above) and slid under the truck like a sloth and removed the ZZ Top bar
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