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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
OMG I would need to do five hours a day for a month to catch up. CRAP!
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
I am shooting four coats of clear today on the final parts needing paint (except for the parts I forgot about). Here's the production from earlier in the week, picking up UVs to help the cure. 100 hours of scuff & buff and I'm another day closer to being done!
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
went to cars and coffee this morning. I was the only ad truck there out of 400 cars.. makes no sense but it happened.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
I figured I better get the front stabilizer bar on the beast, so I got it wire brushed, primed and painted before the rain starts today.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
so today I restart on my brakes. trying to add a power booster & 2 chamber m/c to my drum brakes. still haven't figured out why I have no pressure to the rear brakes when the engine is started but do have pressure when the engine is off. wish me luck.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
That's a puzzlement. The booster is having some effect on the master cylinder when you have vacuum. Obviously, I'm not an expert, or I'd give you the answer.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
so tonight I got the missing brake line for the rear brakes bent & installed. blead the rear brake lines. with no vacuum from the engine, the pedal is nice & hard. drops about 3". with the engine running & vacuum to the booster, the pedal goes right to the floor.
Now what im wondering is 1st, how do you tell if there is a check valve in the rear port & 2nd, if there is a check valve and I add another one in line will that cause problems? Right now I have a Willwood check valve in both front & rear lines. Any ideas would be appreciated. Last edited by nvrdone; 09-13-2019 at 10:26 PM. Reason: spelling |
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so I got in some time today. what ive found so far is that the push rod from the booster to the m/c was adjusted too short. with the m/c bench bled & mounted & the ports plugged I had about 7" of pedal travel. after playing with the adjustment - 4 tries - I now have right at 3" of travel. so tomorrow I will hook up the lines to the m/c, bleed the system and see what happens.
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Looks like perfect early Autumn painting weather.
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I couldn't believe it. Hurricane Dorian stalled our Ohio weather and we got 5 near-perfect days. The 10-hour work days about killed me (in addition to the honey-dew list), but I'm a lot farther along than I had planned to be.
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I got a complete custom exhaust done on the '48 yesterday from the manifold to exiting behind the rear wheel. I made sure it didn't interfere with the dump bed. I got tired of the coke can and hose clamp repair job on the pipes connected to a 70s era cherry bomb noise exiting right under the cab, lol.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
spent some time yesterday & today on the truck brakes. bench bled m/c & installed it with both ports plugged. had to adjust the length on the push rod between the m/c & booster. got that done & have about 3" pedal travel with a hard pedal both with the engine off & running. that's progress. hooked up the front brake line & tried to bleed the front brakes. found one bleeder screw was plugged. swapped that out & now still have a firm pedal with the engine off or running. that's major progress.
started to plumb the rear brake lines, but found I need one 12" length of brake line. I don't have one & my local parts house is out of stock. so - time to call it a day & watch the Seahawks - Bengals game. GO HAWKS !!! |
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got to work in the garage for the first time in a couple weeks. at least it feels like a couple weeks. didn't do much but it was just nice to be out there again.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
Took wheels off and worked on cleaning more rust and crud off. At some point I’ll need to determine what I’ll replace them with. Went to a car show at In & Out, so dinner was great.
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Very nice truck !!!
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Thanks Bob.
This site is full of very nice trucks and many great ideas. Lots of talent out there. Today I dumped the break in oil and put in some Lucas hot rod oil, put in new plugs, and completed the wax job I started yesterday.
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It's been cold and rainy since last Saturday so I spent a few hours cleaning after being caught in the rain. I also tweaked the driver side door solenoid, hopefully it will work 100% of the time now. Time will tell...
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straddled the engine today, wrote down some casting #'s and pondered some of my life's choices...
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Did you come to any conclusions on the latter?
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Worked on getting my dash put together, and started installing the new cab corner speaker boxes, they fit very well!
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
if that is the problem, im not sure if I should be happy or run the truck off a cliff!!
I'll check that tomorrow. Thanks |
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
ok, I couldn't wait until tomorrow, pulled the booster check valve. I can blow from the booster side but not the vacuum side. Im thinking I may have to take the pressure valve out of the rear line. Si I'll try that. thanks for the idea.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
Don't do that! I hate to see a good old truck wrecked!
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couldn't do that - my wife would kill me since we dated in it & its been part of my life since 1973. but some times I really feel that way.
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