Restoring Rusty

[rich weyand]

Originally Posted by Gregski

then it was time to disassembly the stick itself, clean it properly by soaking the bits in Mineral spirits and cleaning them with a steel wire brush, and put it all back together with white lightning grease, man the action is so smooth on this baby now it's like a hair trigger, jk

love jobs like these, The Greg is so happy!

If your shifter ever starts to feel floppy and rattles, those two bolts have come loose.

[Gregski]

we need to rebuild the actual Hurst shifter mechanism, but first let me take you back in time to show you how grimy she was when I bronged her home

so first we pop off the "dust" cover or the inspection plate, call it what you will, it lives below underneath the stick, and it was disgusting

[daddyjeep]

I like that you painted the parts that were "supposed" to be black body color. I'm anxious to see it all together.

DD = daily driver by the way.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by daddyjeep

I like that you painted the parts that were "supposed" to be black body color. I'm anxious to see it all together.

DD = daily driver by the way.

yes sir, did the same on the inner fenders, and I love how those turned out, it gives the engine more depth, focuses your eyes on the prize, otherwise you pop the hood open and you see a black hole, at least that's what happens in my minds eye, I've always dug the body color engine bays, and there are some super clean ones, but you all know that

[Gregski]

so yeah with that bottom plate popped off here's what we see or I should say can't see in there (you may wanna put your sumich down before scrolling down, ha ha)

I think I already hit it with some WD40 and started the cleaning process

[Gregski]

like I said these are some old pics from the archives, ha ha but I think its worth sharing on how we got here, I am so excited to finally work on this shifter and hopefully soon be enjoying it

[Gregski]

ok so once I had it all disassembled I noticed I set two pieces down out of order, so the second pic shows the correction, apologies

[68post]

I've done this same shifter cleaning, then greased it and fitted a plastic bag around it to at least help seal out the grime for as long as possible.

Thought I had a new shifter when done.

[Gregski]

so we got all our parts separated, time to start a cleaning, gentlemen if there is one thing I learned is that the solvent and toothbrush method is cute for 2012 BMW owners trying to get a dead mosquito off their exhaust pipe chrome tips, but for 40 plus year old trucks we need a 4" wire wheel on our trusty angle grinders to git our real men dirt and grime off, ha ha

not sure if you guys noticed a little slight of hand trick I performed for you: do you see how we went from 3 shims to 4?

somehow while wire wheelin the top two identical wavy shims (with the two hole punch in them) on the upper right in the second pic separated, so the question be, was Molly the Hurst assembler technician not paying attention when she grabbed two of them accidentally cause they was stuck together, or did my shifter or do some shifters need two/double shims in there, in all the minutes spent on YouTube I have yet to see a four shim setup, can anybody comment please

we mark this Color Severity Orange as I don't want to have parts left over after [ahem] fixin' something, you know how that goes

[Gregski]

and what do we git / see when we clean our old parts? that's right some good all fashion part numbers, but you already knew that

ah back when the world was a simpler time and part numbers made sense, I think these went

0073
0074
0075

so if you want to roll your own Hurst shifter for one of these transmissions these lever part numbers are your ticket

[Gregski]

started the day by re assembling the shifter, all the parts were clean and lubricated with white lithium grease, the action is superb now

FYI: I left the extra (second) wavy shim out - we'll call it a spare

[Gregski]

then I moved on to the radiator, figured I put it off long enuff

so first we cleaned it, then a little wire wheel action, then a coat of black paint and satin clear, no primer, didn't want it to have too many layers on it

last pic is after the first light coat

[Gregski]

so second coat and clear, than we flip it over and do it again, it was easier to mask it laying flat than trying to hang it, in my opinion

[Gregski]

and finally got the driver side spark plug wire routing figured out, well #5 mostly - all done using parts from about 7 Vortec engine looms, ha ha

Had to run the longest wire maybe the 32" from #5 under the block and attached to an upside down mounted Vortec wire loom bracket in make shift mode, ha ha aka the key to the entire operation

[Gregski]

... and now the Money Shot!!!

[daddyjeep]

Originally Posted by Gregski

... and now the Money Shot!!!

Dude, the colors are all backwards. love it.

[68Timber]

Oh wow. I didn't know you'd stepped the pipe up to 2.5". I've had that exact exhaust before on a square and it is loud.

[y5mgisi]

I bet you will end up quieting the exhaust down somehow after a while. I have had the same setup before and it was way too much for me.

[rich weyand]

Originally Posted by 68Timber

Oh wow. I didn't know you'd stepped the pipe up to 2.5". I've had that exact exhaust before on a square and it is loud.

Huh. That's exactly what I have on mine, and it's fine with me.

[68Timber]

Originally Posted by rich weyand

Huh. That's exactly what I have on mine, and it's fine with me.

That wasn't meant as a slam to anyone running that combo, FM sells a ton of those 40's every year I'm sure. But that was the loudest combo I've ever run by far, and even though I was in my 20's when I had it, it was was still embarrassing at times. Some people are obviously OK with it, to each his own. I don't think his wife and kids are going to like it. Especially with turn-downs.

[Valarius_Starchaser]

woah.....

[Gregski]

and now a sneak peak of Greg's Exhaust 4.0 (that's right folks this will be our fourth version of the exhaust system)

sorry guys The Greg will not be running his X pipe any longer nor is he interested in the H pipe setup

those rediculously long turn down tail pipes may be cut and 2 feet of that pipe may go in front of the mufflers to move them back, to be determined

[Gregski]

EXHAUST MEMORY LANE

Version 1.0 - stock exhaust, manifolds and two into one tailpipe, or what was left of it, the grandson of the previous owner saw a hole in the stock muffler so decided to just cut it off, yes I drove the truck home about 50 miles with a straight pipe baby - pronounced "loud"

Version 2.0 - LMC Truck 2 1/4 dual exhaust system with Turbo Mufflers, very affordable and easy to install setup / upgrade, absolutely no issues with it, mates with the stock exhaust manifolds

Version 3.0 - Hooker Competition Long Tube Headers and Summits X Pipe (P.I.A. to install without welding for one dude) still 2 1/4 utilizing those same LMC Truck Turbo Mufflers

Version 4.0 - Same Hooker Headers with Flowmaster Series 40 mufflers and 2.5" pipes, yeah baby!

[Rich84]

What He said^^^

[Gregski]

some last minute stuff before the big day tomorrow...