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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Finally got the steering gear back together. Shiny new idler arm, Pitman arm, and some 90* Zerks on the inner tie rods(cuz that's a really crappy spot for straight Zerks).
I got close Tuesday, but was fighting nausea(vertigo?) and had to give up early. Far more pleasant all around today |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Started pulling the motor out of the truck today. Got the 4 speed out and got prepped to yank the motor tomorrow. Then onto detailing the engine bay again and getting the new 327 and 5 speed prepped.
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Got the 350 out today and cleaned a few things up and now moving onto swapping stuff over to the 327 and doing some measurements for the new TKX 5 speed.
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I sure like that garage. Nice.
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Got the new starter in wasn’t a very pleasant experience. I had to have the mounting block milled down . It was at almost .60 gab without any shims I think the machines milled down .10 ,it brought it to close but one shim brought it to exactly.30 .I also had to remove the Shaft shim to get the depth right too.
The isn’t charged in the picture so it’s slightly retracted when I power the solenoid it goes to proper depth on the Flexplate
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I love them Orange color engines
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Great work Cboy, that's the first time I see a ballast resister on these trucks ...........
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Its there because I un converted the truck from HEI back to points. The previous owner put HEI in and cut the original resistance wire out of the harness. So the resistor is there to be the replacement. Ive been looking locally for a old harness that someone ripped out to just get that wire to swap back in and remove the ballast but no luck so far.
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I am finishing up an intake reseal, new radiator, new timing gear/chain set, and new alternator install. This photo was before I pulled the carb apart, gave it a run through the ultrasonic cleaner, and reinstalled. Now I have a fuel leak at the fuel pump that I guess monkeying around with the fuel line caused. This is the fun stuff right? Still need to repaint the oil filler cap as now it stands out with everything else cleaned up.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Nice to see the progress on your '68 - beautiful truck. Small project for me yesterday. I swapped out my OEM-style starter to a Powermaster 9112 hoping to solve a heat soak issue. Wow - wish I would have gone with a high torque starter sooner. Keep the pics coming!
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New rear shocks. OEM Spectrum, nothing fancy. For once, things went pretty much as expected ;-)
Spec is for 75#, but there is no way the existing ones were nearly that tight. :shrug: |
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Making headway on more wiring.
Electric fans, Lokar kick down, MSD-6AL2, Vintage Air, and MSD HVC II coil all wired up. Sorry, no idea how to flip picture.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
I do, so Flipped!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
I was curious what you are using for a fan set up. I just installed a vintage air front runner and a new Dewitt alum radiator and it seems the fans are going to be tight
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I'd love to shoot you some pix of the 20 and 30 year-old flex fans on my two trucks, but I gotta work tomorrow.
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Thanks but I was referring to Extended power he has a bbc with same serpentine kit as I just installed and was wondering what electric fans he is using.
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On the old 402 BB, I was able to run two 16” Syclone electric fans. (Which were 4” deep”) Now there is no room at all for them, and I had to find the slimmest 14” electric fans that still moved a lot of air. (Especially now with the added AC condenser, and power steering cooler added to the front, in addition to the already installed transmission cooler.) There is 1/8” clearance between the electric fans wire cover sleeve, and the belt tensioner on the passenger side of the engine. I just hope the fans move enough air to keep the engine cool. Don’t have too many more options. I can post a picture of just how close everything is in a bit.
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It was to hard to see the gap between the fan and the pulley system, so I placed a white sheet of paper underneath for better results. I didn’t use any of the thermostat stuff. I went with a Derale 16759 adjustable fan controller with manual over ride.
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