What did you do to your truck today?

[Oldgearz]

I pulled a 305 v8 from my 55 chevy parts truck and made the decision to rebuild it as a hi perf engine w/700 r4, and put it in my 62. Now I need to figure out if I should sell the 305 v6 w/muncie 3 spd from my gmc. Any ideas on how much it's worth? runs good but leaks a little from the pan & tranny is good. Or if anyone local is interested pm me

[tincan1966]

Originally Posted by Rich 5150 69

If you chose a fixed idler gear drive like the sig erson, quiet one they sound a little better, pete jackson dual idler drives are notorious for some reason for he growling, even though I chose a quiet gear drive for my coupe, after several long road trips it sorta made me nuts......

Yeah I went the dual idler route and regretting it, but at least it's not a major teardown to fix. This is by far the worse one I have ever heard and I checked the spacing 4 times before sealing it all up. Got the old reliable double roller on order, will be here Tuesday. Thanks for the info tho, something I will remember.

[Hilandr451]

Moved all our stuff down to Bakersfield from Vacaville.



New shop:







The cab is on the side of our new house ready for the new shop! I can't wait to get back into the resto!!!

[E911manager]

Meshed the caprice and 64 core support together. Mounted the radiator, AC condenser and the oil and trans cooler. Hung the sheet metal on it to see what was rubbing and/or in a bind. So far so good.. Everything is tacked in place. Now, time to take it all apart and start boxing the frame back in and making it more permanent..

[KroAutomotiveInc]

set my headlights up today on relays

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...elay+headlight

[C4 Metal Werks]

After 6 weeks of cleaning, tuning and replacing parts I was able to to a 150 drive today.
I love driving it!!!!!!!

[KroAutomotiveInc]

set up dual high and low pitch horns with a relay

[1963c-10]

Banged my head on the wall over a blown intake gasket...arg

[Clyde65]

Originally Posted by 1963c-10

Banged my head on the wall over a blown intake gasket...arg

My LS swap started with that, then found a cracked head, figured the LS was the way to go.

[tincan1966]

Took a couple days vacation to make a long weekend to clean up the shop from the '69 rebuild and getting that "Burb back in to work on front suspension. Also going to mock up console/shifter idea and start to lay out some of the wiring. I have 3 harness to merge,- the EFI harness, the chassis harnes and the Phantom Key harness. Thank God they are all Painless Wiring parts. will post some pics later of some of the fab that is going on. Have a great weekend everyone!

[markeb01]

Originally Posted by tincan1966

Yeah I went the dual idler route and regretting it, but at least it's not a major teardown to fix. This is by far the worse one I have ever heard and I checked the spacing 4 times before sealing it all up. Got the old reliable double roller on order, will be here Tuesday. Thanks for the info tho, something I will remember.

It must be a personal preference thing, or perhaps they are louder now than those produced many years ago. I’ve been running a Pete Jackson noisy drive since 1991 and can’t imagine doing without it. I had a Summers Brothers drive before the Jackson, and although it was an engineering work of art it was too quiet for my tastes. For me the gear drive is just part of the fun factor which includes a Richmond 4 speed, suitcase mufflers and no insulation. There are so many mechanical sound effects to enjoy I eliminated the radio years ago.

You must not be alone in your annoyance with gear drives. Back in the 70’s-80’s it seemed like everyone had one. Where I live now I think I’ve heard maybe one or two others in the last 10 years so they have apparently fallen out of favor.

[tincan1966]

Originally Posted by markeb01

It must be a personal preference thing, or perhaps they are louder now than those produced many years ago. I’ve been running a Pete Jackson noisy drive since 1991 and can’t imagine doing without it. I had a Summers Brothers drive before the Jackson, and although it was an engineering work of art it was too quiet for my tastes. For me the gear drive is just part of the fun factor which includes a Richmond 4 speed, suitcase mufflers and no insulation. There are so many mechanical sound effects to enjoy I eliminated the radio years ago.

You must not be alone in your annoyance with gear drives. Back in the 70’s-80’s it seemed like everyone had one. Where I live now I think I’ve heard maybe one or two others in the last 10 years so they have apparently fallen out of favor.

I actually took the cheap route, something I don't normally do and bought a no name gear drive. Fixed the problem already and still have the drive- had to relieve the main idler boss where it contacts the block-found my problem was misalignment under load. it's much better now and I kinda like it!

[198plus]

Painted my bed today......

[northern 85]

Nice shine!!!

[Rich 5150 69]

Originally Posted by tincan1966

I actually took the cheap route, something I don't normally do and bought a no name gear drive. Fixed the problem already and still have the drive- had to relieve the main idler boss where it contacts the block-found my problem was misalignment under load. it's much better now and I kinda like it!

Still like the gear drive although on long road trips makes me nuts, actually had one young kid ( no pun intended) at our local cruise that drives a new camaro asked me what was wrong with my trans that was making it whine....

[64shortbox]

198plus,
Fantastic job!!!! And Black too, those panels have to be lazer straight to pull off a gloss black paint job. I know yo have lots of man hours in those 2 bed panels. Again Great job!!!!

[SCOTI]

Originally Posted by Rich 5150 69

....actually had one young kid ( no pun intended) at our local cruise that drives a new camaro asked me what was wrong with my trans that was making it whine....

That's funny right there! They know everything right??

[SCOTI]

Originally Posted by 198plus

Painted my bed today......

Oooooooooooooooooooo . . .....

[64shortbox]

Finished the installation of a van tilt in my 64. I'm lazy and took the easy way out. I drilled a 3/8" hole in the center of dash where the column mounts, dropped in a 3/8" - 24 X 3/4" bolt backed it up with a 3/8" - 24 jamb nut which happens to be 1/4" thick, I then cut a piece of 1/4" rubber to install between the column and the dash. I pushed the column as close to the dash as I could and drilled a 3/8" locating hole in the top of my column to fit my centering bolt. Using the factory column mount holds plenty of pressure to keep the steering column tight in the truck.

[198plus]

Nice job, I like that column......What year van did it come out of ???

Originally Posted by 64shortbox

Finished the installation of a van tilt in my 64. I'm lazy and took the easy way out. I drilled a 3/8" hole in the center of dash where the column mounts, dropped in a 3/8" - 24 X 3/4" bolt backed it up with a 3/8" - 24 jamb nut which happens to be 1/4" thick, I then cut a piece of 1/4" rubber to install between the column and the dash. I pushed the column as close to the dash as I could and drilled a 3/8" locating hole in the top of my column to fit my centering bolt. Using the factory column mount holds plenty of pressure to keep the steering column tight in the truck.

[markeb01]

Originally Posted by Rich 5150 69

Still like the gear drive although on long road trips makes me nuts, actually had one young kid ( no pun intended) at our local cruise that drives a new camaro asked me what was wrong with my trans that was making it whine....

I had a co-manager ask me the same thing back in the 1980's. Another enthusiast and I were discussing gear drives when the manager came in and condescendingly asked "is that the thing that makes it sound like your transmission is going out"? I responded - "only to the uneducated"!

[markeb01]

This is incredibly beautiful. I can't wait to see the whole truck painted and back together. Excellent!! Am I correct in assuming you also filled all the seams?

Originally Posted by 198plus

Painted my bed today......

[198plus]

Thanks

Originally Posted by northern 85

Nice shine!!!

Thanks, they did turn out lazer straight.

Originally Posted by 64shortbox

198plus,
Fantastic job!!!! And Black too, those panels have to be lazer straight to pull off a gloss black paint job. I know yo have lots of man hours in those 2 bed panels. Again Great job!!!!

Thanks, I said the same thing......lol

Originally Posted by SCOTI

Oooooooooooooooooooo . . .....

Thanks.......I can't wait either, it want be long. We filled all the seams but the hood.

Originally Posted by markeb01

This is incredibly beautiful. I can't wait to see the whole truck painted and back together. Excellent!! Am I correct in assuming you also filled all the seams?

[64shortbox]

Added 4 Way Flashers to my 64. Since I installed a 70's Van Tilt and the column had the provision for Emergency Flashers I wanted to make them work. I cut the flasher connector out of a 72 Nova in the wrecking yard. One side of the connector gets power from a constant HOT off the fuse block. The other lead runs to the "K" terminal (a brown wire) on the factory GM column connector. I read that you should use a 15 Amp fuse so I ran #14 wire. For my constant HOT I picked it off the Spot Light terminal of my fuse block and poped in a 15 Amp fuse. You don't have a "Spot Light" terminal on your fuse box? No problem, neither did I. In the wrecking yard locate a 60-66 truck fuse block, remove the Heater/B.U. Lamp fuse, take out the 1/4" head screw holding the fuse block in place and the screw in the Spot Light fuse location. Remove the fuses from the Brake LP & BU LP locations. From the back side of the fuse block - using a small flat blade screw driver release the tangs that hold the fuse clip in place and push out the front of the fuse block. The fuse clip I show in the middle of the first 2 pictures is the wrong clip it's for reference only. That clip is form the Panel LTS fuse and is the wrong one. You must use the clip from either the Brake LP or BU LPS fuse.

[64shortbox]

Originally Posted by 198plus

Nice job, I like that column......What year van did it come out of ???

I bought the column off eBay so I'm not 100% sure what year it is but I think the seller said it was a from a 71 van. I was the only bidder at $99.00 plus $19 shipping. I don't think I did too bad on the price of the column.