Restoring Rusty

[rusty76]

It looks good but where is my zip tie tip of the day? Lol

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by rusty76

It looks good but where is my zip tie tip of the day? Lol

Ha ha, good one, well we aint got to the wiring yet, so stay tuned

[Gregski]

decided to finally mount the horn back up, hey pretty girls ain't gonna honk at themselves!

[Gregski]

then I remembered why I was in no hurry to git it back on, it don't work, or so I thought

luckily Mopar Seth came by and the dude is a wizard with [my] Multimeter and in about 2 seconds flat he goes your brand new Grant steering wheel horn button is DEFECTIVE, that's college kid speak for BROKEN

he says, just buy a new universal one and call it good, then he went inside to get a beer

that was both good news (in the sense that I wired it up right) and bad news in the sense that I hate buying new stuff to replace new stuff

so by the time he came back out I had the button in a million pieces

turns out that gold dish cup thing was not dished enuff so we set it on a big nut basically a round donut with a hole in it and punched it with a punch and a 3 lbs sledge once and dished it out proper

and whalla problem = solution

[harley87ta]

I think we need a sound clip of the horn working. hahaha

[Deer_hunter_088]

Originally Posted by Gregski

I don't know about you, but wiring diagrams just make no sense to me. I can now relate to how some of the world's greatest musicians say they can not read sheet music. (By no means am I comparing myself to John Bonham, I'm just sayin')

If someone was to show me something as simple as the pic below, with a short write up, I would be good to go in 10 minutes instead of starring at a bunch of black squigly lines

so from left to right

Red wire goes from the bolt on the alternator to this fusible link gizmo on the firewall

Yellow wire goes from the plastic Terminal 1 / Terminal 2 plug from the alternator and is spliced into the same red wire going to the fusilbe link gizmo on the firewall and also changes color to a different red wire that runs to the fuse block

Brown wire goes from the plastic Terminal 1 / Terminal 2 plug from the alternator to the fuse block directly

and I even show the big fat black negative battery terminal wire being grounded to the alternator bracket

maybe this helps somebody out maybe it doesn't, maybe some of you like it, maybe some of you don't, but it makes sense to me

THANK YOU, YOU JUST SAVED ME HOURS OF MY TIME ON MY 69 K10!!!!!!!! It uses a harness much ike the one on rusty, because the 350 is from that style of truck, except its a chevy.

[Gregski]

so I figured spend another $18 bucks on a can of factory match paint that don't match or spend half that on POTENTIAL, ie Plasti Dip Camo Green [ahem] Verde

[Gregski]

this is what we're going for

[Gregski]

first coat, you shoot them 30 minutes apart

[Gregski]

second coat - with a close up

[Deer_hunter_088]

beautiful truck!!! rusty better stick around for a long time

[Jeramy]

the world needs more od green 2wd chevys. but thats just my personal opinion.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by Deer_hunter_088

beautiful truck!!! rusty better stick around for a long time

Rusty's been called a lot of things, but "beautiful" now that's a first!

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by jeramy

the world needs more od green 2wd chevys. But thats just my personal opinion.

lol

[Gregski]

third and final coat

[Gregski]

found a pic of a shrink wrapped C10

[rusty76]

Tell me your not going to change colors of the old boy. Lol plasti dip the whole truck. Might be expensive. I do like the green and if I squint real hard I can see rusty looking like the Ferrari. Lol

[Deer_hunter_088]

Originally Posted by Gregski

Rusty's been called a lot of things, but "beautiful" now that's a first!

Eh have you seen my c10! Makes rusty look brand new

[Gregski]

so bolted up the plasti dipped roll pan, not quite the green I was hoping for and the sun behind me makes for a bad pic with the shadows but its done

[Gregski]

another day another header exhaust leak, man I tell you those siamese ports just love to leak

yeah I was still using those silly three separate FelPro crush gaskitz

[Gregski]

and here's some evidence on the header flanges, man is this deja vu all over again

[Gregski]

alright so we wire wheel the head exhaust ports clean

[Gregski]

this time finally we are going to use the REMFLEX 2011 gaskets

[Gregski]

REMFLEX makes at least three different small block chevy gaskets so we was sure to pic the one for the Vortec aka L31 cylinder heads

2005 -

2006 - 1-3/8" x 1-1/2" Square Port

2011 - 1-3/8" x 1-1/2" Raised Square Port

Note it says: "Raised square port" maybe that's they key, a properly port matched gasket, lol

I'm just trying to help out anyone out there in the forum land who may be looking for information on this stuff, that's all

[Gregski]

here's my best attempt to show you how the 2011 REMFLEX gasket fits the Vortec L31 cylinder head