A '54 named Busty

[Gregski]

I picked up some gray Seem Sealer from Megatron's less popular younger brother, and decided to apply it the hard way - by packing it in with my finger and making a royal mess

[Gregski]

honestly I think it turned out ok, I just wish it was BLACK

[Gregski]

Come on bro, we are running out of daylight, can we please do something on the list ?

once again we run what we brong, in this case we will be instalizing our semi new 10 1/2" tall sending unit out of our '74 GMC left over from our LS swap into our brand new '95 Blazer 9 1/2" deep tankulator

needless to say this required some finesse

The Russian Judge really liked the star washer on the ground wire bolt!!!

[joedoh]

seems like I reply every five pages, so much goes on! keep it up!

Originally Posted by Gregski

... and you thought adjustable spanners were only for toilet repair

I also use my crescent wrenches as bending tools. it gets them out of the toolbox, having previously only been used for rounding off plumbing fittings.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by joedoh

I also use my crescent wrenches as bending tools. it gets them out of the toolbox, having previously only been used for rounding off plumbing fittings.

OMG - beer literally just shot out of my nose !

[Gregski]

so originally I wanted to run some steelbraided line from the tank to the fuel pump but it turned out to be too short, what ensued was comedy on wheels

so I go to AutoZone and ask the Pimple Faced Youth (PFY) behind the counter how much does 3/8ths fuel hose cost, he says: "I donno like two bucks"

I ask ok, what about fuel injection hose? he looks at me as if I just asked him who shot Kennedy? "it's the same thing" he replies

oh boy I think to myself it's gonna be one of those affairs

now, let me just say I'm not the Get Off My Lawn Old Man, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not

... so I look at this as a teachable moment, and say "no they are not, could you please check how much it is?"

he disappears to the back and comes out with about 4 feet of hose and says: "here you go"

I look at it and it says TOC as in Transmission Oil Cooler I look up at him and say this is Transmission Oil Cooler line

at that time Linda (nicest most helpful manager in the store) gives me that I'm so sorry look from across the counter - I acknowledge her with: It's OK! [which it is not]

she walks him through looking up a foot of fuel injection hose in the system and he looks up and says: "it's $5.69 a foot"

I say thank you see, that's a big difference, cause I need 20 feet of it and that's $113 bucks

the calculation is completely lost on him, and he asks: "So do you want it?"

I say no, it's too much, just give me 20 feet of regular fuel line...

to be continued ...

~ INTERMISSION ~

[Gregski]

while he's getting my hose, I go to grab the Seem Sealer, as I walk back out of the ile I trip on a 20 foot long measuring tape strung out across the store, he has layed it out on the floor and is now unwinding a spool of hose to measure it along that measuring tape on the floor

I say here let me help and hold the snake to the tape measure, as I utter out "that's only 18..." SNIP he cuts the line

whoa that's too short, that was only 18 feet...

he unwraps the rest of the spool, there aint that much left, cuts off about 2 feet and says: "there, 18 plus 2 now you have your 20 feet"

I FRIGGEN KID YOU NOT !!!

his co worker was just shaking his head, I don't think this kid is gonna make it till the end of the week

[Gregski]

DISCLAIMER and I am not being rude.

I know I did it wrong, using a rubber line instead of a hard line, but this is temporary to take the truck around the block to ensure the TH400 box of gears works so that when I yank it out and sell it I can truly vouch for it as ran when parked, then it's LS Swap Time Baby !

[8man]

Progress on multiple fronts.

[Gregski]

any Hot Rodder will tell ya, it's all about power to weight ratio, so began our day today by ridding ourselves of the [ahem] choke cable

doing so probably ads easily as much horse power as a Holley sticker on the quarter panel of a 72 Chevelle

[Gregski]

we done did the same with the mechanical speedometer cable

I like to zip tie my parts nice and neat before tossin' them in the trash, ha ha

[Gregski]

next I decided to relocate the stock gauges to the floor, to see if I like it?!

[Gregski]

first the right one (90 MPH speedometer) then the left one aka the quartet (Amps, Temp, Gas, and oil)

how cool was that back in the day you got to actually monitor current rather than voltage... Rad!

[Gregski]

then I decided that even though I like gray, this truck was just too gray even for me, I could not stand those gray doors, looks like someone just primer gray bombed the entire thing

so I wondered what would a little contrast look like, so I removed what ever these things are called, window frames, window borders

[Gregski]

I must admit, I had the truck for a year and this is the first time I realized one of these is gray and the other is white

anywho, they are both in such great shape that I wanted to see what they look like naked, maybe with a little brush finish

I think this works well with stainless steel, so although I plan on clear coating them I don't know if they will last and not rust, we shall see, if it does not work out I will paint them gloss black

[Gregski]

I absolutely love how that one turned out, I really wanted to do this to the grille before realizing how beat up it was, plus these are indoor kids so they should be a bit more protected from the elements

anywho the moonshine cash box lid was next

this guy is still work in progress, I gotta figure out how to get rid of those black blotches

[Gregski]

now to make those pieces pop I decided to prep the doors for some paint by removing all the weather stripping and let me tell you that bottom sill is a rust magnet

Top Tip, if you strip an old rusty Philips head screw, stop trying to twist it as soon as it strips the very first time, the more meat you leave on it the better, with the thinnest cutting wheel on your angle grinder gently notch a groove for a big flat screw driver, and see if you can get it out that way - worked for me, and some of these were really stubbon

[Gregski]

I primertized the bare metal and masked the entire door

What's that honey? have I taken our aluminium foil, no of course not, what would I be doing with that in the garage, silly

[Gregski]

and before you knew it, the passenger door was Back in Black

I really liked how it turned out and wanted to keep going and paint the other side, but decided to quit on the account of my right forearm... so that's it for today

(oh yeah, the 2 year old radiator sprung a leak in my '74 so I spent my evening replacing that, so much for resting my arm, fourth rad in six years!)

[mongocanfly]

Heres what's in the book

[mongocanfly]

Also found this while looking...

[mongocanfly]

Try this...

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by mongocanfly

Try this...

1,000 thanks you're a Rock Star! much appreciated

[Gregski]

welcome back to a build of a truck formerly know as "Busty" more on that later

the day started out with me vacuuming out 3 1/2 yards of dirt from the ol' gauge cavities

then I proceeded to liberate the glove box out of the truck before is disintegrated, the goal being access to the heater box

[Gregski]

all heater controls had to go, starting with the cable pull button/lever on the driver's side

followed by the first of the heater control buttons from the passenger's side, no idea what it done did, and I don't care