58 TRUK intro

[_Ogre]

the resin might eat into the plastic, i'd do a test piece to confirm compatibility
i'd also scuff the plastic with some 80 grit sandpaper to give it some bite

[_Ogre]

fiberglass kick panels to the body

if your referring to the kick speaker panels
all the screws are in the speaker holes
one in the tweeter hole and two in the speaker hole

[_Ogre]

the cost of front end accessory brackets is stupid expensive, as many of you know i preach build your own
i had my alternator out to replace the regulator this week and took a few pics of the bracket
everything was cut out with a 4.5'' grinder with a cut off wheel and a drill press for holes
3/16'' flat plate, some 3/8'' thick wall tubing for spacers and an adjuster bar i had laying around
it may be a little too industrial for some, but it has worked flawlessly for 30k miles

here's the view from the front, same basic location as the original generator



side view with alt removed



front view



3 bolts and spacers that go into the vortec head



the thought/design process is pretty simple:
start with a cardboard template of the head bolt locations
transfer to the main plate, lay out the mounting bolt locations, then the alternator bolt location to clear the head
trim plate to a nice shape and fabricate the actual alternator mount, i traced the main plate to make the shape of the smaller plate
for the spacers i estimated the length and bolted it up to check belt alignment, then adjusted the length to fit
i tack welded the spacers on while the bracket was bolted to the motor
for the adjusting bracket i cut the slotted end off a bracket i had, bolted it to the alternator and welded 1'' angle down to reach an existing bolt
no extreme engineering or autocad drawing needed, just designed and fabricated on the motor

fabricating your own brackets allows you to place components where you want them, not where ''they'' want them
it started with my ac bracket, all the universal brackets mount the compressor way high to be universal
i wanted my compressor low and out of view when looking at the motor

[DransportGarage]

As always, a fine job, Ogre, and a fine tutorial!

[Kim57]

Nice work on the bracket.
Kim

[_Ogre]

thanks guys, not much new stuff to show on a driver

[nail pounder]

Hey Ogre, I just read all 19 pages if your thread, and I'm thoroughly impressed. That is one *****in' Truk. I appreciate your input on the questions I've posted on the board.

[_Ogre]

thanks for the comments
and the bump

[_Ogre]

i went to the yipsi depot town car show for the first time
they block off depot town main drag for this nice smaller car show

no rain in 3 weeks here, guess what?
99% of the cars left in 2 minutes as the clouds rolled in
we went in and had tacos at maiz

[nail pounder]

Looking good as always Ogre!

[iowaboynca]

That's a nice pic with the clouds in the backdrop.

[OKGMC4]

Ya, great pic. Some people are wimps. When people see my 56 driven in the rain they get all bug eyed. Only thing I won't drive in is ice/ snow.

[DransportGarage]

Congrats on a great day out with Truk!

[Kim57]

Looks real good with the dark clouds in the background.
Kim

[_Ogre]

f' you photobucket for holding everybody's pictures for $399 ransom
i see short term gains for a soon to be closed photo sharing site

f' you photobucket

[roger55]

This is a HUGE impact to online forums of any kind.

Over the last few months there have been many, many complaints about slow access and the addition of advertisements on Photobucket.

So, to deal with the online traffic problems they, without warning, cut off all 3rd party access to photos and hold them ransom for a $399 annual subscription rate. This is obviously a move to just eliminate the traffic instead of upgrading their systems and maybe just charge a nominal extra fee for it.

I expect they are either going to file for bankruptcy or they will have to back off what they did. It was a totally arrogant move. If I were a member and even if they backed off, I would be moving elsewhere with my photo hosting service.

Ogre, when you find an alternative hosting source, I hope the site will give you permission to edit all your posts to change your photo links. I also hope you have all your photos archived on your own hard drives or you are really up the creek.

[roger55]

Hey Ogre,
This guy shares your opinion:

https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.photobucket.com

[Green 1959]

The picture thing sucks... It makes less fun to view these builds...

[Denee007]

Hi, I've been using www.Postimage.com since the mess up with photobucket. I like it much better than photobucket and it's free! I like you and many others lost many stored pics which were on photobucket, not to mention time it takes to upload, etc.
Dne'

[Harley03joe]

Originally Posted by Denee007

Hi, I've been using www.Postimage.com since the mess up with photobucket. I like it much better than photobucket and it's free! I like you and many others lost many stored pics which were on photobucket, not to mention time it takes to upload, etc.
Dne'

Thank You Denee007

Harley03joe

[bowt1ed]

Dne', great to hear from you again! Hope things are on the way to recovery.

Jim

[Denee007]

Thank you Jim!(I don't want to high jack here) I'll post a little thread about the crap that we went through soon, it's been a crazy ride. Long story short, we moved away from the flooded home, and bought a nice place in Cypress, Tx. We've been here a little over a month and I've been working crazily trying to get my shop up and running.
The 59 Apache was spared due to being stored away from the flood, but my 67 Mustang(totally under water), the 73 Triumph was up on my Maxjax and got halfway. Again, thank you~ I'll be back!
dne'

Originally Posted by bowt1ed

Dne', great to hear from you again! Hope things are on the way to recovery.

Jim

I've only had the 59 here at its new home for about a week. It's in need of a good cleaning, looks like a barn find!

[_Ogre]

new shop looks like double deep 2+ car wide, nice space

and welcome back denee !!!

[Scottish58chev]

Just went to re read your thread and no pictures, total pisser!!

[_Ogre]

total pisser!!

1st load google chrome for a browser https://www.google.com/chrome/
2nd load ''photosuckit hotfix'' browser extension thru the link in my signature

i can see all the photos in all the build threads here, i forget that many can't
imo... chrome is a better web browser than ms internet explorer
microsoft could have done the same thing for a photosuckit patch
guess what? microsoft doesn't give a poop, other than selling you more software