47-55.1 Engine compartment cleanup

[Matt_50]

1950 3100. 350 engine, edelbrock 1403 carb. Stock engine.



Instead of a bunch of threads with under the hood questions I thought I'd try to make just one overall thread.

Ok so my truck has mostly sat for last 3 years. The goal 3 years ago was to just get it to run under it's own power before our son was born and we moved across the state. I just got it into the garage and I have a long list of things still to do to it.

Things look rough under the hood. Wires hanging and zip ties everywhere, rusty exhaust manifolds, fuel line is cobbled together and so on. I'm looking for advice and ideas to make it all look nice and neat.


I already have new fuel line setup planned out.

I bought new valve cover gaskets because of a little leaking. I plan to try and clean up the covers. See what the look like.

I have wire loom but how to make it look nice? This is a big one.

I need a air filter cover, cleaned off rust just recently on this one.

Hood latch panel needs painting.

I want to clean up and paint existing exhaust manifolds. How should I go about doing this one?

Any other suggestions?