My Daughter's 72 just made it home

[67 cst swb]

P/S off a '68 or newer will work just fine.

[wreckedchevy]

Thanks again

[FRENCHBLUE72]

Nice score sounds like she is getting it ready ..

[wreckedchevy]

Got it outside and daughter practiced her wax on wax off. The old paint cleaned pretty good considering. There's and old logo painted on the door wish there was way too bring it back to life you can barely make out electric

[motorcritter]

The power steering box is pretty much universal through the 'square body' series. After '75 (IIRC) the ratio is quicker/faster/better and makes for an easier handling truck. Nice find- looks like it'll clean up easily.

[wreckedchevy]

just wanted to give a shout out to Lockdoc for hooking us up with a complete lock set, they look great and better yet actually function.

no real updates other than that. finally found a eec fuel tank for it and I have a new sending unit somewhere in the back of a ups truck hopefully get the old girl fired up this weekend.

[wreckedchevy]

I got the tank installed and a new sending unit for it but I'm having a heck of time figuring out how to hook up the eec vent. the tank was mia when we bought the truck and I've never seen an eec tank in truck before. I know the fuel line is missing but he gave me this loop and said it was for the vent and that's all the info I got but it doesn't look like it fits. anyhow anybody have any pic's/info on how to hook it up? thanks

[wreckedchevy]

here's the link to the photo if you need it bigger
http://i1054.photobucket.com/albums/...psacosxlsy.jpg

[Procurement_man]

The loop goes up the passenger side beside the tank. From the tank to the loop and the loop to the line going down to the floor on passenger side I found a picture of line but not installed.

[wreckedchevy]

thanks never thought to install it upside down

[wreckedchevy]

quick update we didn't get it fired up yet(for reason's above) but did a compression test and was 120lbs in all but one cylinder was 80 hopefully just a stuck valve. thought it was pretty good for a motor that hasn't been fired in years. plan on finishing the gas tank install (thanks again) and getting it running today (i'll try to video it if I can).

[Procurement_man]

okay, I took a picture of mine so you can see how to mount.

[wreckedchevy]

thanks again I got it hooked up the fuel line is still mia so I ran a temporary rubber line over to the frame so we can fire it up. thankfully we have a very large 67-72 salvage yard here so I'm going to grab a real fuel line as soon as momma get's back to watch the 2 year old hopefully be firing her up shortly.

[SCHRUMGMC]

Love the truck!!!

[Oldtruckfanatic]

Very cool truck. The one in my avatar looked a lot like that when I got it. Lucky kid !

[wreckedchevy]

Thanks all it's Alive!!!! smokes like heck but it's alive video'd the first fire it's uploading now i'll post it up after dinner.

[wreckedchevy]

so here is the first fire up. excuse the crappy video the wife wasn't going to make it back so my mechanic buddy that's giving her the upgrades came by to help her with the first fire up while I kept an eye on the 2 yr old. as soon as I seen all the smoke start to fly out of it I grabbed him and got him to cleaner air and had to kill the video and like a complete NOOB I was holding the phone wrong.

we left the old oil in it and added a quart of ATF to it to break up the sludge and ran some water threw the carb. it was smoking so bad the entire garage disappeared the neighbors all freaked! once we got it nice and hot I dumped all the oil and put in fresh it appears the smoking is starting to subside. we have no knowledge to the last time this truck has moved under it's own power. really amazed it is firing with the click of the key and other than fresh oil all we did was put in new plug's. Once we are sure the bottom end is solid we are going to put in the hei and aluminum intake and 4bbl

72 first fire - YouTube

[s_nova69]

Uh oh. I am glad to see ya got that deal done. That thing looks pretty sweet. See ya in a few weeks.

[wreckedchevy]

the po cut up the harness pretty bad so I'm replacing the harness and upgrading the truck to full inst panel instead of the 3 pod and I noticed the below item was already disconnected and (probably due to old age) forgot/have no idea what it is. any ideas? thanks

[wreckedchevy]

couple of other questions
1. what is the adapter I need to thread the oil pressure line into the block
2. does the idiot light for temp hook up to the fuse block in the same location as the wire for temp gauge?
3. do I need to do anything to make the alt. gauge work? I replaced the dash harness with one from a full inst truck replacing the 3 pod harness that was butchered. nothing has been changed in the engine bay

[66pnl]

Originally Posted by wreckedchevy

the po cut up the harness pretty bad so I'm replacing the harness and upgrading the truck to full inst panel instead of the 3 pod and I noticed the below item was already disconnected and (probably due to old age) forgot/have no idea what it is. any ideas? thanks

That's the horn relay. Red wire is batt. Power, bk is ground from horn button and grn is power to the horn.

[s_nova69]

If u buy a oil pressure line kit from a parts store or a auto meter one from summit it will have all the fittings u will need. I probably have what u need and will be up in a week from monday. Post a picture and I will dig up what ya need. Only a 570 mile delivery.

[wreckedchevy]

appreciate the offer, it's the factory 307 and I have a spare factory oil line just need the adapter piece that screws into the block by the distributor.

[s_nova69]

I might have that. I will dig around

[wreckedchevy]

I think I just found an adapter for the oil line have to check it later to make sure