49' Patina bagged in PA

[99 to Life]

thanks jim, yeah barter system works out great.

so I didn't get much time in monday. I had get the DS outter cowl on which I just neglected to finish. I want to get front clip on but I want to insulate some bat cables and I gotta tear apart the marker lights on the grille bf I put the clip back on. So thats next weekends project. Get front clip back on and start on some wiring.

[99 to Life]

12-22 Got front clip back on, hopefully for last time. I'll be taking radiator out so I can fab up a base for the fan. It will connect to my core support so it will make not only a place to bolt my efan to, but help keep the front end strong. Gotta start on wiring next.

[Advanced Design]

Originally Posted by 99 to Life

12-22 Got front clip back on, hopefully for last time. I'll be taking radiator out so I can fab up a base for the fan. It will connect to my core support so it will make not only a place to bolt my efan to, but help keep the front end strong. Gotta start on wiring next.

Looking good 99...I like this picture in the post.

Please show your base and fan mounting when you get it fabb'ed up.

Thanks!

[reaper71]

Looking good...rounding 3rd base!!

[skymangs]

Looking good 99... approaching the finish line!

[99 to Life]

12-23 thanks guys far from finished. alot of little things that need done. I'm building a custom consol that will hide up under the dash a bit. Have alot of wiring to do. Gotta mount my compressors, traps, and valve manifold. My goal is to get it mostly all wired up so I can start it and possibly have the air management done. Then I can worry about the door locks and all the extra gismos I'll have.

AD I'll def show some pics of the rad support I came up with. I use a 55 belair radiator and the mounting tabs are different than say a stock radiator. So I have a pretty good method on mounting it. Though I think I might switch it up whenever I do another build like this.

Here is some sound deadner 50 mil. found it on ebay, made in usa. ohio actually and was sold by a place in erie, which is only about 45 min from where I build my stuff. So with supporting the locals and only running me 60 bucks, I jumped on it. Not sure if it was a tad bid cold or if my floor just won't stick cause of overspray but it didn't stick too good. So luckily I had some aluminum tape on hand that is much stickier. This took a little longer than I anticipated (whats new). started routing more wires. I really like the Rebel 21 circuit. I only switched up a couple wires they loomed together. I'll route all the engine related stuff in the center of cab. Then all the headlight and fan stuff out through the pass cowl and through the inner fender, everything should be hidden pretty well. The black tubing you see is the seat mounts and the little black box in the middle is my killswitch box/pwr distribution block.

I'll have the truck set up to turn the killswitch off just about everytime I turn the truck off, kind of a habit of mine. but... I'll have some stuff wired up so it will work even if the kill switch is off. Dome lights and pwr locks for instance.

[reaper71]

Look's nice and plush now!!

[oldman3]

Yeah, floor looks great...Jim

[47 Fasttoys]

Very nice progress 99, I think your maybe 2 or 3 months ahead of me as far as progress goes, so I have been watching your build. As far as a lot of pictures goes, I do the same, the more people see your build, the more useful tips and ideas you get.
Keep it up, Rob

[RCbowtie69]

Looking good !!!!! Keep on Truckin''

[IWanna49]

Def looking good! Getting the front clip back on is def a milestone. Kudos to you for taking your time and sticking to the plan instead of just throwing it together to get it running. Quality work!!

[99 to Life]

thanks everyone, glad my pics or ideas can help others. This site is great for that. I got some more wiring done, I'll post pics of something worthy. I'm pretty happy with all the routing so far. @49 thanks, I'm not throwing anything together on this truck even though I'm getting a little impatient on finishing it. I'm already motivated to do another truck and be done with this one. But I really just want to drive it and make sure I don't gotta iron too many things out.

[Advanced Design]

I agree with the other guys, floor is looking good!
Nice work 99...looking forward to more updates.

[99 to Life]

12-31 Last post of the year. So I finally got some wiring done and have headlights, high/low beam, turn and flashers. hooked up my ignition switch and as you can see fired up the engine. Last time it was fired up was in summer. I currently don't have the tach hooked up and I didn't let it warm up at all, so considering that she fired up good. need to get on some tuning.

Gonna try and get some work done new years. I'm waiting on a bunch of wire fittings and such so i can finalize all my running lights. I'll have tons of extra doodads going on inside the cab, so its gonna be alot of wiring in there. I need to get my air ride plumbed and wired up real soon.

Need to finish exhaust as you can see. Everything is all roughed in. I still need to finalize a ton of things. Even the front clip isn't bolted tight and I got to start on my efan shroud and also my interior console so I can start hooking up gauges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DR_...ature=youtu.be

[IWanna49]

Yea baby!! Hits a nice lick. Happy New Year Hank!!!

[99 to Life]

thanks greg, I gotta lotta of fine tuning to do on a few things. I'll get some better engine footage sooner than later.

[Advanced Design]

That has a nice lope! Congratulations on the start up

[oldman3]

It's Alive, it's Alive, sounds great and congrats. Happy New Year also...Jim

[99 to Life]

So I went back at the engine again. Took valve covers off, I had them swapped and so the one was hitting the rockers. I readjusted a couple valves.

Checked clutch and glad to know its working. My pedal had to mount a tad bit low and it was hitting the floor, so I luckily had some room to back the clevis out so I had more travel. The pedal is flush with the brake pedal.

I'm still running really rich. I just realized too, I might have my carb spacer on backwards. and I need some more fittings so I can hook my fuel regulator up. too much fuel going into the carb. but its slowly coming together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDjA...ature=youtu.be

[reaper71]

sounds really nice...

[99 to Life]

1-12 monday, haven't had too much picture worthy stuff to post. I got the steering all in and finalized. I since I had a one of my ujoints already and it had a 5/8-36 spline. I found a 2" splined shaft on ebay for cheap. worked out great because the main shaft in the steering column is 3/4" so I welded the 5/8 spline to the end of it which allowed for it to still be able to slip through the bearning at the bottom of the column, if need be.

Finally started on mounting my compressors. I have been debating where to put them since I have no room in the very back bc of the gas tank. So I made up this bracket bolts to the boxing I had on the frame. I drilled and tapped the boxing plate so I can just bolt this bracket on, rather than welding it on. I still have to get some bushings to put under the compressors, then make the other bracket and paint them. My theory is to run the compressors away from the tank to let air cool before they enter the water traps and into the tank. My tank will be mounted behind the seat. debating on the accuair manifold going in the cab as well. I'd route the exhaust outta the cab obviously.

Can't see in pic but I hooked up my vintage turnsignal switch. Much more fitting than the chepo chrome ones. Steering wheel is about 6.5" from dash and 8" off seat. In my 51' I'm 5.5" to dash which I like but makes it 6" off seat, so leg room is a tad tight there. So I made sure to bump the steering wheel out a touch on this build. I'm a big fan of the stock columns but I'm sure I'll be using an aftermarket tilt on some builds too.

[Advanced Design]

Looking really good 99! Steering clears really well.

Nice lope to the engine...sounds good!

I notice a number of builds on here using Accuair. I was planning on Ridetech for the Burb and still researching alternatives. What sold you on Accuair?
Thanks!

[99 to Life]

thanks AD, as for the manifold decision. I don't really have a strong answer for you. Maybe because I'v seen so many of them being used on good builds, I take that as dependability and as professional as you can get. The accuair is just so small and basic, you just plug your controller right into it (though its expensive) I just used an AVS controller cause I had it, got the wiring harness adapter so I can hook it into the accuair manifold. The other reason is, I traded some print work for the manifold from a local air ride shop so it worked out. I think the ridetech would be a good choice too, I really think those two companies are about as top notch as you can get.

[reaper71]

looking really good...1 more step!

[99 to Life]

1-13 thanks reaper. Got the other compressor bracket done and bolted up for trial fit. I put some primer on them until I can get them coated up. went to hardware store and like always get nickel and dimmed on bolts. Got some stainless bolts and rubber grommets for the compressors.

Tossed door on just to see what I been missing, can't wait to have all the sheetmetal back on so it looks like a truck again.

Revisited the radiator a little more. Everything is dang near identical to what I did on my 51' as far as placement, the nest for the bottom, the angle of the rad, the way it will mount etc. I'm not sold on it, so I made this topper that will help make it look more tied together. It won't touch the radiator and behind it will actually be poly bushings that will press the rad tight together. I'll eventually put some dimple dies in this I think. On the outter side of the rad, I bought some high heat resistant rubber so the rad won't rub on the metal. I still have to trim my upper hose. I'm attempting to run #2 or 4 all thread through the rad to bolt my fan to it, rather than the zip ties. so the rad will mount on the engine side.

The rad and steering are examples of stuff that was once moched up or could get my by, so I though, then I'm back at them. Which in the long run is ok, but moral of it is, I go back and forth and jump around too much. Money is sometimes the culprit and then its the order of things and how they need to be done. for example doing everything you can to get it running and driving, then going back and finalizing everything. Thats been my goal, its just about there.