Project; Divorce Therapy ( 72 SWB 4x4 )

[cmabolt]

Originally Posted by rgunlock

Funny, I'd never gotten the impression that either of you (Gary & Chris) were particularly old. Those mini-strokes are scary business and hopefully won't be an issue now that it has your attention. Hoping your health remains good now and can't wait to see your holiday progress.

Funny thing about age...I'm 45 but my back is 72. It's not the age it's the mileage.

[CUSTOM/10]

Yup... My back is on the list of ailments too ! Can't be bent over much at all.... Man I'm starting to sound like an ole fart !!! "LOL"

[swamp rat]

Originally Posted by CUSTOM/10

I'm thinking about getting a book called "Eat To Life". It's supposed to be the only diet proven to get your cholesterol down by as much as 33%. I hate taking the statin drugs, they just don't agree with me.... Man I'm going to miss my burgers & steaks..... "LOL"

I'll have to look into the book, i cant take Statin's ether i get too dizzy.

[CUSTOM/10]

I get the muscle & joint pains.
I got the 2 books today, one explains everything and the other is basically a recipe or cook book. It's basically becoming a vegetarian ! Doubt that will work for me, but I'll try it for a while to get my cholesterol down then go from there....

[Dean'smeanmachine]

Hope it goes well for you

[Ozzy2013]

I know how you feel guys by the time i was 43 i had both shoulders reconstructed ,Right knee and three vertebrae in my back fused and metal plates in the front and rods and anchors in the back .I used to be a lineman Electrical and had to retire early and close my Motorcycle repair shop down too .Its a huge adjustment and i lost it for a few years !LOL but it all works out in the end just have to pace myself real slow.Ha ha

[CUSTOM/10]

Ozzy, sounds like you got busted up pretty bad man ! Must be fun going through the metal detector at the airport !!! "LOL"

[Ozzy2013]

Yea its always a challenge ha ha

[redbaron]

Very nice build. Like the color. Green is really starting to grow on me. We built a 70 Chevelle SS that was an original dark green car. We added a little blue to the green and the car just popped. But now the light greens are to my liking.

[CUSTOM/10]

Well here's my progress pics from today.....

"BEFORE"

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"AFTER"

I know it's not progress on the truck but it got soooo bad I just couldn't find anything !!!! "LOL"

Does anyone else have this problem ?

Now I'll see if I can't get something done on the truck !!!

[mjensen]

Great job on the shop cleanup! I have the exact same problem right now. You've inspired me to go out and look at my mess to see if I feel like organizing today!

Your truck is turning out great!

[CUSTOM/10]

It was way over due, I don't know when the last time was I saw the top of my bench was..... "LOL"

[swamp rat]

I tend to have the same problem myself.

[ryanroo]

me too. i have neglected the garage cleaning lately. it shows.

your workbench looks sweet! especially clean!

[jaros44sr]

Not quite as bad as yours, but not good! My method is to push everything to the rear, until i get enuff space to work. LOL


20141120_125504 by james_jaros, on Flickr

[CUSTOM/10]

Thanks ryanroo;

Well it's time to get going again on the truck, and my garage is just a single stall under the house so there's not much room, cleaning it helped a lot.

I found out that a thermostat by-pass hose is needed with any sbc with Vortec heads so I'm going to take care of that before I forget ! Problem being I didn't know this prior to buying and installing my High volume reverse rotation aluminum water pump. This water pump also has no provisions for the heater return hose so I'm looking at drilling and tapping the side of the water pump about in the center of the picture in the flat area. ( If there's enough meat )

What do you guys think ???

[CUSTOM/10]

I had no room left to push anything !!! "LOL"

[jaros44sr]

Gary, i read that thread and my take on it was if you have a functioning heater, flow would be ok to prevent steam pockets. But, weren t they also saying you had to drill the block in the right spot......keep the pics coming as i could use some direction on how to address this problem

Nice clean shop, i ll try to follow suite

[CUSTOM/10]

Jim;

Yes on the heater, but if you had A/C and the water shut off valve then you either needed a by-pass hose or drill holes in the thermostat itself. Most blocks have the water by-pass hole, it's the vortec heads that don't have the water crossover passage in them and you could build steam, over heat the heads and possibly crack a head. So I'm going to put the by-pass hose in, that goes from the intake manifold to the top of the water pump, but my issue is I have no connection on the suction side of the pump for my heater.

Gary

[Last_Paladin]

Originally Posted by CUSTOM/10

Jim;

Yes on the heater, but if you had A/C and the water shut off valve then you either needed a by-pass hose or drill holes in the thermostat itself. Most blocks have the water by-pass hole, it's the vortec heads that don't have the water crossover passage in them and you could build steam, over heat the heads and possibly crack a head. So I'm going to put the by-pass hose in, that goes from the intake manifold to the top of the water pump, but my issue is I have no connection on the suction side of the pump for my heater.

Gary

Run it to the radiator, like the LS engines do. Your radiator has a port for it.

[CUSTOM/10]

The port on the radiator has the fan control temp sensor in it, and didn't we have the fitting sized to fit the sensor when we had the fttings threads repaired ?

[CUSTOM/10]

Radiator port !

I was also thinking about putting a T off the top of the water pump for the by-pass and the heater return ?

[jaros44sr]

Originally Posted by CUSTOM/10

Jim;

Yes on the heater, but if you had A/C and the water shut off valve then you either needed a by-pass hose or drill holes in the thermostat itself. Most blocks have the water by-pass hole, it's the vortec heads that don't have the water crossover passage in them and you could build steam, over heat the heads and possibly crack a head. So I'm going to put the by-pass hose in, that goes from the intake manifold to the top of the water pump, but my issue is I have no connection on the suction side of the pump for my heater.

Gary

Ok Gary...just wanted to make i had it right.....i have 560 air conditioning

[CUSTOM/10]

Originally Posted by jaros44sr

Ok Gary...just wanted to make i had it right.....i have 560 air conditioning

560 air ??? Windows ? "LOL"