Raymond

[Elliot949]

Originally Posted by swamp rat

Sounds healthy!!!!

With any luck I will be driving it home Thursday 9/15

[Advanced Design]

Quick starting, smooth pulls sounding good...very nice!

[Elliot949]

Originally Posted by Advanced Design

Quick starting, smooth pulls sounding good...very nice!

Thanks Man... I appreciate that... The Videos do not do this any justice in how throaty this mouse is...

[sduckworth13]

Motor sounds awesome Dan.
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[Elliot949]

Originally Posted by sduckworth13

Motor sounds awesome Dan.
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Thanks Buddy.. the truck is really starting to come together

[jeh]

Looks like you're coming right along Dan, the motor sounds good also

[Elliot949]

Originally Posted by jeh

Looks like you're coming right along Dan, the motor sounds good also

I am told it should be drivable is about 2 weeks..

[STOCKISH]

Bad ass man, youll be riding in no time!

[Vic1947]

OH, YEAH! If it makes 402 at only 5100, it will be a blast to drive on the street. 9/15 is gonna seem like next year. Pics from Carlson's look great also. We're all pulling for you.

[Elliot949]

Originally Posted by Vic1947

OH, YEAH! If it makes 402 at only 5100, it will be a blast to drive on the street. 9/15 is gonna seem like next year. Pics from Carlson's look great also. We're all pulling for you.

I have been Messaging back and forth all day with Chris... We are having some "routing" issues with the A/C Lines due to the location of the radio speakers...

I have a wonderful idea of sinking the front speakers into the kick panels behind the covering... that eliminated the real estate to run the manifold so we are having to relocate the manifold back to the firewall but it will almost be hidden by the fender...

I am sure there will be more issues crop up as we go on it but hopefully they will be minimal...

[flashed]

Looks and sounds great .

[swamp rat]

Dash speaker's? Humm, guess I need to page back and see what you did..

[Elliot949]

Originally Posted by swamp rat

Dash speaker's? Humm, guess I need to page back and see what you did..

The dash speaker has been eliminated... We have moved 2 of the 6x9 speakers to where the fresh air vents were in the kick panels then 2 in the corners behind the seats... that eliminated the area to be able to run the A/C bulkhead through the side of the firewall as we had originally planned... this was a bad move on my part for the Aesthetics for the layout of the A/C lines...

[Elliot949]

Ok Guys... We really thought we would have the truck ready for the All C-10 show tomorrow at Hurts Donut's on West 21st St in Wichita... Some of you may have noticed that I have been real quiet about it the last few weeks... Chris Carlson Hot Rods have been stellar trying to make this happen... Unfortunately we just ran out of time... the "shake down" run was to happen Friday but due to weather Chris was unable to make that happen... We rolled the dice and Chris (not really wanting too) loaded it in his trailer and drove it the 35 miles to deliver it to me Saturday morning... We got it out of the trailer (This truck is fricking AWESOME!!!) and i buzzed the neighborhood in it.... This is the first time I have been behind the wheel of my truck in almost 6 years after it was stolen and stripped... Well to make this short... There are enough issues that it will not be able to make it to the show Sunday.... Chris and his guys have tried REAL hard to make this happen but it just wasn't in the cards...

I can infatically tell you that there is no better team to work on your truck than Chris and Karma Carlson...

Thanks from us to Chris Carlson and his team for trying to let you guys see a beautiful truck..

Stay tune... Next weekend is the Arkansas City Last Rod Run... We are shooting for that date...

[ssuth9]

Wow very cool truck..

I just read through your thread.

I Must have missed the conversion to SWB. Did you shorten the frame or replace it with one from a SWB.

Steve

[Elliot949]

Originally Posted by ssuth9

Wow very cool truck..

I just read through your thread.

I Must have missed the conversion to SWB. Did you shorten the frame or replace it with one from a SWB.

Steve

Thanks Buddy... We don't discuss the chassis... LOL... actually it was replace from a 3/4T to a Half Short...

[Elliot949]

We have had a tough week with the truck... Chris had a tech working on all the wiring and mechanical for the truck... This guy was relatively new to the shop but came with great credentials... Well Not so much... Just about everything he did was hosed up so they have spent literally all week and 4 guys working on it solid just chasing problems... Friday (9/23/16) they finally got all that wrapped up and was ready for the final thing and that was to figure out why the transmission tail shaft was leaking (thinking it was just the tail shaft seal)... Well hell no... it wasn't that easy...

Come to find out the company that build me aluminum driveshaft put a TH350 yoke on it instead of the TH400... Well Chris spent almost 4 hours calling all over the place looking for a TH400 yoke and finally found one about 5:00pm... got it to the shop to find out that yoke was for a long tail shaft and this is a short tail shaft... Well the modifications began and got the yoke to fit then started to stuff the shaft to find out that the difference in the shaft with the new yoke and U-joints made the shaft appx 3/4" to long so it just shut them down trying to get it ready to come home Friday night... By the time they got all that done it was almost 9:00 so there was no way to get it back to Inland to get the shaft shortened... So Monday they will send the shaft back over to be taken care of...

I should be able to get the truck but Mid Week...

Chris was trying really hard to make it to where I could get the truck to a good size car show here in my immediate area (appx 800 cars)... Well there is always later... I thank Chris Carlson's Hot Rods for trying their best to make that happen...

This is 2 weekends in a row that I missed out on shows that were of great importance to me but that is the was crap goes when you do a complete frame off and MAJOR modifications... It just takes time to get the bugs worked out...

[Elliot949]

here are a few pics for your viewing pleasure

[Bennett68C10]

Wow, the undercarriage of that truck looks amazing and very very clean!

[swamp rat]

Well it seems every build has the little glitches that pop up all the time so don't get discouraged, there will be more car shows. Exhaust dumps too, man they have come a long way from when we had to go unbolt the plate.

[Elliot949]

Originally Posted by swamp rat

Well it seems every build has the little glitches that pop up all the time so don't get discouraged, there will be more car shows. Exhaust dumps too, man they have come a long way from when we had to go unbolt the plate.

Yep... I lived those days too... I am really not discouraged I am really pretty excited...

[sduckworth13]

Wow!! Dan your truck really looks amazing! Nice work, enjoy driving the wheels off it!

[Elliot949]

Originally Posted by sduckworth13

Wow!! Dan your truck really looks amazing! Nice work, enjoy driving the wheels off it!

Thanks Scott... We are closing in on it forsure

[Elliot949]

We are edging ever closer to Raymond Rolling down the road... We finally got it to shift... According to the transmission shop it wasn't making enough vacuum... It was making appx 6lbs at idol and it needs a minimum of 12lbs... the have that fixed ...

We have a couple of other little issues for drivability... the truck under acceleration literally noses over at about 40 mph and stumbles really hard... I have to feather it alot then it comes back alive and if you slowly accelerate then it will go ahead and run on up... It also idles extremely high and seems to be running extremely rich... I just need to get with Allan Patterson and have them look at it...
We need to get the frontend really aligned... It is Towed in pretty good and at speed it shakes like no tomorrow... Just have to figure that out... I am pretty sure it is in the alignment...

Head lights work but the park/turn lights have some issues...

Just a few minor things at this point until I can actually do a proper drive out... ... I think it sits just a little high in the butt... Once we get it rolling down the road good I am going to drop the back of it 1"-1.5"... This is a 7" rear drop and a 5.5" front drop... I have to say it does ride very nice...

[Bennett68C10]

Truck turned out awesome!