Boppa's old yeller truck

[KSWes]

^^^^^What Bomp said^^^^^

[litew8]

What 'overheat'? Did I miss something?

[Low Elco]

Aw, I'm no expert, but we've done more than 2 of these. I'd feel terrible botherin' Vic, though he'd be happy to help.

Flyin' Ryan and I got off work and grabbed his FIL's super killer tilt bed aluminum trailer, and ran and got Yeller, which Boppa had reassembled the ignition and gotten parts for. Then we returned the trailer and got Blue, popped the wheel on the S-box and ran it down to Neighbor Donnie's. Then we backed Yeller in and got after it. Time from ign shutoff to heads on the floor-1 hour. Yaaay air tools! Boppa's taking the heads to the machine shop first thing this morning to be pulled down, mag'd, surfaced, adn reassembled, should have them back tomorrow PM. Hoping to Pop it back together in the next couple days.

Overheat was back in May, hot enough to pull the neck out of the rad. Redid the cooling system on that one.

I appreciate the offer, Brian. You coming to the Nats?

[Xeen]

That must have been one hell of an overheat, I hope the damage isn't severe.
A little tip, the next time he thinks the truck is starting to overheat turn the heater on full blast that will help cool it down a lot faster than just shutting it off.
I would like to attend the Nats but my truck isn't done yet and I would enjoy it more If I had something to show and give rides so maybe next year.

[Low Elco]

Update- after some shenanigans, we have heads. Spent the last 2 evenings reassembling everything with nice new fasteners and whatnot. Hoping to fire it tonight. FR came over and was a big help with setting valves. Been a while for all of us. Fighting light and gauge issues in the dash, fried a printed circuit last night. Hope to be further along tonight.
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[Xeen]

Was there much damage to the heads from the overheat?

[Low Elco]

Both cracked. There was a 3/4" chunk of gasket missing between 3 and 5... They were 993's from the 70's, pretty common. We were trying to get some hi perf ones but it fell through. We have fully rebuilt 882's now. 190 psi in all 8, good to go!
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[jlsanborn]

Shenanigans? What did you wind up with? Did you pluck the lifters for a look-see? Glad to hear you're getting it back together!

[Low Elco]

Shenanigans.... I took a little vacation, came back with this...

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/c...quot-3b&cat=15

If I could figure out the !@!$!@@$! picture deal, I got lots. I should post a thread. Anyway, I got more to work on. I just punched another hole in the truck bux, though.

[jlsanborn]

NICE!!! Big Black Truck I'm truly jealous man, congrats!

[Low Elco]

Thanks, I've been catching hell for how high in the air and how quiet it is... Gotta get ta work!
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[Xeen]

I'm glad to hear it worked out, I bet boppa is ready to drive the ole girl again and it can't be soon enough.

[litew8]

tada











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[Low Elco]

Thanks! It was all I could to figure it out the first time! Thanks for the props, it's almost too nice for me.
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[wgr2112]

I have a few spare cluster printed circuits if you need one. For both styles of cluster.

Let me know and we can meet up.

Also have a crapload of clusters if you need other parts!

[Low Elco]

I appreciate it, Vic threw 2 away a week ago! Aak.! Boppa got a new new one today and is literally assembling it as we speak. Hope to hell it works this time. Thanks again!
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[wgr2112]

No problems!

I'm restoring clusters as a hobby and as a way to buy parts for my truck!

Probably have 15 of them around the house!

[Bomp]

Congrats on the new ride.

Any suspension mods gonna happen?

[Low Elco]

Not gonna, HAVE TO happen. I'm getting acrophobia in this thing, it's like driving a straight truck. When my dad drives it and says we gotta lower it, it's bad. Just gotta pump up some truck bux and it's on. I don't know how much, it runs up hill to the front! Probably 4-4.

In other news, Yeller is back to life. we put the new circuit in the cluster, we have all the dash lights, the *&&^$#@#%^^'in temp gauge still doesn't work, I installed a separate ground to the cluster housing (highly recommended) so everything else works much better, and we pulled the dash face out to meet the inner structure so they could finally be bolted together and we could have a brake pedal stop. Remounted the column, Boppa did the alt and hoses, and it fired right up, but not smoothly. Pulled the valve covers and we had the valves a bit tight, so we reset them and the carb. Timing sounds good and it starts good and the dist is where it should be, but nowhere near the timing mark on the balancer. Who knows. It seems to be running really smooth. We'll reassemble tomorrow with all the pretty parts and see what happens.

[Xeen]

I'm glad to hear the ole girl is running again in time for Nats.

[nasqar]

Great thread man! Truck show looks like a blast. 7 hours for me one way so hopefully someone will post up lots of pics! LOL. I will check out your other thread. Beautiful work.

[Low Elco]

Thanks, it's been an adventure! If I can figure out how without going on a violent rampage, I'll have pics of the nats on the thread. It's a great time.

[hgs_notes]

Congrats on getting it going, again. Nice truck you picked up there. Real shiny.

[Low Elco]

Thanks, I USED to kinda specialize in shiny long ago. Hoping I can keep this one tight. Like I said, it's almost too nice for me! Trying to find a fix for this @#$$#@@$@# temp gauge as we speak.

[hgs_notes]

Need to borrow my temperature gauge calibration tool? Or do you have your own?