What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?

[waybad]

Originally Posted by msilva12

I got my seats mounted. I used the third row Tahoe seats mounted on some early 80's electric seat frames. Wired up my headlights, tail lights and brake lights.

I took the truck out for the first time today. Went out for dinner and it got dark. Turn lights on and made it about 200 yards before they started flickering on and off. Of course a police officer was right there.

I disconnected it from the switch on the side of the road and hooked it up directly to the fuse panel ran with the lights hot all the way home. (20 miles)

After I fix the lights the right way I need to hook the heater up.

Still nice to drive it finally.

can you post picts of the 3rd row seats?

[FFredo]

I finished mounting the new gas tank between the frame rails. Just need to plumb it and decide if I'm going to a electric fuel pump.

[duwem]

Drove it 15 miles to work this morning. Drove it yesterday too.

[lv2tri2]

Very nice work.

[la hi]

cut the tail pipes off and put the tank in. fits perfect and I can't wait to hear the new sound. I had four glass packs and now I have two with the 454.

[51 okie]

I scored this 235, all apart mind you. It looks to be in great shape. A little machining and put it together. Big kids model engine. All looks to be there. 2 rocker covers, clutch plate, 2 cams, one supposedly from a vette? Any ideas about that, can it work? Is it better? $50

[ChuckDriver]

Modified the brake pedal, using a piece from a second one, so that I could install a "Power Brake" pad from a 58 sedan that I picked up at the Good Guys show in Charlotte last fall!

[Daze57]

nice work on the repatching

[Red Foreman]

Just got my frame back from the sand blaster, after blowing off the excess sand & a quick prepsol wipe down my work colleague hit it with LIC industrial low gloss 2K.

[Lrall]

Bought one of these http://www.summitracing.com/parts/PRF-60122/
So that it will run

[codger30]

DUWAM, you win, that's what it is it all about, driving your car.
I miss my '37 chev sedan, that was a daily. Oh well, got to get the '48 pickup finished.
Bryan

[Indian113]

Red Foreman,Your frame is looking great!!! Are you going to start a build thread?

[Red Foreman]

Originally Posted by Indian113

Red Foreman,Your frame is looking great!!! Are you going to start a build thread?

Thanks Indian113, I've been holding off on doing a build thread untill I have progressed a little but now that you asked I feel its time!!!

[flatbed51]

Did not do anything with my truck today, but I worked on my car hauler so I can take the frame to my buddies shop to put on his rotisserie to finish welding in Malibu clip.

[mknittle]

I painted my steering column parts.

[Coupeguy2001]

I fabricated all but one of my hydroboost lines. The left frame rail is getting really busy. I finally found adapters to install the proportioning valve, and installed clamps for the brake lines.
Now if I can just find a rebuild kit for the master cyl. I can finish assembling that.
Bought the firewall paint and talked to the painter about fenders and inner fenders.
Looks like I need to get a few parts stripped.

[55metalmonkey]

Red Forman: lookin good

[FFredo]

I sourced the cross sill material for the flatbed build. Feeling pretty sure about major progress this weekend.

[Russell Ashley]

Got my cluster, new ignition switch, light switch, and electric wipers installed, got most of my under-dash wiring done. I'm not using a late GM steering column like the EZ-Wire harness is designed for so it's going a little slower than I wanted.

What does the "lock" position on the ignition bezel do? New ignition switch, key turns backward to what I thought was accessory position, but bezel says "lock". and no power to accessories in that position.

[mknittle]

I painted the rest of my steering column parts and measured and measured and oh yeah measured again for rear suspension placement.

[lazypineapple]

I got my wheel spacers today for my rear wheels.
I had 1" hub centrics made. needed to get the 245/60 away from the bed a little.





looks closer than it is.

[solidaxel]

Fixed the gas pedel where the rod goes theu the floor and carpet and I think I gained at least 50 more HP at WOT !!

[Atommik]

Worked on straightening the right rear fender...loaded right front fender into my suburban to bring to work tomorrow to see if I can "adapt" a BMW HID headlamp to work in my 1951 pick-up!

[relaxedsierra]

dropped off my new steelies at the powdercoaters

[Coupeguy2001]

Russell, it usually means that you have a passenger car ignition switch instead of a truck unit.
The problem is that some money grubbing soul determined that they were interchangeable, and the truck units don't seem to be getting reproduced anymore, yielding our plastic ignition switch placards incorrect for the switch.
I don't think the passenger car position indicators match very well, which is why I stubbornly installe a brand new truck plastic piece on my brand new passenger car ignition switch on my '57 truck.

Anyway, I sanded my firewall for a couple hours, and got really bored with that, and painted it anyway. You can't see where I stopped sanding, because Iadded some hardener/accelerator to the paint and it kicked pretty fast so I hand buffed it at the sanding edge, so that is good. Someday, I will get it painte right.
It looks nice with fresh paint under the hood.
I blasted the inner fender panels and used a file to clean up the area where I used the die grinder to open them up to clear the upper control arms.
It appears someone cut them with tin snips while they were installed to get to the back side of the upper shock absorber bolts. I cut that area out, and will probably add some metal or rubber there.
It's coming along.......I got my aluminum water pump today, but unfortunately it isn't much lighter than the cast iron one. I'm still planning on the aluminum heads, aluminum water pump, and aluminum radiator to raise the front up about 1/2"-3/4" to make it look better.
Setting the old Iron head engine in it without the bumper and grille made it low, so this can only help. If it doesn't work, I will just have to either go big block springs or have the current ones re-tempered.
I bead blasted the horn relay, and it looks new. I am going to use the old original voltage regulator holes to mount a master cylinder reservoir.
I now have so many tubes along the left frame rail that it looks like an aircraft wheel well. I am only going to add a fewmore, I need a vent line for the stick portion of the trans and a vent line for the overdrive portion, and master cylinder remote line.
Maybe I will run the vents under the bed, or to the right side.I acquired a 2 3/4" big brake set-up for the rear, but the backing plates are so rusty that I should have them either dipped or sand blasted. Since I bought new shoes for the 2 inch brakes, I will run those for a while. I used the spring kits for the big brake set-up on the smaller brakes since it was new.
I also cleaned up the area around the truck really good because the Boss was coming back today and he likes a really nice clean facility.

The airplane is back, I need to work on it, so no truck work till it leaves again.......