Eric's 1966 Turbo 6.0 build

[bocephus79]

Originally Posted by bigmoe

Nice door panels! Buy those somewhere or custom made?

TMI out of the brothers catalog. i think I got both on sale for $300 quality is " meh" but I'm picky

[roll_the_dice]

Wonder why I haven't seen this build? Great job...Looks awesome...you're in the home stretch now.

[bocephus79]

So I've decided I'm taking this truck to a father's day car show come hell or high water. The jam session is on! Had my better half help get the bed wood in place. and test fit the grill

[cwcarpenter98]

The white grille and blue truck is a perfect combo

[88Stanger]

nice job!!!

[bocephus79]

SO learned a few lessons from the headlight install:

New parts suck
Don't have new parts powdercoated assuming they will fit
J.W SPeaker lights are expensive.

I struggled for 2 days with the lights. I did have to open up the holes in the back buckets for them, but the main issue was with the adjusting bucket itself.

The tabs on the bucket that "align" the headlight in just didnt fit no matter what I did. Obviously made worse is the fact that the new LED bulbs are shaped a little different than the factory halogens.

Took my old grill apart to get the factory buckets, chopped the backs off them, sandblasted, painted and everything fits perfect. :shrugs:

[bocephus79]

5 days till car show. still have never driven the truck.
had to remove the transmission to fix an oil leak. When I put the engine together I tightened the rear cover first, then bolted the oil pan up. The rear cover hung down past the mating surface of the pan, a la leak city. Rookie move.

Problem: occasionally when moving the truck around the shop the torque converter would " lock" and either stall the engine or worse, try to drive through the brakes and into whatever it was that was in front of me.

since the trans was out I took it back to the builder and had him add a different valve in the pump. I guess its a common issue with 4l80e's and big billet converters.
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/sox-34200-14k

SO per usual the race is on.

[bocephus79]

At this point I was going to throw in the towel. Not only was my trans at the shop, but I had some major issues at the carwash that ate up 3 days and 3 late, late nights.

My 75 year old car guy neighbor who Invited me to the car show came to the shop with:
random stainless bolts
a bucket of detailing supplies
gatorade and beef jerky

He says " I've got nothing better to do and you seem like you need the help"

.......Damn, I hope I'm a cool old guy one day!!!!

Well I can't back out now!

Got the bed all snug and even did front and rear bumpers!!

[bocephus79]

Well, Got the trans back and installed.

(Language warning)

I'm sure the neighbors loved the first 3 miles put in on the truck after the full resto...


https://youtu.be/GZLx3ZKFq0g

[joesscamaro]

Nice job...that's got to be a good feeling!

[SCOTI]

Congrats for making the show!

[LostMy65]

A sense of accomplishment, I bet!

[88Stanger]

Awesome Job !!!

[bocephus79]

SOOO Many bugs to work out...But she's a runner

https://youtu.be/m0MvFuaZU5Q

[SkinnyG]

I will likely have to duplicate your battery mount. My turbo et al is totally in the way of everything.

Any thoughts or recommendations if you were to do it again?

[bocephus79]

Originally Posted by SkinnyG

I will likely have to duplicate your battery mount. My turbo et al is totally in the way of everything.

Any thoughts or recommendations if you were to do it again?

as far as the battery mount, so far so good. Obviously it's a summer cruiser only so not worried about cables and stuff getting trashed. probably worst scenario is if It ever needed to be jump started I would be on my hands and knees....but so what?

[tinydb84]

Originally Posted by SkinnyG

I will likely have to duplicate your battery mount. My turbo et al is totally in the way of everything.

Any thoughts or recommendations if you were to do it again?

Not to highjack but here is what I did so I dont have to crawl under my truck. It will be mounted under my raised bed floor so I can access it by opening my tailgate. The posts were a few bucks off Amazon.

[SCOTI]

Originally Posted by SkinnyG

I will likely have to duplicate your battery mount. My turbo et al is totally in the way of everything.

Any thoughts or recommendations if you were to do it again?

Originally Posted by bocephus79

as far as the battery mount, so far so good. Obviously it's a summer cruiser only so not worried about cables and stuff getting trashed. probably worst scenario is if It ever needed to be jump started I would be on my hands and knees....but so what?

My dually has been road worthy for >6yrs w/the battery under the truck vs in the engine compartment. It's a PITA to access if the truck is air'd out so that's something to keep in mind.

Beyond that, the worst thing is having to lie on the ground if I wanted to help jump-start someone. Easy enough on a dry day.... Not so when it's wet or worse. My 64 will also have the battery under the bed floor but I'm making access via the floor a priority as I do the floor. There's also the remote terminal pods that can be used as well but I'm going to do my best @ keeping things simple w/what's there as my first option.

[tinydb84]

It would help if I attached the picture...

[bocephus79]

Originally Posted by tinydb84

It would help if I attached the picture...

That's cool enough to be worthy of a hijack!

[88Stanger]

Originally Posted by tinydb84

It would help if I attached the picture...

Ok, now i really like this. What is this called and where did you get this, or did you make this? I have a battery mount under the cab and would like to have a good Jump point if i ever need it.

[88Stanger]

Ok so i did some research and found these, looking for remote Batter jump start and found them. I like this idea and will be "Borrowing it" lol. I really like this layout and will do something like this but i am also looking at installing the (positive) jump start cable end into a formed piece of metal (Positive) then mount that to the truck BUT i am looking at mounting it with insulating rubber bushings to separate it as must as possible from shorting out. We all know what fun could be had if the positive shorts out.....

[tinydb84]

I made mine but Hart Fab on here makes something similar:
https://hart-fab.com/collections/fro...ination-pocket

Here is what I got off Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Fastronix-Pre...NsaWNrPXRydWU=

Or you can get it premade (though I am sure you can make it yourself):
https://www.amazon.com/Battery-Charg...s%2C253&sr=8-4

[88Stanger]

Originally Posted by tinydb84

I made mine but Hart Fab on here makes something similar:
https://hart-fab.com/collections/fro...ination-pocket

Here is what I got off Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Fastronix-Pre...NsaWNrPXRydWU=

Or you can get it premade (though I am sure you can make it yourself):
https://www.amazon.com/Battery-Charg...s%2C253&sr=8-4

I found just about the same ones on Amazon and have them set up to be ordered shortly. I plan to make my own, like you are talking about, but i am thinking about making them seperate, one for the positive cable that is isolated from any ground point to help protect from a possible short. So basically instead of having one holder with both i would have one for each. I also have a large circuit breaker and/or reset fuse holder that will be right at the battery so now that i say that i would not need to isolate both of the terminals but could actually put them both together like you have shown and maybe then just isolate the whole unit with rubber bushings. just brainstorming at the moment....
Sorry, did not mean to highjack this thread.....

[Paul Y]

Have you gentlemen considered Anderson connectors?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/AODOOR-Conn...508347&sr=8-21

As Woody's fuel tank is now in the rear, and I plan on relocating the battery to behind the passenger rear wheel, I have purchased a set of these plugs to put into the fuel filler to jump start/trickle charge the battery without having to get under my truck.

Used these a lot in my motorsport career as they have the added advantage of not having any 'hot' exposed terminals.

Seem slightly safer than the units mentioned above PLUS race car.

P.