'50 5 window.....s10 swap

[Kabwe]

Its coming along nicely, you must be excited. Good job.

[rhodog77]

Glass guy stopped buy today. He got the both corners in....took him about 10 minutes total. That is one skill that I would love to learn. This guy makes a killin doing this. He does every, and I mean every hot rod around the cincinnati area. Thankfully he and my pop are friends, didnt even charge me. He is cutting the glass for the fronts and rear this weekend. It might be a few weeks before he can come back to finish up, but the price is right so I will be very patient.

[rhodog77]

Pickup up my rims today. 15 x 7 stock chevy wheels. They are dead straight with very little hard rust. I wanted an old school look. Im going to paint them black, chrome lug nuts and some type of chrome center cap and of course white walls. I have been calling around and getting prices on have the rims sandblasted....$150 for all 5 rims was the best price I could find. Thats more than what I think its worth so I decided to splurge and pick up a blast cabinet and do it myself. The rims are dirty with some surface rust, I think they will clean up real nice. I only have $20 bucks in them so not a huge loss if it doesnt work out

[Warrens69GMC]

Good job!!

[rhodog77]

Fired up the sandblaster and wow!!!! Here is my 2 cents. A sandblast cabinet should be one of the very first tools you should buy. If I had this thing at the beginning of my build, it would have turned out much nicer, saved me time and money. I paid $100 bucks for a clarke cabinet at my local tractor supply. No leaks and pretty much ready to go straight out of the box, unlike the one @ harbor freight. Plus it has a top load lid. My 15 x 7 rim easily fit. Anyway, like I said just my 2 cents. Here is a before and after. Its not the best picture, but believe me the difference is amazing. I took a wire wisk and buffed out the wheel a bit. It looked like polished stainless when I got done. think I will shoot the cleaned rim with a coat of filler primer and then a few coats of satin black.

[vintage_car]

On your radiator support, I have the same summit radiator, and have the stock radiator support from my 48. I see how you chopped it up and added that bracket on the bottom, but I was wondering how you actually attached the radiator to the support. I noticed, what looked to be sheet metal screw heads in one of your pics? Since the radiator doesn't have flanges to actually screw into, what did you come up with.

[rhodog77]

Vintage,
Here is a shot of the radiator and support from the front. I drilled holes thru the support and thru the top and bottom lips of the radiator and then just bolted it in. I have "L" brackets that I will attach to the frame and to the sides of the core support. I think Im going to weld the brackets to the frame and then bolt the support to the brackets. I want to be able to take everything apart if need be. This part of the build has been the worse, IMO. Next time I will start with the support using the stock radiator/support and work my way back. The height, postion of the radiator and support really dictates how high or low the cab should be. Hope this helps, if not let me know, I have more pics if need be. Good luck!!!

[vintage_car]

Thanks for the closer pic, and detailed description that is what I needed. post pics of those "L" brackets and how they are mounted as I might copy that as well! I'm dreading this part of the build, this and the steering column.

[vintage_car]

do you have the radiator installed in the truck yet? just curious as to how it is mounted and fastened... I'm finally to that stage.

[rhodog77]

I have always said that the radiator mockup/install was the worst part of the build....for me. I knew once I mocked up the radiator that I would have to make some changes to the radiator "spouts", not sure what they are called. The bottom spout was at an angle that would not allow me to hook up a radiator hose to the motor. I actually dropped off my radiator at a friends place last week to have him run a 90 degree elbow to the bottom spout. So, to make a long story short.....no, I do not have the radiator in yet. I will post some pix once I get back and put it in.

[vintage_car]

Yeah, I ran into the same thing tonight. I got the upper bracing fashioned, slid the radiator in there and noticed the fan would very likely chop right through the lower radiator hose. I sliced off that lower neck and am taking it to a shop that welds aluminum to re-weld it at a different angle. It's always something isn't it!

[rhodog77]

always....every time I check something off my list....2 more items get added. sounds like we have the same fix for the radiator problem. I would love to see a pic of yours when you get it buttoned up. Im not running the stock clutch fan, so wont have any issues on the top side. I still need to pick up a electric fan and get it wired up.

[vintage_car]

yeah I haven't posted many pics... just sort of lurked and pestered a few forum members with questions.
Yes our luck sounds about the same. My truck has fought me the entire way!

[vintage_car]

what sort of fan are you running? I just have a mechanical fan, no clutch though. thought about getting an electric fan as well just for good measure.

[rhodog77]

I just got the radiator back from my weld shop. I had a 4 inch turndown installed. It lines up nicely to the motor now. Clearance problem solved!!!



I havent picked up a fan yet. Im definetly going with a electric fan on the front side of the radiator. If anyone knows of a junkyard good donor fan, please let me know. I hope to hit the yard in the next week or two to hunt one down.

[vintage_car]

I hear the ford Taurus from early 90's or the Lincoln mark 8 are beasts. Got a neighbor who put an electric Taurus on his 454.
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[rhodog77]

i have heard the same about the taurus fans. thats where im going to start. I dont know much about how e fans work. I see where some people have a switch that turns the fans on and off. I really dont want to go that route. Im assuming that i will have to install some type of inline temp sensor to have the fan click on at a certain point. Do you know where that sensor is on the taurus??

thanks

brian

[vintage_car]

Sorry, i'm no help on the inline temp sensor. I'm gonna run mine from a switch, it will be a small electric fan and then the mechanical fan as well.

[rhodog77]

Well I broke down and bought a new electric fan and install kit from skip white performance in Tennesse. They have a ebay store if anyone is interested. It has a really good read on e fans. Its a 16 inch reversible fan that pushes 2000cfm. I got the fan and the relay kit with temp sensor shipped to my door for 67.00 total. I thought that was a killer deal. Im hoping to have it in this weekend, if all goes well. Here is a quick pix.

[vintage_car]

That is hilarious! I just got my skip white fan delivered today. I was gonna hop on this post and let you know about my find... Must be that tn telepathy! I'm still working on my radiator mount and the blasted power steering pump! I didn;t take mine out yet, are there instructions on how to reverse it?
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[99 to Life]

I have the same fan with a two core aluminum champion rad, seemed to cool my engine for the little bit I had it running, before the engine blew a main. Just got another one put together and it seemed to cool it fine, so far. But I have yet to check it on hot day with my foot on the gas.

[rhodog77]

Vintage,

Like they say great minds think alike. There were no instructions on how to reverse the fan. I called their tech line for some help. They told me that the poles are reversible. Basically......you can either flip the fan blade around or reverse the wiring. I ran 2 electrical clips to my battery, one to the pos and one to the neg and then hooked them up to the fan motor. Depending on which prong you connect to determines which way the motor spins. When I hooked it up to test which way the air was going I had it backwards from what I needed and damn does it push some serious air. I switched the wires and wolllah.....the motor spun the opposite way and started pulling air into the radiator. Im very happy with the fan and especially the price I paid. Post some pix of your setup when you get it in.

good luck

brian

[99 to Life]

Just wanted to let you know my two core rad with that fan set up as a puller keeps it around 185 which I am happy with. I think you will be fine. Also is that a stock sender in that s-10 tank? If so, are you running a reducer to the OG gas gauge or you running an aftermarket gas gauge?

[rhodog77]

99,

thanks for the info on the rad/fan. My stock thermostat is set to open at 182degrees, so i figured with the fan on it would stay around 185-190. Glad to know that I will be in the ballpark. As far as the sending unit, that is not stock. It came with the new set of guages I picked up.

brian

[99 to Life]

brian, so that is a 90 ohm sender?

I am curious as to how that mounts in the s-10 opening there. Is that a two piece set up? Whom did you get that from?
also I have never seen the pickups on those tanks like yours, did you customize that?

thanks