66 SBFS street truck

[jlsanborn]

Valve covers are BAD-A!

[wutnxt]

Originally Posted by jlsanborn

Valve covers are BAD-A!

Hey man thanks.....
I really dig'em

[wutnxt]

So for those of you live in the warm places here is what a little freezing rain does.....

[wutnxt]

So I had to change up my tank....I never built it but it came with the frame when i bought that so long ago. Anyhow I changed it up and have a couple of really cool things in the works ...cool = something I have never done before....So I try to add one thing everytime i build a truck and when it came to the fuel tank/door combo i had this idea. I will wait for this and revisit that when complete.....

[wutnxt]

But I did have this thought today as I was sitting having a coffee....You see I have this rule and it's a simple rule actually. Everytime you get a part or a piece from someone you have to assume it's wrong and it's up to you to find out why....Well I broke that rule with the tank, i thought to myself okay the fill tube is wrong it's right on a cross support.....and the neck is the wrong height. So i figured out all of that with out it putting me behind . But it was too obvious....it was a trap....As i sit here thinking about it I realized that it has the fitting for fuel,vent,and return but I haven't confirmed there is a pick up tube connected to any of them yet.....Wanna bet there is a fitting and no tube?.....cringes.... stay tuned for the answer tomorrow when I run the camera in there

[wutnxt]

I have been building a new and improved sub box for each truck I build and I haven't ever showen that process before...not sure why. But I started building the boxes for this project and low and go at the same time as well as my new patterns...This is the first round of cutting and as I go I will update the look. Still not sure how many subs or the size I want to run just yet so thats a work in process.

[wutnxt]

Some fuel line work

[McMurphy]

I dont care if I ever get to see one of your builds, I would just like to meet you some day.

[wutnxt]

Originally Posted by McMurphy

I dont care if I ever get to see one of your builds, I would just like to meet you some day.

Well I am going to take that as a compliment and not as a hey my cheque bounced thing.....lol. Ya could you imagine if about 20 of us ever got together the kaos that would erupt ? I dig your thread too...and you and Bomp together crack the hell outa me....I spend more time laughing at what the 2 of you say to each other then i do pulling wrench somedays

[wutnxt]

Got a few more things done today.....
Shround and eletric fan mounted to the rad........Check
Trail mounting for new and improved sub box.......not sure if I like it
Did a bunch of work on the gas tank door.....It's going to be sick
Ordered funky new windshield wiper motor

So all and all it was a good day for a saturday

[chevyrestoguy]

I'm anxious to see what you've got planned for the fuel door. I'm brainstorming some ideas myself and not sure if I'm going to go with a fuel door set-up or just flush mount the caps to the bedfloor using custom Harley fuel caps that are flush to the surface and spring-loaded.

[wutnxt]

Originally Posted by chevyrestoguy

I'm anxious to see what you've got planned for the fuel door. I'm brainstorming some ideas myself and not sure if I'm going to go with a fuel door set-up or just flush mount the caps to the bedfloor using custom Harley fuel caps that are flush to the surface and spring-loaded.

Well can you wait a little bit....?...I have showen the fuel door that I am going to use and I can tell you I am going to part cut it in...then carve out the rest to fit it in flush. But then I had this really cool Idea to step it up and do something I have never done before on one of these. I just want to make sure that it's going to be as cool as I think it will before I say what the plan is.......lol...

But the entire fuel door tank in the rear thing I have alot of suggestions..I have learned that it really depends on where you life to the kind of cap/door you need. The one one on my 58 is awesome until it gets wet then inside the cap there is a rubber/coil return...So when you push down and spin the coil pushs it up . Well at soon as it rains the moisture gets into the rubber cap which causes a suction and the cap won't release. I drive it down to phoenix for 6 months and it works 100% perfect each and every time......It's in that that I have decided not to have any caps exposed and to cover it with a door everytime....but thats just my 2 cents on that kinda stuff

[chevyrestoguy]

Originally Posted by wutnxt

..I have learned that it really depends on where you life to the kind of cap/door you need. The one one on my 58 is awesome until it gets wet then inside the cap there is a rubber/coil return...So when you push down and spin the coil pushs it up . Well at soon as it rains the moisture gets into the rubber cap which causes a suction and the cap won't release. I drive it down to phoenix for 6 months and it works 100% perfect each and every time......It's in that that I have decided not to have any caps exposed and to cover it with a door everytime....but thats just my 2 cents on that kinda stuff

Our weather and climate here are really close what Phoenix has, and I never considered the possibility of what water can do to the spring-loaded caps. Makes perfect sense. Hmmmm....may have to think up a fuel door idea now.

Years ago, I saw a truck that Scott's did, and they made it where the entire bed board was on a hinge, and it flipped up for access to the gas cap and other things. Pretty slick.

[wutnxt]

Originally Posted by chevyrestoguy

Our weather and climate here are really close what Phoenix has, and I never considered the possibility of what water can do to the spring-loaded caps. Makes perfect sense. Hmmmm....may have to think up a fuel door idea now.

Years ago, I saw a truck that Scott's did, and they made it where the entire bed board was on a hinge, and it flipped up for access to the gas cap and other things. Pretty slick.

Ya thats a billeted kit you can buy that turns the entire board into a cover . I would recommend the cap that you saw on my tank as well , you don't have to unscrew the cap to put fuel in. The center section is spring loaded so the gas filler pops right in and closes as you pull the filler back out.

[wutnxt]

Well with the front end held up in body shop jail still I turned my attention to the radiator,shroud and fan and managed to get it all installed together and a trial fit.

[wutnxt]

Well this is a little old but it shows what I am going for.......

[wutnxt]

It's not much....But I call it home.....

[wutnxt]

So I am always guilty of posting more then one truck on a thread so hey....why would I stop now...lol
This is the pile of parts for my buddies truck that we have been aquiring as we get ready to attack it

[wutnxt]

Just a quick sneak peak.....

[Bomp]

Can't have too many truck projects going on at one time. Sweeeeet

[wutnxt]

Originally Posted by Bomp

Can't have too many truck projects going on at one time. Sweeeeet

Well it will be nice to finish one.....lol.

I am not going to portland for the swap meet this year first time in like 20 years. I am already over trucked and am heading to pick up my 58 in phoenix and over to del mar for goodguy's. But sooner or later dude our paths are going to have to cross....

[Bomp]

I've been trying to get up to the Portland Meet for the last 5 yrs. Something always gets in the way. Work, no money, go the wrong weekend(totally stupid on my part),broken foot, etc.
Yes, One day I will get to be in the presents of your Coolness.....lol

[wutnxt]

Originally Posted by Bomp

I've been trying to get up to the Portland Meet for the last 5 yrs. Something always gets in the way. Work, no money, go the wrong weekend(totally stupid on my part),broken foot, etc.
Yes, One day I will get to be in the presents of your Coolness.....lol

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LMAO....Dude your too much....
Well I am going to good guy's in seattle and maybe even spokane this year...I need to turn more miles and drive the fleet more often....But it would be killer to put some kind of truck meet together this year and have a bunch of us go to one

[McMurphy]

Originally Posted by wutnxt

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LMAO....Dude your too much....
Well I am going to good guy's in seattle and maybe even spokane this year...I need to turn more miles and drive the fleet more often....But it would be killer to put some kind of truck meet together this year and have a bunch of us go to one

Hmmmmm
FWIW I am hoping to be hauling my 66 Stepside with the 64 Tow Truck down through that area during the Seattle and/or Spokane Goodguys shows. Now wouldnt that be a hoot? Just leave the two married up and pull into a car show??
Then get to meet and hang out with all you guys !?!?!?!

More to follow as our timeline clarifies itself...

[wutnxt]

|I have always been a fan of the steel top rad hose look. So i was thinking that I would clean it up and bath in the sinster green....this kind of thing...