What I can afford, when I can afford it... 70 Chevy LWB

[Bomp]

Nice progress and congrats on the new little one.

[Low Elco]

Looks great, can't wait to see what's next!
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[KSWes]

Originally Posted by Bomp

Nice progress and congrats on the new little one.

Thanks! it's our first, we found out it's a girl few weeks back. Pretty excited, my wife and I both thought for sure it was going to be a boy, but the sonogram doesn't lie. Here's hoping she likes old trucks.

[Low Elco]

Congrats on the little lady!
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[KSWes]

Originally Posted by Low Elco

Looks great, can't wait to see what's next!
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Thanks! Been tinkering on little things over the last couple of weeks. got the cab bolted down and torqued after hearing what you and your dad went through with yours. Did 90lbs in the front 60lbs in the back from what I can find as far as the specs go that I could find on here. got seals on the doors And been working on my brothers truck that is providing the donor motor and transmission getting it ready to pull out which we did yesterday. No one hurt and the 100 dollar harbor freight cherry picker pulled it's second motor, so far it's been worth the money.

383 with 700R4 transmission. Needs a torque converter lockup kit to be able to run without an ecu. A new torque converter just to make sure it's 100% when it goes back in, it's only got about 10,000 on it since the rebuild, and never been hot.

Going to take off the tuned port set up on the motor too many wires and headaches, my brother pretty much parked it for that reason. Going with a carb set up. Should run like a son of a gun, when it gets back in action. It's getting cleaned up and painted Chevy Orange and all the carb parts bolted on. I have a garage full of work in front of me at the moment and now I need some cool weather so I can stand to work out there to get this stuff done. Spending about an hour or two a night trying to make some kind of progress.

I'm about ready for some 65-70 degree days. Been a wierd summer for us, but it's time for it to be over.

[KSWes]

Originally Posted by Low Elco

Congrats on the little lady!
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Thanks! We're excited and scared to death at the same time.

[kvann72]

looking sweet man keep it up I'm looking to start a build here soon (after world of wheels) just saving money for it right now!!!congrats on the little one two bet your excited to take her on cruses around town in it!

[KSWes]

Originally Posted by kvann72

looking sweet man keep it up I'm looking to start a build here soon (after world of wheels) just saving money for it right now!!!congrats on the little one two bet your excited to take her on cruses around town in it!

Yeah, trying to figure out a good seat that would work good to strap in a baby seat so we can take her out for a spin when she get's here.

I'll look forward to seeing where you take your build soon. I figured I better just get started on mine, me and saving accounts don't work out so well. I've found that just buying the parts and storing them works out better for me. But you gotta be careful with that too, if you change your mind on something you have to resell it. Usually at a loss, and I'm to the point now on my project where I'm not buying anything until I need it.

I would love to get this thing done by World of Wheels and get it entered up there, it's not going to be flawless but over the last few years starting to see a lot more trucks up there and I like that trend. My goal is to have it done by the end of the year but that might be a little more wishful thinking at this point. Lot's of honey do's are piling up with a baby on the way, and getting the house ready for winter.

Thanks for checking in! more and better pictures coming soon, replacing my crap phone today.

[kvann72]

My brother in-law had stock a bench seat with lap belts and a kids Simpson racing seat in his for my niece it was a pretty cool set up.but ya i wish i had mine ready for world of wheels but ill be up their with the smokey and the bandit trans ams.we just got the snowman ken worth built and were gonna have it up there along with my buddy's 88 GMC we just restored so i am be busy as it is and don't have time for mine. hopefully next year we can show ours next to each other!!

[KSWes]

Originally Posted by kvann72

My brother in-law had stock a bench seat with lap belts and a kids Simpson racing seat in his for my niece it was a pretty cool set up.but ya i wish i had mine ready for world of wheels but ill be up their with the smokey and the bandit trans ams.we just got the snowman ken worth built and were gonna have it up there along with my buddy's 88 GMC we just restored so i am be busy as it is and don't have time for mine. hopefully next year we can show ours next to each other!!

I'm thinking a bench seat is going to be the way I go. I have one out of a 90 Chevy, needs recovered, but I like the idea of a console too, hard to make a decision. Not to that point on the project yet, but getting close and gonna have to make a decision.

hopefully next year we can show ours next to each other!!

That would be great, we should do a 67-72chevytrucks.com section there if we can work that out.

[kvann72]

im down!!

[Low Elco]

I saw the Snowman Truck.. that's cool! You shoulda walked over and said hi.. the board has there own Section at the show. Missed you too, Wes.

700r4's- Use the Bowtie Overdrives kit. Worked great for me, and I know SQUAT about trans's.

[kvann72]

at the world of wheels or all truck nationals???

[kvann72]

i saw the black truck with the boat said hi he seemed busy so i walked off lol i went with the Aldersons we were in stove-bolt tent with the black truck with ford tractor on it!

[kvann72]

its their snowman rig (Wayne and Tonya Alderson) i just helped tear down bodywork and put back together(that was a chore)

[Low Elco]

At the truck nationals. On Sunday, Brad blew a brake hose, he was a bit busy. Just tell anyone over there your handle, it's all good!
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[kvann72]

ight cool ya i saw he had drivers side all apart i saw the logo in back window and thats how i knew he was on here. i figured their was a few others i saw the orange porter built car that was pretty sweet

[KSWes]

Originally Posted by Low Elco

I saw the Snowman Truck.. that's cool! You shoulda walked over and said hi.. the board has there own Section at the show. Missed you too, Wes.

700r4's- Use the Bowtie Overdrives kit. Worked great for me, and I know SQUAT about trans's.

Bummed I didn't make it... Was holding out hope my brother and I could get the motor pulled early and have enough time to make it up there. Didn't work out this time thanks for the recommendation on the lockup kit. I was just looking at summit and there is 4-5 different ones prices all over the place. I'll check out Bowtie. Hoping to get to the next show with a little luck with the truck.
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[kvann72]

get anything accomplished on truck today??

[KSWes]

get anything accomplished on truck today??

Not much, I got started on the engine, pulled off the front drive system, have another setup going back on, but it's for a truck, the one that was on it is for a car.

We had some chores keeping us busy so only had about an hour to do anything. Got some parts cleaned up in the blaster and the pulleys taken off. Was hoping it would be easy to pull this intake off, but... nope, there are two bolts underneath the runners one on each side. so I have to disassemble the plenum and runners to get the intake off. Didn't get that far last night. Will be cleaning up the block and getting it ready for some Chevy Orange. Going to paint the intake, valve covers, debating on doing the front accessory drive brackets orange also.

[kvann72]

thats gunna be sweet! pumped to see her in person

[KSWes]

Originally Posted by kvann72

thats gunna be sweet! pumped to see her in person

I'll be pumped when I get to hear this run.

Saw this in the mail, LL Bean putting a stepper on the front of their catalog, thought that was pretty sweet.

[KSWes]

Progress has been slower than I would like, my deadline before the baby gets here is starting to look more like a pipe dream, but a little progress is still progress. Spent most of my Saturday doing regular maintenance to my wife and I's daily drivers, then yard work.

Then I was able to get to work on the project.

Needed to get the carb intake installed, wanted that done before I clean the engine and get it ready for paint. My brother talked me out of taking off the headers. Said he had a really good seal on them and if I take them off I'll likely have to fight leaks. So I'm pretty sure, I can get around them with the paint gun. Got the water pump installed and the valve covers sand blasted and ready for paint.

Put in an order for some stuff on Summit, and waiting on the water neck so I can make this thing look like a pumpkin.

[Low Elco]

Lookin' good! When's Baby Day? First one?
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[KSWes]

Originally Posted by Low Elco

Lookin' good! When's Baby Day? First one?
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Thanks! Work was wearing me out last week so when I got home I just did a hell of a lot of nothing in the evenings, if I'm going to get it done I can't be doing that. Finally got back into the mood Friday night and got back to work.

Doc says January 7th is the big day. And yes it's our first. It's my wife's parents first grand kid too so they're over the moon excited. I'm ready for the baby to get here, but I don't want to have a bunch of work piled up, just want to be able to help my wife and spend time being a dad. If I have work to get done, I get itchy, probably just going to have to get over that.