Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by clemdaddy

good to see the activity at your shop… like the red tool box and springs. the additions to your plate collection are fantastic, pretty soon you will have enough they will become siding for the interior of your shop though not very good insulation for this time of year at least very interesting.

good luck with the job search…

yesterday, we had a powerball lottery that reached 1 1/2 billion dollars and i bought 5 tickets… had i WON both you and Martin would be in the USA and both would be building trucks and enjoying the good life. Oh Well, will keep trying...

Thank you Clem, I trust the right job will come my way. Sooner the better of course.

Regarding the Power Ball....... Thank you very much, that would be rather good.

[67cheby]

That Land Cruiser is too cool !

[chad64chevy]

Rian, I have stuff in the living room closet, my closet, an the rest is in the garage! the house is insulated so my paint an things needing to be painted are in the house!

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by 67cheby

That Land Cruiser is too cool !

Thought you may like it too.

Originally Posted by chad64chevy

Rian, I have stuff in the living room closet, my closet, an the rest is in the garage! the house is insulated so my paint an things needing to be painted are in the house!

Hey Chad, it's all about give and take..... We give them love, we take chance.

Nicola is very tolerant and know I would leave stuff as I found it.


Plans for today included removing the rear springs on the truck And painting them red.

I also wanted to assemble more of the new front end steering parts and get the stub axles cleaned up and ready for refitting.

In the end I spent about 10 minutes on the truck and teardrop trailer and the rest of the day on Nicola's car.

So today's update mainly has modern crapp and frustration to show.

Nicola's Peugeot 107 daily has had a leak for some time, I did repair what I thought was the problem last year. Clearly it did not work, and the problem,and water leaking into the rear got worse.

So today I looked into the boot/trunk and found this rather large puddle in the spare wheel well.



I had previously thickened the gasket around the rear light cluster, seems it was not the only place water got in.



So I went back to Google...... Found the Peugeot 107, Citroen C1 and Toyota Aygo all have the same problem, and manufacturers and dealers really are not interested in sorting it out, also there are at least 5 places around the rear where water gets in.

So crawling about in 1'C on the driveway for several hours, the car ended up this way.

One of the places suggested for the leaks was these two vents pointed out, some suggested removing them and then closing the holes with a plate, which sounded like a good idea, till mate Martin called and said not to do that.



So I removed them, cleaned it all up and put a thick bead of silicon around them once refitted. I also replaced the light clusters with silicon around the seals.




Typically, the last item, which is one of those suggested on Google was the rear high level brake light.

I removed it, and am pretty certain it may be the ultimate culprit.

Once cleaned up, more silicone and full reassembly.



After this I mocked up the new chrome smoothies and tyres on the teardrop. 5 stud Cevy/Ford fitment.





Next trick will be to remove the hubs, find someone who can fill the existing holes, and then drill and tap 5 stud pattern and machine away a little bit off the centre. New bearings will probably be a sensible thing too.

[60chevyjim]

the land cruiser and the Vdubb are cool and the 41 chevy coupe project in the backround too .
the guy has some great ideas , I like his way of thinking ..

[Palf70Step]

Hopefully Nicola's car will be dry now. Good talking with you the other morning Rian.

[mjh1965]

Happy birthday mate I will be over to give you a hand in a short while

[ibrown50]

Happy Birthday from the frozen north

[Palf70Step]

Happy Birthday Rian!

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by 60chevyjim

the land cruiser and the Vdubb are cool and the 41 chevy coupe project in the backround too .
the guy has some great ideas , I like his way of thinking ..

Yup, Toyota based item my choice too.

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Hopefully Nicola's car will be dry now. Good talking with you the other morning Rian.

Was good to talk to you as well Bill.

I hope that her car now stays dry.

Originally Posted by mjh1965

Happy birthday mate I will be over to give you a hand in a short while

Thanks Martin, and thanks for the help.

Originally Posted by ibrown50

Happy Birthday from the frozen north

Yup, cool here too Ian.

Thank you.

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Happy Birthday Rian!

Thank you again Bill.


Well, my birthday was good.

Spent time in the garage till we ran into a left hand and right hand thread proble.

Look below for full report and questions.

[60chevyjim]

its looking very good , and happy birthday too

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by 60chevyjim

its looking very good , and happy birthday too

Thank you Jim, much appreciated.

[Grizz1963]

Getting up to this point with the reassembly, the last part was to assemble the Steering tie rod ends and their adjustable sleeves and fit it all together with the idler arm etc.....







So..........


When we tried to assemble these parts, it seems I was supplied with 4 Right handed threaded parts. So two screwed straight into the adjusting sleeves, and two refused, till we realised there should be two left hand threads.

Martin and I also came up yo the house to call Paul "NevEno" in Ada, Oklahoma on FaceTime (Don't you love technology) to double check that we were right.

Of course when we removed all the parts from the plastic bags, we did not note which parts and part numbers were associated.

So its it like this....?



Or are they like this?

It's the 350 and 370. L/R units I need to figure out.




One more thing, the thickness of the tapered inserts on the tie rod ends differ, the two that fit the original truck steering parts are 15.5mm thick and those that are wrong threaded are also 16.5mm at max taper.

So now need to figure out which parts I need to order, I think they are the inner tie rod ends with left hand thread and correct inserts.

[Grizz1963]

Second coat done this morning.

Looks much better.

Also the milk bottle painted and left outside looks great and is ever so slightly tacky. So I think drying time is delayed but still worth doing.



Today I had to choose a car. None of the tree choices appealed, so I have actually selected from a band lower, which is closer to what I want but also saves £80.00//month in Benefit in Kind taxation.

When I got home, I went and set up two oil heaters that I will start up first thing in the morning, and eventually go down to paint chassis and rear axle.

I also received in the post today, a bunch of very cool plates from Aiken.



There are a few I really like.

[Johnny_Lamebridge]

Happy Birthday Rian!

Nice progress on the C10... too bad about the parts delays.

[ibrown50]

It looks like you have 2 sets of inner tie rods.(perhaps whoever boxed up the kit wasn't paying attention) On my truck the inners were much longer, (pictures below) sorry I can't help with part numbers, but think you need a pair of outer tie rod ends.





It they were put into the kit in error, the wrongly threaded ones may not even be for a C10.

[clemdaddy]

it sucks if you have to order parts from the US and they get it wrong… frustrating i know. but fortunately there's lot of different projects to stay busy.

how many weeks from the reorder till you have parts in hand?

just frustrating… hang in there partner. the job looks great so far.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by clemdaddy

it sucks if you have to order parts from the US and they get it wrong… frustrating i know. but fortunately there's lot of different projects to stay busy.

how many weeks from the reorder till you have parts in hand?

just frustrating… hang in there partner. the job looks great so far.

Hi Clem, thank you for the reply.

You are right, it is frustrating, but of course there is always stuff to keep me busy.

It can be up to 4 weeks.

Though the LCA was only 8 days.

Ohhh, and yes.... Hanging in there.


Had a variety of errands to run today, as well as some admin for the job I got made redundant from.

So late afternoon I made it into the garage, probably about 4pm.

The plan was to get the rear end of the truck on axle stands, drop the rear and remove the springs, paint them red and then also do the rest of the chassis black, and leave pair of oil heaters on between the chassis rails overnight to help the paint dry. We had a forecast of -2'C for tonight.

Front end with wheels attached, mainly just as a backup to the axle stands under the front frame horns.



Then to the rear where I removed the wheels, at which point my mobile phone on the shelf started ringing..... I did not want to answer it, after all, who calls me at 4.30 or whatever?

Thankfully I did answer the phone as it was the lady at the agency calling to formally offer me the job I interviewed for last week Thursday.

So I now have a new job, thankfully before the redundancy put me out of work, commencing on the 15th Feb. working in a secondary care specialty job in London again.

So this is where I left the truck as I came in to tell Nicola and text a few friends.........



Tomorrow I will carry on.

Woooot Wooot, real thankful to have a job again.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by ibrown50

It looks like you have 2 sets of inner tie rods.(perhaps whoever boxed up the kit wasn't paying attention) On my truck the inners were much longer, (pictures below) sorry I can't help with part numbers, but think you need a pair of outer tie rod ends.





It they were put into the kit in error, the wrongly threaded ones may not even be for a C10.

Been busy with other stuff, so not got around to this for a while.

Chatting to Ta2Don earlier about ordering the tie rod ends so that I can get the front end tied up before starting on the brake drum rebuilds.

He asked me to measure and check everything I needed.

So I dismantled the old steering parts and and found the reverse or Left hand threaded ends were the outer Tie rod ends.

Interestingly, unlike Ian Browns parts above which are of differing sizes, mine were the same length for inner and outer.




I fitted the old outer to the new sleeves and inner tie rod ends.



My new parts are the same length at the old.



But the interesting thing was that the new parts have tapers that are 16mm Max on the inner and they fit perfectly.

Is there really such a small difference that matters???

The new ones have total taper depth of 1 7/8" or 47 mm

BUT...... The old outers are 1 5/8" or 42mm deep with a max collar of 15mm




So that is my dilemma, but it looks like we have this one figured tonight.

Anyone else had the same experiences?

[NevEno]

VERY AWESOME!! congrats on the new job!!

[flashed]

Congrats on the new job and the truck is looking great .

[chad64chevy]

congrats Rian on the new job! truck is looking good as well!

[65sub]

Great news on the job and I hope you get the steering sorted out.

[clemdaddy]

Great!

[Palf70Step]

Congratulations Rian!