A '54 named Busty

[8man]

It's Saturday and on Saturday you need to pick your priorities, and you chose well!

[Gregski]

so took care of the squeaky suspension

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd9sXM7SZFU

[Gregski]

then went ahead and mounted the grille, just needed her to look like a truck again

[Gregski]

well after 9 hours spent trying to get a broken off rivet end out of the rivet gun

[Gregski]

and then this happened, and it made my day... she's 16 and her nick name is baby Hercules she busted off like three bolts already overtightening them... I couldn't be more proud!

[Gregski]

the hand slicer needed trimming and folding over

[Gregski]

all more better and almost accessible too

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by Tempest67

Congrats, that is great news.

please post some pics (with, or without the hood)

here you go

[Gregski]

started mocking up the front bumper, not sure I want to run the stock one as it sticks out 3 feet

[Gregski]

can somebody tell me what the hewk this horseshoe U joint clamp thinge was supposed to be?

[Gregski]

thank goodness the person who stuck this on was a crappy welder, yes it takes one to know one, somehow I own three front bumpers allowing me the luxury of playing with them

[Gregski]

apologies for the poor back lit pics, I have a West facing garage and couldn't shut the door on her

[Gregski]

I found some threaded holes underneath the frame horns so I chased them in hopes of using them at least to hold the mock up bracketry on for me

these may have been for the Camaro sway bar I'm not sure

[Gregski]

since one side of the stock front fender mounting brackets was already separated I decided to divorce the other side as well for easier installability and tinkerability

here I am grounding down the head of that rivet before pounding it out

[Gregski]

meanwhile the new MOOG all Made in the U.S.A. steering components are trickling in nicely

[6DoF]

get after it dude, it looks mean.

is she German? going for the proper torque spec of Goudentite

[Tempest67]

it does look mean (the truck)

Thanks for the pics and glad to see you are back at it

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 6DoF

get after it dude, it looks mean.

is she German? going for the proper torque spec of Goudentite

LOL, OMG her mum was born in Germany but on an American Chairforce base... as hard as she can plus a quarter turn!!!

[Gregski]

decided to give her a little colonoscopy today, just had to know the 8.5" 10 bolt rear end digits so that I could set my speedo proper in HP Tuners

we can make out 16 41 followed by 1 77

so looks like it was assembled on 1=January in 77=1977

then we take the bigger number 41 and divide it by the smaller number 16 carry the one, times the circumference of the earth and we go ourselves a 2.56 tall gear rear end, good highway gears but this don't explain why she is so burly with that little 5.3L in her

http://www.teufert.net/camaro/1977.htm

apologies the pics are blurry

[Gregski]

started wiring up the Auto Meter Z-Series gauges last night, the wires will get cleaned up, zipped tied and loomed, this is just a moch up to make sure everything reaches and works first

even found a place for the Obi-Wan Kenobi glad that I didn't have to drill new holes, same for the MIL aka check engine light, I may just put the high beam light in the other hole, might not even wire it up just use it as a conversation piece

[8man]

Don't forget to label that check engine light, lest you forget what it is. I'm not speaking from experience here, as far as you know....

[6DoF]

Originally Posted by 8man

Don't forget to label that check engine light, lest you forget what it is. I'm not speaking from experience here, as far as you know....

yeah ... it happens ...

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 8man

Don't forget to label that check engine light, lest you forget what it is. I'm not speaking from experience here, as far as you know....

LOL, wait isn't it supposed to be always on when the engine is running, so you know it is powered on?!

[Gregski]

so it appears the previous owner did a Craigslist rebuild on the rear end, aka rattle canned it black right over the grease and rust, that's not right so I took her down to bare metal

[Gregski]

a little stare and compare of the before (dirty) bowl and the after (clean) bowl