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

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by clemdaddy

sorry about your friend.

thats cool that you get UPS direct from summit, if thats what's happening.
congrats on another completed week of exams and stressful meetings. it will all end soon enough and you will be the expert. the teacher.
now get out there and put something together...

Thanks Clem, good people are not that common, so celebrating his life just comes naturally.

This week was even more rough than the previous three.

I managed to fail Friday's test with 79% when a pass is 90%
So I walked out, and came in 15 minutes later to rewrite, rather than on Monday and managed to drag in at 100% which was the top mark for the day.
My feedback on my practical was excellent too.

Spent most of today with my bride.

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

with all the above. Have a good weekend mate.

Thanks Bill.

Doing just that, had a great day and now have a fire going.

Spent most of the day with Nicola today. Shops, great lunch etc. Then home and she went to see her dad and I went to the garage for about three hours.

Started by just cleaning up and oiling the pushrods and also cleaning the garage and my massive oil basin......



Then found the Edelbrock manifold and thought it would be good to give it a quick clean.......

Took off the thermostat housing and found it was pretty deeply pitted in three places on the inside..... Cue more new parts.

I think the thermostat is probably still fine, so will leave it alone and refit once I have new parts.







Took it all apart, then petrol and thinners cleaned it all, masked off all the relevant holes.

Pulled the blasting cabinet out the garage and cleaned it all up.





Cleaned the inside and de-oiled it, removed the masking tape etc.......

Done.




Now just waiting for the brown van to bring my bits....

Then Paul and I will rebuild the motor.

Remember next weekend is the NSRA Swapmeet.

[Grizz1963]

Glad my repairs are not in the NASCAR league.


quote author="@skylinedave" source="/post/2184102/thread" timestamp="1457819042"]Can't believe a valve is only $10 !! The powers of the American economy ![/quote]

My mate in St Louis is involved in NASCAR truck racing and they use these valves.....

That's pricey.



One of the trucks.

[65sub]

Nice. Starting the motor work.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by 65sub

Nice. Starting the motor work.

Looking forward to it in a big way Dale.

Another thing I have never done or tried before.

Got this email earlier........



All I can say is Roll on weekend....!!

Though, saying that, Saturday is kind of reserved and Sunday I will be in Essex at the NSRA Swapmeet.

Hope to find a few bits there, including a thermostat housing.

[chad64chevy]

Rian, the painted motor is looking good! keep it up and next thing you know you will be putting it in

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by chad64chevy

Rian, the painted motor is looking good! keep it up and next thing you know you will be putting it in

Thank you very much Chad.

I look forward to pulling down e last bolt on it once reassembled.


Well, it seems that this afternoon a parcel was delivered from Summit Racing.

I ordered the parts last Monday afternoon, so 8 days........ Got a be good.

Now just got to wait till I get a chance to open, unpack and obviously use them.



After work today I popped around to see an old friend and serial Teardrop trailer builder, Dave, whose latest creation you can Google to get a better look at "Campenarti Steampunk Teardrop Trailer" or look for it on Facebook where he has a page on various things..........

He recently built an acoustic amplifier for his mobile phone...... Click the link below for a look.

Dave's Steampunk accoustic mobile phone amplifier...

It was good seeing him and his family again, strange how some friended ships have no link to time.

[Grizz1963]

Amazingly...... The first 5 weeks of classroom training for the new job came to an end yesterday.

Next up is two weeks of shadowing, and much online home study plus a week of conference, followed by one more week in class plus another exam and practical evaluation, so I really only start working the 25th of April, which means Truck and Garage time will be severely limited. But there has to be some.

In time honoured style, the last two days we had an outside lecturer in who was very good at what he does, but only let us out at 4pm which on a Friday in England, is not a good thing. My trip to the office on a good day takes two hours, being 120 miles....... Yesterday..? Three hours to get home.
I guess the upside of that is the fact it took me three hours to get home from a job, rather than an interview.

Anyway, I was tired, irritable and kinda looking for a reason to get road rage, jump out of my car and get the living cramp beat out of myself and then to become a viral sensation of how to finish a week at work. It did not happen.......

So when I got home, unpacked, laundry in the machine, cuppa tea and sandwich after 7pm the cats took notice, my wife went back to her forensic telly (I am sure she is just using it to learn how and where not to hide the body) but only after she said that the local supermarket had used me as a model for their new Ginger bread man, and that she had got me a sample (I do like gingerbread cookies)

Gotta like her thinking.

Me in shorts, roll on summer.



I had planned on leaving the big brown box unopened over the weekend, as I have a load of yard work and some online training modules to deal with over the weekend, and Sunday there is the NSRA Swapmeet in Essex.

So I only peeped when I could not wait any longer.



Looking forward to having Paul Y and mate Martin over soon to get into reassembling the motor.

Next Friday is Wheels Day over in Surrey.

Sunday and Monday is again the Chatham Festival of Steam.

Couple of previous years links in case you need to see why you need to attend.


http://retrorides.proboards.com/thre...ansport-photos



http://retrorides.proboards.com/thre...estival-sunday

[clemdaddy]

looks to have been a rough week buddy. but you're home now, got a box full of goodies and a wife that has a sense of humor... life is good.
the cookie does resemble you a bit, i'd bite that head off and go out to the garage ASAP...

[ibrown50]

Take the ginger bread man back to the store, it's defective........ Where are the "trade mark" sandals

[flashed]

I cant wait to see what is in that pretty box .

[dwcardfan]

Me too. Go on open it up and let's see.

[siggyfreud]

8 days from the US to England via summit? Damn! That's not bad at all? So what did you order?!

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by flashed

I cant wait to see what is in that pretty box .

Me neither mate, but 120 miles from home till tomorrow evening.

Originally Posted by dwcardfan

Me too. Go on open it up and let's see.

In a bit Donny........ Patience

Originally Posted by siggyfreud

8 days from the US to England via summit? Damn! That's not bad at all? So what did you order?!

I am pleased with the service, fast, efficient and got a discount from Summet as well, thanks to Flashed on here.

The shipping and UK taxes are what kills us building here.

What I bought......?

Nothing as impressive as your build.

Copied from a previous entry and pasted here.

This was thanks to "Flashed" in Canton, Georgia USA offering me his discount code for orders, so thanks for the saving buddy.

Now here is a lesson for those who do not know it...........

I have always used either guys like Steve Lang who charges a Dollar for Pound to bring in stuff, you would be hard pushed to match that yourself, so I will continue to use him in future as his service is exemplary.
Then I also use my friends like Ta2Don to pick up and post out little bits for me, like the brake rebuild kits, paying him the item and postage costs via PayPal.


This time however, with Paul Y's advice and encouragement, I investigated Summit Racing's other option....... It is called i-parcel and is a system where you pay postage or shipping and duties up front rather than paying the taxes to the couriers, or a handling fee plus duties to the Post Office.

If you look at the shipping costs, excluding taxes oon the photo, you will see that this seems to be a sensible route to go.

So I have ordered a few bits that we need to rebuild the motor better. ( I will be selling my existing camshaft and followers once the motor is rebuilt)
Hopefully the rebuild will nett us as close as possible to Summits claimed 280 bhp on these parts.

[siggyfreud]

Sweet! Always fun to tear into the heart of the truck and shore things up. Guessing Summit doesn't do the free shipping over $99 to England huh? That's a bummer!

[dwcardfan]

Ok so how do we know what's in the box. All you showed us was pics from the Web. Lol. Very nice!!!

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by siggyfreud

Sweet! Always fun to tear into the heart of the truck and shore things up. Guessing Summit doesn't do the free shipping over $99 to England huh? That's a bummer!

LOL..... No they do not, I did ask if there was any chance of any discount.

Thankfully John's discount helped

Originally Posted by dwcardfan

Ok so how do we know what's in the box. All you showed us was pics from the Web. Lol. Very nice!!!

As soon as I get home tonight my young friend, as soon as I can see too.

This is the problem with 5 weeks away from home, in a hotel, training, not much gets done.

[Bomp]

Great to see you're hard at it.

[65sub]

Nice collection of swamped finds. That gas cap is very cool. Any idea who made it or what it's from.

[flashed]

Congrats on the finds .

[Ta2Don]

Score on the parts... thanks for the preview and as always.. Hang in there mate...Mrs. Boss knows you all too well and the cookie had to be great!!!

Diggin' the New Air Cleaner and Valve Covers...

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Score on the parts... thanks for the preview and as always.. Hang in there mate...Mrs. Boss knows you all too well and the cookie had to be great!!!

Diggin' the New Air Cleaner and Valve Covers...

Really pleased with the score and prices.

The valve covers were off my engine, so just the air cleaner was new, but very pleased.

Will have to find a set of matching filler caps though

[1963chevy]

well rian ive followed your post for the better of everyday for the past 6 months or so. im tuned in to see what your crazy brit self will make this truck turn into and so far its looking awesome and i cant wait to watch it through till the end!

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Bomp

Great to see you're hard at it.

Morning Greg, not sure about hard at it, but hopefully it will all look like a truck again eventually with a few personalised improvements.

Originally Posted by 65sub

Nice collection of swamped finds. That gas cap is very cool. Any idea who made it or what it's from.

Thank, it was my. Eat buy for the day at about $15.00
No mornings on it, but really good quality, not sure it has seen much if any use before.

Originally Posted by flashed

Congrats on the finds .

Thanks John, it was a great day out as well.

Originally Posted by 1963chevy

well rian ive followed your post for the better of everyday for the past 6 months or so. im tuned in to see what your crazy brit self will make this truck turn into and so far its looking awesome and i cant wait to watch it through till the end!

Thank you for taking the time to post up a reply.

I guess he fact I am not a real Brit does help........ Being born and raised in South Africa with parents who allowed and encouraged us to do stuff, helped.

I like to give stuff a try, so always look at things to do, some help me with my day job as well.

[Paul Y]

Air filter looks a strong match for the rockers Rian!

Jealous of your fuel cap will look good mounted out back.

Will have to have a chat re timings for the engine assembly, looks like we are both having calls on our time.

Laters Potaters.

P.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Paul Y

Air filter looks a strong match for the rockers Rian!

Jealous of your fuel cap will look good mounted out back.

Will have to have a chat re timings for the engine assembly, looks like we are both having calls on our time.

Laters Potaters.

P.

Thanks for the reply Paul.

The filler cap is certainly one of my favourite pieces to date.

We are at Wheels day on Friday and a bike Auto Jumble on Monday.

Sure we can find a time that suits us both.



Couple of yard jobs after work, including cutting the grass.
Also turned two grass boxes into one as mine had given up on its hooks.
Managed to poke a screwdriver into the tip of my finger with force, it may hurt a bit in the morning. But Stupid Should Hurt.

After that I decided to just do another small prep job, it serves no purpose but makes me feel I have done something.

So some VHT paint on the gearbox that I had already cleaned and masked up.

Lot of effort for something that will not be seen.



Another little job done.