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This is what I do for 'rare' parts, I am also loosing a lot of other ones, mainly because I store them in the bin! hahaha @MiraclePieCo , congratulations for the engine, going much quicker than you had expected ! P.S : I sent you a PM
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Well I'm back, 5 days of not being able to use my right arm for anything was a little rough! But doing interior seams...
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That’s a lot of hard work, good job
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Right, that’s how it always seems to work...
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I bought a knob for my cowl vent handle. Was going through some boxes just a week or so later and found that I already had TWO brand new ones!
Anyone need a cowl vent knob? LOL Brian
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The entry wound is at the end of my finger on my wrist, only about 3/32" across. heck I'm already back at work full time 9 hrs a day 6 days a week!!! It's amazing how simple it is now days!!!! The hardest thing about it all was taking the picture with my smart phone! ![]() |
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My God it's amazing, a co-worker's mom had both hips replaced a few weeks apart and came home after each one, walking out after the second one MUCH Better than she walked in!
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My goal tonight, and an easy one I thought was to finish the rad support making it ready to be powder coated. Things were going well until I opened my eyes to see what I didn't want to see, there is some serious rust on the bottom that needs to be repaired. The power of the mind (yes even mine) is amazing, I have worked and worked this and didn't see this, seeing damage is what I do for a living but at home, I missed it because I didn't want to see it.
It also floors me that I have a rad support that was on the truck that had no rust, but I cut it up 20 years ago to do a Camaro clip that I soon figured out was NOT the way to go. So there is this rad support with no rust cut up that I will be throwing away, geeez. Anyway, I will probably spend the whole weekend at the very least making repairing this rust, will probably have to make the inner support from scratch, we will see, maybe I will get a piece of angle iron, but I will see tomorrow. Brian ![]()
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Completed the install of the rear sway bar, removed remainder of old wiring and bracket's hanging off chassis, finished routing and securing the fuel lines, bolted the engine to the engine mounting using the correct bolts, ran engine up to temp and triple checked for leaks.
Messes around with the timing that I have had issues with since the get go and I have it figured out. When I aquired the 283 years ago it had an Erson Gear Drive, I removed all that and installed the 305 balancer and chain cover. As it turns out the later 305 timing marks are not the same as a 283. Ha, issue may be sorted. But not until tomorrow. |
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Front bumper is on, the hood is in place but needs to be adjusted before it can be closed...
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Shot some primer, then watched the rain start. All front end parts (except the ones I forgot) are now at least sealed, if not completely painted. I have 5 days to shoot basecoat before I would have to scuff the primer. I just looked at the weather forecast. Rain chances every day for the next 7 days, and humidity no lower than 71% through next Saturday. As Martin Senour says, CRAP!
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Yep, the weather changes things!
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I was going to make a whole new inner bracket that I removed yesterday. I took another look and decided to repair the one I had that had hole rusted in it. I sand blasted it and the rad support where it goes and applied a weld thru primer, I will weld it together tomorrow.
It's so funny being the year before the truck didn't even use this inner support, same rad support and it didn't even use this. I drove my truck for years with the rad support that didn't even have it so I thought about even leaving it out. But being I had cleaned it up a little anyway, I figured I might as well weld it back in. And I didn't prime over rust (at least not as bad a rust as you are seeing on this thing) I sand blasted it all where it will be hidden. After this is welded on, the whole thing will be sand blasted, Zinc coated, and powder coated by the service who will be doing the same thing to the frame for the truck. Brian
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Made it to first Parade. Culmination of 50 year plan. Very small town as you can see.
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I had a little time between taking customers to the Vikings game and the grandkids coming for dinner so I threw the headlight bezels on...
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That said, you might notice the door on the floor in the picture. I was done. Paint was on. I needed to scoot the doors so I could get my finished chassis back into the garage. I must have missed a screw in the new horse when I built it. The corner of the door is crushed. I can't touch it right now because the paint is wet. I'm 3 beers into recovery. It seems like the older I get the more I do this stupid stuff. (I'll be 70 in 2 weeks.) I'll spend 3 hours tomorrow fixing it while it rains. Two steps forward, one step back...
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It looks like you've tucked that bumper in closer to the body than the factory did too. Overall, LOOKIN' GREAT !!!
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