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Re: A '62 has to get back on the road
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Re: A '62 has to get back on the road
The Watercooler is now also installed, I screwed aluminum L-profiles to the radiator support and filled up all the liquids, now the truck drives under its own power, purrs like a cat, pictures outside.
I'm completely in love with the C10.
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Re: A '62 has to get back on the road
Lookin good!
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Re: A '62 has to get back on the road
Watercooler/Radiator is one of the last purchases I need to buy for my C10
Looking very good.
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Re: A '62 has to get back on the road
Now the Hood is being worked on, it has a few rust holes in the front and a lot of dents, so I started knocking them out, fortunately they are on the side and on the edge and not on the surface, the risk of working a frog in is significantly lower 😀
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The hood is a MASSIVE JOB
Good luck.
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Be mindful keeping the heat down when welding patches. Stuff moves on you.
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Thanks for the tip, I'll step-weld the patches point by point and cool them with compressed air and take my time, that's going to be the difficult part
![]() That's right, the hood is a monster to put on the holder alone, oh man.
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No progress on the hood and didn't get any further, the truck still wanted to have a few things done, the gearbox had a leak on the kickdown cable, resealed, the water temp always showed too hot, although the engine was only 84° /183° Fahrenheit had been checked with the infrared gun.
With a variable resistance fixed, the needle is now nicely in the middle, now the heating core has leaked, removed and taken to the cooler shop to be repaired, takes about 3 weeks, I'm glad I put the truck into operation early enough to fix the mistakes
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that color combo looks amazing! Great work!
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Great to see the progress of your build in detail. Looking forward to seeing more.
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Well, the Hood is a huge thing. But now after removing the dents and apply metal filler, sanding, 2K epoxy could be applied, sanding, then again apply filler, sanding, phew.....
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Wow...nice work
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And just like that……
Magic. Great stuff. Well done, again.
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The Hood is painted with filler primer and now everything is sanded, my arms are falling off, what a huge part, what are the guys doing with the C10 panel? I'm satisfied everything is smooth and looks good, I'm excited to see how it will look after painting.
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I think most guys agree, it is a huge part.
Well done.
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The hood looks great. I'm close behind you. I'm ready for another coat of epoxy and more blocking. You're giving me incentive to continue but I've got this rear diff. thing going on.
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Re: A '62 has to get back on the road
Today there was a change, we went to Hamburg and picked up the Model A, after 6 months it arrived in God Old Germany from New York State and is now in our hall, it looks a little tattered, is but absolutely solid and still with the first paint, hard to believe.
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Re: A '62 has to get back on the road
Digging the Model-A!
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Re: A '62 has to get back on the road
Sweet, It looks beautiful.
I'm looking forward to doing this project as well, it should continue to run with a mildly tuned 4Banger, as a mild 40's HotRod. Something like that:
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WOW
WOW WOW That is lovely. I hope you will carry on reporting on it here.
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I can do that, the C10 is still in the queue and I'm happy about the progress on it. I bought Model A spontaneously because it was in such good condition that it still has to wait.
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Re: A '62 has to get back on the road
We're looking for a black coupe. Going to do a hot-rod though. The 4-banger stuff is cool but I'd rather have a little more HP/TQ than they deliver (w/o breaking the bank). An updated trans w/better gearing as well....
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Re: A '62 has to get back on the road
I'm seriously considering doing a T-Bucket or some sort of rat rot using all the drivetrain I took out of my '61.
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That's right, building a 4Banger is very expensive, in the Netherlands there is a very experienced engine builder who builds many Model A engines, including the Burtz engines. Here in Germany there are strict approval regulations, it is now very difficult to approve hotrods with other drive trains, or chopped or slammed. You need a specialist who knows his stuff and does the approval so that the authorities don't shut down your car, hard times for Roder. And I'm fascinated by the 90-year-old technology.
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