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Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
You two are showing us your UNIQUE way of adapting and overcoming!!!
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Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
Well Rian came over to give me a hand today . I had already managed to get the engine in place but had a bit of a dilemma . The engine in the forward position missed the cab but the headers hit the wishbone and touched the chassis . With the engine in the rear position it missed the headers but it would mean cutting the bulkhead . Not wanting to cut the bulkhead the headers were going to have to be cut . The look on Rian's face when I got out the grinder was priceless . After cutting one pipe on each header and fitting them back on the engine we tried it in and it fitted . So we dummied up the pipes with cardboard tube ready to replace them with steel once a template was made .
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Adapt & Overcome...
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Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
Bloody right I was shocked at you cutting up perfectly, almost new headers.
But I now understand (well, almost) Thanks for coming over tonight to help get the Mazda ready for its yearly MOT roadworthy test. Looking forward to your new headers.
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Well I spent a couple of hours stripping the paint of my front grill, only to find a pretty good ally one under all that paint . I will have to dress up a couple of the dents that have just been filled instead of being repaired
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Grille looks good mate...
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Well as usual you make plans to do something and it all goes to pot . We took our dogs to the woods on Friday night and unknown to us one of our staffs Harry punctured the inside of his mouth . So getting up Saturday morning to find Harry's face all swollen meant no truck time but a trip to the vet , we then find out from the vet it's an Abscess and will need an operation to drain it . So about $800 and problem solved . The good news is he is ok just a big open wound on his neck to let it drain .
So Sunday morning up early to attach the engine mounts to the crossmember the first thing was to measure the distance between the the two mounts bolted to the engine . So I bolted some studding through the mounts to get the distance between the two points ![]() I then got some flat bar steel and drilled out the 15 inch centres to keep them straight . I had already marked the crossmember but needed to keep the in place for drilling the crossmember ![]() ![]() The next thing will be to refit the engine and fabricate a gearbox mount |
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The reason I only got half a day on the truck was I had planed to go to the ace café in London about a 50 mile trip each way in the afternoon with the other half as it was Harley Davidson day . So bike gear on ready to ride up to London loads of traffic and lots of filtering ( we are aloud to go up the middle of the lanes and filter between the traffic in the Uk ) here are some of the bikes
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Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARTIN
Hope it's a good one for you.
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Re: Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"
Are you excited yet Martin ???
5 days and you are off to the USA to shows and trucks and spares. Hopefully meeting up with Ta2Don and Saless. I know you are staying in the Celerbration Suites. Old Town Kissimmee inbetween shows etc. It will be really great if you could meet up with any of the members from this board while you are there. Have a great time and remember to get my spares too.
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Really pleased and thankfull you guys dug around for me and found the blanking plates for heater controls and radio.
I want to clean up and repair my dash when I start to work on the truck.
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Glad you and Amanda made it home in one piece...
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Well I finally have 10 minuets to upload some of the pictures from my holiday
When I arrived at my hotel, I was informed my parts had arrived in reception. So I loaded them into my rental car and drove round to my room , only to find Don was in the room one over and below mine . So after saying hello to him and his wife myself and Amanda went up. To our room and crashed out after 17hrs getting there . In the morning I opened all the boxes the first was from POL and it contained my suspension parts ![]() The next box was from LMC and contained all the rubbers and fittings for the doors and front fender seals ![]() Also from LMC was a cab light with a clear lense and the two inner repair panels for under the fenders ![]() The other repair panels for the bottom of the fenders I picked up from Dennis Chevy parts in Tampa |
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While at Dennis Chevy parts I collected my radiator support and two good second hand inner fenders and my stainless steel inner rocker covers and a pair of inner fender seal retainers
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The next few days (well most of the holiday if u were to ask Amanda ) consisted of collecting parts or going to shows
The remaining parts that I collected ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I also got a free t shirt from POL thanks Guys great service ![]() |
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Nice bag(s) of goodies you got there
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It looks as though you had a fun and successful trip. Now get back to work on that truck. Those parts aren't going to install themselves.
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Glad we were able to meet up and get some guy/truck time in while we were there...
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![]() The big long box is the radiator front support panel the small repair panel was the wrong one so I left it there |
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