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Re: Freddy's '52
Today my son and I got the brakes bled, man what a major hurdle crossed. Monday we are gonna do everything we can to crank it.
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Re: Freddy's '52
Monday filled it with antifreeze fixed a small leak at one of the banjo fittings, put some fuel in with no leaks then hooked up the battery. Turned the key and NOTHING....so I pulled out the voltage metter checked the battery 12.1v then onto the power block (one I pulled from a S10), 12.1 on the battery side 0 on the other. A storm was coming up so I unhooked the battery and called it a day. This week I'll change out that block with one from a Z28 and maybe we'll get some current going through.
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Re: Freddy's '52
murphies law , everything only happens when you DONT need it to happen
i hope thats the last thing to go wrong
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Re: Freddy's '52
Changed the link out. Looking at the old S10 one I had, I saw what was wrong, installed the Z28 one. Turned the key and to my ears the sweet hum of the fuel pump. Purged the fuel lines with about 5 turns of the key, said a prayer and with one full turn of the key IT CAME ALIVE. Of course I may have some kinks to work out , it seemed to be running good and rich also the coolant gauge never went up (which I may have a wire crossed) and I forgot to install an new thermostat and then install a oil pressure guage. One more thing to do is change my tranny fluid and filter while it's on the jack stands and then get my gas pedal installed so I can back it out of the shop. MAN I AM STOOKED!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Freddy's '52
Awesome!
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Re: Freddy's '52
Congrats!
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Re: Freddy's '52
a nice thing about warmer weather is that projects start to move toward the first drive or the vroom of the engine
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i got a job again and having fun at it too idea's for the trucks and the order of things to do are taking shape and get closer to being realized , a few more months and i be able to start building for real i complete 2 of the trucks intoo running fashion one custom and one basicly stock the thirth will be sacrificed for parts |
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Re: Freddy's '52
You said it, I basically have two months to get it road worthy before Septembers Rod Run in Pigeon Froge. But, I feel like I'll make it. I sure would like to have it drivible for the Moonshine festival in Hiawassee Georgia the second weekend in August.
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Re: Freddy's '52
It's looking like my aveo cluster isn't going to work. The only thing working is the tach and it reads 1500 rpms at idle. So instead spending money on calibrating it or buying aftermarket ones I'm going Friday to the junkyard and getting the one out of the Z28 my motor came from. Everything will work and hey even the odometer will be correct. I know I'll have to do some serious fab work on my dash , but it will be worth it. Since the post on here for the ones with 52's and seeing its dash I feel motivated. Something simular to this on the cluster side.
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Re: Freddy's '52
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Re: Freddy's '52
I spent 2 hours at the junkyard Friday getting almost everything I needed to complete "Fred", picked up the cluster, seat belts, wiper motor and other goodies. Saturday got the cluster wired and put into the dash, will have picture tomorrow cause I have to make a change on it tonight. But it works great just enough room left for the headlight switch and wiper motor. I also have to replace the brake booster, seems the truck sat so long the vaccum is gone; pedal is hard as snot to push. I backed the truck outside for a good 50 yrds to take a look... man it's low, then when I went to pull it back the motor stumbled and the SES light came on. Luckily I have many gearhead friends and a couple is coming over with a scanner to check everything out.
Get the windows in, go to the tag office, call my insurance office, an alignment and I might get this thing to a show next month. Last edited by 1952ssr; 07-18-2011 at 12:21 PM. |
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Re: Freddy's '52
usually the mecanics of those dails are mounted with two small screws to the facia , maibe you can use the aveo cluster you wanted to mount and mount the mecanics of the gauges out of the camaro behind it as long as the numbers on the dail are spaced the same it should work ok
![]() ![]() hmmmm looking at the revcounter and the endspeed on the speedo's i dont think that would work
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Re: Freddy's '52
Hey joey, good to hear you got the lt1 started, hope you make the show ..........
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its a great looking truck , i would personally go for a smaller rim and/or a little higher tire on a classic truck like that , it just looks a bit too modern like this
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Re: Freddy's '52
1952ssr. You nail it. The truck looks great. I love the stance, patina and the door logo.
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Re: Freddy's '52
B**ch*N, truck, I like it !!
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Re: Freddy's '52
Man that is a sweet ride!
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Re: Freddy's '52
Nice job, it looks awesome! I'm sure you'll enjoy putting lots of miles on it.
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Re: Freddy's '52
Looks great!
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Re: Freddy's '52
I think it looks awesome! Go put some miles on it now!
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Awesome man I am jealous... must feel good to get it to this point.
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Re: Freddy's '52
Very nice, drive the crap out of it....Jim
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Re: Freddy's '52
Great looking truck, nice wheels!
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Re: Freddy's '52
Nice job ... it's a looker.
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Re: Freddy's '52
Thanks for all the compliments. I have pretty much finished up most everything under the hood. So I snapped a couple of pictures from each side.
The one thing I haven't done is finish the V6 valve cover I shortened to fit on top of the engine. It's one packed out compartment. I will be replacing the neon orange zip ties with black.....man they are loud LOL. |
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