56 shop truck build

[mknittle]

[Rods57]

Excellent! Love it when they get to start up. congrats.

[dubie]

It was exciting and nerve racking kind of night. But I smile every time I look at it knowing it fired up like a champ.
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[dubie]

After realizing I ad made a boner move on the location of my case shim on Thursday, we made sure to ankle that job yesterday. Gotta love working on a solid axle, I think it took us 15 minutes to drop the axle, place the shims in the correct spot and torque everything back down. I got the tail lights installed and wired up as well. I just have to I stall the blue dots and figure out why my hazard lights work when the key is on but not when the key is off. That's the only electrical issue on the truck.
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[nuke1]

Just got to tell you that the truck is coming along nicely!! Engine sounds great and glad to hear it run. Great job on the beer fridge btw. I love how you are welding with rubber gloves on a while ago!! Lol and you should have got ahold of me when you came to stoon for volveat. I would have been down with that for sure.
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[dubie]

My wife was the one welding with rubber gloves. She went from working on cleaning some parts to trying her hand at welding.
The Volbeat trip was a quick one, in 1 day and gone the next morning. Next time I'll give you a little notice
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[dubie]

no real progress to report over the past week. Our car club the Rock City Kruisers held their annual car show on Saturday so we were busy prepping for that. I was hoping to drive the truck but we fell a bit short. There just wasn't enough money in the budget to do any more.

Here is what she looks like right now. We'll be getting back at it this week and try to finalize a lot of things on it.

[Daze57]

Very nice. Congratulations on getting it going

[Kabwe]

Originally Posted by daze57

very nice. Congratulations on getting it going

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[dubie]

thanks guys. We're going to bleed out the brakes, tidy up some wires in the engine bay and re-locate the e-brake handle this week. I'd like to have it ready for exhaust and inspection within 3 weeks

[Kim57]

The stance looks real good.
Kim

[dubie]

I'm hoping with the addition of some bed wood that the ass end will come down a bit, but overall, I'm real happy with the stance of the entire thing. Getting it to look right was very important. I ended up using leaf spring saddles from a 4x4 to gain the extra inch in height in the back end and decreased the front tire size to get it to sit the way I pictured it.
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[combinepilot68]

Another great looking Canadian prarie truck - great job. I posted a pic of the bedwood I just installed on my 1949 on the bedwood thread. I acid etched it to give it an aged look............

[dubie]

Does anyone have a 4 barrel scoop style air cleaner in the shop? I'm having a very hard time turning up a used one anywhere
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[dubie]

I'm looking for something like this to top the engine off
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[dubie]

No picture updates because what we've done would be really boring to look at. But over the past week, we dropped the front axle to install the caster shims properly and bled the brakes. When we pressured up the brake system, it leaked like the titanic. Almost every fitting had some sort of leak so our 1 hour brake bleed job turned into a 4 hour job. But it's done!!! Now I have to install the tranny cooler, hook up the brake switch and install the exhaust before its ready for the road
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[Rude Dude]

Try checking at boat used supply or sales shops, don't know about Canada but here in California and Arizona they usually have a few laying around for sale for ski boats.

Originally Posted by dubie

Does anyone have a 4 barrel scoop style air cleaner in the shop? I'm having a very hard time turning up a used one anywhere
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[Rude Dude]

speedway sells them new for $119

http://www.speedwaymotors.com/Gasser...oops,3788.html

[Denee007]

Does that kind of carburetor scoop filter the air too? That is really neat looking! Maybe having one of those, install it at the car shows, then put the regular air filter back on when actually driving!
dne'

[dubie]

yeah these scoops come with a filter insert to male sure you aren't sucking to much crap into your engine. Plus, I think they add a little something to the engine bay. It's tough to find a cool looking breather to top it all off.
I have already looked at all the new ones online but I am in the market for a used one, maybe something with a few scratches or small dings in it. It'll fit right in with the rest of the build. My valve covers are finned aluminum all polished up from a 57 Bel Air and they have a couple small imperfections from years of use and abuse.

[Denee007]

Tim, check this out! Maybe you can bid on it?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Aluminum-Air...4be517&vxp=mtr

[dubie]

thanks for the link lady. I'm going to contact him about shipping because it says in the shipping details that he only ships to the USA

[Denee007]

Gee Tim, I didn't even look to see where your are at! I had to google Flin Flon! I do good just to get around Houston without getting lost much less know where your town is! lol You're kind of in the middle of nowhere? You out to come down here to hot n humid Houston! no snow here! Well, good luck on the part!

Well, also depends on how high the bid goes~ amazes me sometimes about bidding on stuff, get it cheap or too much!

[dubie]

yeah we're a bit out of the way. It's a 4 hour drive to the closest major city of about 60,000 people. It's nice and secluded where we are which is nice for peace of mind, right in the heart of the Canadian shield. Which is why most of us are employed in the field of hard rock mining.
The winters are a bit harsh at times but we don't worry about hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, typhoons or any poisonous animals, so it's a decent trade off. We get some -40 days during the 7 months of winter and then have some smokey forest fire days in the summer, but all in all, it's a very scenic place to live.

[Denee007]

hm, don't know about the really cold, I barely handle 45 degrees! Sounds wonderful there! Who'd of ever thought that old cars n trucks would bring folks together from all over the world!