Recent content by yodaman

Hey, It's been a few years since i seriously worked on my truck (life got in the way) and I never posted much but spent hours reading this forum and some of you felt like old friends. I decided to mess with the truck again and popped on here for direction and re-reading old posts felt again...

YES! I 'm still reading this. I log in rarely but read the page regularly and feel a kinship with you guys that I don't really know. Its nice to hear about people's real life outside of this truck obsession of ours. Keep talking Nate, please!

I used some one of those extendable curtain rods from Walmart as windlace channel in the few spots that I needed to replace due to rust. Pretty cheap and you can't really see it with windlace installed. I hope this helps. -Joshua

Thanks again, guys. I got a NOS NAPA oil pump coming from E-bay and plan to disassemble and clean a little bit each night after work before it gets here. Unfortunately, daylight savings time and laying in the dirt hampers me enough to just tackle a little at a time. Nate, FWIW my owner's...

Thanks for the responses guys. Nate, it seems to be starting and running fine. My kids and I re-did the valve clearances today (cold) and it fired up fine. I have points gap at .019 I think as that was what the manual said for new points. My next concern is that I am getting no oil to...

Hi guys, It's been quite awhile since I seriously fooled with the old truck, life getting in the way. My trusty Sonoma finally died so I'm looking at the '54 as an alternate means of transportation. I've just about finished replacing all the brake lines and rebuilding wheel cylinders so I...

Didn't see any big junkyards towards Waco. Saw a car shop/junkyard but the owner didn't have anything. Said his neighbor did but of course the neighbor wasn't home. The owner said they are making I35 six lanes each direction instead of two so they all had to move back. At least he got a new...

Thanks Evan, We're actually taking 35 down to Waco tomorrow so I'll keep my eyes open for that possible one....hafta pull up Rand Macnally maps to find Farmersville. I think Belton is about 1/2 hr past Waco or so...definitely worth calling. I will be headed back to drop off the inlaws and...

Hey y'all, I'm spending a few days down near Whitney, TX before heading back to Maryland. Anyone know of any good junkyards with old iron to check out? I'm looking to wander around and maybe pick up a few rear fenders and/or running boards. Thanks, Josh

Congratulations! Carting your little helper around (or in my case, helpers) never seems to get as much done, but you love doing it. It's a whole new adventure, brother. -JZ

I think..... I think that in a previous post it was Nate who suggeted something to add to try to seal the leaks in your core. Aluma-seal, maybe? I followed that suggestion when I installed my refurbished one and it worked for me. Josh

We generally get our powder from Eastwood. Their prices seem reasonable. We have a variety of colors in the shop but all of them are old and I have been told that after 6 months or so the powder becomes less effective. I've still used older powder but if'n it's on wheels I'd buy new so...

Happy Thanksgiving to all! .......and to all a good night.:confused:

Bill, Where in Jersey are you? I ask because we have powder coating ability at my work. I'm in Maryland right near the Delaware line. If its close enough for you and you have a Saturday to spare, all you need to do is buy the powder and come down and we'll get her done. Little cost (just...

That's exactly what my Napa guy came up with, Evan. He said that he could get the blocks in 1/4" out of Georgia in three days or he had a few 1/4 x 3/16 adaptors in stock. Thanks, guys. Josh