I am happy to report that the gas tank fix held. Got the tank re-installed, re painted the seat rail where it had gotten scratched, Reinstalled...
So, today I go out to the garage and find that the 2 gallons of gas that WERE in the tank had now drained into the cab and out through the drain...
You can do the bodywork to change them over, but most just use an earlier front clip, like on the old navy trucks.
Not the shop manual, the ASSEMBLY manual.....shows how all those parts went together way back when....
Bah! Musclecars......where are the real vehicles....TRUCKS??????
Zat thang got a hemi??? My 350 seems to like to run around 200-210. Well, like may not be the word to use, but thats where she stays. Being...
EVERYONE should buy the assembly manual, especially if they are trying to restore a truck to factory spec.s.
Now that is old school, logging your own wood for a project!
I have found pictures on several sites, myself. I made some dash cards [IMG] I have seen pictures of these cards all the way in the midwest in...
Just hook them through the brake switch, at the pedal, on the firewall. It doesn't matter which terminal gets which wire.
Buy QUALITY headers, cheap ones WILL crack. Block huggers work well, check out Speedway's ram horns. These will be my next block headers.
The goal is to drive it next week.
I have been kicking around the idea of a book devoted to ADs.....and a few G's.
I had never had a magazine feature or even a little picture in show coverage until last year. Now my truck shows up everywhere! Not bragging,...
how much???
And it lives!!!!!!!!!!! [ATTACH] I have to fix a bad manifold leak, but other than that no major problems showed their ugly heads. I did lose the...
Here is the rebuilt rear body mount.. [ATTACH] Here is where it goes... [ATTACH] And installed.... [ATTACH] You need a lovely assistant to...
[ATTACH] Looking up from under the floor... Installing seatbelts......run a piece of flat steel under the floor. Drill the seatbelt holes in...
[ATTACH] Looking up from under the floor.
I cut the hole in the floor into a rectangle to fit the M/C, then cut a heavy guage sheetmetal cover. I cut the dynamat to fit around this cover....
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