putting the feelers out on my 56 chevy i love the truck bought it as a project but i just dont have the time or money right now ill make this as clear cut as possible
this truck is a project but its a california truck 99% rust free it has the typical pickup truck rust in the cab corners but...
i have not found a printable one i have only found 9 million links to buy one or printable car diagrams i dont want to buy one because i plan to mark it up
no cooling system the whole reason it was moved was so i can get it to the hose and blast the system out it litterally ran as long as the videos show and putting it back getting hosed out in between cooling system is next as i have a radiator for it and all the nasty crap is out of the system
well i pulled the radiator out of the truck to start fabbing in a radiator pulled the hoses to find this
pulled thermostat housing to find this
whats left of the thermostat
concerned i pulled the water pump off to have this bleed out of it
but after getting it off i found...
nope ive owned it since 06 and have yet to drive it :( now that im working again im trying to get it to where i am so i can work on it i have a new set of points and a condencer for it to just im never at the property that its on so i dont get to work on it much
well the move to oregon went well had a trailor blow a tire on the way up and delayed up enough that we had to stop for a night now my chevy is parked at my uncles place untill i get my own place now im slowly pecking away at it i have swapped the coil and found that the condencer is toast...
my bed floor isnt wood anymore someone welded in a sheet of diamond plate on top of the wood as for the diesel i like the duramax but im looking into other options i will not go cummings however if im gonna do a swap im getting more cylinders
ive been reading into, it i do understand that you need to buy certain equipment to do it right and the equipment ran a few grand, but other then that i havent gotten to far into it. its still a long way from that its gonna run the stock 235 till it dies (if it dies). when it comes to the diesel...
you guys are talking about seats with the seat belts built into the seat what about 2001 chevy silverado seats? the seatbelt is built into it the retracters everything all three points of the belt are built into the seat bolt those in there with some heavy reinforcement around the mounts and im...
i think ive decided on the final power plant for this i think im going to go duramax diesel it will have plenty of power for whatever i do with this thing and i can run it on french fry oil and not hurt the environment and keep money in my wallet
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* Engine type: 6,599 cc...
well i did some work to her today not alot but i replaced the ballast resister and took a grease gun to every grease fitting on the ubderside of the truck ( holy hell theres alot of them) took some pics to show you guys what im dealing with
looking from the front axle
my "exhaust...
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