Nope. On the shelf for Dad's truck. Rusty might get Dad's hand-me-down. After all, he's a red-headed step child.

 

Haha.

I noticed on the box that came out it had a series of stamped numbers on the side, on top being 0006 94.


Possible reman box that was in it and that being the date?

 

Yes, probably. I don't remember any numbers stamped on the factory boxes.

 

If that's the case and that was the date, which I'm pretty sure it was. Then that box had about 100K on it.

 

So, 175k on the first one and 100k on the rebuild and it was toast. Fits with what Redhead told me that rebuilders don't fix the front bearing where the shaft runs in the case. So the case wears and they don't care and the rebuild doesn't last long. Instead, Redhead bores out the box and presses a real bearing in, so the box is better than new.

 

Typical reman junk. I was working on this Saturn for a family member and one of the last repairs was the wiper motor doesn't turn off. So I went and bought a Cardone reman. That thing worked worse than the old one! tested 3 ways my foot. Wound up fixing the old one, just some corrosion on the relay pack I had to pry off the motor. I tell ya, anything reman I've ever encountered has been complete junk in the way of put a paint job on it and throw it out the door.

 

No sir, I was at my work (chevron) across in the wee hours of the show. I went to that show the first time Ed ran it, but he isn't a great person so I haven't been back. Plus, I totally forgot that was all going on. Otherwise I probably would have made it to the parade in Algona.

 

Ah, must have been someone else's truck then. I didn't even go up there, nothing there that interests me anymore.

 

Got my carb heat shield installed. Had to install it kind of backwards from how it's supposed to be, but it'll work just fine.

Had to do some trimming to the front and to the back corner to clear the distributor and the vacuum tree.





Had to trim a tiny bit off so there's a gap between the shield and distributor.





That back corner used to be about a 45 degree angle and was flush with each corner. Had to grind it down a bit.





Daytime shot of that steering box and steering shaft.



Had I installed the heat shield as thick gasket, spacer and thin gasket. The power valve cover sticks down farther than the carb flange and was interfering. So, I had to install it as : thin gasket, shield, thick gasket and carb. Seems like it would work better that way anyways. Shield below and the insulator gasket doing it's full effective job vs the shield heating up right below the carb. But, I could be wrong. Seems to work good anyways. I let it run for a while and shut it down so heat could rise, shield was warm, engine was hot but carb was still cold to the touch.

 

Good job. And it will surely help. My only suggestion is in the first pic were a hose touches the edge you put some protection on the hose. Split loom works well, but something to prevent the shield from cutting the hose.

 

I did not notice that rubbing, thanks for the pointer! I just started it after sitting for 20-30 minutes and a twitch of the key it fired right up.

 

I haven't had much interest in Eds shows. Mainly because of he himself.

Glad to see its coming together.

 

Found some home made door carpet at the junk yard lol.







Had to shorten the top of the passenger backing so it would get high enough to clear the door seal so it would close easily. It's pegboard with carpet glued to it, then the assembly screwed to the door with tiny sheet metal screws. Sure cleaned up the appearance of the bottom of the doors.

Also found some very nice OEM window cranks that aren't even yellowed yet. That truck really should not be in the JY.

 

People throw trucks and cars away for nothing. Blown transmissions are a big one. I assume you went to Budget? I'll be out that way in the morning... I need to finish my dome light work. By the way, over got these self tapper screws that looks pretty nice in terms of decorative. If you need any I have way more than I could ever use.


They are pretty small and short. They seem to work well.

 

Yeah I went to budget. Been pretty happy so far, been very straight with both of the guys and they've been straight back so no problems there. Filled the tank up tonight.