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Looking like the next meet will be work party at my place in Shelton.

Truck is looking good, I have a spare pedal assembly waiting for that bearing setup and some other custom touches.

I just changed the orientation of the clutch pedal pivot arm so the throw is toward the firewall and mounted my hydraulic master cylinder on the right side of my hydroboost.

 

Do you have pictures of that setup?

 

Go to my build thread in my signature and you'll see mine and a buddies, he based his off mine but due to having a vacuum booster he had to make an extension to offset his farther to the right.

 

I say "Part 1" because there is plenty left to figure out and to buy. The first step is installing the evaporator before the dash goes back in otherwise it would be huge pain.

I'm building a wrap-around mounting arm that will bolt to the front of the evaporator (more on that below). The arm will slide into a mounting bracket on the kick panel on the right side, and bolt to the evaporator mounting bracket and firewall in the rear. The first problem I encountered was that I couldn't find square tube the right size to snugly fit the mounting arm. I ended up just going a size too big and modifying it to fit (this will all make sense by the end of this post).

Here it is before, a little too big.



Then I cut it in half along the corners.



Overlapped the corners a bit



Welded



And smoothed out, the perfect size



Performed that operation twice, then welded them to the kick panel.



Now here's the arm I'm using to mount the unit. Square tube with a couple bosses welded on where I'll mount the evaporator.



Here are the legs welded on. The one on the right will slide into the brackets on the kick panel, the leg on the left will wrap around the unit and mount to the firewall.



A little custom fitment



Like a glove



Had to drill some speed holes



Powder coated and mounted. You can see where it's mounted to the firewall there is a flat bracket that hangs below and mounts to the evap unit in two places in the rear so that it's supported front and back. This thing is mounted very sturdy, and will be easy to remove for maintenance should the need arise.

 

Again, excellent work. Love the evaporator mounting. I bought a couple of the clutch bearing kits about 3 years ago, installed 1 on my daughters '67 coupe, then misplaced mine for about 2 years. Found and installed on my truck last fall, nice improvement.

 

Nice work Bryan...

how tight is it in your custom tube?

Maybe a coating of RTV or thin rubber to keep the noises down over bumps....

Edit: Could also wrap it in felt.

 

Thanks. It's pretty snug, plus it has some spring to it when installed so I don't see rattling being an issue.

 

Like the little touches that no one will see!

What evap unit is that? Still going back & forth on what I will run for mine.

 

Vintage Air Gen II Compac. It's the biggest one that would fit. The Gen IVs are huge and the Gen II Mini isn't quite big enough for a Supercab.

 

The modification I did on my pedal assembly worked so well that I decided to do something similar for my transfer case shifter.

Here's what I started out with. The stock shifter linkage is flimsy to begin with, plus it's now worn out.



I bought a pair of bearings, a section of pipe, a couple heim joints, and a threaded connector. I cut the pipe into two small sections to use as bearing races.



Tack welded to the shifter.



Mocked up with bearings and races on both sides.



Fully welded.



I'll be using these two bosses on the transmission to mount the shift lever.



Here is the heim joint linkage rod I made to connect the shifter to the TC.



Starting to make a mounting bracket.



Completed bracket. Time to mock it up.



From the top.



From below, with linkage in place.



Blown apart and powder coated.



Full assembly.



Done. This thing is rock solid. No more rattling!

 

Nice job on the shifter. Way better then those nylon bushings. The bearings set up on mine doesn't rattle at all, i'm sure it won't on yours.

 

Sweet! Another fine idea I can benefit from

 

Well, the Cummins sits back a lot farther than the gas motor. I was expecting that all along, but now it's time to do something about it.

Here it is with the stock openings for the shifters:



The cover has this hump in it, so I'll have to knock that flat. First, a relief cut.



Flattened. I made the cut a little too wide though, I'll have to fill it in with a scrap piece.



Here is the transmission shifter panel



And the transfer case shifter panel



Finished and ready for new re-located holes. I know, I could have easily just bought an old one from a 2wd A/T to use as a clean starting point, but this cost nothing and required no searching.

 

I love it. I been having thoughts similar to your idea, just not that far along so I can do my final "engineering".

 

Thanks man. Hey, just read your signature, which griffin radiator are you running? Which intercooler?