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Amazing job! You are really coming along well. I have never removed a cab, but sounds right. You gonna drive it to the car wash with no cab next summer?
floors all button up ,primed an applied seam sealer. let it dry over night and applied a rubberized rock guard. i,m probably going to reinstall cab,so it can be a driver for next summer.
between coats done a bit of welding on running boards got my gas tank back the owner had made a dash with a cod box,i think i will reinstall it kind off cool
got about 2 week ends left. and next weekend i got an activity. got to install cab, running boards, fenders,brake master cylinder and bleed. and apply some sort of sealer on inside floor ,rockers and cab corner.
would anybody have a diagram or picture ,off brake pedal and clutch pedal springs. they are gone. i see were they hook on pedal arm, but i don,t see were they hook on the other end.
You beat me to that one! Both mine are missing too and I have the same question. I don't have brakes yet, but the clutch one I ran a piece of coat hanger wire way up to something and a oddball spring I found. It works ok for now. From what I recall, they run opposite directions from each other. Anyone? A pic would be great or maybe a diagram from the book or ??? Bernette where do you go in two weeks? We are gonna miss your reports.
not going no where i,l still be around. usely our shop gets busyer and my budget is blown for now. i want to repair my frame ,going to start hunting for parts crossmember maybe frame rails. and wife is starting to nag about house chores.
i got some stuff done, a few evenings and sunday afternoon. rear brakes are bleed and working(you can,t imagine the dirt in the lines). this is a neat brake bleeding one man tool. done some grinding and body filling
cab is wired to run,got the new key cylinder installed, so hopefully i will seal inside floor and rear cab with paint early tommorow morning. then gas tank installed(sometime next week),fire it up to see if everything works ok. and reinstall fenders and grille. should button her up for now. oh and add transmission oil.last year it had all leak back out,when i top it off. there was a broken bolt in transmission support,i got it out and tighten the 3 other ones.
Waves? On the back of the cab? Put a bed on it !! That bodywork is making my 'rust free' truck look bad! That is an amazing transformation, and I can see You are a very skilled craftsman.
thanks .were thinking the same!!! i would like the bed to dump,thats when i could see them. but i,m far from builting a bed. just wondering what a pro would do.
what would be the consensus,on starting a flat head! i wanted to start it up,to be sure everythings working ok. truck is inside about 65 degrees,hadn,t started for 9 weeks. so i pulled the choke(maybe shouldn,t) gas pedal 3 or 4 times. now i have an electric gas pomp,so bowl filled without turning engine. crank motor once no exhaust,so pedal a few more time. crank over again no exhaust. decide to remove choke try again no exhaust,repeated all this a few times,never one exhaust.decide to check carburator lots of gas,check for spark that,s ok. give it and other go gas too the floor too unflood,never one exhaust! so ended pulling sparks they smelled gas but didn,t seem that badly flood. but they were awful dark motor must run rich. the sparks are new from last year maybe 3 hrs of running in 1 year. so heres the question are theses motors easly flooded . i didn,t have any problem starting it before,last fall after sitting for maybe 4 months its started after 3 tries! gonna give it another try tommorrow evening.
gonna be my last update for a while! got here going motors running ok! kinda cool to have brakes. i installed an old tool box to store parts. had to use the old michigan to park it !
What's all that funny white stuff? 79 degrees here today in SoCal but they are predicting maybe .10 inches of rain tonight into tomorrow so all the TV weather reporters are on "storm watch". All kidding aside, the truck is coming along great. Thanks for all the photos.
Tim
That bodywork is making my 'rust free' truck look bad! That is an amazing transformation, and I can see You are a very skilled craftsman.
