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By no means is this making short work of it. The truck has been apart 2.5 years now. It is hard to get a chance to work on it at all during the when I get home from work. Many weekends I am busy and don't get a chance to work on it. I get about 20-40 hours in on it a month maybe.
Hoping I can get all the body work done and painted before winter strikes or it will have to wait until the spring and be on the road later in 2018. I was hoping to do the engine work and putting the truck back together over winter then.
Realistically is a 3-4 year build.
Originally Posted by Beedub109r
Keep up the good work! I am enjoying the thread. you are making short work of the project!
By no means is this making short work of it. The truck has been apart 2.5 years now. It is hard to get a chance to work on it at all during the when I get home from work. Many weekends I am busy and don't get a chance to work on it. I get about 20-40 hours in on it a month maybe.
Hoping I can get all the body work done and painted before winter strikes or it will have to wait until the spring and be on the road later in 2018. I was hoping to do the engine work and putting the truck back together over winter then.
Realistically is a 3-4 year build.
Hey man, don't knock yourself. Progress is progress no matter how you look at it.
I've been building my "truck" (if you want to call it that lol) for 7 years now. I've literally driven the thing above 100 km/hr once... and now the motor is apart and at a shop LOL.
Anywho, I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's just nice to see someone is still chugging away on their build. Beauty takes time - ask any pretty girl you see haha
It is not factory. Looks like Haisley Machine makes it as their "standard girdle". The cam was already modified for more intake lift.
As much money as I will be dumping in it I might as well get a brand new cam. To try and save a few hundred with a regrind just isn't worth it. Maybe not a "big stick" but maybe something a little more than stock.
Interesting. I swear I saw a part like that before on a cummins industrial engine. Could be wrong though.
I like my rv grind. It's 178-208-110 LSA .290"/.320". pretty conservative cam. That's for sure. No lope or anything like that.
I only live about 2 hours from Carlisle and sad to admit I never have been to a car show there until yesterday. While this wasn't at the swap meet, it was for sale locally on the Facebook market place. Was hard to pass up for $2000. ATS 3000 & 5000. It also came with most of the plumbing as well.
Working on the doors at the moment until I get some able bodied men to get the bed flipped over and up on a stand to work with the bedsides. Blasted the doors and hand applying epoxy primer both inside and outside the door on the bottom edge to address any pinholes that I didn't get patched up 100%. One door wasn't bad but the other had s verbal places it rusted through on the bottom lip. Will give another hand coat on Friday after work.
More sandblasting and priming. Working on filling some dents on the doors. They were banged up pretty bad. Front fenders need a little bit of filler as well. I epoxy primered the back sides of the bedsides for protection before I get around to installing them.
Working the last few weeks to clean up the cab and get it under primer.
Took a LOT of sandblast. Several coats of paint and body work from previous owners. Outside of cab under epoxy and high build.
Well I haven’t really touched the truck in a few weeks. I just simply wasn’t motivated to do so. Dabbled a few hours here and there over the Thanksgiving holiday. Oh the joys of body work. Doors are the worst, but then again they are the one part of the truck that gets abused a lot.
You are making great progress. I have been working on my truck for the better part of 20 years! I am on my third body and engine. Just got a new 1979 F250 front axle for it too.
07-10-2017, 07:02 PM
haha
