Maybe I should bring my kingpin reamers too.....

 

not so happy when she got home though...

 

Shawn, you got it loose! It's a Festivus miracle!

 

Marry X-Mass everyone

My family was here earlier in the week so today was just the wife and I so spent an hour or 2 in the garage.
The rear tank sender stopped working shortly after I get it on the road so I worked on that toady.

Know what it's like to drop the rear tank even empty?
I checked to make sure the wiring was good by shorting out the wires so knew it was the new sender.
Once out I knew what it was, the float was full of gas.
I did test the sender and it works great.
Swapped float from the old sender, drop unit back in tank and tank back up in place.
I hope it dose not leak once I have fuel in the tank.
Dave ----

 

Fuel float, probably $5. Takes a hundred man hours to get to it & replace it!
I got a polisher for Christmas, and since it's beautiful today, I'm going to see if I can get rid of those one million swirl marks in the paint job on my old Mustang!

 

I did mine when it was half full, couldn't get it to siphon. My gauges work some, front sender is funky acting and no longer available from Ford (23 gallon poly tank) and rear had a crack around a tube that was hard to find. I figure I've had each down 3-4 times

 

I used some meguiars polish on a buffer on my hood to remove sanding marks,it surprised me. I need to do the f250 now.

 

Finally started putting the engine back together. Got the crank in and the cam chain along with the shift forks and drum. But when i was going to put the transmission gears in i discovered the larger of the 2 shafts has an issue. Its bearings makes alot of noise when i spun it where the smaller shafts bearing doesnt make any noise.



after talking to some of the guys on the bike forum im gonna try throwing a little oil/ grease into it to see if maybe its only because its dried out...

 

Got the lower half of the crankcase back together. Need to put some side pieces on to keep the crankshaft bearings from slipping off but i was done for today and didnt feel like looking for them.

 

We going to hear it ring in the new year?
I guess the bearing was ok with a little oil / grease or you would not have gotten this far.

I installed the head light relay harness I have had for years for another project that my son used on his YJ Jeep till he went with HID head lights.
The hardest part was gone thru my Rubber Maid bin I have all my auto electrical stuff in looking for connectors and a 20 amp breaker as the harness did not have fuses on the hot leads.
I also gave a few turns of the screw driver to raise the head lights up as they were to low for me. I will bring the driver to "fine tune" next time I have the truck out at night.

I still need to look into what is needed to adjust the driving / fog lights in the bumper as I may not have built in enough adjustment for them.
Dave ----

 

lol itll probably be spring before i get close to it running again... i still need to repaint the frame, clean out the tank, seal the tank, install the tank, install all the wireing harnesses... ect ect... the engines just the beginning... i started with that because its the hardest thing to find replacement parts for and if i cant make that work then its nor worth the rest of it.. lol

yeah the guys in the CB/CL forum said those bearings do not like to be dry.. drier they are the noisier they get... and probably dried it out when i was cleaning off all the metal shavings with the parts cleaner.. once i shot some oil into the bearing it got alot quieter... also rolled very smoothly.. no bumps at all like you would expect to feel if the bearing was messed up.. once it spun quietly i just loaded it up with assembly lube to keep it from drying out while it sits waiting for me to finish the rest of the bike...

the assembly lube im using breaks down with engine oil so it can be easily flushed out.. same stuff i used for reassembling my bigger engines... so it wont be a problem once i pour oil down into the crankcase... itll also protect the parts from dry running at the start until the oil pump gets pumping and pushes throughout the engine...

Next step after i put the magneto, shift linkages and starter on says to install the clutch basket and the clutch disk's but im going to save the installation disks until i get closer to running as i dont want them to dry out between now and then... ill put the basket in now.. but save the disks for later.. i will put the side cover on though to keep the dust out but will leave the gasket off for the same reason...

 

Got more of the engine assembled. Im skipping the clutch disks for now until im closer to having it run.

 

Happy New Year everyone hope all is well after partying last night

Looking good Shawn.

I took the truck to work yesterday to get it out as it has been sitting since the dinner.
The head light relay kit worked great! I cant believe how much brighter the lights are on low almost to the point of not needing high beams.
If you been thinking of doing this don't think any more just do it.

Thinking of tanking the truck rest of the week to work so I can fill both tanks to see what the MPG are and if the rear tank is going to leak after I had the sender out for the float change.
Dave ----

 

I plan on taking the truck to work the rest of the week just to run it but want to use the gas up in the front tank to see what MPG I am getting now that is the only tank I have run. I will then fill the rear tank and hope it don't leak after pulling the sender to fix the float and hope the gauge works again.

And for them that don't believe I will use the truck, I filled it with cardboard I will take to work.



I change my avatar!
It looks like this


The cardboard came from the house garage when I pulled the street Javelin out so the pick up could go in.

And this is the Javelin that went into my garage as the next project.

I will be checking in from time to time to keep up on things and will be looking for a 5sp transmission for the truck as that will be the next big thing on the list for it.
Dave ----

 

Hey Dave glad the relays did the trick for you, I wired up my old F100 with headlight relays as well. Makes a big difference!