Restoration Question
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Restoration Question
Help!!! I am trying to find some information or a catalog that will give me some tips on restoring my truck.... before I tear into it and have parts scattered all over the shed/house and anywhere else I can keep them while I have it torn apart. I really don't think the wife would appreciate a motor in the living room for an extended amount of time... haha. If anyone knows of anything I should look at before I begin the teardown process please let me know...
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Thanks
Strawberry
See ya'll at the Nationals in May
Made my camping reservations today and am looking forward to this outstanding trip.... :-)
You can post here or send info to derrick.percival@maxwell.af.mil
Thanks
Strawberry
See ya'll at the Nationals in May
Made my camping reservations today and am looking forward to this outstanding trip.... :-)
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Derrick, have you been reading the bigblock forumn? A lot depends on what you call a restoration. If you are going to build the engine, then do it seperately. You can't rebuild the engine and do body work at the same time. If you want to do a chassis off restoration, then you have a whole different ball game.
Just what do you want to do?
John
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Club FTE since 01 01
66 F100s
In the still cool hours of the night,
you can hear chevys rusting away.
Just what do you want to do?
John
jowilker
Club FTE since 01 01
66 F100s
In the still cool hours of the night,
you can hear chevys rusting away.
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Just a few ideas, I have used on my '66. Each time I took something apart, I used the zip-style plastic bags that were labled with what the misc bolts or brackets were from, along with drawings of how something was hooked up or mounted. As I put things together, I knew that, for example, all steering box parts were seperate from steering colum items, etc.. I worked on many different truck projects at the same time, and nothing was lost or misplaced. With all these labled bags, if I was bored, I could open a bag and clean or restore the bolts and pieces so when assembly time came, everything was in a clean and like new condition. When unbolting a trans, or item with bolts that may not be the same, I used a piece of cardboard and pressed the bolts into it in order that they attach. Make plenty of notes, you will forget somethings without them, no matter how carefull you think you are! Have fun!
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Jim, That's a great idea, trouble is I can't find the darn bags when I need them. Seems that I just hide things from my self.
John
jowilker
Club FTE since 01 01
66 F100s
In the still cool hours of the night,
you can hear chevys rusting away.
John
jowilker
Club FTE since 01 01
66 F100s
In the still cool hours of the night,
you can hear chevys rusting away.
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John,
I was not reading the big block forum... I just wanted to ask the question to see how others are doing off the frame resto's... I guesstimate that this project will take about 1 year to complete and get back on the street, by doing it myself... I will save alot of money and also have something that I can feel proud of when done.
Jim,
Excellent idea, I have used coffee cans in the past, but I don't have as much room as I used to, so baggies are a good idea. When I had the motor apart rebuilding the top end, I used the cardboard for the manifold, and head bolts... left the push rods on the inner fender well in the order that I took them off...
Have you thought about keeping the baggies in the kitchen cabinet and marking them for truck parts only??? that way the wife, girlfriend or significant other will not use them??
Just asking..
thanks for the input.. I appreciate it... keep it coming the more ideas I can get the better off and easier this will be when I start...
Strawberry
I was not reading the big block forum... I just wanted to ask the question to see how others are doing off the frame resto's... I guesstimate that this project will take about 1 year to complete and get back on the street, by doing it myself... I will save alot of money and also have something that I can feel proud of when done.
Jim,
Excellent idea, I have used coffee cans in the past, but I don't have as much room as I used to, so baggies are a good idea. When I had the motor apart rebuilding the top end, I used the cardboard for the manifold, and head bolts... left the push rods on the inner fender well in the order that I took them off...
Have you thought about keeping the baggies in the kitchen cabinet and marking them for truck parts only??? that way the wife, girlfriend or significant other will not use them??
Just asking..
thanks for the input.. I appreciate it... keep it coming the more ideas I can get the better off and easier this will be when I start...
Strawberry
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SB, baggies are a great idea. I used what seemed like boxes of the things on my restoration. Also, keep all the baggies together in a 5 gal. bucket or larger bag. A couple other ideas include pictures..and lots of them. But make sure you get them developed prior to teardown. I found out the hard way, after most of my pics came back blurry or overexposed due to flash. To store bolts and pushrods in order, take a piece of scrap 2x4 and drill the appropriate # of holes in it then label left and right bank as well as front of truck. Finally, take a lot of notes, especially in the areas you are not as familiar with, ie linkages, wiring, etc.
Good luck, it can be a lot of fun and definitely rewarding.
Jim
Good luck, it can be a lot of fun and definitely rewarding.
Jim
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Thanks for the help, I think I will check out the book.....
Derrick Percival AKA Strawberry
'71 F-100 Custom
If one takes the time to do something right the first time will not have to do it over a second.
Derrick Percival AKA Strawberry
'71 F-100 Custom
If one takes the time to do something right the first time will not have to do it over a second.
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Another tip for resto's-take pictures of everything and every step along the way! This way you will have a reference a year down the road. Plus, they look really cool in the scrap book when you don't need them anymore! I do this for just about any major project I take on, really has "saved" me from the "brain fade" thing quite a few times.
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Derrick, some on the bigblock forum was just talking about having his engine in the living room. :-)
John
jowilker
Club FTE since 01 01
66 F100s
In the still cool hours of the night,
you can hear chevys rusting away.
John
jowilker
Club FTE since 01 01
66 F100s
In the still cool hours of the night,
you can hear chevys rusting away.
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A Cadillac restorer showed on his website how he did it a little differently. He restored/rebuilt/replaced every single component as he removed it, one at a time, no matter how small, and bagged each one before he allowed himself to remove anything else. Then, when assembly time came, every single part was ready and his shop was spotless. I only wish I had the self discipline to follow his example....
Eric
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I hate those people Eric, don't you? Mans got to have a little clutter, to have that used look. ;-)
John
jowilker
Club FTE since 01 01
66 F100s
In the still cool hours of the night,
you can hear chevys rusting away.
John
jowilker
Club FTE since 01 01
66 F100s
In the still cool hours of the night,
you can hear chevys rusting away.
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From: Montgomery USA
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John,
I just think that if the wife will let me put the motor in the living room, that would be great. Get a piece of plywood and make a coffee-table out of it for the time being... But, I don't think that would fly with her. I have got a couple of places I can store my larger parts and was thinking about renting a storage shed to put parts in.
Eric,
That was my plan... to take a part off, clean it, paint it and sit it on the shelf. This will make it easier to keep some parts in my spare bedroom and the wife won't get mad about having dirty greasy parts on the carpet.
I will check out the bigblock forum to see what is up there.
thanks and keep them comin....
Derrick Percival AKA Strawberry
'71 F-100 Custom
If one takes the time to do something right the first time will not have to do it over a second.
I just think that if the wife will let me put the motor in the living room, that would be great. Get a piece of plywood and make a coffee-table out of it for the time being... But, I don't think that would fly with her. I have got a couple of places I can store my larger parts and was thinking about renting a storage shed to put parts in.
Eric,
That was my plan... to take a part off, clean it, paint it and sit it on the shelf. This will make it easier to keep some parts in my spare bedroom and the wife won't get mad about having dirty greasy parts on the carpet.
I will check out the bigblock forum to see what is up there.
thanks and keep them comin....
Derrick Percival AKA Strawberry
'71 F-100 Custom
If one takes the time to do something right the first time will not have to do it over a second.