Hello all,

It's been a while since my last post but I just wanted to brag a little more about my old girl LOL. I went to a car/truck show here in Charleston last weekend and I took home 1st place in the show. I can't believe it and the more of these shows I go to the more addicted to it I get it seems, what a great hobby I've stumbled on. It's a great feeling to have someone come up to your truck and talk about how there dad had one of these when they were a kid or how they had one when they were younger and stuff like that. I feel that by seeing the old cars and trucks it's like a time machine for some people that takes them back to an earlier time in life maybe a happier time for them and they get a sense of happines out of seeing these cars and trucks. Anyway that's my take on the whole thing also on another note can anyone tell me if I wanted to drain my rearend and change the gear oil out how would I go about doing that. I have never done it and I don't want to do anything to mess it up Thanks.

 

I wondered the same thing on the rear end. I assume you need a pump to remove the old oil and fill it. No drain on my 9"

As to winning 1rst place. Thats fantastic, I'm a bit stumped/ as the truck is not original, nice but not original. It is a great candidate for getting back to original. Way better than mine!!

 

Can be done in a couple hours, I would pull the axles, and remove the center chunk so you could wipe it out. Bolt it back up put in new axle seals, and I believe about 3.5 pints of fluid will get you rolling again.


John

 

thats great... i feel the same way about car shows being a time machine... but i dont know the times from when my truck was built... but its still alot of fun to go look at raw american V-8 power... and smell the exahust at the end of day of a REAL car or truck... sad thing was... the show and shine i was at yesterday, i only saw 2 or 3 f-100 and they where all later years more of a 64 or 65... and couldnt see the motors on any of them to see what they where replaced with or if they where built... and none of the owners around for me to talk to them about stuff on the trucks...

ehh i guess i just have to get mine to a couple of shows and stick around the truck... the cool thing is... 60s and 70s cars and trucks are about all i know... a few 50s and olders... but all i remember having growing up... is american cars from the 60s or 70s... with a few VWs....

but really car shows are the coolest places to go on a weekend.... theres alot of people that dont know crap about cars... so we can sit there and make fun of em... like there was a chev. with gull wing doors, and the motor in the bed of the truck, and there was a guy there, calling them suicide doors... and was trying to figure out how the truck worked because the motor was right on top of the rear axle... one guy sudjested, that the motor in the bed was just a show motor... and the normal 4 cylender was under the hood[what 4 bangers where put in any FULL size trucks] then dad asks jokingly where do you put the wood at in this one?? and some guy gose in there and points to the fuel cell... then... one of the guys standing around, gose and crawls underneeth the truck and gose "all i can tell is they moved the oil box from right here to right here" [basically saying they moved it from the motor to the tranny] yea... i dont know what a oil box is... but if he was talking about the umm oil pan... he didnt move it... theres a oil pan on the motor and the tranny....

later talking to the owner of this really really nice custom chevy truck... he said it is a v-drive system, much like they use on speed boats....

then the same kids sort of fallowed us up the street... and called a chevy motor a ford flat head motor... despite the fact it had chev valvue covers... then the next car... he called a 305/350/383/400 sbc a 454 big block.... yea... i like to laugh at people that are car illiterate haha[why did i write all of this...]

 

Why must it be original to win?

 

It doesn't, isn't that obvious from his statement? The fact that "I'm surprised" by it is a whole other thing (period). "If I was judging" at a car/truck show, lifted the hood on a 66 slick and there was a paper element breather instead of a oil bath (without the engine being obviously BUILT-after market everything)and some of the others things I noticed. There would have to equally discouraging things on the other vehicles for that one to win. Which it would seem is exactly the case here. So he won. I look forward to the day I can be allowed to park mine at the stadium where the show is held LOL