Projects 1957 2 door 150 handyman

Just NO ONE you guys be wearing those "Daisy Dukes"; my eyes, my eyes!!! I've seen several different ways guys use to connect "mismatching" steering column parts in the Tri-Fives, anything from welding, to cross bolts, to the reinforced rubber flex coupler (name slips my mind at the moment); RAG JOINT!!!!! It just came to me in a flash of light and burning lava. I am Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

Ok there was a post somewhere that i bragged about my $20 sending unit. I officially want to withdraw that. Steering box done, figured i better see what's up with the gauge. Checked with the ohm meter, nothing. Jacked up the car, drained the tank below the sending unit, pull it, and the cover with the rheostat in it was about halfway off. Plus the float was full of gas fixed the cover and crimped the tabs good, but the float has a crack in it. Guess it's a trip to the parts house to dig around.

 

^^^^^ Fishing/General Store

 

I've got some corks from a 37 Chevy sending unit laying here, but they're pretty rough looking.

 

You wanna know the funny part? I bought the new sending unit, and it had a plastic float. I threw that sucker in the trash and used the brass float from the original unit. Freaking genius i tell ya. Wiley P. Coyote, super genius time will tell, but i took the cork float that was laying on the bench, and stuck it in there, it's working now. I'm probably just gonna order a new sending unit from classic industries. Play with old cars they said, it'll be fun they said

 

I’ve soldered cracks in some pretty rough looking brass floats before


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I thought about it, but when i squeezed it there was a shit ton of cracks. Looks like it had water in it and froze kinda stuff.

 

I stuck a tach on the dash

 

How are your seats coming?[emoji23]

Oh yea....that’s right.....


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What a dickhead

 

Hell yeah! That's Jack picking it

 

But you forgot to remove the column shifter!

 

Why would i remove what i worked hard to have? Get me one of those traditional ratchet floor shifters things

 

This worked for me in 1970 in my 57.

 

Wasn’t there a lot of 4 speed talk recently?

 

Yep, no manual going in this car, the 4 speed is going in the El Camino gasser.

 

Yep, jes gettin' the ol' 5 string tunered up...I'll be moseying on down as soon as Ma finds my dadgum teeth

 

Nice try Jack, but i think he was thinking more like "Deliverance" banjo kid !
Lol!

 

Lloyd,I'd like to be involved when ya test that steering shaft... Sounds like a good time!

 

Deliverance 1972

49 years later...mountain life is hard...I didn't age all that well

 

Ahh! Of course! My mistake, i can see the close set eyes!

 

Too much green? I think i like this.

 

Can’t go wrong with green


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That's new dodge "green with envy", wasn't sure until the photoshop rendition, but i can handle it i believe.

 

I may be biased...but I like it!


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Richard Rawlings likes green, a lot! Personally, I think the car would look better raised up a little. And nobody has said anything about your sign, or maybe I missed it, but that'll get you a few points with the boss. So green it is?
I am Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

Yeah, like Butch said, neat trick with the billboard.
Paint the car like that and you can call it Evil Green!

 

Emerald green is one of my favorites..

 

No one can say they didn't see you, I'm a fan of GREEN. HRP