Technical What are you working on?

Harvested another 6. A 250 this time. Ran good
Another future something engine. Should be my 4th or 5th sm420. So I guess I’m good for parts for the flatbed.

Got the spindles on the wife’s 56

 

I think your new handle should be something like "6 popper Tony"

 

Should we tell him that Chevrolet has been building V-8's since 1955.

 

6 in a row Antonio.

 

****. I got 9 or 10 of em laying around in the shop.

 

Putting -66 T-Bird seats in my -48, using reclining p***enger seats for booth sides

 

putting the dash together on my 38 dodge coupe' . Still working on the glove box. Might strip it and start over .

 

Went up to my buddy's shop to lend a hand installing his new set of headers. He had sent them off to be Jet Hot coated.

 

Had an intermittent strange "ding-ding-ding" noise coming from the bell housing on my '53 pickup 235 with a "stomp" starter, swapped it out for a later solenoid starter, noise gone! It looks like the pinion gear would ride along the output shaft a little way and hit the tooth on the ring gear, which would push it back for a little while.

 

Had the same issue lately with a 54 and it turned out to be a weak return spring on the starter solenoid causing the drive to bounce off the teeth of the flywheel.
What starter did you use to in the retrofit?

 

It came from a '54 sedan as well. The original starter was the foot start type. At least now I can start it from the engine bay with a jump switch.

 

Smoking some cheese today.

 

Man oh man does that look good!

 

James,

You gotta get your roof over that soon. If you need an extra hand give me a call.

 

Was it the salt or the black that melted the snow off the shaker

 

For sure Mike. Spring time will be here soon.

 

Norb, we finally the temp got above freezing.

 

Got the gears set up in the 12 bolt tonight

 

So Johnny what would that look like if it was a Dana 60

 

My backordered parts arrived so I spent the afternoon painting the new crossmember and then drilling out 24 spot welds.



Got a pile of patina I can throw on the new paint to disguise it lol

 

More all thread.

 

Also big arms and a strong back!

 

Head liner last week, door panels this week. Both have been hard on my old knees.

 

Looks great!!

 

Little Truckdoctor and I finished the exhaust on Papaw today. Nothing fancy, manifolds and 2” pipe with Cherry Bomb Turbo mufflers. I have never been very good at welding exhaust pipes with a MiG welder. I usually ended up with more holes, lots of cursing and welding it together with a Torch and welding rod. (Traditional?) Little Truckdoctor came over, looked at what I was doing, fetched his gloves and Mask, and went to town. Amazing. He had maybe 3 small holes which he quickly fixed and I’m just tickled ****less. I know who is doing the sheet metal work on our next project! The exhaust sounds great, and now on to the front brakes and master cylinder!

 

Worked on modifying a set of fenderwell headers to fit Bob's Lark.

 

Working on eliminating rust. At least as much as is possible.





And making some Progress.

 

My best Sanford and Son imitation