Technical What are you working on?

Like making a gravy sammich out of stucco bathtub?

 

good thing you are as well!

 

Yesterday while I was giving the rear fenders a comet bath in the backyard my neighbor comes over. Goes in the garage then yells out the door "are you going to do that speckled stuff the rest of the way up the sides ?" I say no, that's it.
He's in the doorway with a confused look then goes back in, comes out and says "I thought you put in replacement panels in the black, but why didn't you just finish the bedsides ?"
You're not the only one wondering lol

 

Payed a visit to the 62 Biscayne project. Did get all the rear suspension bolts tightened and the new brake line ran to the rear. Pulled the mockup transmission out and discovered I had forgotten the rear cam plug has not been installed in the engine.

 

That would've been a mess

 

I must have been a smart man not putting the flywheel on when it was mocked up.

 

Good catch!!

 

very cool, I see a couple rare Eelco fittings on the front carbs
curious what jets you end up with
ifrc my BBC setup worked best with 10 sizes larger than stock on the big 2GCs
worst mpg but best seat of the pants power setup I ran on my big block
better than low rise 2x4, cross ram 2x4, bread box 2x4 or tunnel 2x4
plus they just look so cool

 

they say memory is the first thing to go..
must have been 10 under then..

mine for what it's worth, twenty plus years ago, no wonder my recollection is dim..
I must have been checking plugs, the wires are not attached

 

Paul
You didn't mention that copper fuel line, I would have but I didn't want Mark to think less of me.

 

If I may be so bold........
Zip Products has various Chevy (OEM) pump to carb line kits in both chrome and SS, some slight modifications but with your skills, eezy peezy.
I do see they have become a bit pricey since I last inquired.

 

Mostly done with a door skin on the 39 pu. Gotta add a welding rod edge to a cpl spots but im pleased with it.

 

I’ve been lucky. NAPA is the only drive to parts store to get it. Then again, it’s been a year since I last bought some.

 

Still completing assembly on the 55 gasser.

Hope to start on bodywork in the next couple weeks

 

Learning facts just in time versus learning too late. I specialize in the latter but once in awhile relieved to find out critical things just in time.

 

Kinda wondered why I never primed the oil pump on this one. This project has been a very slow build as it isn't the owners main priority so visits can be spread out for a spell.

 

...As he picked up his hammer and saw ...

 

Not trying to be a smartass, but doesn't that bar that runs from the left side of the rearend to the right side of the frame bind up in a turn?

 

doesn't the up and down at the heim take care of that

 

It would also have to pivot at the connecting point on the rear end to not bind a little

 

I was starting to wonder about binding myself, but then I saw that this is a Gasser.

 

i can't quite picture it for some reason-thought that the swing at one end and up down at other would do all the twisting

 

The suspension still has to work even in a gasser!

 

looks like a heim at both ends to me
and heavy ones at that.

 

My 81 year old eyes aren't seeing a heim joint on the end connected to the rear end

 

Does this help?

 

Would think it would work better if heim joints were parallel