King Of Trucks Chapter Three...Serious Bidness...

Yes. Yes you can.

Thanks Kevin!



Now JJ, where's those pics???

 

Damned goodie gum drops! Look at the firewall. Real subtle stripes. Clean! Your my friend!

 

Inner fenders are done the same way. Clean and subtle. With a pink engine, who needs in your face over the top striping?

 

Great build. I hope to get a chance to see it someday.

 

Ah, a resident of the town of my birth. A claim we both share with Ava Gardner. You are welcome down here any time my friend. Just do me a favor and bring some brunswick stew. They don't know how to make it this far west.

We (the Iron Lords) are having a little party the Friday of Goodguys. If you're coming for the show, be sure to come by for the party!

 

Nice "Pork" touch there, Ferggie! Lookin' GOOOOOODDDD!

 

Terd no one cares....


I mean Mr. Ferguson next time i see you I am giving you a kiss...

 

Being from back East, you know what kind of good barbecue is on every corner almost. And I LOVES my barbecue. I grew up on pig pickin's. Its definitely different out here. Its close to being really good, but not every item. Like one place has awesome barbecue but the hush puppies or red slaw or sauce or brunswick stew or banana puddin ****. I can't find the perfect barbecue meal, lol. 150 miles away is like a whole other world. You know what I'm talking about.

Well then, I hope you're coming to the Goodguys party.

 

I'm with you on the BBQ, but I was talkin'bout the 'stripes!

Come out my way and I'll treat you to some "B's Barbeque".......best in the land!

 

Banana pudding?!?!? I didnt realize you were six years old.

 

Banana pudding is the ****!

 

Good news bad news kind of day today. Good news first. I had to cut a little floor out to mount the shifter cable on the shifter. So I did that and got that cable mounted. I had clearance issues with the Eelco valley pan and the distributor. So I had to pull the intake and valley pan off. Did that as well. I had to grind about 1/8" off of the valley pan next to where the distibutor sits. Well I did that and the fit is now good. Also got the valley pan and intake back on.

I got the Lokar throttle cable attached to the carb. Then I could no longer stand up straight.

The bad news is I've been fighting my knee all day. I twisted it spotting my daughter doing back handsprings for cheerleading last night. Its retarded how little I twisted and how I didn't even notice at the time. But its ****ed up pretty bad. At least it hurts like its ****ed up pretty bad. And I'm pretty used to constant nagging pain. When I woke up with it hurting this morning, I thought it was my rheumatism and that if I moved around it would get better. Wrong. Much worse.

And I am pretty sure I'm getting the pneumonia my wife had earlier in the week. So I've got that going for me. Wrong ****ing time for both of those problems. I am literally soooo close to starting this thing up.



Let me give you a little more good news/bad news. That Lokar setup is slick. I mean its really nice. Its totally wrong aesthetically but so right for ease of installation and adjustment. Examining it and mocking it up while I could still stand removed any questions, headaches and hesitations I had worrying about using solid linkage. And don't get me wrong about the looks, it is very slick and nicely constructed and nicely finished and does look really nice, just not 1959 period correct looking. I'm still fighting the looks compromise in my head. But as easy and nice as its going to be working wise is helping me get over that.

Now a little more *****ing. About that Eelco valley pan that is. Everything about that piece of ****e has been wrong. The bolt holes wouldn't line up due to the stock temp sender in the rear of the block. Too much material back there on the valley pan. Then the same thing with the area on the valley pan around the distributor. I would've saved a bunch of headaches chroming the stock valley pan. Live and learn.

If you don't care about period correct looks, I would wholeheartedly recommend the Lokar cables. But not the Eelco valley pan.

 

I do need to get out that way. My grandmother moved back to Greenville to be closer to her sisters after my grandfather p***ed. You can show me what B's has to offer!

Dude!!! You're from California, you have no ****ing idea how good real banana pudding is. I'm not talking about Jello pudding. I'm tlalking about fresh bananas and nilla wafers. It is a true Southern delicacy. You get you some of that and you'll be like a crackhead.

You know what I'm talking about!

 

Muttley,

If you put REAL nanner puddin on the top of your head, your tongue will beat your brains out trying to get to it!

It's THAT good!

Kevin,

I did the same thing (or at least it sounds like it) several years ago moving boxes in my workshop. Ended up having surgery to repair a torn meniscus (don't bust me on my spellin').

Hope you don't, but just be prepared.

 

I don't even want to think about any of that. I've been icing it on and off and its helped some.

 

Terd-I used the same linkage on my old truck-It works great. Some of the **** you buy you think is good but it ain't worth 2 cents, but I'll guaurantee you good nanner puddin can't be beat.
Later,
****

 

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I was a little worried before I got it in my hands to look at it. There can be a large gap in quality with cable setups. I've seen some cheap sketchy looking stuff, including cheap OEM type setups. I talked to 1959 Apache on here that used the Lokar cables and he said he was quite happy. When I actually got that Lokar stuff in my hands, I knew I had some nice stuff.

They're a little more expensive than other makes or generic setups, but in my opinion, that extra money is very well spent. They include great easy to follow instructions. All of the hardware is total QUALITY. They are engineered smartly for ease of installation and ease of actual use along with infinite adjsutability.

I was so impressed with the quality of these cables that if they made a shifter application for my trans, I would buy one now even though I've cobbled together a pretty decent setup already.

Thanks for the input ****!!!

 

See now all this talk of banana pudding and BBQ, I know what I'm doing for lunch tomorrow. The big decision is going to be which place... I'm surrounded by the good stuff.

 

HAHAHA, screw the banana pudding, it takes up valuable space in your stomach that could be used for more BBQ.

 

There's some good spots in Raleigh too. That's for sure. I was born in Smithfield, but I lived in Raleigh from 2 to 13. My grandparents lived on Chatham Lane off of New Bern Ave. since the 50s til year before last. I spent A LOT of time over the years in Raleigh.

 

Hey Terd, What ****** are you using? And also column or floor mounted shifter? I think I used Lokar linkage from the column to the ****** and it was so simple to hook up and totally adjustable. Never had any problem with it. I used a GM column and a 700 R ******.
Later,
****

 

Dude, the banana puddin is a necessity. It has pectin in it that keeps you from having E.D. (and I'm not talking about your weiner) from all that vinegar in the barbecue. And everybody knows all real barbecue sauce is vinegar based. Besides that, and like Brett said, if you put it on top of your head, your tongue would beat you to death to get to it.

 

T.C.B

 

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I'm using the stock Cadillac dual coupling hydramatic. I took out the manual column shifter the truck had and installed a floor shifter from a '60 Oldsmobile. The stock Olds cable was too short so I used a Hurst cable that was easy to find when I needed it. I would've bought a Lokar for that if I had known how good they were, lol.

 

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Winner winner, chicken dinner!

Awesome photo!

 

That is awesome! Thanks so much!!!

 

Vinegar based for sure. I feel sorry for anyone who thinks otherwise. I grew up in Kenly and we took frequent trips to Wilson and Goldsboro for awesome barbecue.If I can ever make it out that way I'll be sure to bring you some and some brunswick stew too.

I'm fiending for some collards. At work we keep trying to explain to a couple dudes from the far north(upstate NY and Minnesota) how great collards are.

Man I'm hungry.

 

It looks like the clearance issue is solved. What did you do?

 

If you like collards, have I got the place for you! The most awesome restaurant in Concord is called Avenues. Its all down home type cooking and there is nothing bad on the entire menu. Chicken and dumplins, fried pork chops that'll make you slap your momma, baked mac & cheese, fried catfish, yams, fried okra, man I could go on and on...

Now I'm hungry. And Avenues is closed. Thanks a lot! Hahaha!!!

Well, first off, Jeremy's pieces were too tall. My pieces were not tall enough and not short enough at the same time. They were the same height as the fuel inlets. They also had a smaller shaft. So Jeremy made a 3/8" collar with a set screw (the size of the carbs' throttle shaft) with a flat step down with a smaller post that fit into the store bought linkage's hole. This brought the entire linkage down a little to clear the fuel lines when in motion as well as solved the throttle shafts' fitment issue.

I'm telling you, he's a genius. We couldn't exactly drill the store bought linkage holes for a larger throttle shaft as there wasn't really enough material. And it still would've been at just the wrong height.

 

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