Technical What are you working on?

You need glasses Charles.... Steve's 55 is in the background

 

I got 4 eyes and still didn't see it! But I do now.

 

Working on a PS pump mount

rough cut for now. If it works out we’ll clean it up and add a brace to the 2 holes next to the timing cover
Bracket was a SWP bbc ps mount (I think) that was in my junk pile.
Will fab/modify an adjuster brace
Replacing a 350 so the alt is already on the passenger side. So thinking about mounting the alt on the that side of the block

made a simple bracket that mounts to 3 of the 4 bosses on the head. Uses the original alt mount.
Need to fab the upper adjuster bracket. The hoses clear but the upper heater hose will be tight

 

Anthony, have you seen the factory set up that mounts the ps pump above the alternator?

 

Yep.
Hard to find
There’s an aftermarket set up that looks good.
In the $150 range.
Got less than an hour and $20 in this
This stuff is fun to mess with

 

Yeah , it's not like mid 70s nova and Camaro 6 cylinder cars are laying around like they used to be...

 

The 250 stuff would need modified. The 292 block is a good bit taller.
But I’ve only seen one PS set up on a gm 6 in the scrap yard in the past 10 years.

 

Nice and clean, James! I'm still so thankful for your help during my rebuild of the AOD. It's taken me a while to get it installed along with the 351W, but I'm closing in on hooking up stuff, wiring it up over the winter and then a start up, running in and adjusting the transmission this spring. Keep us posted on your run in.

 

I put out the word that I was looking for a cab to replace the one on my 48 that just has too many issues to deal with so I can put my truck back together and a local rodder gave me this one. It's real solid but I'll have a number of farm truck dings to deal with and get plenty of dent removal practice. Kind of back to my roots when I first put the 48 together to go to the 73 street rod nationals.

 

PS bracket mocked up. Might wait to finish when I get the engine in the truck

 

Finally got this one buttoned up short of needing a new pan.

 

Still thrashing on the floor of my 62 Biscayne

 

Got it all figured out.
A couple adel clamps on the fuel line and paint the air cleaner and mounts we built

 

I just finished replacing all my fluorescent lights with 55,000 lumens of LED lights

 

Decided to use original gauge opening and fit the gauges..Now the speedo opening is next..

 

pulled some parts out of the corners and tried to make a plan.
this is more of a distraction than actual progress, but maybe one day it'll make some noise.

 

also just sent off the first Hurst style mounts for the '49-'63 Cadillac engines.
now I've got early Olds, Chrysler hemi and the Cad mounts

 

Pontiac is getting closer, I used some aluminum cleaner on the valve covers but I think I need to get some glass bead for the sand blaster.

 

Makes a huge difference doesn't it? HRP

 

Rough grille setup. Now the front matches the back. Kinda.

 

Yes it does. we will probably never drop anything because we can see where it goes

 

I got out the aftermarket cross sills for the 57 p/u to compare to the originals which have a couple pinholes, of course there were only 2 of the 8 metal pads that stop the sills from spreading.



And of course the new ones are wider than the originals so I couldn't rob those, but I had some 16 guage to make some.



Tomorrow the bed goes back on for some tire clearance measuring

 

Time to build an engine!

 

Went to town to revisit this project, the plan was to get the rear end mounted back under the car and ran short on 2 bolt's for the upper trailing arms. We had added the 4th upper arm and just didn't cover that base.

 

do you have smokey looking over your shoulder?-sinister!

 

No I was the only one in charge on the gig.

 

Getting there.

 

I've been playing with this for the last year or so.

 

Using my lunch break to work on Pontiac valve covers

 

Updating my HF Sand Blaster with a Tacoma kit..