Bringing Home the Six Fo!

[LILRED66]

Good luck with the project and the trip...let us know how things progress.

[Frizzle Fry]

Well it went pretty smooth. Bill and I did a little tune up (batt, coil, air filter, fuel filter, misc stuff), got an oil change and car wash.
Here she is after a bath and ready to go:




From the records he kept I can see that he put only 1147 miles on it between 05/02/02 and 06/12/08.

2008 technology in a 1964 rig (more for estimated arrival time than anything else):


I did run into a stressful period when the truck started pinging. It progressively got worse and worse and the temp was climbing. I was modulating the throttle to keep it out of pre-det conditions, but that throttle position was creeping lower and lower and thus my speed (especially up hills...).

Then part of the exhaust gasket blew out and scared the crap outa me (thinking I'm screwed). After investigating and finding the exhaust leak I was extremely relieved (I can live with an exhaust leak), but the pinging seem to get much louder after that.

I had one of those why-didn't-I-do-this-earlier moments after I did a little road side timing adjustment and it made a world of difference. I stopped again a retarded it a little more after which it ran unbelievably well. I guess this truck had been set too advanced for the past 30 years because it has always had a tendency to ping under "lugging" conditions. Now it won't ping even if you floor it in 4th up a hill.

Here's where I stopped for the first timing adjustment:

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The rest is photo-journal style:

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I was on the road at 6:00AM and made it home by 1:00PM. With the time change that's 8hrs door-to-door. Not bad considering I made 6 stops (3 gas, 1 exhaust blow-out, 2 timing adjustments).

[Tim64]

Wow! What a cool trip. Beautiful country out there. What drivetrain set-up do you have in there. I saw you were able to run75mph. Were the rpm's real high, or maybe you have an overdrive tranny? Thanks again for those cool pics.
Tim

[TimE]

Looks like it was a beautiful drive in a cool old truck. Glad to hear you only had minor troubles.

[Frizzle Fry]

It's just the stock 230/granny-box. The rear ratio seems pretty high (numerically low). Not sure exactly what it is, but I got close to 90 at one point (eased off when I noticed). No tach so I couldn't tell you what it was spinning.

[tommyd241]

Looks like a fun road trip. Very nice pictures.

[62 short step]

Awesome pics!! Glad you had a safe and fun trip!!

[scotts62]

Cool, nice pics! Man i thought gas was getting bad here, OUCH! we'll be up there in that price range probably tomorrow . right now here in OKC its $3.79. Good to see you had a good trip home.

[Cohnny Jash]

Be a u tiful..........just moved back to Texas after living in P-Town for 8 years. Recognized quite a few of your shots. Especially the ones coming down 84 and then getting close to the Columbia and then the next thing you know is seeing Mt. Hood in all of her glory.

That had to be quite an exhilarating ride coming down the mountains in a classic.

Right on brother and good luck with the truck.

[greg64]

Great set of photos, Mike. Glad you made it home okay. I know what you mean about those "duh!" moments where all of the sudden you realize "hey, there is a way to fix this right now". Any idea what kind of mileage you got? It seems to always be a question around here. 75MPH for an old 230 sounds pretty good to me, but it must have really been spinning at that speed.

[Frizzle Fry]

I was a gorgeous drive. It really didn't sound too bad at that speed. I tried to keep it around 80 most of the time (80 was really 75 according to the GPS - shorter tires than stock) and it seemed pretty happy at that speed (after fixing the timing). I was pretty disappointed with the MPG's I was getting--around 10.5 But I'm sure the timing had a part in that and after fixing the timing it was due to a blown head gasket!

Yep, replaced the intake/exhaust gasket yesterday and it was still puffing from the side of the #6 piston. Pulled the manifolds back off and had my GF crank it while I felt for the leak.

...luckily there doesn't seem to be any coolant loss, just a compression leak on that cylinder. Guess I'll be doing a head gasket next weekend... Then I'll see what kind of mileage I get. I'm curious to see how she runs with the correct timing and full compression because it was pullin pretty hard for having a blown head gasket

[joe231]

love the pics
glad you made it safely!!

[Frizzle Fry]

Quick update on this truck. I did a head gasket and have been driving her 2-3x/week ever since. It runs great.

...and here are some pics of the custom trim/sails my son and I added:

[62 short step]

Looks good, I was wondering what happened to this thread.

[joe231]

cool man!!!

[slepysal]

Originally Posted by salazar44

LONG... and LOW!!!

Aint nothing wrong with that !!

[Frizzle Fry]

Originally Posted by slepysal

Aint nothing wrong with that !!

This one will be short and low ...eventually

[protrash64]

I never saw this thread originally....cool pics. I like the one with the dash showing 75mph on the speedo.

[Jvsapp]

looks good FF, keep it a long bed

here's a rendering from eye kandy designs
http://www.eyekandydesigns.com/rende..._1965_C-10.jpg
http://www.eyekandydesigns.com/rende...962_Pickup.jpg
http://www.eyekandydesigns.com/rende...s_1965_C10.jpg

BTW is that custom piece from LMC? i think i saw them and was wondering how the fit was on them.

[jason65]

The pics with the beautiful landscape out over the hood were awsome. I agree with Jvsapp. Keep it a shlong bed.

[l79m20]

Sounds as if you had a really good drive, makes you wish everything was that satifying. Get some old steel wheels and hubcaps on her and she will look super, not to mention you'll see her original beauty and keep her a long box!!!!..................Well done...Kirby