1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes

[lower50's]

Friday may not be long enough to get all that done, but wow you did do a lot. Funny when your at work fridays take forever to end, at home never long enough. Block looks good.

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by kehstr

Glad to hear you have been able to work on it! Does your third brake light happen to be a kit or is it something that you made?

It's just 2 red LED mini lights for semi trailers. I ground a flat spot on each light, drilled 2 holes in my cargo lamp housing opposite of the cargo light, and epoxied the LED lights into the cargo lamp housing. I'll have to look and see if I still have any pictures of it. It was dirt cheap and didn't take all that long to do. My AAW harness has a 3rd brake light wire in the harness which made it easy to hook up.

**On edit, I found the pics of it.**

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by lower50's

Friday may not be long enough to get all that done, but wow you did do a lot. Funny when your at work fridays take forever to end, at home never long enough. Block looks good.

Very true on the Fridays at work! I had no kids and the wife was at some friend's house so I had no interruptions except for myself. It was kind of weird to be at home on a Friday by myself actually working on my stuff.

[watahyahknow]

prolly could solder sumtin together using protoboard and some wiring if those led light things dont fit the housing


seen people break stock fittings of lightbulbs and soder a bleu led with a resistor in series to that

[Dieselwrencher]

I haven't had any time to touch the truck the rest of this week. Today my sons were out with me and were wanting to help out. So I gave them their new flash lights. Then I look out and see both of them under the longhorn. Then the youngest comes in the garage and asks for some paper towels. he wanted to clean under the truck. I said have at it! It looks like I have 2 truck nuts for sure.

[1985-GMC]

Haha awesome, you know you're doing a great job!

[mcbassin]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

I haven't had any time to touch the truck the rest of this week. Today my sons were out with me and were wanting to help out. So I gave them their new flash lights. Then I look out and see both of them under the longhorn. Then the youngest comes in the garage and asks for some paper towels. he wanted to clean under the truck. I said have at it! It looks like I have 2 truck nuts for sure.

Freakin cool!

[7dee2]

That's quite the crew!

[lower50's]

They will probably end up with more dirt on them than the paper towels but they will love it.

[COS399]

I hope they don't decide to change the oil without telling you. Glad to see them showing interest in vehicles and what you do. Keep up the great work.

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by mcbassin

Freakin cool!

Originally Posted by 1985-GMC

Haha awesome, you know you're doing a great job!

Originally Posted by 7dee2

That's quite the crew!

Thanks guys. It's pretty crazy how early they are wanting to tear into stuff. IMO.

Originally Posted by lower50's

They will probably end up with more dirt on them than the paper towels but they will love it.

For sure and the only one upset about it might be dear mom.

Originally Posted by COS399

I hope they don't decide to change the oil without telling you. Glad to see them showing interest in vehicles and what you do. Keep up the great work.

For real. They already know how to get the drawers open on my tool box so I have to keep a close eye on them.

[Dieselwrencher]

No new progress on the truck. It has a battery drain issue now and I'm pretty sure I know what the issue is. I noticed after I reinstalled my rh inner fender that my external voltage regulator was very warm. I didn't think anything of it until after I found the batteries dead. Apparently if you unhook the ground wire and apply power to this type of VR, you will short it out and it will draw power. Oops. Hopefully it didn't hurt the alternator. I have a new VR I need to get installed on it and charge the batteries before it freezes and ruins the batteries. I might have to do this tonight.

I haven't had time to work on it because I've been rebuilding an engine for a board member. I'm really close on it now. I'm waiting for the injectors to be finished, and I hope to fire it off on Friday. Then deliver it Sunday and pick up another head ache. I mean project.

[lower50's]

MMM nice 12V

[Dieselwrencher]

I got enough done on it that I have been driving it some. The trans controller has to be sent back and reprogrammed. For some strange reason at slow speeds, the controller says it's seeing 50-67mph wheel speed when the gps says 10-15mph and tries to lock the torque converter. Not cool. I took it off and installed some toggles switches. I still have plenty to do to it but I have too much other work to do too.

[mcbassin]

Nice looking engine Ryan!
I have a little 3 cylinder Long tractor engine you can rebuild next

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by mcbassin

Nice looking engine Ryan!
I have a little 3 cylinder Long tractor engine you can rebuild next

Send it up with a camaro.

I have a 24v 5.9 I'm doing now, then a 7.3PSD. Been a crazy year.

[Dieselwrencher]

I've been daily driving this for a week now. I've put 500 miles on it and it is getting 16.8-17.5mpg. No real issues so far. The lower coolant tube was leaking Monday, and I have a weird thing going on with the RH turn indicator on the DD cluster. I'm not sure if it is the flasher or what yet. It runs really good. I had a Dodge that wanted to play last Friday but he didn't have enough. This truck will be a ticket getter. I need to get the cruise control put on it. Here are some pics of it from this past weekend.

[mcbassin]

Killer pictures Ryan! your truck looks right at home on the farm.
thanks for sharing

[coopdog]

killer shots ryan , truck looks really good,

[lower50's]

Love the pic's.

[Dieselwrencher]

Thanks guys. I've been using it as a truck lately too. Hauling a new to me cabinet, scrap, and even a 7.3 psd block. no, it wasn't scrap! I hauled 10 mounted semi wheels and tires too. Those were work putting in the bed.

[1985-GMC]

Man this thing is sweet, nice pictures!

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by 1985-GMC

Man this thing is sweet, nice pictures!

Thanks. How's your project coming?

Here's a pic of the 24v I'm building now. It is a beast. Colt Stage 4 cam, ported and polished head, ARP rod bolts, and head studs, 160hp tuned P-pump with a 4k kit, 7x.010 injectors, and a pusher intake. When the owner can swing a better turbo, it'll be an animal.

I finally got around to installing my license plate lights. I'm satisfied with these other than the wires are ultra thin. You have to be real careful hooking them up. I got them from LMC if you're looking for some.

[lower50's]

Nice lights! The LED light I used had like a 32 gage wire I don't even think there was 2 strands, they could use slightly stronger wire.

[7dee2]

Kool B&W's Ryan!