What did you do to your truck today?

[kieth]

Started working on the cab top and bottom of floor, rust is not too bad.......stuck the black bed wood in the bed just to see how it was going to look.....Kieth

http://kieth.smugmug.com/Trucks/66-G...56429338_SNvTB

[kieth]

took the heater core off and started to clean it out.......hmm do you think this is why the heater did not work ??

http://kieth.smugmug.com/Trucks/66-G...56508564_UKF6o

[protrash64]

Originally Posted by kieth

took the heater core off and started to clean it out.......hmm do you think this is why the heater did not work ??

http://kieth.smugmug.com/Trucks/66-G...56508564_UKF6o

.....looks like you cleaned your yard with it!!!

[Clyde65]

naaaahhhhh, looks clean to me!

[gimmy 64]

Lokar 23 inch shifter, mooneyes steering wheel

[CHUNK1962]

Blew out the left front wheel cylinder and creeped it home with no brakes.

[markeb01]

Welcome to the forum. The good news being you made it home.

[lonestarluck]

I bought my truck back from a friend today after trading it to him for a '72 Harley project about a year ago. It's in a million pieces but it's actually in better shape than when I traded it! haha

[markeb01]

Fabricated and installed brackets moving the fog lights 1 ¾” forward and down ½”. They had been mounted on top of the bumper, nearly in contact with the G & C grille letters. This blocked the view of the letters and made it difficult to clean the letters and the lamps. The new position also makes the lamps look more “important”. The brackets also permanently align the elevation, allowing deletion of the adjusting swivels. To properly align now all they need is left to right positioning. The best part was the project only cost $1.68 for some new nuts and bolts.

Here are a few before and after shots:

Before



After



Before



After

[jbgroby]

Just got back from the painter and he has the clear shot on the upper sections of the cab and dash. We're getting close boys!! The finish will be semi-gloss, the clear was still wet.

[markeb01]

It looks beautiful in high gloss as well!

[TwoFiftyShifter]

Bought a split bench seat off of craigslist. My bench is shot, needs new foam and a cover, which would cost more than the truck itself did, so I'm gonna use this one. Upholstery and foam are good it seems to be pretty comfy, almost as comfy as the the fact I got it for 20 bucks!

[jbgroby]

Those look comfy

[jbgroby]

Today was a good day, I got fired up from the painter and decided to finally exchange the older style oil filter cartridge for the spin on type. I've only had the adaptor for about 2 years or so. These are supposed to be on the rare side.

[losthope]

drove the 65 to pick-n-pull and got a steering column from a mid 80's chevy truck for the 63 and been reading for about a hour now on forum about how to install it....think ill start tackling it tomorrow after work.

[lakeroadster]

My instrument lights weren't coming on... figured that out today: ground issue and a bad bulb. Also finished electrical connections for all gauges except Water Temp., need to install sending unit.

Nice to have gauges again!

Oil Pressure: 40 PSI
Volts: 15
Vacuum: 8 inches
Idle RPM: 1000 (choke)

Sorry for the crappy photos:

[markeb01]

What kind of cam are you running?

[lakeroadster]

Mark,

I have no idea what cam the 350 has. It's not stock though. Once the motor warms up it has a noticeable lope.

Also, I just posted a thread over in the engine forum. The PO has the vacuum advance line running to the "ported" vacuum line on my Edelbrock carb. and that's the line I tee'd into for the vacuum gauge.

I am not a tuner but.....

I believe it is better to run the vacuum advance line to the "full-time" vacuum port.

I think the reading I am getting on my gauge is likely not the real "full" vacuum reading.

Any help would be sincerely appreciated, and should probably be posted here: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=441207

[markeb01]

That's what caught my interest and the cam question. Should be closer to 18" with a stock cam. You'll no doubt get a much higher gauge reading on a full manifold vacuum port. I’ve done a lot of reading on where the vacuum advance should connect, and it’s interesting how such complete opposite opinions are strongly asserted as the “right” answer.

Certainly the factory intended the vacuum advance to connect to ported vacuum, so the distributor would advance as the throttle opened and vacuum increased. But I’ve read just as many opinions claiming better performance running full vacuum, keeping the timing up from idle, and as it drops off at wide open throttle the engine is going fast enough for the mechanical advance to take over, if the distributor is curved correctly. I think the real answer is – whatever works best on your particular engine is the correct way!

[66farmer]

John
Your truck is realy coming together I like your personal touchs. I got my frame done tank installed. I did it like yours but a little different.
Keith

[lakeroadster]

Originally Posted by markeb01

That's what caught my interest and the cam question. Should be closer to 18" (vacuum) with a stock cam......

One thing to keep in mind... I am in Colorado. You loose 1" of vacuum for every 1,000 ft above sea level. I therefore lost 5-1/4" of vacuum.

Mark and Rich,

I had no idea I was walking into such a controversial topic.... seems to me based on what I have read there are a few variables that make full vaccum better for a mild to wild motor. For stock the ported vacuum is the way to go. That being said my Model A has a high strung 350 sbc and it is set-up ported vacuum. Runs great from idle to WOT. So I agree with you and Mark, whatever works best on your particular engine is the correct way.

Keith,

Sweet looking install on your rear mount gas tank. Glad it worked out for ya!
Did you paint the tank or did it come that way?

[66farmer]

It came silver like yours I painted it gray.

[Cobblemizer]

Daughter and I removed the front bumper.grille and core support. I took the core support to work today and welded it back together as all the welds where broke and the ones the po did looked half***ed.

[Miller92]

Originally Posted by 66farmer

John
Your truck is realy coming together I like your personal touchs. I got my frame done tank installed. I did it like yours but a little different.
Keith

If you don't mind me askin, What'd that tank come out of? I've got to find one for my pickup.

[Miller92]

Fixed the door latch and window, and got my rollpan put on.