Taking Delivery

[grouch]

You're really moving along with this thing!

Who's looking over your shoulder on your welding?

Hope you're doing practice welding on some scrap. MIG is notorious for producing pretty beads that only fuse to one side. Weld something of similar thickness then put it in a vise and beat the crap out of it with a big hammer. If the weld holds, you can pile people on those running boards until they bend (the running boards, that is, not the people).

[Jeff]

Who's looking over your shoulder on your welding?

That would be Harley. I trust his opinion of what I do explicitly

[coxy]

looking good 8)  the first time I welded with a mig  I did the roll bars in a stock my car 2 weeks later my uncle drove the car rolled it and not one crack in the cage  8) 8) must have got lucky  ;D

[pigman]

I want to know why we call them running boards instead of step boards.

[red]

The first running boards predate automobiles and were installed on carriages as early as the 17th Century.  Somethings just don't change .

[grouch]

Who's looking over your shoulder on your welding?

That would be Harley. I trust his opinion of what I do explicitly

You lucky dog. Having a local mentor greatly reduces the time it takes to learn to do it right.

[chet]

I want to know why we call them running boards instead of step boards.

'cause if ya step off one while travelin' down da road you had better be already runnin'  :D

[Jeff]

Today I got the fuel tank painted, sending unit assembled, fabricated a rear take mount, and now have the tank mounted in the truck. Next job is to make my steel fuel lines and get the tank fill tube installed.



  

  

 

[coxy]

I thought they where behind the seat

[Jeff]

Not on a Dodge. Under the truck, between the frame rails. Much better than the counter parts of that time

[Don P]

While redoing the lines on the chevy a year or so ago I found out, slowly, that most fuel line fittings have a different thread, type AN, Army Navy thread. Doesn't quite fit anything else.

[Jeff]

Today the fuel system was finished. Filler neck, fuel lines built and connected, all complete. The truck is ready to put gas in the tank. I installed the heater I rebuilt months ago, and hooked up all the heater hoses. It's now ready to add coolant. Technically, I could put gas in it, throw the front wheels on it, hook the battery up, and drive it. No lights or electrical system yet, but heck, I really should try out those brakes! ;)

Almost forgot, I also straightened the exhaust and bolted that back on, so the exhaust system is ready too.


  

  

  

  

  

  

 

[coxy]

hope you put straight pipe on it  ;D

[Jeff]

Yahoo!
https://youtu.be/FCuf3b9-sAg

[Jeff]

https://youtu.be/vINyANMnvuE

[newoodguy78]

Thanks for the ride. A few more trips around the block and I'll betcha you'll be grabbing those gears like an old pro  .Is that a 3-speed? Bummer about the overheating but still very impressive work. That rig has come a long way in a pretty short amount of time. Keep up the good work I really like what you've done to it that old girl has class 8)

[Peter Drouin]

Looking good, the old cars and trucks, you have to double clutch them.

[WDH]

Bring it down here and we will put some standards on it and haul some logs  ;D. 

[grouch]

Thanks, Tammy, for that ride-along in spite of the spinning u-joint where the floorboard should be!  ;D  When the video started, I was afraid we wouldn't get to hear that distinctive flathead sound or the transmission whine.

Synchronizers have spoiled us all. Even my old tractor has 2nd-3rd and 5th-6th synced. Just makes me grind the others and feel silly. Once had to drive a '65 VW Beetle home without a clutch cable. Shifting required tickling the throttle and listening. Thankfully, only had to go through 1 city with traffic lights. (Rough on the starter).

[Edit to add:]
Gotta find more work to do in the shade and stop burning up my few remaining brain cells. Driving that VW without a clutch is not the same problem as shifting unsynchronized gears while under way.

[chet]

Not ta worry 'bout dat gear grindin'. Once dem gears git all rounded over she'll shift as smooth as silk. 

[chet]

Jeff did ya pull da thermostat out of it and see if it still opens up? That is if some one way back when didn't already yank it out.

[Delawhere Jack]

 

 

And the neighborhood was never the same again.....  :D

Nice work Boss Man!

[Jeff]

Do ya thunk this might be part of my problem?  :D   I went out this morning and took the cap off, and a long strand of nastiness was up hanging in the top of the radiator. I pulled all this crap out.  I did a flush and got more.   Not sure what it all is, but a lot of it is hair.   Looks like at one time there was a critter house in the radiator.  The cap was off of it when we first found it in that barn.  I'm worried how much crap might still be hanging in there. What would dissolve hair?



 

[rjwoelk]

Neet  :D

[thecfarm]

drain-o- ?