Done

Done

Coming Together

Coming Together

In Primer

In Primer

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Water Pump, Fuel Line, Tranny cover and Stuff

Got the bolts for the water pump and installed it. Applied the pulley and fan also. Will have to either modify the existing radiator fan shroud or put an electrical fan on. The new Chevy engine sets about 3'' lower than the old Ford six and puts the fan towards the bottom of the radiator. I'll have to do more investigation on this.
Rolled out the coil of 3/8" steel fuel line and ran it from the tank in the rear to the fuel pump on the engine, with short rubber jumper hoses on each end. Also got it all clamped to the frame on the right side. Still have to run the line up to the carb, but don't have a carb yet.
Worked on the tranny cover and welded in the new piece after cutting out the cancerous part. This may still have to be modified if it doesn't fit over the 700R4 tranny.
Started mocking up the exhaust manifold and the passenger side looks like it should be fairly easy. (Did I say that?) The drivers side is another story. The steering shaft is very close the the dunp tube on the manifold. I'm looking for a short radius 90 degree elbow now to fit in there.
Cab goes back on soon for more mock up.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Been busy

Got a lot of parts ordered and all arrived this week. Installed the Radiator hoses but think I will change the top to a different type. got the new long water pump but now have to get some bolts to hang it.
Got the speedometer drive and driven gears and put that all together today. This allowed me to put the driveline in that's been patienly waiting. All fits good so far.
The Flowmaster stainless steel 2.5 inch exhaust kit arrived, so started mocking that up today. This will take a while. Got to practice welding stainless pipe before I ruin the good stuff.
Still have to weld up the transmission cover thats waiting.
Fuel line is here. That will install shortly.
Weather is great now.
Time to get something done.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Radiator and Shroud is in

Got the Stainless Steel radiator mounting kit from Texas and found it was all too small. Guess it probably is for a car. All parts are much smaller than what came out of the truck. Sooo, I sandblased all the rust off the old bolts and springs and gave them a nice coat of primer and gloss black paint. The weather warmed up again the last tweo days so installed the radiator mount and radiator with the fan shroud. Looks good and measurements show I need the long water pump. The 17 inch mechanical fan I got from Texas will work fine I think. i will know after installing the water pump. I also installed the starter.
I needed to finish up making the clamps for the parking brake cables and also installed them.
The manifold elbows I got are plain steel and probably won't get used but is helping me figure out how to run the exhaust piping.
Sand blasted the transmission cover yesterday. part of it was rusted out and had a piece pop riveted to it. I now need to cut out the rusty part and weld in a new piece.
Cold out today so going to order some more parts. (It's only money, right?)