More Good Help

Had a great time in Niagra Falls and Nancy renewed my contract, so I'm good again for a while.
It's been very very hot here in the midwest the past month and the lack of rain is causing havoc with the corn and soybean crops. It also means I spend less time in the garage.
My oldest son Joe showed up from Washington State Saturday and is here for a little more than a week while his wife Louise and her twin sister Linda are doing the RAGBRIA. It's a hot one this year.
Joe has been helping me on the truck and today we installed the new Edelbrock aircleaner. We also put some heat shielding on the brake lines that run close to the exhaust system. We then finished up the rear axle vent and  put on some front sheetmetal for mockup.
Will  wait for it to cool down a while before continuing on. I think mounting the Air conditioner condenser will be next. Have to build some brackets for it first.

30 Years of Pure Bliss

Finished up installing the transmission kickdown cable and made a few clamps to tie things down.

July 17th is our 30th anniversary, so going to take my honey Nancy (AKA Babycakes) to Niagrra Falls
Good time for a break and I think I got a few points for this one. She said she might renew my contract.

New Yogi Parts on

After mocking up all the parts I got from Yogi's, I took it all back apart and primed and painted the brackets gloss black. Put it all back together. Still need the hoses for the power steering and the pully doesn't quite line up yet , so have to sort that out.
Mounted the Carb bracket and put the throttle linkage and Transmission kickdown linkage together. Drilled the firewall for the gas pedal and linkage cable.
Ertzinger showed up and we put the distributor in for mockup of the plug wires. Still have to sort out the routing and buy some plug wire separators.
Opened the wiring box while it was hot outside. Started wiring the gauges but didn't get to far with that yet. That whole wiring project shoud be interesting. Especially for an old plumber

More New Parts

Decided to go to the Good Guys Car Show in Des moines last weekend. I wanted to see a lot of cars, but mainly talk to vendors and try to pick up some pointers and parts. Ended up at the YOGI'S display and delt with Yogi himself. He gave me a lot of pointers and and a good deal on the parts I bought from him. Got all the stuff for Air Conditioning, Power Steering pump and brackets, Throttle cable, pedal and braclets, American Autowire Kit for wiring the whole truck. Kickdown cable for the tranny. Alternator bracket and a few other do da's. He gave me 10 percent off and free shipping and threw in a hat and 2 shirts. Nice guy and helped stear me in the right direction. Boxes came Tuesday. Sorted it all out this morning and started putting the air conditioning compressor and brackets on and the power steering pump and brackets to see how the fit was going to be. I have to take it all back apart to paint the brackes after making sure it all fits. It's so hot here now that I was dripping sweat all over the engine so came in to cool off. I think I will look at the wiring kit and see if I can wire up the gauge panel here in the house.
Whew, time for a libation.