After a long hiatus the truck is back in the shop and work continues.
After doing the black walnut bed, built a custom 10'dining table out of the rest of the wood. A couple other projects snuck in.
First thing I did after I got it positioned in the shop was to start it so I could adjust the carbs while it warmed up enough to re-torque the head and redo the valves.
It started to slowly back out of the shop. Luckily the rear end was in low so there wasn't any urgency to it.
Changed plans and installed the Lokar shift mechanism. Nice piece of kit.
Then built a setup to locate the old hand brake handle in the same relative location as original and hook up to the original rod. Lokar offers 2 handbrake units but none really work for the big truck.
Much safer now.
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