The last time big yellow did any driving was in late july for a town parade with Grammy.
At this point I was fed up with constantly re-filling the radiator, and discovered that it was slowly leaking through cracks in two of the combustion chambers.
Deciding to rebuild ye ol 235 stovebolt was just the start of my fools errand... Since i couldn't bring myself to to buy stock 7:1 compression pistons with ultra fat rings, CP is now building some custom pop up pistons to bring the ratio up to ~9.5 and incorporate modern design features like narrower rings and piston skirt.
Since that's taking so long, I got distracted with more ridiculous things like, spare tire mount, rebuilding transmission, transfer-case, and frame notching the front to accommodate more suspension travel.
Adapted spare tire mount.
Frame notching, increases suspension up-travel from ~1" to 2.5". Hoping to take those washboard roads at a speed >15mph now.
Also had the steel yard plasma cut some better leaf spring top-plates. Now with rubber bumpers instead of steel as original.
I also decided to rust-proof everything with SPI epoxy primer and have removed frame from body.
Body is supported by telephone pole stumps and a steel tube screwed onto door hinge mounts.
