This weekend was a lesson in "adulting" and by that I mean balancing what you want to do and what your wife wants to do. I don't mean that in a negative way, rather as excited as I was to go to the shop, I chose to spend yesterday with her and what she wanted to get done. As we are recent empty nesters, we now have a lot of free time to ourselves. I have been focused on the truck for sometime now, and she hasn't been giving me a hard time about it. So, Saturday was about working in the basement to clean and organize. Funny thing though we wound up spending 2 hours playing "Hot Wheels" and racing them on the treadmill. I had seen a few YouTube videos of it, so we tried it out and had a lot of laughs. Anyways, about the truck... I was at the shop today and of course I beelined to the rear end with the brakes to confirm they fit. And.....they did! Whew! I went there intending to get the brakes mounted and the diff assembled with the tires on so the truck was mobile again. I did fully assemble the DS before taking it apart again so I could blast and paint the drums. The drums won't be visible, but I figured I might as well just for consistency sake. After the drums were painted and drying, I got some parts on the engine. There was a bracket for the transmission kickdown that I modified to fit and had painted. It went back on and the power steering pump was installed as well. I made a cover plate for the intake manifold as there is an opening I won't need. I got it fabricated and then came home as I was starving and it was a beautiful day outside. Too nice to spend the entire day inside.
That is all I got, stay safe Steve
1946 Chev 1/2 ton - 6V/+ground/Bias-ply original - shake/Rattle and Roll! (SOLD) 1940 Chev 1/2 ton Franken/Restomod
