The weather has been pretty bad so I haven't had much of a chance to work on the truck of late but I did get the other front fender wheel arch raised before the sub-zero temps and snow hit. It went much like the left side.
Today I worked on routing the parking brake cable. During the snowstorm I modeled and 3D printed a small transition piece for the cable to go thru the firewall and help protect it and to seal around it. I made a small cardboard template of the base and then used the template to mark the floorboard so I could cut the slot, After drilling , grinding and filing the floorboard I finally got the slot to match the lip on the piece. I then went ahead and mounted the cable and transition piece in place to see where the cable needed to be routed under the truck.
After looking at the cable and all the bracketry that came with the brake cables, I determined that I just needed to fab a custom box for the 1 to 2 cable split. I took some square tubing that I had around and welded up a small box to house the cable splice. I ran out of time today so I took the box and put it in a vinegar bath to strip the rust and mill scale.
Next, I'll fab a sheet metal cover for it and mount it on the truck chassis. Then I need to figure out the routing of the two cables coming out of the box to the rear calipers.
1949 Chevy Panel Truck A Project Journal I'm old but I make up for it by being immature.
