Happy New Year everyone. Slow progress but this truck was supposed to be in driving condition when I bought to kick off retirement but after ten miles of driving realized it wasn't. It needs a lot of love to be driven safely down the road again. For those going to smokey mountain TN AD meet I plan to be there.
Here is an update. Installed the 12 Volt flywheel (resurfaced) and 12 V starter (integral solenoid) I picked up from used engine/trans. I tested cranking it over and it spins over fine with this setup. I will revisit getting a new ring gear for 6V flywheel and reinstall with 6 volt starter later so I can go back to floor pedal start. Installed new pilot bushing and torqued flywheel in place. Next up install rest of clutch and original transmission and setup floor pedal travel.
The rear brakes dragging that prevented truck from easily rolling into my garage was caused by over adjusted brakes but I will open a new thread on that one after finishing this job. I have a mess going on with melted rear shoes and likely wrong dual master by previous owner looks jury rigged.
I'm going to see if any improvement have been made getting rid of grinding between 2-3 up/down with new clutch. If grinding persists I will remove original trans and hopefully between the original and my used spare I can get this going again and move on to brake rehab. Thanks for the help.
