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Apr 26th, 2026 | | AD Chevy Trucks  Over 6,000 pictures Brad Allen has an awesome collection of Chevrolet factory pictures that he has set up from film strips. Check them out!
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| | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,897 Socket Breaker | | Socket Breaker Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,897 | http://hardin.home.mindspring.com/1953/07142006/ There is the folder with the images... I haven't made up the non fancy html pages with links yet... this is dad's '53... he's keeping a 12v generator while he goes to 12v. under the hood is done he tells me... under the dash is in progress. -W ----- update 7/20/2006 new post at the bottom with links to pictures of progress from today. -W ----- update 08/08/2006 new post at the bottom with links to pictures of progress. The wiring harness is connected, crimped, heat shrunk and screwed together! Yay! -W | | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 323 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2005 Posts: 323 | Clean work, clear photographs  Is he keeping the points or switching to electronic ignition? Can't tell since the Petronix brand fits right into the original distributor. I like the over-flow for the radiator too and the fuel filter (that is what is is, isn't it?). Thanks for letting us see. Your dad's truck is cool too  | | | | | Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,974 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,974 | Is that a Chevy Duty harness? It looks like the one I put in my truck last year. (Or was it the year before that?) I was satisfied with the quality...
Wiring job looks good!
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,897 Socket Breaker | | Socket Breaker Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,897 | Pop was an electrician at a GM plant for many many years so he takes wiring stuff seriously(I get that from him, I usually over do stuff likethat)... but then he did it for so long he can only do it the right way.  I think he did buy the harness from chevy duty last year sometime. MexicoSab - so far it is the '57 235 distributor with the points and stuff. -W | | | | | Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 96 Member | | Member Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 96 | You can go to Google and get Picasa. It will arrange your pictures for you into a web-style layout. My link has a couple Picasa-made layouts. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,897 Socket Breaker | | Socket Breaker Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,897 | yeah... but I know how to do the html thing, just haven't done it yet... I'm used to just uploading stuff via FTP to my webspace. However, I have been playing with a picasa web album... http://picasaweb.google.com/Woogeroo -W | | | | | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 24 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 24 | Ick... crimp-on connectors.
This may not go over well with some, but it is just my opinion.
Solder and heat-shrink those suckers! Much, much stronger, weatherproof, and they'll last forever.
I've also grown pretty fond of Liquid Electrical Tape (most auto parts retailers will carry the stuff). It's available in a variety of colors and you can use it to insulate and protect just about any type and shape of connection. Like those open-to-anything, bolt-on connectors. Just one catch; it takes several hours to set up.
If a 'truck' is only used to haul butts to the mall, then it's not a truck - it's a car with a roadster trunk.
Old, rusty and ugly - might be me or my fleet. You decide!
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,897 Socket Breaker | | Socket Breaker Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,897 | A few more images, from today: http://hardin.home.mindspring.com/1953/07202006/ ew1.jpg shows the new 12v ammeter installed. ew 1-4 / more wiring harness install pics st 1-3 / close up of the starter button and return spring for foot/masher pedal for the starter ( how to use hardware parts to make it work) eng07202006.jpg <- I finally got a nice non-fuzzy picture of the passenger side of the engine. Pop's '53 truck page : http://hardin.home.mindspring.com/1953/1953.html -W | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,897 Socket Breaker | | Socket Breaker Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,897 | The wiring harness is connected, crimped, heat shrunk and screwed together! Yay! 1953 chevrolet 3100 series stepside truck - wires, tail lights, etc.. Pop went to test everything... but the battery was dead... of course. hah! Anyhoos... now he is waiting on American Classic to get the new headlight assemblies in... and shipped out to him. I'm getting excited, once the lights are working, he can get the exhaust done from the headers back, and it'll be legal! Woo hoo. -W | | |
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