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Well we got a lot of work done on the '66. Still not finished but she rolls. Still need to do the master cylinder and booster, lines and some odds and ends. RJ came through with the control arm (THANK YOU RJ!!). So when that gets here we will put that in. Thanks for all of the patience with my unintelligent questions...lol. I am still learning and its nice to have people that don't look down on that. I posted some pics on my webshots of the progress. Oh... the supplier messed up on my rotors. They sent me the cross-drilled and slotted ones. Still trying to figure out the invoice if they charged me, but I cant seem to find where...lol. Thanks again guys!

Lookin' good Lori!! Are you going to use the slotted rotors? One of your pics shows them in place. As far as "unintelligent questions" goes, I think it was Solomon who said "the one who seeks council is wise". This is such a cool site to get info, opinions, ideas. Keep us posted on the progress, and keep posting those pictures!

Thanks Waldo. Yeah we went with the slotted rotors. They look awesome. Much better than the regular ones would have looked IMO, especially with the Torque Thrust wheels. Cant wait till I save up and convert the back drums to disks now! We high heat painted the new back drums black so they dont get that rusted look till we can upgrade those too. I think for now I am going to paint the inside bed black. There is a diamond plate bed floor that is going to get cut out whenever I get around to the wood resto but it looks like real a^% right now. Especially now that the truck is so low you can really see it. Think I am going to work on sanding and cleaning that up a bit today. If the lil ones cooperate with me. Trying to work on this with 2 kids under the age of 3 is a bit challenging.

I installed a new carb on The binder.... and it cranked right up... it was only running one 6.5 cylinders, so i swapped a few plugs around, and it ran on all 8 for a bit... i noticed it was sucking oil out of the pcv, so I changed the valve cover to one with a baffle, and it slowed down a lot... not as much smoke coming out the exhaust either.

I got to drive it up and down the (private) road in front of my house too... that was fun.

then i cleaned and regreased the right front wheel bearings.

Lori,

I'm glad to see you posted this. I've had a lot of mail come in about what's been going on for the weekend. This works out well here for everyone to see. Plus, I bet more and more of this will be happening as we get closer to spring.

Will post a general "weekend report" in the Spoon for all the "other stuff."


Oeg

Glad you started this Lori. Here's what I got done on the '40. I got the rear end under it and sitting on the springs. Learned a lesson. Those leaf spring ends are "directional". I had the brass bushing in the correct end on one of the springs but not the other one. Result: the left spring end wouldn't fit up inside the saddle. Finally figured it out but not before wasting a couple of hours on it. I also got the 228 off the engine stand and it's now sitting on the frame of the truck!!! Finally, some real progress. Tonight I'll bolt the engine in place and then the cab goes on. All this is in preparation for hauling the truck to our home in Northern Calif, where we'll be moving back to this summer. So, it looks like I won't be doing anything to it for a few months.

Reupholstered the bench seats, finally, and cleaned the engine bay. Now I really need to paint the firewall, engine block, and valve covers to make it purty. I kept putting off the seats, because one of the helper springs was snapped (these are the springs that the coil springs sit on). Nobody sells these, and since there weren't a lot of 50's chevys sitting in the two auto dismantlers still in operation around here, I had to cobble together a fix. I moved a helper spring from the middle to the far outside (where the broken spring was) and bent a length of no sag (zig-zag) spring to take the place of the helper spring in the middle of the seat. Hardly the same, but it provides some support with give to it. The upholstery part was a peice of cake. I highly recommend doing it yourself over taking the seats to a professional upholsterer, at least if you are sticking with the vinyl or cloth seats that you can order from one of the parts suppliers for our trucks.

This part of the country there was not much to do except move snow. :mad:

But were are on the down side of winter, now comes the big meltdown.

Better things to report in the near future.

John

Have the body raised up on the panel so I drilled, grinded, and took out the clutch head screws that hold the rubber piece between body and running board. Then cut out all the "windlace" inside that runs around body at the door. Cleaned and painted the windshield wiper arms, blasted the door hinges and now need to heat them up and the pins out. Two of them are broken. BAD news is I also put the 37 on jack stands. I "put the pedal to the metal" one time to many and the rear end twisted and broke the weld at the perch block and pulled part of the rear housing out with it. I think the shift kit has weakened it and when I REALLY put the gas to it it broke. Also put a serpentine belt on my nieces car along with the oil change. Man, I'm glad this weekend is over!!

Worked on fitting the '82 Olds Cutlass wiring harness into the '47 3100 Sunday. It's really amazing to see how well it can be fitted into the firewall. Looks almost factory.

I crawled and crawled all over my garage looking for the one small missing part to my front brakes on my '60 :mad: Still no luck Did get some new lug bolts put in the rear and plan doing those brakes tomorrow.

I just finished today swapping the rearend in my '56 and installing all new brake components except re-turned drums. I went with the non-power dual master cylinder. Now I'm working on a step-by step report about the master cylinder swap to put on my website.