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#34733 05/23/2002 6:35 PM | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 23 Member | | Member Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 23 | Well, today was the day. Fired up the engine for the first time since the rebuild. Awesome sound!!!! Haven't driven it yet but intend to tonight assuming we can get the generator working. It's not charging.
'54 3100
235 original engine
Bored .060 over
New pistons/rings
Rod Bearings
Turned crank
Main bearings
Mild cam
lifters
valves and seats
oil pump
Fenton headers
Offenhauser intake
Dual 2bbl. Holley/Webers
Carb. and intake hot water heat
Electronic ignition
Fuel pump
Beehive filter
Seek results, not perfection. Remember this is a truck, not a Rolex watch.
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#34734 05/23/2002 6:43 PM | Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 504 Member | | Member Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 504 | Great news Geoff ! Forget the generator, take it out before dark,, you won't need to turn on the lights..
Bill M
53 GMC Hydra-Matic
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#34735 05/23/2002 8:38 PM | Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 2,773 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 2,773 | Did you polarize the generator? If its been setting for long, it loses the field polarity.
Fred
52 3600
69 C-10
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#34736 05/24/2002 2:40 PM | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 23 Member | | Member Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 23 | Thanks for the suggestions guys. Ultimately we took the generator out and put in an alternator, so I din't get to drive it last night. I'll be driving it this afternoon if all goes well.
Funny things, these old trucks. Fuel pump worked when I drove it into the garage. Now all of a sudden it doesn't. So we replaced that.
Then the thermostat which worked upon initial start up yesterday, quit working suddenly in the afternoon. So we replaced that.
Then the generator. I bought this truck last spring with an alternator but I wanted a generator because I think they look better. So I took the generator and voltage regulator out of my old '54 which was working fine at the time, and now all of a sudden we can't get continuity through it -- or something like that anyway. So we put the alternator back, and I will send the generator out to have it rebuilt.
Seems like parts wear out by just sitting around.
Seek results, not perfection. Remember this is a truck, not a Rolex watch.
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#34737 05/24/2002 4:43 PM | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 1,897 Member | | Member Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 1,897 | You cannot do as much with a Rolex watch!!!  . . Just remember, if you were top sit around for a long time, you would have parts that wouldn`t work anymore either! 
There is enough good in the worst of us and enough bad in the best of us that it does not behoove any of us to criticize the rest of us.
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