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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 698 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 698 | Had to pull the 3 speed automatic out of the ’53 and rebuild it. After sitting for all these years the rubber seals were hard and brittle. So we replaced everything. Tonight I’ll finish the installation and hopefully no more puddles on the garage floor.
My Fleet: 19411953195919651966 1953 Willy's Pickup John Vegetarian- old Indian word for bad hunter
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | This past week,i stripped the wallpaper off the hall walls,scraped the popcorn stucco off the dining room ceiling,had my brother skim coat the walls with "mud",put a primer coat on said walls,painted half the hall walls with the color my wife chose,she decides she did not like it,so,cover THAT up with primer.Today,i'm painting the dining room,and waiting for her to choose the color for the hall.What does this have to do with the bolt? Well,when i get it all done,i can go into the garage and play!  LOL! Is that how this thread works? I neglected to describe the diapers I had to change between all my truck work! Perhaps I'll leave those details and photos out...  LOL, you better make sure the words "truck" are in your post or Cletus will come looking for you. LOL
~Jim
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 113 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 113 | I hope this works. http://www.stovebolt.com/ubbthread/ubbthreads.phpThis is what I've been busy with the last 9 months, changed rear axle, new breaks, and had the engine rebuilt. Also re-did seat and added seat belts and electric wipers, and rebuilt the steering gear box. Hope to hit the streets soon. The old photo is when I bought the truck back in 75.
No one said it was going to be easy
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 4,263 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 4,263 | I hope this works. http://www.stovebolt.com/ubbthread/ubbthreads.phpThis is what I've been busy with the last 9 months, changed rear axle, new breaks, and had the engine rebuilt. Also re-did seat and added seat belts and electric wipers, and rebuilt the steering gear box. Hope to hit the streets soon. The old photo is when I bought the truck back in 75. your photobucket account is private | | | | | Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 113 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 113 | Oops, I think I got it changed now. I hope. No kid here to help the old fella with the computer.
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No one said it was going to be easy
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 4,263 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 4,263 |  looks good Is that the same truck in Pic #4? | | | | | Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 113 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 113 | Yup, we've both aged a bit.
No one said it was going to be easy
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | Nope, it looks like the truck found the fountain of youth. The trouble is, our trucks can get a total restoration but we can only get a face lift.
Keep the pictures coming as you progress. Good work...
~Jim
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 229 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 229 | this week i finished prettying up(painting and degreasing) my mock up engine and tranny. today i bolted them together and slide them between the frame rails. i was bolting in the trans mount when the wife rang the supper bell. looks like everything is going to fit nice. i will have to wait for the weekend to start again.
MO's 1951 chevy 3100 resto mod project
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,026 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,026 |
Robert C. If it's true what they say, "You learn from your mistakes," I'm a Genius in the making. 1950 3600 | | | | | Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 400 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 400 | Wnet shopping at Jim Carters today and got windshield rubber, hood side emblems, throttle cable stop, and repro owners manual | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,972 Big Bolt Forum Co-moderator | | Big Bolt Forum Co-moderator Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,972 | Made my first patch panel. The previous owner had hacked a hole behind the seat into the cab wall for who knows why. Speaker mabye. Good practice for areas that will really show. Photo link: http://s527.photobucket.com/albums/cc355/Chevytwoton/interior%20patch/
A day without laughter is a day wasted- Charlie Chaplin
When wrestling a grizzly bear, you have to keep at it until the bear gets tired, not when you get tired. 1948 Chevy 2-Ton | | | | | Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 113 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 113 | I'm really getting close to being ready to drive "mean green" again. Got the exhaust finished up yesterday and the shop did a real nice job. When I drove it in the garage my son said he couldn't hear it running. Put the hood back on with some help from my son. This weekend I will fine tune the timing and the clutch adjustment and I should be good to go. All this work and all my mother in law can say is "aren't you going to paint it?". Ya, some day, but at least now it will be a very dependable driver even if it still looks a little rough.
No one said it was going to be easy
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | Mother-in-laws, what a thorn in our sides sometimes.
~Jim
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,696 | Buttoned up the rocker arm assembly and did a final hot lash valve adjustment followed by a cruise in the truck yesterday. Now onto the noisy water pump.
Craig My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 229 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 229 | well this weekend i fit and tacked engine mounts into frame and worked on my transmount to make it work. also bolted in the rack and pinion and brake booster/master. just to look at the room i had to work with. might redo the transmount with something of my own design but the store bought will work for now. http://s1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg496/michael58237/?albumview=slideshow my 51 project
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MO's 1951 chevy 3100 resto mod project
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 1,339 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 1,339 | Fired the 37 up today and will probably need to get a battery,I have to put a charger on the battery if let sitting over a couple months. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 255 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 255 | Finally replaced the clutch pedal bushing. Had to make a mandrel to keep the new bushing lined up while being pressed back into pedal arm. Also had to hone out new bushing a little to get a good fit on shaft. Turned out nice - no side to side play, and real smooth on pivot shaft. Well worth the effort ! | | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 235 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2005 Posts: 235 | My DCNF webers shows up today! So I started in on the manifolds for the offenhauser. Finished the water spacer for the heat of said offenhauser and made a bottom plate for it too.
Tomorrow I pick up my re- cored original radiator to replace the pretty alinum one the PO destroyed for me. Finally split a tube where it had been hit by the fan.
Back on the road in the morning though.
The 261 is done, except for a new distributor. And down pipes from the Fentons.
Jeremy | | | | | Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 111 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 111 | This past weekend I pulled Bigchev's generator and cleaned it up along with removing the wiper motor and doing the same. The wiper ran smoothly after wiring it to a battery. Really surprised after removing all the junk.
Ken | | | | | Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 67 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 67 | I need to make a budget build thread on here somewhere, not sure where but I got a bit done the past couple days.
I got the entire wiring system pulled out of the '49 and took the frontend off in one piece. I forgot how heavy it is as one unit when the rad is still bolted in lol Got it in the garage so now I have to sand it down and clean it up for some satin black paint.
I got a chance to rip apart my '76 motorhome for the chassis swap. 5hrs later and there's nothing left except a cab and chassis and floor..need to rip that up still.
Hopefully get both trucks and my '41 Ford all apart this week.
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| | | | | Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 355 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 355 | finally pulled my stock 6 "though i did try to give it for free to the club but no one wanted it" so it got scraped, got my V-8 placed not fitted yet, also got my rear end today a limited slip out of a nova i think but its a good start on my 37
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1937 1/2 ton
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | ...nephew called and said the wiring harness is in the 52panel. I'll got get it Thursday! | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,877 Socket Breaker | | Socket Breaker Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,877 | '65 c10... brakes were soft, kinda mushy... the front didn't dip or dive anymore, so snatched out brake master cylinder, went and got a new one... then proceed to snap the fitting off of a brake line.
yay. So, that is what I'm doing today...
olds trucks are fun, old trucks are fun...
-W | | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 235 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2005 Posts: 235 | Put the newly re-cored radiator back in. Worked on the manifold adapters.
I hate wondering if something will work or not.
Jeremy | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,877 Socket Breaker | | Socket Breaker Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,877 | bent out a new front brake line after I snapped off the fitting...
-W | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,877 Socket Breaker | | Socket Breaker Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,877 |
did the bench bleed/priming and got the MC installed finally...
went to bleed the brakes and the bleeder screw valve on the left rear snapped off.
yep.
couldn't get it out, broke some extractors trying... put new wheel cylinder in...
maybe I can bleed the brakes today.... I hope.
That... or I'm just gonna burn it to the ground.
-W
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 113 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 113 | The guy helping me with my truck work came up with a quote that I have been using alot since I started my rebuild,"No one said it was going to be easy". Seems that my case is not the only one that this quote works for. :-)
No one said it was going to be easy
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | What??? No rose garden? lol
~Jim
| | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 235 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2005 Posts: 235 | Hey Woogeroo!
If you burn it down post pics!
Then I can threaten the pumpkin next time it misbehaves !
"you better start .... Or it's 5 gallons of gas the hard way!"
Heh
Jeremy | | | | | Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 255 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 255 | Started on a new floor mat - I want to get a good close "seal" around the steering column and pedals. Should get my shocks back from Apple later this week, so I also got the new links deburred and painted. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 38 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 38 | Got the engine and tranny out. working on removing all the electrical and gauges this afternoon.
Dale
Remember, for every mile of road, there's two miles of ditch!
If you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 | Got my interior garnish moldings and glass run channels stripped and painted ready for my new felts to go in, if they ever arrive!
1950 Chevy Advance Design 3100 in ScotlandIn the Stovebolt GalleryMore pix on Flickr. I've definately got this truck thing in my blood ... my DNA sequence has torque settings"Of all the small nations of this earth,perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind" Winston Churchill.
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 23 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 23 | Got all the guts out of my doors! That was quite a job! Those ruste d bolts did not want to cooperate!
Chris
"I'm sure those leftover parts aren't needed"
55 Chevy Series 2 pickup, "Buddy"
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,972 Big Bolt Forum Co-moderator | | Big Bolt Forum Co-moderator Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,972 | BuddyTruck,
I have to do that yet. I have to install new glass on one side and make sure the windows don't rattle when down.
A day without laughter is a day wasted- Charlie Chaplin
When wrestling a grizzly bear, you have to keep at it until the bear gets tired, not when you get tired. 1948 Chevy 2-Ton | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | Got my interior garnish moldings and glass run channels stripped and painted ready for my new felts to go in, if they ever arrive! Looks good John. It'll be a sad day when/if we ever finish with our projects.
~Jim
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 229 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 229 | finished the engine and trans mounts today. also started mocking up the front suspension. i got the drivers side a-arms, spring, shock and spindle on. would have taken pics tonight but a friend stopped over to chat. he has a set of block hugger headers for me to test fit(cool). then the wife rang the dinner bell so thats it for the week.
MO's 1951 chevy 3100 resto mod project
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 33 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 33 | Painted racing stripes on the roof and started to stain the old wood panels that make up the bed. All minor cosmetics pending the time I start to actually dig into the body work.
'64 C10 1/2 ton fleetside
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 12 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 12 | Started taking out my old rotten bed wood with a crow bar and a four pound hammer. Also got my first look at the spare tire holder on my 65 C10. It's a chain driven lift. UPDATE..That rotten wood was no match for my hammer. Left a little wood on outside edge. Thought it would be easier when I replace it.
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,254 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,254 | Hooked up the heater (no leaks) and installed the speedometer (works fine). Now I know that 45-50 mph is the tops for cruizing in the 48 3100 with a 216 engine, sm 420, and original rear gears.
But all runs good
Dennis
-there is nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer-
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