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Old 07-27-2020, 11:21 AM   #101
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Re: My 1968 C-20 Golden Anniversary Project

Some small issues during removing of the old hard tape, next time I will remove it in intermediate steps, but in general not bad for the first time.
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Old 07-27-2020, 11:35 AM   #102
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Looks good
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Old 07-27-2020, 04:53 PM   #103
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Hey Gerhard!!! Glad to see you getting some time to work on your truck after floating in the ocean for so long. Long live live old Chevys!
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Old 07-28-2020, 10:53 AM   #104
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Yeaaaah and Chris Stapleton.
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Yeaaaah and Chris Stapleton.
You take it to the car wash?.....they would laugh at me if I did that to Blue. I did follow your lead. The spotlight is installed.
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Old 07-28-2020, 07:30 PM   #106
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One more pic.....ok two pics
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Old 08-03-2020, 06:53 AM   #107
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Great man, looks perfect.

Regarding car wash is a fake
I washed by myself, but took a picture from a big truck wash advertisement.
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Old 08-03-2020, 08:56 AM   #108
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Great man, looks perfect.

Regarding car wash is a fake
I washed by myself, but took a picture from a big truck wash advertisement.
Ahhhhhh, I feel better now....
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Old 08-14-2020, 07:28 AM   #109
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After weeks of waiting I got today the beezel from Brent- Thanks man, perfect quality. Its a honor to have the beezel for me!
See the pictures: 20 EUR add. customs fee and nearly paperless handling :-)
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20 EUR for customs?! Wow!
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Nice!!!
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Old 08-17-2020, 07:17 AM   #112
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Re: My 1968 C-20 Golden Anniversary Project

Today arrived the air cleaner housing from classic industries. Not bad for a replica, I guess.
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The new cleaner looks very nice. Was the something wrong with the old one?
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Looks good, for repop....lol
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Old 08-17-2020, 10:27 AM   #115
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The new cleaner looks very nice. Was the something wrong with the old one?
No but I would like to build an copy of my engine. Is just for fun and as living spare shelve. See #49 too.
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Old 08-19-2020, 08:28 AM   #116
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What a great pleasure, today arrived my new cluster and accesorries, Im really happy, This is a so great product and everything assembled with great care for details. Is like christmas.

Good toys for winter works.

110 EUR customs :-(
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Was thinking good to have a bore caliber for valve seats.

Good :8.70 mm (0.34252 ")
Bad: 8.72-8.73 mm (0.34331-0.34370 ")

Asked my old father and he produced for me. Probably the last mechanical work in his live, my most important memento.
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Cluster choke delete bezel added- awesome.
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Did you learn your machining skills from your father? That would definitely be a special piece to have something handmade. The chrome on the GM logo looks incredible Gerhard!
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just middling
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Compression test and leak test again with better equipment (to screw).
Comression (psi) /leak test (%) ok:

1: 180/17%
2: 190/42%
3: 190/42%
4: 180/28%
5: 180/25%
6; 190/25%
7: 180/22%
8: 180/22%

Found ot that the position of the piston is very important for leak test. Sometimes you could turn the pushrod with the fingers, the valves are still open a crack and you get more percentages, see cylinder 2 e.g.
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Old 09-14-2020, 12:51 PM   #122
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Some interesting works on vacuum system:

1) A canadian friend gave me the advice that the spigot must be in the pipe- done. But than the porous hose became a leak. The switch point of the TH400 was rised dramatically, the switch over was very hard and the oil became foamy (Optimized for WOT (Wide Open Trottle)- Repaired and know now that hose, pipe and vacuum switch are working fantastic.

2) During the investigation found out that the vacuum advance in the distributor is dead too. Bought a new one AR23 (good advise from Gregski and Rich weyand here in the forum). START 5-7 inHg, Max. advance distributor degree 7.5° , Max inHg 11-12.5.

3) Some paint work for the new engine and changed the ugly blue distributor cap against a black one.
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Preparing the new engine.

Attached the new tailgate letter decals - its great!!!
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Old 09-16-2020, 12:52 AM   #124
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Wow that tailgate looks really great
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X2, nice!
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