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Now for the weekend update: Saturday was spent working on the fence project Quote:
Attachment 1616898 After throwing rocks for several hours Saturday I finally got to work ion the truck. Time to put the front clip back on. I started by pulling the truck out of the shop and turning it around where I could get to it. Check out that battery hold down! Attachment 1616899 Next I grabbed the front clip with the Bobcat and moved in to position. Attachment 1616902 I took a look and there was a lot of rust on the lower part of the fenders so I scuffed it up and hit it (poorly) with some rust reformer. Attachment 1616900Attachment 1616901 I took a break for supper with my brother and sister in law and when I was finished I found out that I had run out of steam for the day so I went to bed. More to come... -Richard |
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Sunday morning I got up and finished connecting the park brake that I had modified last weekend. Once the cable was attached and the mechanism bolted in the park brake works perfectly. I still need to tie the cable down with the clamps from the 89 and I will have to relocate the dimmer switch by a couple of inches since it is now tucked up under the park brake lever. After that I set the front clip on and threaded in a couple of bolts. By then it was time to go to church.
Attachment 1616909 Following church I tried setting the radiator in the 4-core lower mounts that I had moved to the new position. Oops, the drain petcock hits the power steering box! I removed the petcock and now the radiator clears the steering box by about 3/16th of an inch. Attachment 1616915 Today I dropped off the radiator from the 89 to be re-cored with cut down tanks. They said it will be ready on Thursday :metal: :metal: :metal: I will still need to get new radiator hoses, hopefully finding something to fit wont be to big of a challenge. I will also have to re-engineer the battery tray as a modification that I made a few years back is encroaching in to the area where the wider radiator needs to sit. I must say that as little time was spent setting the front clip back on the truck, it registered as a huge accomplishment; it put the fire back in me :D In making this post I realized I haven't done as well taking pictures, I'll try to fix that next weekend. Have a good week everyone! -Richard |
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Yep, that is a big fencing project.
Poison ivy vines with no leaves is not to be ignored...learned that logging in woods many years ago. Good progress on the truck! |
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Niceeee. tried workin on mine this weekend. instead i just sat in it. i think itl be up for sale soon :lol:
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so an 1980s camaro or late 1970s? because the third gens didn't start until 1982.
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That's cool. I've always liked the second gen 71s but I wouldn't mind having an 89 firebird
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This thing is cool!
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okay wheres the update bud?
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I'll try to get an update with pictures in this week. -Richard |
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OK, so here is a video of what I have been working on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edJnnJvq81Q A bit of background, we need a new fence between my neighbor and myself. The quote was 12K dollars. I ain’t down with that. We worked out a deal where he paid for materials and I do labor. He had his side dozed, my side has an old dry stack wall that I was unwilling to let get pushed aside so I’ve been doing manual cleanup each Saturday since deer season ended (that is when the truck progress slowed to a crawl). Anyway that description of the project is an oversimplification but you get the idea. As I was moving rocks out of the way I started re-stacking…. The video is many weeks old, I finished the cleanup last Saturday, next weekend we start building the fence. I'll try to get a new video of the current status next weekend. -Richard |
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Attachment 1638754 I did gt the radiator that week and I needed to move the lower mounts and replace them with the wider ones for the 4-core radiator. No big deal there. Here are a couple of pictures showing the original small mounts and the larger ones in position. Attachment 1638755Attachment 1638756 After mounting them I set the radiator in and the width was off by about a quarter inch (too wide). I pulled the passenger side out and hogged out the holes so that i could set it properly (thought I had pictures but apparently not). I set the radiator in and found that the core was tweaked... With it sitting properly at the bottom the top wasn't square to the core support. I paid a lot for it and was quite upset but rather than start over I decided to just make the mounts work, they would have to be custom anyway. About that time it struck me that there was an outside chance that I could have a set of 4-core upper mounts with a front end I bought for parts. I went and checked and sure enough that truck had come with a 4-core but I hadn't grabbed the top mounts. :banghead: So... I would need to fab up the upper mounts using parts from both the 89: Attachment 1638757 And the 68. Attachment 1638758 Thanks for not giving up folks! More coming later this week... -Richard |
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