Re: Grams '53 (1953 Chevrolet Belair)
 

Well, keep an eye out and ask the owner how much. Thanks

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cool and different!

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Drove it again a lil today..

Still have trouble with the brakes, new hydrailic everything soft lines hard lines cyclinders master cylinder etc.

Fluid not comming all the way back to MC its ok if you dont hit the brakes :)

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Well, still have fits time to time fuel related...

We were on the way to a cruise in a few months ago, ran out of gas on way to the station in 90* temps, put 5 gallons in still nothing. well towed it back home with what dad was calling the 'beast/champ etc' :) :)

Parked it.

Turned out he had the fuel pump on backwards?! I dunno got a different pump and put it on like the book said to, it ran so drove it to pick up lil sis in the dark with 1 brakelight and 1 turn signal..

(I live in the sticks it ok). Well, gonna try to get the brakes resolved. And it all legal for the street I wanna take it to some cruises.

New hardlines/soft lines rebuild/honed MC New shoes and 4 whatcha call ems it slipped my mind, break calipers but for drums lol

Longer you drive it the more the brakes get locked up eventually you will be stuck, seems like the less you hit them the more you can drive before it locks up.

The kickboard to pedel is correct @ 7/16 or whatever it was.

Im stumped....thats a big problem...I wanna really get this thing fixed bad!

Re: Grams '53 (1953 Chevrolet Belair)
 

Dude, nice car man !!! Love the story behind it !!

Now, are you sure you have clearance between the pushrod and piston with the pedal released ?

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"Now, are you sure you have clearance between the pushrod and piston with the pedal released ? "

I dunno about that exactly..

But I have the shop manual for this car it says 7/16 between top of the brake pedel and the toeboard (excentric bolt to adjust it, also huge pita).

Im still leanring about this stuff too so it probably could be another brake related problem..

thanks guys and thanks for the compliment chiefrocka

Re: Grams '53 (1953 Chevrolet Belair)
 

Put 4 new shocks on yesterday (fronts were shot, rears were missing) rides much better.

Still havent got the brakes fixed...uhgh i wanna drive it!!!!

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Still havent got the brakes resolved. A friend with a lift that knows a little more than myself mentioned bringing it up on the mtn to his shop to look at it. Dads gone to get some gas for it im going to call him up and hopefully drive it carefully up there (brakes work great, but you hit em a few times and they are locked).

So wish me luck!

Re: Grams '53 (1953 Chevrolet Belair)
 

Neat project for sure. My only car from 2000-2003 was a 54 Chevy. I drove it everyday, everywhere.

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Re: Grams '53 (1953 Chevrolet Belair)
 

Could you give me some insite on the brakes TX? Im stumped and love driving this thing (its like what you guys get when driving your project 67 72), I drive DD my 68 so its no different for me lol

Re: Grams '53 (1953 Chevrolet Belair)
 

My experience won't help you really. I converted mine to disc brakes and later model master cylinder.

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Ok thanks anyway

just for the heck of it, what did you use to convert it to disc?

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Fatman's Mustang II with 5 lug disc rotors in GM bolt pattern. ECI dual master cylinder bracket with 70 Mustang master cylinder, Nova rearend with factory Nova rear drum brakes. Speedway motors residual valves in front and rear circuits.

Re: Grams '53 (1953 Chevrolet Belair)
 

WAHOO

4 new shocks

brakes fixed and adjusted

hubcaps on

majority of huge dent straightened

HUGE list of stuff to do! At least it runs and drives safely gotta work along list of small things out now!!! :chevy:

And i gotta spare hubcap FREEE

Anyone needs ATV/Motorcycle work done, PM me I know a GREAT guy who does great work and has AWESOME collection of JUNK :)

Re: Grams '53 (1953 Chevrolet Belair)
 

pulled interior gonna vacumn scrub soap soak carpet pressure wash blow off clean and re assemble

(front half of headliner is dirty, left side) (right side is vacumned and clean, right side rear)

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more picctures

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awsome! do you have any more pics? any after all the work was done?

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I vacumned all the writing in dirt off the celiing except 'i love my 53 chevy-judy' it was her car so i left it in memory of her (shes having mini strokes right now :( )

Wetsanding is done interior stripdown and cleaning is ready to go back together whitewalls are clean and shiny and dads experimenting wtih buffing waxing etc

Pics to come

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cruise in pics

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more pic

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thats all, just took pics of some chevys for my aunt..decidded to post ehre aswell

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cool!

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Any updates?

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No not really. Next big job is fixing the oil leak. It leaks oil like crazy. Need to get it out and scrape/pressure wash the grease off so we can see where its comming from and fix it.

To fix:
oil leak
gas guage (new sender unit)
brake lights
dash bulbs
scrape/pressure wash gunk
fix the heater (heater core bypassed, was leaking on floor)
finish polsihing the factory paint (roof is done)
get windshield wipers working (cables under dash)

Thats about it

Re: Grams '53 (1953 Chevrolet Belair)
 

took it for a drive to sonic last weekend did some photoshooting but this is the only pic i have lol i liked it