Legopnuematic’s Shop Projects

[TotalyHucked]

That's the kind of thing that happens to me late in the night and I'll just hang my head, sigh and know I'm done for the night

 

[Chevrolado]

OMG.. thats a lot of rivnuts. That's definitely one of those.. "well, tonight is done. This is a tomorrow problem" moments.. Ouch.

 

[legopnuematic]

Was not able to get much done last night as I had to move my trailer as they are doing drainage work along the fence line where it stays. Moving the trailer was the easy part, all of my junk I had stored behind it on the other hand...

After that was able to get some done on the Chebby. Shane was with me so I had him crank the bead roller while I did the flanging. What is unusual is I got it right the first time, normally I end up doing the feature upside down or something like that. Added some riv nuts using pre existing holes and enlarging two that had self tappers in them. With the plate mounted I was able to get my level out to get the box mounted level. Need to make a riser for the mega fuse holder and I think it will have an extension to hold the heater hoses.

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Getting close to being able to actually start running some wires!

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[legopnuematic]

For those that might not have heard, Chlorinated brake parts cleaner (as a whole) is being phased out.

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Made up a bracket to hold the alternator fuse and the heater valve.

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Something to note is that the heater valve was mounted the wrong direction (arrow against flow), something else to note is that the engine and radiator were drained of coolant. Started from the alternator and running wires, added the fan temp switch to the drivers side head and added a new choke wire.

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[bucket]

Damn. All the good stuff gets outlawed. Brake clean was hanging on (well, for the most part) for a long time... but before long it will be just like the modern carb clean and engine degreaser.

 

[legopnuematic]

Damn. All the good stuff gets outlawed. Brake clean was hanging on (well, for the most part) for a long time... but before long it will be just like the modern carb clean and engine degreaser.

From the internets:

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I'm not anti non-chlorinated, but there are some really terrible non chlorinated products out there (looking at you Pyroil). Gunk has a non chlorinated acetone free product that apparently is pretty good, I have yet to try.

 

[legopnuematic]

Got the engine harness mostly done. Taped with 1" non adhesive tape.

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And in place. The routing is not my typical jogging across the intake in-between the distributor and oil pressure port, but with the throttle linkage exiting the firewall where it does, that keeps things away from harms way, or should.

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Past the starter trigger wire is the charge wire, voltage sensing wire, and thermostatic ground for electric fans, they will be joined up with the main battery cable to the starter and run together to the new panel on the inner fender.

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The firewall I will be making or finding a good sealing grommet for. I would have liked to have done a bulkhead of some kind, but wasn't able to find one that I thought would have worked and that I liked.

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I did pull the distributor for better access at the rear of the engine, I initially had thought it was an MSD ready to run, it is infact a clone of one to some extent.

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[legopnuematic]

It is also impressively crusty for what shouldn't be that old of a distributor.

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What I need to find out is if there is a tach output or not, all the ones similar to this online have four wires, coil + and -, ground, and a grey for the tach and rev limiter programming. This one lacks the grey tach wire. The question is where did it go and did it have one.

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I have worked on stuff with caps older than the 57 itself that weren't this bad inside.

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The reverse light switch for the Hurst shifter uses a Cole Hersee switch, so that is nice.

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Some hammered black on the inside of the panel.

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[Broken85]

That cap looks like my Farmall Super A in July!