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Working those single axel trucks hard. super neat pics
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] This battle I'm not ecstatic about. Some hero drilled out the tumbler at some point in the trucks history. He barely got into...
I also finished cleaning up the gearbox today. Before: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] After: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Clean parts are so much more fun to...
I through some grease in the rear bearings. It seems guys sometimes do, and do not grease them on this axle. One of these had some shotty grease...
I also checked out my upcoming fuel situation. It has a pump like this... [ATTACH] I discovered its an AC Delco. I believe it was made by Walbro...
This week I made a little progress while waiting to here back from the machine shop. All four wheel cylinders were seized. They are now all...
16 gauge wire will have no problems with 30 amps, so you just need to worry about not frying the fixtures. I suspect the instrument panel to be...
Also the past day or two I have attacked the brakes. I'm optimistic it she'll run in the next 6 months so she'll need to stop. So I popped the top...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] While I'm waiting a few weeks for them I have been tinkering around on the truck. I have been cleaning 2" of...
I'm still alive and working on truck. This 46 ford will not spend the rest of its life not ruining in my shop! Engine is at a local machine shop...
PISTON RODS. Since I ordered the 4" crankshaft I've been looking at the rods out of the original seized 59 block harder, due mainly to the fact...
That said, I been gathering parts and trying to come up with a plan... I also got all the old parts and some new with the engine ($1000 and I...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Found a new block. Took awhile...lol. A decent 59 block pretty hard to find. About a month ago I bought this from a nice guy up...
Agreed. Thanks for the update
good feedback, thanks so the the two oil gallery holes in the rear cam bearing both have oil coming solely from oil pump idler gear chamber...
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