|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
It is always comical when you start going through these old vehicles. When I bought my '72 Challenger, I found a Michael Bolton CD underneath the rug and have it hanging in the workshop. Well Lucile was no different. Looks like someone misplaced a utensil..
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8140/8...d9f03312_c.jpg I am pretty sure no blood...I think: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8416/8...fee75700_c.jpg Couple shots of the truck: Soon you will be bare: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8140/8...3bb87c75_c.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8545/8...8d5886bb_c.jpg I took a week of in July to work on the truck. I will not forget this morning, I woke up early to get started before the heat set in. I had ordered all my stuff through Advance Autos online so I could just go pick it up and get started. Well, there was a change of plans. They shipped in the wrong rotors, brakes, and hardware. They admitted they made the mistake and told me they would get the stuff on the truck that day and drove in before noon. Sweet, so I can put this stuff on in the dead heat of July weather. Sometimes you do what you have to do. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8265/8...7541963f_c.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8130/8...b7176dfe_c.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8545/8...48e0527a_c.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8135/8...3f5abdcb_c.jpg And we have tent time. Haha, it was just getting way too hot: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8271/8...eececb76_c.jpg |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
So we have enough cars at my parents house to fill both bays. It was just a bit too difficult to work on it in the driveway, so once the Challenger was brought home I wanted to bring the truck back down to the garage. It worked out really well as for the remainder of my week of vacation it just rained.
Off to the garage: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8279/8...fe8b82f5_c.jpg Going down the road..well not how I wanted to at the moment: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8540/8...d3468b70_c.jpg Mocked up the front end and things to get an idea of the distance between the axle and the ground. It was around 4" which I was happy with. The tires on the truck at the moment were 70 series, I would be setting up to 75s, which I thought was a better idea. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8404/8...90e5610d_c.jpg |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
looks nice and solid! love that DOT like orange paint, keep on rockin!
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
Quote:
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
sweet blast cabinet, I'd like to build one once I get some things in order. I'm about to buy a little blaster and its gonna suck without some containment of that sand. Truck looks swell.
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
Getting up to speed here with the shots..
Motor is in (disregard that water neck as I end up buying a straight one): http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8395/8...21cb22e7_c.jpg Keeping the firewall as clean and wire-free as possible: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8440/8...a61c3b30_c.jpg The 292 is longer than the 216s and the 250s...end up running a puller fan setup, however I will fab something up so I also have a pusher fan on top to ensure this thing never runs hot: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8261/8...a0113e87_c.jpg Others: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8272/8...a93f3fe0_c.jpg This picture shows the stock exhaust manifold setup. After looking at that for about 5 minutes, I found myself on Tom Langdon's site ordering split exhaust manifolds.. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8273/8...b4f0fff0_c.jpg Tom's split exhaust manifolds (his picture). He was an absolutely great guy to work with, just make sure you don't leave out any details of what you are running. Since I was running the '70 292 and I was running my stock steering box in the '49, he needed to cut the flange on the front exhaust manifold and modify it for clearance: http://images.ecwid.com/images/149402/3280809.jpg |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
Few photos of the puller fan setup I am running. It is out of a earlier Taurus. My father end up fabricating the mounts for the fan.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8547/8...2aaf8f83_c.jpg |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
Looks great!!
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
Quote:
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
49, wasn't sure if you had a typo, but if the fan is on the front of the rad like so, it would be best as a pusher, or else you'd just be fighting the wind trying to pull the air into it.
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
Yeah was a typo. Pusher fan. :lol:
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
figured, you seem to know what your doing.
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
Quote:
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
This weekend wasn't a weekend of photos really.
Saturday we bled the clutch with the Mityvac. What a breeze. We had 4 small bubbles and was enough air to hold up the clutch system from fully disengaging. Truck shifts like a dream now. We then tackled the driveline. I was not pleased with how the engine/trans angle and the pinion angle on the rear (it was my mistake in the beginning). So I modified the trans cross member and took some of the angle out. The u joint angle looks a lot better and was dead on. As for the rear, I am running rear lowering blocks. I decided to machine 0.004" off the top of the blocks instead of running shims to keep everything cleaner looking and not introducing more variables in. Thank god for the mill we have at the house. Everything was dead on for the driveline now. Much happier. Sunday was a bit of a "we need to be somewhere early so be prepared" day. Ran over to the junkyard in the morning to grab the missing sway bar brackets I needed. I am planning on running the stock rear sway bar and building my own rear shock cross member. On the drive home, my uncle stopped over who is doing the wiring for me. I had called him on Tuesday to tell him I would like to hook up a main connector so if I need to remove the front end for engine work, I could just disconnect the connector and be on my way. He did a really nice job on it and I know it will save me a headache down the road. He was finishing up the wiring in the front and getting the turn signal switch in. |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
Memorial Day Weekend:
It was one of those weekends that you work and work and then look around and it seems you didn't complete much. This was the weekend to get the rear end setup - rear shocks and sway bar in and ready to go. I end up going to the yard and grabbing the lower rear shock mounts from the leaf springs off an Explorer and brought them home. After putting them in place, I realized I didn't like how low they sat. That would have been the lowest point of the rear suspension, which I didn't want. I end up putting them on the rear axle. Running some thing angle iron to mount the top of the shocks to, I was happy with the result. The sway bar is just getting finished up. Amazing how much a difference shocks make in a truck. This upcoming weekend I am breaking it all down to POR and paint it and then reassemble. Then I am focusing on the interior. Rims arrived this week so they are off to the powdercoaters and hopefully back soon. Itching to drive this thing.. |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
any updates? love this thing
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
lookin good!:metal: I am becoming quite fond of the sixes!:lol:
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
What a great build to watch, I learned some too, thank you and good luck !!
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
Thanks guys.
I am pushing this month to get this thing drive-able. I will post some pictures from last weekend, mocked up, broke down and painted the rear shock and sway bar setup along with the calipers. As of this morning - rims are painted and are ready to be mounted on the white walls. Interior parts are all here and the wiring is very close to be finished. There is a light at the end of the tunnel... |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
The truck drives...
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
Awesome!!
Posted via Mobile Device |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
right on man!! time for a video eh
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
Quote:
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
Coach. I got questions brother. One of these days lets chat?!
Posted via Mobile Device |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
Quote:
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
And we have a little issue...no reverse haha.
Posted via Mobile Device |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
ewww boy that sucks, did it ever work? I got three of these trannies cause when I see em I buy them up cause I hear they are hard to work on.
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
Quote:
Do you have HM290 (4 shift rails) or the actuals NV3500 (1 shift rail)? |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
It has been a busy couple weekends, unfortunately I try to update the posts with pictures as I go, but they are still on the camera.
This past weekend was a short weekend for me with parties and other events so I did as much as the time allowed me to (and maybe how long the girlfriend would allow me to be acceptably late haha). Spoke to Sid this past week and I realized I was only running a 2 degree shim in my front axle - needed 4 degrees with the radials. So Saturday morning I woke up early to run over to Napa and decided to roll the truck out of the garage. Hmm, truck leaned to the driver's side in the front. Well long story short I had an extra leaf in the passenger side. Counting must have not been my strong suit that night I re-assembled them. Anyways, went over to Napa and grabbed the shims and put them in. Took out the extra leaf and we now are level in the front. Much better. Sunday we were up early and started on aligning the hood and the vinyl seats. I am very happy how they came out. For anyone that needs the C clips that are used to put the vinyl on (much cleaner than the hog rings in my opinion), Classic Parts USA sells them. I couldn't find them anywhere else even LMC who includes them in the seat kit doesn't sell them separately. Amazing. |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
cool glad its working out and yeah classic parts is a good supplier, good to know on those.
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
2 Attachment(s)
PM me .,..what you need?? I'll post some more pics of my truck in a few days. Weather is not great and I need to do a little more polishing!!
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
Been some time since I updated this, let me get it up to speed.
That following weekend, I came home for a short trip. I wanted to repaint the grille to break up some of the orange on the truck. Here is what I started with: https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8536/...e815a982f3.jpg Two coats of epoxy: https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8266/...ab66440739.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8409/...af6076ddba.jpg Finished product: https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8399/...238478ed67.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8395/...76cd7bbcfd.jpg It would be just enough to break the truck up a little more, which worked out great. https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5444/...f6a880e0c7.jpg |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
My gauges had a lot of wear and were unreadable. So after a little of scrapping and a call to LMC, I was able to freshen them up just a bit.
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8280/...357d5b493d.jpg A company called Archer actually sells the "battery", "oil pressure", etc decals, but I wanted to leave them as mine weren't as bad as I thought. https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8275/...f3008dc91d.jpg |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
So here is a picture of the maiden voyage. It was great to actually take her down the road and it was even better seeing how much technology has improved in our cars these days. Still at this point, the truck didn't have reverse and 3rd and 4th were not working either. I knew the transmission was a gamble and knew I needed to pull it sooner than later.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7361/...721b2f5fc5.jpg As nice as the weather was, it turned for the worst quick. Rain started coming down and I was in a pitch because I didn't have a working wiper motor in the truck. Stopped at Pep Boys on the way home and grabbed a bottle of Rainx. No problems. https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3689/...7e41ef70bd.jpg |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
After driving the truck and parking it, I soon realized I needed to lower the rear end. I already had been running Sid's 3" lowering blocks in the back and still it was no where near what I was looking for.
Here is a before shot: https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7430/...b6eed934cd.jpg https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7194/...8794b8c89e.jpg I decided to put an order into TCI for their rear leaf spring setup. A couple of the guys run the setups here on the forum and they make top quality products. A couple weeks later, I was greeted by the brown truck and a TCI box was dropped off. Their kit was very high quality and I was very impressed. Mockup was painless and everything fit like it was suppose to. Primed and painted the shacks and back in everything went. I re-located my rear shocks and swapped out those with a set shorter shocks. Here was the result: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5551/...26ce552a51.jpg https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7372/...b66554ac22.jpg Everything tucked much better. Exactly the stance I was looking, I did also modify Sid's lowering blocks to get it just a little bit lower. |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
A shot one of my buddies took when it was on the street:
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7280/...10809fcf3a.jpg |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
The next project was getting the transmission sorted. After all my research on here and Stovebolt, I came to the conclusion I should have gone with my original setup from day 1 - T5 swap. I still do not know how I veered off track, but this time I was going to do it.
One of my buddies had a NWC transmission laying in his garage he was willing to part with. It was originally from a '85 Camaro and he said the car didn't have many miles on it. So after buying him a couple beers I was a the proud new owner of a T5. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7131/...fbfdc2aa6b.jpg https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7369/...073a422526.jpg In the last picture you can tell the amount of grease and dirt that was cake on this transmission. So I brought it over to the car wash the next day to clean it up. https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5476/...138e025d4f.jpg I located a S10 tail housing in the junk yard. The owner was nice enough to let me swap it out for no charge so that was a great deal. I opened up the original Camaro box and was very pleased - no broken teeth, no damage or real wear, and the syncros were in mint condition. I really lucked out on this one. Picked up a shim kit, checked the end play, and buttoned it all up. I am running a hydraulic clutch setup on this and it shifts like a dream. |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
very cool
|
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
Thanks 99.
Bolted up the running boards and put new seals in the doors and under the hood. https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3772/...6eff0be18d.jpg Also at this point I installed a shop truck bed - went over to Home Depot and picked up some lumber. I actually am really happy with how it came out and it only cost me around $50. I will have to grab photos of it when I am home again. |
Re: 1949 Chevy 3100 - the journey begins
To catch this up...I had the chance to drive the truck 3 weeks ago when I was home. I had swapped in the transmission and put in the adjustable T/O bearing from Novak at the time. It was a life saver.
The truck drives great...I can tell it has a difficult breathing through that single barrel carb and that intake so that will be the first thing to be swapped out..but other than that it drives great. My wheels caps finally arrived from Wheels Vintiques.... https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7229/...38564c5b53.jpg https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7046/...50aa548fa4.jpg https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3736/...53e8f7fe1b.jpg |
| All times are GMT -4. The time now is 12:50 AM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Copyright 1997-2022 67-72chevytrucks.com