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Originally Posted by LynnB
looking forward to updates. In the meantime, here are a couple pics of my Studebaker farm truck with the 1972 Chevy C50 drive line. Too lazy to start my own thread.
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Good looking truck!
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Originally Posted by Deer_hunter_088
I fixed my wiring, just to test the truck out now.
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Good deal!
OK, so it has been too long since an update again. The good news is I finished the fence project Saturday, here is the drive by:
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUP53zVq1JQ
(If someone wants to show me how to embed a YouTube video I'd be glad for some instructions!)
The bad news is my daily driver has 318 thousand miles on it and needs a new motor. It has developed a drinking problem, both coolant and oil. I drive in excess of 600 miles a week and I’m feeding it over ten dollars in extra fluids extra per week right now. I must say with that many miles I can’t complain. Anyway, that will likely cut in to my available time for this project.
That being said, some progress has happened since my last update. First I fabricated the second radiator mount. I don’t know if I mentioned it at the time buy that extremely expensive radiator that I had made is twisted. In other words if you try to lay it flat on the floor the two tanks don’t lay flat at the same time. It’s like if you took the core by the ends and twisted it. It ended up about 3/8 of an inch out of whack. This means that after I fabbed the mount, the holes were in the wrong place. The core was a bit wide as well. Here is how it looked:
So I added some material and drilled new holes. I doesn’t look pretty but it works.
Something else that happened along the way is one of my back tires has began to self destruct. Although I wasn’t going to use the 19.5 wheel/tire combo I’m still disappointed:
Stay tuned, more to come.
-Richard