[rusty76]

Once we got the truck back together it sat in the driveway for about a week to button up some details. Late one afternoon we were working on it trying to fix a starter problem. Our neighbor Jr. had came over to see what we were doing. My uncle was under the truck messing with the starter. He told me to start it and I did. Next thing I knew the truck was on fire..... The hot wire had laid across the manifold and melted. Started arcing and caused the fire. My uncle yelled, "Disconnect the battery!" My neighbor disconnected the battery and my uncle proceeded to put out all the little ground fires that were carrying on. Never seen so many little fires in one spot.

At the time of replacing the engine in the truck our state had changed emission laws and our county was one of the few at the time were it had to be smog tested. There was no smog equipment on the truck. There wasn't a cat, pump or anything. It even had points on it and not a HEI. This truck was an odd bird.

My uncle unknowingly took the truck down to the garage to get it inspected and they laughed at him and told him what he needed to do to get it inspected.
Well 300 bucks later it had a cat, pump and all the necessary stuff to make it pass smog only one problem though, the engine that was thought to be a 350 was actually a 400. This would lead to numerous problems along the way..