Ice cream getter

[Low Elco]

I use clear plastic tube and a painters pail. Pop a hole in the pail by the lip interference sized for the hose and insert approx 2-3 ft of hose. Warm the hose with a heat gun to relax the curl in it. Put the bucket on the floor and pop the hose on the nipple on the caliper. Bleed brake. Cool part is, you can see how much air is in your fluid. Works fer me! Looks great! Hose available at OReilly's.
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[SONOSADSACK]

Any opinions about using silicone brake fluid rather than the typical DOT type?

[SONOSADSACK]

Little more progress today. Nothing beyond routine maintenance type stuff like seals, bearings, pads and rotors but progress.






Best part… I have a roller! And this time around it should stay together.

[jaros44sr]

Originally Posted by SONOSADSACK

Any opinions about using silicone brake fluid rather than the typical DOT type?

It wont ruin that beautiful paint you laid down, plus it wont hold moisture. Im thinkin of using it, if i ever get there

Nice work!

[TonyJohnson]

Man, that's a great build. Just read the entire thread and I know it must feel like forever, but you're doing GREAT work. I've been trying to work on mine as a daily driver and it just doesn't cut it. The paint color is really nice. Is the top going to match? No one ever answered Tony's question about the low back seats on the other green truck. Those looked awesome...

[SONOSADSACK]

More progress this weekend. I ran all new brake line from inline tube. Fortunately I didn’t dump my old lines because inline doesn’t supply ANY documents to help determine what goes where. I am still looking for pictures or a diagram showing which holes along the frame rail are to be used for the mounting clips. Speaking of clips, I’ll be using the originals because what came from inline was not right.



I did a very quick and simple project of junk to helpful. A caliper, axle shaft, 1 ½” PVC, light fixture and a couple of bolts, nuts and washers. Fasten the PVC to the light, slide the PVC on the axle and plug it in. Very stable but with a small foot print mobile light. Worked great while buffing,




I also finished up wet sanding and buffing. I had put finishing the quarters off as long as possible. Once they were finished I couldn’t resist seeing what body on frame would look like. I was also anxious to see how the tire was going to line up with the wheel well as I had the centering pins moved back two inches when the leaf springs were made. I think all turned out OK.

[Low Elco]

Oooweeeeee! Awesome! I like your light fixture, too. I may have to do one myself. Truck is gorgeous, I love the wheels and color.
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[Bomp]

Nice Nice NICE !
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[SONOSADSACK]

My first attempt at posting a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39xMnuZlRNU

[SONOSADSACK]

Ok, that didn’t work. Any way I was curious and I have always wanted to do this. Not a beast but it’ll do... FOR NOW

[Low Elco]

That oughta be fun! Hold them cones, kids!
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[Low Elco]

Well? Any progress? Ice cream season's a-comin!
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[SONOSADSACK]

A little…. Tub back off. Motor, transmission and transfer case are together and in. Tub back on. I also stripped all three seats and had the frames, mounts and all hardware sand blasted and powder coated along with the brake pedal assembly and a hand full of other small items. The seat frames and new foam buns are all now at the upholstery shop and will hopefully be home within the next couple of weeks. I started installing a new wire harness and some of this under dash, glued on the firewall, fits like crap but will look OK once the truck is fully together and don’t notice it anyway, cardboard stuff. The ash tray I ended up using was the nicest I had but the inside was very pitted after sand blasting. With nothing to lose I decided to try to a few different finishes to try and hide the pit ugliness. After trying black wrinkle finish, black chip guard, and then silver hammered finish I tried trunk spatter with light green fleck. Looks odd in the picture but I like my new little trunk.

I also drug yEloise home from her winter sleep

[jaros44sr]

Ty, very nice work...you wont notice that carboard since your eye will be drawn to all the other nice looking parts

One of my fav. engines to look at, can you take a closer pic, when you get a chance. I need a new wallpaper for my tablet

[SONOSADSACK]

jaros44sr, as soon as it’s all together I'll snap a picture.

Update time. I am swapping out my old standard column with a tilt unit I purchased with a bunch of miscellaneous parts. It was tight but otherwise in pretty cruddy condition. So… I stripped it down, replaced anything that may have been broken, repacked the bearings and made it all pretty again.

[SONOSADSACK]

I also picked up a new wheel. I tend to prefer understated or plain as opposed to flashy. Needless to say I will be de-chroming the adapter and the back side of the wheel itself.

[Low Elco]

Purdy purdy! Comin right along!
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[SONOSADSACK]

Jaros44sr – It didn’t go too bad but I cheated. I had my laptop with me and referenced a few good sites from this here web. Mainly this one of course. I can relate to the level of difficulty time can add to reassembly though.

JJH Jimmy – good luck with the column. Kind of a pain in the butt. The spray in liner I used is a SEM product called Rock-it Liner. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnBjLzTyYi0) I have no idea how well it will hold up but I have had good luck with other SEM products in the past.

Low Elco – thanks, I’m looking forward to seeing some LBT action. Soon?

Bomp – I haven’t checked in on your progress in a while. WOW! Nice, very nice. BTW after reading some of your work last night I stood up from the couch and bam! Doc says I have a stretched tendon in my foot which is allowing the bones to separate from one another and pop out of joint. Short story is I’m off my feet for a week and if the tendon doesn’t shrink I’ll need to be carved up a bit. I seriously had a vision of me hopping around on a peg in my garage flash through my head when it happened.

[jaros44sr]

Originally Posted by SONOSADSACK

Jaros44sr – It didn’t go too bad but I cheated. I had my laptop with me and referenced a few good sites from this here web. Mainly this one of course. I can relate to the level of difficulty time can add to reassembly though.

JJH Jimmy – good luck with the column. Kind of a pain in the butt. The spray in liner I used is a SEM product called Rock-it Liner. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnBjLzTyYi0) I have no idea how well it will hold up but I have had good luck with other SEM products in the past.

Low Elco – thanks, I’m looking forward to seeing some LBT action. Soon?

Bomp – I haven’t checked in on your progress in a while. WOW! Nice, very nice. BTW after reading some of your work last night I stood up from the couch and bam! Doc says I have a stretched tendon in my foot which is allowing the bones to separate from one another and pop out of joint. Short story is I’m off my feet for a week and if the tendon doesn’t shrink I’ll need to be carved up a bit. I seriously had a vision of me hopping around on a peg in my garage flash through my head when it happened.

That one plate that had to be just right around the shift tube was really a PIA, cant believe it fit...i was tempted to file it down alittle

[SONOSADSACK]

Definitely the most difficult piece in the reassembly. Especially without scratching anything.

[jaros44sr]

Originally Posted by SONOSADSACK

Definitely the most difficult piece in the reassembly. Especially without scratching anything.

Yep, thats the one that came to mind....couldnt find my service manual fast enough to get the name of the part. There is only one way that part will fit in there, even the curvature of the part is there for a reason. I fiddled with that piece for hours

I mounted the column in the truck and assembled from there

[Low Elco]

There are some things in the hopper, but I'm not at liberty to say just yet.
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[Low Elco]

All looks good! Slap that sucker together!
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[SONOSADSACK]

jaros44sr
“Seats look great, are they OEM?”
Yes, they are the original three seats out of the Blazer. They took FOREVER to get back from the upholsterer but I am very happy with them. I’ll post more pictures of them once they are ready to be installed.
“What stripper did you use on the console?”
I think her name was Kandi. JK! I don’t know anything about that!! I actually only had to strip one and only because someone had already changed color once. I used soapy water, a red scotch brite pad and lots of elbow grease.
“What’s the plans for the Camaro, stock, modified, or something else?”
Not sure. It’s so original I really would have a hard time modifying anything in a way that couldn’t easily be put back to stock. Maybe old school big block and four speed? Then again… I like an LS turbo six speed package too! Time will tell. Blazer first though or I may be living in the Camaro.

mtully79
“She is looking good!”
Thanks
“I like the SEM liner in the wheel wells, wanted to do that myself so thanks for the product shout out.”
I better be able to tell you next summer how well it holds up but until then I can only say it’s nice to look at.
“What electric fan setup did you use?”
Entropy. Again, I can’t say how well they work but as far as the construction goes, they seem to be built well.
“My truck wants to overheat when sitting in beach traffic.”
Virginia Beach? I spent many weekends there in the early 80s as a young teen. I’ll bet things have changed a bit since? I lived in Chesapeake as my stepdad was in the Navy at the time. I was just another transplant in the area. Now you got the memories going!

Low Elco
“All looks good! Slap that sucker together!”
I’m a slappin! Spring will be here before I know it. HMMM, I think I said that before too!

[mtully79]

The beach has been good to me. I'm a transplant too, came down from NYC 8 years ago. Can't wait to see the finished product, it's been a fun build to watch!