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OK, a message to the Demolition Derby Drivers [ahem] professional certified fork lift operators at Pick 'N' Pull: STOP KILLING THESE DRIVE SHAFTS !!!
and here we struck out 0-3 with yet another fallen comrade! a blood red '93 Silverado but it takes more than that to defeat The Greg... so off to the next Pick n Pull across town |
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a mere 11 miles away at another junk yard we find this beauty in the back of a 1988 (I presume, I couldn't tell from the penmanship, so I took a pic of the VIN to decipher it later) pickup truck, already uninstalled and waiting for pick up
I hope I won't have to kick myself for not gettin' that plane jane lookin' transmission crossmember |
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Why not just take some measurements and have a drive line made for it from scratch? That is what I'd do if it was mine.
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that crossmember literally only had one measly hole in it and the trans bracket was shot, completely obligerated and torn apart
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honestly the point of this old truck ownership is doing things yourself and doing them on the cheap, if I had money to throw around I would be driving fill in the blank __________ truck!!! and where do you stop, hey we just bought a brand new drive line, ok, why not buy a brand new transmission, why drive 350 miles to buy an old one, ok we got a brand new drive line and a brand new transmission, why not buy a brand new crate motor, ok, we got a brand new DRIVE TRAIN, awesome, heck lets get a brand new diff, ok got all that new, we can't mount that to a used frame, lets get one of them brand new aluminum frames, ok got one, see what I mean, that's not what this build is about... |
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alright ~ More Partz ~
got some special transmission fluid for this gear box since I guess I ain't supposed to put regular gear oil in it well I dropped $950 on this thing and it's not like they grow on trees so proper fluid is just insurance that it won't blow up |
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alright so what came in the other box
well, what's better than one Series 40 FLOWMASTER muffler? ~ Hello me, it's me from the future. It's two years later (9/22/18) and you will never be able to get the dreaded drone out of these mufflers so you will sell em to your co-worker, don't feel bad for dumping them on him, he's a Ford guy, ha ha. ~ |
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You want to know a secret............... If I had a million dollars my 77 would still be my toy and my baby. No newer truck could ever fill her shoes and she deserves every dime I throw at her. |
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I love the sound of the 40 series. Those will make you smile when you finally put that truck back together. I got my 40 series used 10 years ago by the way. :) Who needs new parts anyway.
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That truck with flow 40s will be a basically weekend cruiser. The drone and noise coming out of it will be so obnoxious :lol:
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That's what's on my DD. I like 'em.
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no time like the present, lets make things green
pic 1 - primered pic 2 - first coat (I was taught that the first coats purpose / job is to make things tacky, simple as that, so sometimes fellers don't even expect a color change when you lightly coat the first coat) just sayin' pic 3 - second light coat pics 4 & 5 - third coat a bit heavier I think I went four coats on this, light, light, medium, medium, would have gone more but had many more parts to paint and needed the paint for them |
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I shot this top panel at the same time as the core, so it was painted exactly the same way four coats, light, light, medium, medium
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this may be the best pic I have so far of the final painted core and the top panel
the message here is don't touch it, don't mess with it, and by all means DON'T LET THE WIFE RUN THE DRYER (cause it vents right into our organic paint booth, ha ha) |
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with those two pieces out of the way, we moved on to the doo dadz
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and two more, I'm telling you there was a lot of small bits to this job
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Looks good ,great color .
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and finally the bottom panel, this piece is the one that actually should be green
I would be lying to you all if I didn't tell you that I was tempted to paint this one black, just to mess wichu all, ha ha FYI, so this was shot with Singe Stage (no base coat and top coat, just one coat with base and clear mixed together, aka the cheaper alternative) OMNI product, the baby brother of PPG, factory paint code match, good stuff |
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so glad that parts all over, and here's my reward... ~ PARTS ~
these are supposed to be the slide in plastic tabs that hold the plastic grill, not an exact match and it bothers me a bit, the originals are oval if I have to order the other ones it won't halt progress so I'm cool with that |
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now this is where the Fun Level spiked to an all time high, the HURST bolt on sitck base arrived, and I couldn't be happier nor more proud of myself for doing this right and I will have a proper genuine HURST shifter to show for it, so happy
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man the timing couldn't have been more perfect, the postman dropped off the Hurst parts as soon as I was done with painting, and although I was tired, I went right for it, had to replace that hockey slip-in base with the proper bolt-on type
here they are side by side with anatomies of both |
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then it was time to disassembly the stick itself, clean it properly by soaking the bits in Mineral spirits and cleaning them with a steel wire brush, and put it all back together with white lightning grease, man the action is so smooth on this baby now it's like a hair trigger, jk
love jobs like these, The Greg is so happy! |
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Great work as usual, can't wait to see the blacked-out trim out front of all the new green. About the Hurst shifter - were you kidding about it maybe hitting the dash?
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I'm impressed with the green paint and the match to the original color. I have done the same (using factory paint code to get color matched paint in a spray bomb) with mixed results. Typically, it seems as if the paint out of the can sprays too porous so my results have varied. Do you mind explaining more about what you are using? Maybe a pic of the spray can? Time between coats?
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we need to rebuild the actual Hurst shifter mechanism, but first let me take you back in time to show you how grimy she was when I bronged her home
so first we pop off the "dust" cover or the inspection plate, call it what you will, it lives below underneath the stick, and it was disgusting |
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I like that you painted the parts that were "supposed" to be black body color. I'm anxious to see it all together.
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so yeah with that bottom plate popped off here's what we see or I should say can't see in there (you may wanna put your sumich down before scrolling down, ha ha)
I think I already hit it with some WD40 and started the cleaning process |
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like I said these are some old pics from the archives, ha ha but I think its worth sharing on how we got here, I am so excited to finally work on this shifter and hopefully soon be enjoying it
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