Set me straight, as I'm getting confused.
Can you imagine my confusion, then?
Me, too, Ron. Me, too.
Bahaha.
These OE parts, you're buying, are they just ramdom parts. Are they for the 72 or the 76?
The 72 is going to be painfully stock and the 76 a restomod type driver, right.
I have all OE parts available for the 72, already, which will be a painful resto.
The OE parts depicted previously in this thread are for the 76, specifically, and yes it'll be a resto-mod driver.....to what extent it'll "resto" I can only assume that it'll inevitably morph into a "full" resto, but driven along the way, during the 72s major surgery and with disregard to some aspects of the OE form (like seats, seat belts, interior items)
Here's my plan for the 76.....all contingent upon clear title.
Address steering, the parts I now have, since tie rod is bent, tres are shot, and center has a lot of play. Will maintain the OE steering, since the lack of power steering isn't really as big of an issue as I thought it would be.
Keep it tractor-ish, as intended.
Address brakes, parts included in this shipment, too.
Both items are safety concerns, so planned to do before seeing road service, but the delay on titling has impacted the timeline to do the work.
A new local development has changed the planned timeline on 76 drivetrain work, so plan to address several other areas of concern, all at once and all with the benefit of a lift.
Have access to a well equipped shop with blasting and painting capabilities, operated by a professional, renowned diff builder whose been buying up all the local Pigs and 40s.
Spoke to him last week during a reconnaissance mission to see what Pigs he had, see what he had coming in, and to chit chat. During, discussed pulling axles, blasting, painting, resealing, using his faculties, but using the time it's on the lift to re-arch springs (see questions post next, cause I'm confused and consternating over a few things) and paint, pull driveshafts to balance, u joints, blast and paint.
After discussing this, he suggested, since most will be exposed, resealing the TC/tranny, "while I'm in there" which makes sense to me.
I've since considered pulling the tank, "while I'm in there" and having Oil Capital give it the full treatment.
After that, the immediate areas of concern are getting an OE carb (have emails in with Jim C. that included very, very, very little text, but lots of pictures.
) tune up, general PM.
Nice steering wheel, that's going on the 76, right.
Yes. Pighead or Ige confirmed correct for model year, wanted the blue for the 72 but wasn't correct, so figured this would beat the Grant wheel that's on the 76, now.
Dave dropped it by at 6:30 this morning on his way to Corpus, so he went well out of his way to get in my hands and I'm much appreciative of.
Think it'll clean up fine and no cracks anywhere I can see, so a big time score that he refused money for.
He wound up with the 40 top that came in the 71 parts Pig and will wind up with a bunch more "stuff" as a clear out the bay full of F and F.5 that I can't give away, elsewhere.
