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Looks nice in those photos, by the time I got it the sun had destroyed it, all warped and faded unfortunately
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Looks nice in those photos, by the time I got it the sun had destroyed it, all warped and faded unfortunately
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Had a pretty rough weekend but tried to keep myself distracted by working on some things, got the brake booster, master cylinder, and the proportioning valve cleaned up and painted. Looks a lot better than it did!
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So moving forward with the engine bay, got all old or failing seam sealer off the firewall/cowl seams, removed any light corrosion that was there, sealed it with Corroseal, and then epoxy primer over that.
Next step is to lay down some new seam sealer, with this being an early 60 it didn't have the sealer around certain areas of the cowl so I'll be adding that too.
Pulled the engine out last night to make that job easier, once the sealer is done I'll be painting the firewall, fender liners, inner fenders, and hopefully the core supports. Going to go the route of Rustoleum enamel, muscle car guys have really goo luck with it, super tough once dry too. With this being a driver I'm not that concerned with the surface finish, plus its going to be my first time trying an actual paint gun. More to come...
Next step is to lay down some new seam sealer, with this being an early 60 it didn't have the sealer around certain areas of the cowl so I'll be adding that too.
Pulled the engine out last night to make that job easier, once the sealer is done I'll be painting the firewall, fender liners, inner fenders, and hopefully the core supports. Going to go the route of Rustoleum enamel, muscle car guys have really goo luck with it, super tough once dry too. With this being a driver I'm not that concerned with the surface finish, plus its going to be my first time trying an actual paint gun. More to come...
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Perfect time to update the motor mounts too. You will be much happier with a properly designed mount vs hockey puck
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Firewall/cowl seam sealed tonight, first time doing it and I'm pretty happy. Went on easy and smoothed it out nice, now can move onto paint once this has some time to harden up! Made sure to get all of the seams covered to avoid any future water in the cabin.
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Good progress getting the engine all cleaned up, putting on some parts that I painted a while ago. Its "new ford grey", similar to industrial grey just a small bit darker. Also cleaned and painted the steering shaft and box (no pics yet)
Progress feels good.
Progress feels good.
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Yesterday at work I grabbed some scrap stainless, sheared and bent it into a radiator shroud. Going to be running two 1,400 CFM 11 inch fans (one for high, one for low). The other holes you see are for air pressure release flaps, will open at speed and will close when stopped and fans are on for maximum efficiency. Will be using rivnuts for attaching everything, will make some tabs to hit the mounts on the radiator and weld those to the shroud.
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Big step done this weekend, got the firewall painted. The whole truck will eventually be white, so decided to paint the firewall now so that down the road I wont have to pull the motor to do it. I will also be doing the inner fenders, wheel tubs, core supports, and the lower section that holds the core support. That way once the engine is in, its in.
Took a page from the american muscle guys and used a rustoleum enamel for the paint. Its cheap, readily available, and super strong once dry so it can take some abuse. Sprayed it with a HF HVLP and it worked great and cleaned up easy.
Overall I'm happy with the results, I'm no professional but for an engine bay itll do!
Took a page from the american muscle guys and used a rustoleum enamel for the paint. Its cheap, readily available, and super strong once dry so it can take some abuse. Sprayed it with a HF HVLP and it worked great and cleaned up easy.
Overall I'm happy with the results, I'm no professional but for an engine bay itll do!
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Pretty good feeling getting the VIN tag riveted back on after a few years, good progress forward. Also got the front of the frame painted last night, will grab some pics later of it!
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Painted the front half of the frame using a satin enamel and its looking great. Once I can get it on the lift I'll be painting the rest. Also got the steering box back on, fresh and clean as well.
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Got back from the UAE yesterday, visited Dubai and Abu Dhabi, beautiful country with great people and amazing cars to boot! Saw plenty of cruisers, 200 and 300 series are plentiful thats for sure. You dont see as many 70 series as you'd expect! 100 series are pretty common (check the barn doors), only saw a single 80 series. Few pics below, saw a new 300 series GR, also went on a dune tour. The tour uses new 300s, with cages, and my god they beat the hell out of them, crazy ride you get in them!
Got home and some hardware I ordered arrived, fresh zinc plated JIS hardware just like factory. Will have to order some more in a longer size for a few things, but quality is really nice. Worked on getting the brake lines cleaned up and refinished today as well, will have those back in soon.
Got home and some hardware I ordered arrived, fresh zinc plated JIS hardware just like factory. Will have to order some more in a longer size for a few things, but quality is really nice. Worked on getting the brake lines cleaned up and refinished today as well, will have those back in soon.
Love the progress... keep it coming!
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Back from a short hiatus, was working on some other projects. Today got onto finishing up the rocker repair, at least finished short of a full repaint.
When I left off I had finished off the metal work and primed it, today I did a light skim coat and got it smoothed out really nice, then primed, and finally painted with some yellow paint I had laying around. I'm in no way a body guy so I'm very satisfied with my work!
Heres the process in photos
When I left off I had finished off the metal work and primed it, today I did a light skim coat and got it smoothed out really nice, then primed, and finally painted with some yellow paint I had laying around. I'm in no way a body guy so I'm very satisfied with my work!
Heres the process in photos
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So recently cleaned up and painted my brake lines, went to get them on the firewall and all of the plastic isolators in the mounts were wooped, also I no longer have a clutch line so I would have an extra slot. So I used one for measurements and drew one up in solidworks, sent the STL file over to my buddy and he printed them up for me. Prefect fit to boot! very happy with the results, printed with ABS so should be okay with the heat.
Lines and brake booster in...
Also got the door back on now that I had the rocker fixed.
Also started prepping some of the radiator support and the fender tubs for paint, goal is to have a nice and clean engine bay inside this ugly yellow truck!
Lines and brake booster in...
Also got the door back on now that I had the rocker fixed.
Also started prepping some of the radiator support and the fender tubs for paint, goal is to have a nice and clean engine bay inside this ugly yellow truck!
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Wheel tubs painted tonight, laid down over the prep work I did last night. Overall pretty happy with how its going using the HF spray gun, clean up sucks but thats part of it lol
Will do new undercoating on the inside later this week. Also started prepping the radiator support sections, tedious process on those.
Will do new undercoating on the inside later this week. Also started prepping the radiator support sections, tedious process on those.
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Spent pretty much the full day on the truck today, mainly prepping panels for paint which I'm hoping to do in the morning.
Also got some new undercoating on the insides on the fender tubs and then also stripped down and refinished the headlight buckets.
Also got some new undercoating on the insides on the fender tubs and then also stripped down and refinished the headlight buckets.
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Headlight buckets all put back together, spent a lot of time in the morning Monday painting, issues with my gun slowed me down but made great progress. Hoping to work on that some more tonight, will have some photos at least!
Can’t believe I’ve missed this build, nice work being done. What did you use for the undercoating? I want to do something similar on mineSpent pretty much the full day on the truck today, mainly prepping panels for paint which I'm hoping to do in the morning.
Also got some new undercoating on the insides on the fender tubs and then also stripped down and refinished the headlight buckets.
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Thanks! I used Wurths undercoating, coming from a German car background I've used their stuff a lot with great results.
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So something I've been working on over the course of the winter has been developing the wiring for the truck itself as well as the engine and all of the ancillary items that come along with it.
I've put many hours learning and then developing the schematics to make this happen, and soon I will be putting turning it all real. The start of all of this came from deciding what I wanted to do for the engine harness, systems like the Holley Terminator are great systems but I just couldn't justify the cost for the essentially stock 5.3/4l60 going in. Any adjustments needed will be able to be done on the stock PCM and will be more than sufficient.
So with that said I started looking at companies like PSI who offer harnesses that when all said and done are $600+ and you still have the same ugly and cheap fuse and relay block that you get on a $99 ebay harness, again not seeing the value for my needs meet my expectations in quality.
So this is what I've landed on, my decision allows me to build what I want, get the options that I want in it, with the quality components that makes the final product meet my expectations. I don't want to completely reinvent the wheel here so I'm starting with an ebay harness as my base building block, this essentially gets me the wire I need with a basic layout already started, and most of the connectors that I will be using. From there adding items like Bussman RTMRs for the main relay panel as well as a secondary fuse panel for current needs and future additions. With those I will be using Blue Sea products for grounding, GEP sealed relay housings for larger relayed circuits like the cooling fans, and some marine grade breakers for the main connection to the battery.
I want to make this extremely modular for easy removal and to make it easy to add circuits down the road, this will be done with more seal Aptiv connectors to stay consistent with those on the engine already. I have also designed a full AC control circuit as well as provisions for cruise control, DBW, and the TCC circuit. A NSS and reverse light harness has been built already too. Trying to get ahead of this to make it as well thought out as possible when it comes time to build.
I've got sheets and sheets of schematics laid out in CAD, below is just one example of the two main Bussman RTMRs. I have been building a supplemental "manual" so down the road if issues pop up I wont be left trying to remember what I did, this includes the electrical and mechanical side of things that have changed with the swap.
More to follow up with on this, I'm hoping to get all of this information somewhere when its completed as its quite in depth. Just the begining of this process, very excited for the stage to come.
I've put many hours learning and then developing the schematics to make this happen, and soon I will be putting turning it all real. The start of all of this came from deciding what I wanted to do for the engine harness, systems like the Holley Terminator are great systems but I just couldn't justify the cost for the essentially stock 5.3/4l60 going in. Any adjustments needed will be able to be done on the stock PCM and will be more than sufficient.
So with that said I started looking at companies like PSI who offer harnesses that when all said and done are $600+ and you still have the same ugly and cheap fuse and relay block that you get on a $99 ebay harness, again not seeing the value for my needs meet my expectations in quality.
So this is what I've landed on, my decision allows me to build what I want, get the options that I want in it, with the quality components that makes the final product meet my expectations. I don't want to completely reinvent the wheel here so I'm starting with an ebay harness as my base building block, this essentially gets me the wire I need with a basic layout already started, and most of the connectors that I will be using. From there adding items like Bussman RTMRs for the main relay panel as well as a secondary fuse panel for current needs and future additions. With those I will be using Blue Sea products for grounding, GEP sealed relay housings for larger relayed circuits like the cooling fans, and some marine grade breakers for the main connection to the battery.
I want to make this extremely modular for easy removal and to make it easy to add circuits down the road, this will be done with more seal Aptiv connectors to stay consistent with those on the engine already. I have also designed a full AC control circuit as well as provisions for cruise control, DBW, and the TCC circuit. A NSS and reverse light harness has been built already too. Trying to get ahead of this to make it as well thought out as possible when it comes time to build.
I've got sheets and sheets of schematics laid out in CAD, below is just one example of the two main Bussman RTMRs. I have been building a supplemental "manual" so down the road if issues pop up I wont be left trying to remember what I did, this includes the electrical and mechanical side of things that have changed with the swap.
More to follow up with on this, I'm hoping to get all of this information somewhere when its completed as its quite in depth. Just the begining of this process, very excited for the stage to come.
