cps432
SILVER Star
Good work! I drove a ‘66 ford 100 stepside pickup in highschool. I learned to drive in that thing. Had no power steering. My assigned parking space at school required me to parallel park daily... with no PS. I got really good at it. If I wasn’t racing BMX at the time I probably wouldn’t have been able to muscle that thing into place. The clutch was a bear to work too. How I managed that truck is beyond me... lolRight! many more small updates- been pulling off parts to do rust prevention and general cleaning, I found a trouble spot on the frame where the PO welded a hanger or something for the exhaust that let rust sneak in unfortunately, but I think it'll be addressable before its a problem. My new exhaust went in pretty easy and its so nice to be able to hear myself in and around the cruiser. The engine definitely sounds like a sewing machine now that i can hear more than a dull roar, so much so that I went and found other videos of 2f's running to make sure the tick noise I can hear isn't a problem- I don't think it is, but ima keep a ear out while doing the new head gasket break in and adjust the valves each time I do that too.
We took our first drive and for the most part it went great, between better compression and the new carb it feels like it has a good amount more power than before, but coming back onto my street the steering bound up hard while turning left and it didn't let go until I pulled the ebrake hard to stop us before hitting my neighbors house(YIKE) gonna look into that next before the other million projects. She still doesn't have power steering because honestly I didn't really care about it- there was some novelty to driving a big 80' suv without it, and Im mildly strong enough to steer without issue. but that probably wasn't smart. Gonna rebuild the steering box, replace the seized PS pump (I have a used OEM one from a junkyard, but I'm heavily looking at the Saginaw conversion- may do that and send the steering box to west texas to be rebuilt and hydrotapped. I have a spare steering box im gonna attempt to rebuild myself, one of the many treasures that the PO left in the blue cruiser. been soaking the tie rods, steering box and any other linkages in penetrating oil to tackle it soon as I can.
I've been in Texas working and got back yesterday, started it to move to a different spot in the yard to keep the grass fresh and even sitting for 40ish days it kicked on immediately. its still a brick in the yard for now, but its still my favorite brick.