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10-18-2015 09:33 AM #11
Just a small update, sorry it's late but I find myself looking on here less and less these days.
Not much I'm afraid as I'm at the arduous & tedious body work stage.
I wasn't entirely happy with the bolts at the front of the intake so changed them for studs & castle nuts, I machined in a pilot on the studs as it makes the nuts easy to start and has a nice finished look to them.


While I was there I fitted a direct temp gauge into the water runner, it's tight on clearance but fits snugly.


I also bought a Fenton fuel block back from the states which matches the Fenton intake nicely, fitted it with brass fittings to match the rest of the hardware on the truck, it sits on the firewall behind the blower which made the Marshall pressure gauge hard to see so a quick rummage through my spare fittings box and I found a 45 degree elbow, now it just pokes out from behind the blower and can be seen easily.


I didn't want to use modern jubilee clips on this build and really liked the look of Wittek thumb screw tower clamps as they look old and dead cool but they were really difficult to find but luckily somebody I know in the US put me onto someone that collects them (yes a very interesting old chap) and while on holiday I paid him a visit, unbelievable !!! He had tens of thousands of them !!! No cars just Wittek clamps !!!
After a bit of persuasion he said he would sell me some as long as I was putting them on an old car, I showed him a pic of my truck and everything was cool , I didn't mention it was fibreglass.
They are all stainless and hopefully I've got all the sizes I need.

.Its aweful lonesome in the saddle since my horse died.





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