Yep. One of these days I will be able to build another car with all the junk I have stuck under the bench. Not quite sure what it will look like, though.:eek::LOL:Quote:
Originally Posted by 53 Chevy5
Printable View
Yep. One of these days I will be able to build another car with all the junk I have stuck under the bench. Not quite sure what it will look like, though.:eek::LOL:Quote:
Originally Posted by 53 Chevy5
Done. got the rear switched to coil overs. It got to be more of a pain that I thought just because of the moving of cross braces but it turned out nice. I remembered to put on hanger brackets for my tail pipes so I am learning this pre planing thing :LOL: I have rear disks now and I don't really know if that a big deal or not. Tonight we loaded it on the trailer and it's off to get carpet and a rear behind the seat panel put in while I finish up the box and some other misc things.
That turned out nice.
I agree, came out real nice.
That looks great! I wish I could say I got mine done over the weekend too. :LOL:
Thanks guys, I have the pickup at the upholstery shop now. I'm not sure how this is going to go when I actually get it on the road and finished. I was just trailering it though town and I had to beat the people away so I could leave :LOL: So far everybody loves the color and my upholstery guy asked my permission to put it on his website when he gets done with it. I kinda got a big head about it till i realized my wife chose the color, the body shop painted it and, I hired the interior work done. :LOL:
Haven't done any work on the box while its gone though. I ended up looking at a car in Sioux Falls for my youngest and checking over a 02 Taurus for my oldest. I would take some pics but it's a brown Taurus, I didn't want to damage the site :D
Seth, don't beat yourself up too bad. There's a heck of a lot of other stuff that goes into building a project besides paint, interior, and the color. Not many people know all the little time consuming stuff that it takes to finish a rod or modified project. Was the Taurass a SHO? :LOL:
It's true, it was just kinda funny when I thought about it.I'm sure I have more hours into getting the doors to fit right that the body shop and the upholstery together.:LOL: No the Taurus isn't a SHO, this particular model is a POSQuote:
Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe
Brown sounds like an appropriate color....:eek::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:Quote:
Originally Posted by 53 Chevy5
Tonight my middle boy was riding four wheeler and he had a rider on the back and had a bit of an accident. He was going too fast on our gravel road and couldn't get stopped in time for the intersection and General Lee'd the four wheeler into the ditch nose planting it right in front of the barbed wire fence and his passenger Superman'd into the fence. Didn't turn out that great, my boy was fine but the rider had a metal knee brace from an ACL surgery and the brace blew apart and put a 2 inch wide hole in his leg by his groin. He will be Ok but he did get transferred to Sioux Falls so it was pretty serious. I was glad to see the four wheel destroyed because I had a dirt bike racer tell me if the bike is fine after a crash, the rider is hurt, if the bike is trashed the rider was usually ok. I'm sure this will be a good lesson for them both.
Sorry to hear about the accident. Glad to hear your boy is OK and the friend will be. As long as you can heal up afterward things like this are generally a really good (and hard earned) lesson (and yes I have first hand experience in that).
.
.
Did my share of Dukes of Hazard as a kid. Fortunately no one ever hurt, Glad the boys are o.k. Hope the one with the hole in his leg does o.k. What doesn't kill us usually makes us a bit wiser! ;)
Whew, that brings back memories. I'm glad to hear everyone will be alright. That could have been much worse. Fences are nasty to tangle with. Especially barbed wire. I've been in a few myself.
Wow that is scary! I hope the friend heals up quickly. And good that the son isn't hurt to bad.
Are you gonna fix the bike?
Or, make him wait for it?
.
I'm glad everyone came through with injuries that most likely will heal. Hope the ACL injury wasn't aggravated by the fall.
Like some others, I rode dirt bikes for many years when I was younger. Still have a few scars from those adventures.
Heard some more on the injury today, it was the knee brace for sure that got him. A rod of it entered by his groin and went all the way through his leg missing all the main arteries and important stuff stopping at the skin on the other side. He is still in the hospital which is good. From what I seen on the four wheeler, it is fixable. It needs a strut, lower a arm and hardware, fuel tank, foot platform,handle bar stuff, rim and front guard. That is from just looking at it with out taking anything apart, I'm sure there will be more. My boy is perfectly capable of fixing it and it is our all around go to four wheeler so I thing we'll fix it quickly. I only paid $700 for it but it sure is handy. I think this was lesson enough without adding to it.
I'm guessing it's bad enough on him that he hurt a good friend. Maybe it will slow him down? It worked for a few minutes when I was younger. :LOL:
What he said. It's called 'The School of Hard Knocks' and becomes 'Experience'.Quote:
Originally Posted by stovens
And if you don't learn from experience...you could die.
And yeah...I too have scars from motorbike accidents. Both two and four wheelers.
Four-wheelers?
Not for me - too many get killed on them each year here in NZ, sadly some get killed just 'having fun.
What I see around here is fatalities or very serious injuries from the 4-wheeler winding up on top of someone. They're not really intended to carry a passenger, but I see it all the time. Kid and his brother were riding double on an abandoned railroad right of way almost directly in front of my house and somehow wrecked. The younger brother (passenger)wasn't really hurt, but wound up on the bottom and couldn't breathe due to the weight. The other brother couldn't lift the machine and his brother suffocated. Tragic loss.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiwi37
I've thrown a dirt bike away on hill climbs or bad wheelies many times, but you can't get away from a 4-wheeler due to the rear width. Rider usually winds up getting the machine on top of him on the way down at least once, maybe several times before it all comes to a stop.
I think the quad-bike concept has a serious flaw that many fail to see. They are enormously popular and very useful, but for hi performance use they are IMO much more dangerous than 2-wheelers because people are lulled into a false sense of security due to the extra wheels.
Sorry for the OT comments. I'm really glad your situation wasn't more serious.
I agree on the weight problem. My largest four wheeler is a Polaris 325, the one that got wrecked.
Got the pickup back today for the time being. He was a long ways with the carpet and did a fantastic job with the cut and sewing on the hump. He has a tiny garage to do his work and my 53 was staying outside, well the weather took a turn for the worse with hail, and high wind with the threat of tornadoes in the forecast so I thought I better bring it home and get it inside. I'll put the pedals and column back in now so it can at least drive on the trailer instead of a winch.
Got any suggestions for a new gas pedal for me. I got a new POS from Ebay a long time ago and it looks like a Lokar but it is a piece of crap and it broke already. I need a good firewall mount pedal with a cable.
Carpet looks good, and so does the abs firewall cover.
Can't help any on the pedal....I usually source them out of a wrecking yard.
.
Speedway has a big selection - Shop Accelerator Pedals - Free Shipping @ Speedway Motors
I made this one for my T-bucket. Like you, I couldn't find a good heavy duty pedal that didn't cost a bunch. This was made from scrap stuff I had laying around.
The mount is a piece of reshaped square tubing. The arms are 1/2" rod and the spoon is a slug from a hole saw that I bent to shape. Simple, but it worked great and I was able to fit it where it needed to go, instead of trying to work around a ready made part.
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x...psobyecyxx.jpg
Isn't exactly what you asked for, but it's an option.
I agree with Mike, the carpet looks awesome as does the firewall cover.
Love the spoon pedal Hotrod46 has too!
The carpet looks great! I have an extra throttle pedal for a 72 Chevy I can send you if you want. It looks real similar to the 88-95ish ones. Maybe you can go to the junk yard and get one of these and make it work?
1995 96 97 98 CHEVY GMC TRUCK GAS PEDAL ASSEMBLY SIERRA 1500 3/4 3500 SUBURBAN
On the weather, I saw there were a couple of funnel clouds spotted by Fonda. I spoke with my friend yesterday and he said it was just north of his place. Another friend of mine that lives in Harlan shared a video on FB of a nasty storm moving across the sky. It was a tornado traveling but looked like a hurricane coming onto shore.
The power lines got blown down in our town and we were without power for 12hrs or so. My in laws lost a tree and a window, and my Dad lost a tree and it almost took out my 1972 in bed pick up camper. :LOL: And it's only May. Haha
Thanks for the offer, I tried one of the standard GM pedals b/f but it mounts too high in the pickup. I'll figure something out but later, bigger fish to fry on it right now. Them storms wreck a lot in a hurry. Neighbors cattle barn roof blew off and landed on the machine shed roof caving that in, then it got picked up again and wiped out his commodity shed.
Got the seat put back in to go to the upholstery shop again and got the pickup drive able again. The interior is really coming together, I can't wait for the seat to be recovered , that will be a few weeks yet though.
" I made this one for my T-bucket. Like you, I couldn't find a good heavy duty pedal that didn't cost a bunch. This was made from scrap stuff I had laying around.
The mount is a piece of reshaped square tubing. The arms are 1/2" rod and the spoon is a slug from a hole saw that I bent to shape. Simple, but it worked great and I was able to fit it where it needed to go, instead of trying to work around a ready made part."
Making my own is defiantly an option, Kinda stuck between this whole time vs money thing. The abs firewall cover was money well spent.
Finally got up the nerve to install my new tail gate latches, I always get nervous about welding things to new panels. I'm pretty happy how they turned out. I was going to weld a solid bead across the top just for looks but the latches are thinner than I thought. I burned a hold in one welding the pin to the housing, that took a bit to fix. I think I will use some seam sealer just to smooth out the top instead.
Put some more color on a bunch of misc parts and jammed the box. I was going to paint the fenders at the same time but the sealer didn't lay down as smooth as I liked so I'll sand them down a bit before I paint them. After this, the box is the last thing left to paint. Last week I was thinking about putting A/C in the shed window and yesterday the furnace was running keeping the shop up to temp. 40 deg with rain and gail force winds vs last weeks balmy 80 deg.
I hear you on the weird weather!!!! We wanted to avoid turning on the AC in the house but after sweating it out 1 night I told the wife that was enough. Then it was off and we had to turn the furnace on last night. I had the same thoughts of putting the window ac in the garage too. I did that last year and that is the ticket! The seat looks nice even if it isn't finished. The bed is looking great. I'm in the same boat with you as far as time VS money. I was going to build a throttle pedal too, but I'm just going to get another Lokar one. I have one int he Vette and it has worked awesome. Now, the POS china Lokar copy I had in it previously, didn't make 5 passes. Total garbage. Keep working at it, you're making a lot better progress than I!
We were all in that boat last week! Thursday night at 10 I jump outta bed and muscle the a/c unit into the window and flip it on 'cause it was 86 degrees in our bedroom.
Then Friday night we're running around shutting the windows 'cause the heater kicks on and it's barely 50 degrees out!
But the weekend was so nice I got a sunburn on my neck and ears from sitting in the field at the swap meet.
A/C is well worth the time and money. Instead of siting on a butt buggy in front of a fan, I actually get work done. Weather was perfect tonight for painting , mid to upper 60's right after a rain, no dust, it turned out real nice. I have an alignment scheduled for wed, box won't be on yet but that's ok. Saturday I hope to drive it to town with the box on and get the back spacing and tire fitment measured and get some rims and tires on the way. I'm trying to jam it all in this week because next week tues my youngest who is 14 and I are going to the Black Hills for the week for a little father-son time. Then the week after that it is Vacation Bible School from 6:30 to 9:00 Sun through Thur and I was asked to help out with that. Both of those things are a welcome break though. I reluctantly helped with VBS last year but I ended up loving it and hated to see it end. Those little kids are sure a lot of fun.
The fenders look very nice. Good for you with helping with VBS. Have fun in the black hills. That is a place on my list to take the kids before they are out of high school.
Seth, allow me to quote a Scripture from today's Bible reading which I believe is appropriate for your up coming Bible School from Proverbs 4:5-7
5 Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding.+
Do not forget, and do not turn aside from what I say.
6 Do not forsake it, and it will protect you.
Love it, and it will safeguard you.
7 Wisdom is the most important* thing,+ so acquire wisdom,
And with all you acquire, acquire understanding.+
VBS really is a great time and great learning for the kids, if you have a chance to help, I would sure recommend it. I've been to the Hills a few times, I really like it there, getting to be more of a tourist trap but it's still good. Thanks Whip for the Scripture, It I will be running it though my head and sharing it during VBS.
I got the box all ready to go, hopefully be painted tomorrow night. I took of work at noon to get it this far today, It's crunch time!
Looks great, I'm really liking your 'loud' paint!
Wish I had as much room to paint as you do.
Rich