1930 Chevy sedan build thread...trying for 3K.

[buckroseau]

Managed to get some work done on the chubby this week, mostly Friday and Saturday afternoon today.

I had my neighbor over Friday night giving me a hand with brake bleeding. I had to re-flare a couple ends because of a little leaking. Once we got that taken care off I finally got my brakes working. I had a few misc. little things to wrap up this morning, but later in the afternoon I managed to get it started. After some cam break in period and a little carb tuning it ran amazingly well, pops right off as soon as you hit the starter button. Did a triple check on the important stuff and decided to take it for a little spin. I live about 4 miles out of town, on the way into town on the highway I only got it up to about 40 mph. This rig seems like it's going to take some getting used to. It also didn't help that the tranny kept slipping out of 3rd gear and going into neutral. I could wiggle the shifter and get it to catch a gear again, but I'm begining to think I know why this truck had been parked in a shed the last 20 years. I stopped at a store and picked up a little transmission mechanic in a can and poured that in....took a pic while I was there out in the parking lot also . Drove around for a bit and headed for home. On the way home the tranny started to shift pretty well and stayed hooked up in all the gears. Might be a combination of the tranny getting used again and the trans-medic, but for now seems to be working....we'll see if it stays that way? But, for $200 bucks for a motor and tranny, can't expect much else?

Also took a pic of a quick tranny cover I made just for the center section for now. Just so I didn't put my hand into the driveshaft.

Hoping to get some more little stuff tomorrow done, I might also spend a good portion of the day cleaning my shop...it looks like a bomb went off in there

Matt