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Originally Posted by techinspector1

Reminds me of MLK's speech....

You guys crack me up...

I took a day off and kicked some butt on this thing yesterday; I hope to test fire the motor today if I can finish a few more things. I got the front end back on and mounted the radiator after building some brackets. I'm going to try a flex fan and see if that will keep it cool. It's a fairly stock engine other than a few bolt ons so I'm hoping it will. Plug wires and hoses are all on, new aluminum 3/8" fuel line run to the back and I've got the tank painted and ready to go back in, trans cooler mounted back in the frame, inside and engine wiring done other than hooking up a few small things and cleaning it all up, all the rear light cans painted and back in, headlights in; it was a pretty productive day over all.

And another...I need to clean the shop BAD when this is done; what a huge mess.

The van is really coming along nicely Falcon!!! Gonna be a way big fun ride when it's finished and kruizin'!!!!! As for a good old fashioned garage clean-up, put mine on the list, too...what a mess!!!! Oh well, getting lots of work done on the '36!

Add me to the spring cleaning list. Looks great Falcon.

I finally did get it to a point where I could test fire; finished the fuel tank with a new sending unit, got it in and wrapped up some other small stuff. The battery was dead so I took advantage of the moment and cleaned the shop for three hours while it charged. Still a long way to go but I'm not falling over eveything now. i've got fuel coming up out of the rear air horn on the carb and it'll try to fire but wont. Sound like a float adjustment? Time to quit for today; lots of holiday honey do's to attend to. You guys have a great memorial day!

If it's not the float adjustment it could be the rubber O ring on the needle and seat.

Originally Posted by NTFDAY

If it's not the float adjustment it could be the rubber O ring on the needle and seat.

It ended up being a float adjustment; I got it fired up for the first time tonight. The motor sounds great and all the vitals look good; i forgot just how sweet an open headered big block sounds!

Vids Vids Vids you tube em up and link em here Falcon I gotta hear this truck . Man have you done I would say one of the largest projects I have ever seen .

You got it, Bobby. I'll have to have my son show me how to do it; never posted a vid before.

Here's your video, Bobby. I dropped the driveshaft off this morning to get shortened and am working on building some stands for the seats, exhaust, and getting the brakes hooked up. I've got a friend doing some body work on the hood for me; it had a few too many wrinkles for me to tackle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsw3Mbte7NE

Hey Falconvan that sounds JUST AWESOME... Sorry about yelling at you but I had not turned the volume down and got a real good blast listening to your big baby firing up... good one and you are getting closer to D day..

Originally Posted by falconvan

It ended up being a float adjustment; I got it fired up for the first time tonight. The motor sounds great and all the vitals look good; i forgot just how sweet an open headered big block sounds!

Hummm-maybe "I-Scream" as nice as it is turning out should get top billing in a avatar pic change.

Originally Posted by falconvan

Here's your video, Bobby. I dropped the driveshaft off this morning to get shortened and am working on building some stands for the seats, exhaust, and getting the brakes hooked up. I've got a friend doing some body work on the hood for me; it had a few too many wrinkles for me to tackle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsw3Mbte7NE

Woooooohoooo! Always a great sound to hear! Congrats. Nice throaty sound to your engine.

There you go, Gary. That'll work good for some before/after views. I got word from the drive shaft shop and it'll be ready tomorrow. I decided to start building some seat stands; I needed to know the orientation of the seat so I knew where to put the shifter. I dug through my scrap pile and found some steel plate and some 2 1/2" x 1/2" bar stock left from when I had some old elevators updated, two old pump stands for some hot water circulating pumps from an old boiler I had replaced, and some misc angle iron. Here's what I came up with. Sorry about the pics, a couple came out blurry for some reason.