Thread: Th350 experts needed....help!!!

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Better call Coker and get another pair of 'stones on the way.

Congrats Danny, been a long road, but here you be....

YEP, I saw it with my own eyes and Dan even let me slip behind the wheel for a spin around the block near our shop. To say this thing is powerful is a major understatement It looks and sounds awesome and Dan deserves it to be sure. WooHOO. Now I have to figure out how to get a 460 Ford in my T to keep up
Awesome Dan,
Don Jr.

Congrats to all of you! Wish I was closer to FL so I could see this one!

I stopped by the shop this morning and the tire tracks look even scarier in the daylight.........hope our landlord doesn't get PO'd!

Don

looks like you need another 1/2 psi in the right rear!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

looks like you need another 1/2 psi in the right rear!!!!!!!

I noticed that too. Could have also been my fat butt in the passenger seat.

Don

there are some areas where grease can ooze out and the modern syn fluids are bad--

Grease can leak thru the splines and behind the pinion nut.
Can leak from one of the five bolts holding the pinion housing if the bolt hole is open to rear

Can leak around the 10 studs---back in the 50s these bolts had copper washers under the nuts to seal plus can ooze thru the threads of the studs and nuts

I don't think any of it would of necessitated paying a bunch of freight'shipping to return it.

Well, since it was a brand new unit we wanted the guy who built it and warranteed it to have first crack at correcting the problem, that's why we went back to him. Plus, Ft. Myers is like a ghost town when it comes to GOOD speciality shops to do things like setting up rear ends, we have to go elsewhere all the time to get stuff done.

As for the synthethic gear lube, we didn't use it. The builder specifically said not to, so we used what he recommended, Valvoline 80-90 plus the Motorsport additive, which he supplies in the crate with every unit.

Bottom line, something was screwed up with that first one, and also with the one in my 27. The new one in Dan's car is not leaking a drop but the first one was leaking fluid out a few minutes after we filled it. The car literally sat there for 15 minutes and we saw the first puddle under the rear. Mine held up for 300 miles and is now dripping pretty good, so I am going to pull the whole thing and find someone locally to fix it. But that will have to wait until we get this weekend out of the way............I want nothing to get in the way of Dan's car going to Billetproof.

Don

Congrats!!! I knew you guys would make it...cr

Thanks, CR, I don't want to speak too soon, but I think you are right about us making it. Monday night it didn't look like it though. Dan started the car up after doing some work to the fan controller and it wouldn't idle.....kept dying. We fiddled around a little and pulled the plugs but they looked ok, had 6 lbs fuel pressure, and everything looked as it should. He drove it around the block and it would clean out a little at higher rpms, but would still die at idle. It was late, so we called it a night figuring we would look further Tuesday night.

Last night Don came over to help us and he knows this tripower setup like the back of his hand because he owned it for years before selling it to Dan. We guessed we had a flooding problem from the way it was acting, so Don and I took off the top of the center carb while Dan worked on some other stuff on the car. What we found was lots of trash in the bowl, it looked like grinding dust. Dan had these carbs rebuilt by All American Carburetor in 2006 and they have been sitting unused in the shop ever since. Evidently, dust from working in there got into all three carbs and was plugging up the jets.

We cleaned the insides completely, blew out the jets, and put everything back together. When we turned the key it fired up and ran better than it ever has. Really glad Don was off last night and able to take care of these for us.

I picked up the grille shell and cowl vent door today from the body shop. They did a fantastic job and the baking in the booth really made the paint match the rest of the car very well. So tonight Dan and I will install the grille shell, mount the nerf bars (don't have time to get them chromed so they will be bare steel) and a couple of minor things. The to do list is very short, and hopefully Friday we can leave for Billetproof. Once we get this weekend out of the way our plan is to get in bed early and take a long breather before we tackle any more projects............we are burned out from the last couple months of thrashing to make this show.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

......... mount the nerf bars (don't have time to get them chromed so they will be bare steel) ..................Don

Ya know, a loving father would spend endless hours sanding and polishing the steel to a chrome like finish so they'd look better for the big debut.................just sayin'.....................

Congratulations! All the hours of hard work paid off! Couldn't have happened to a nicer crew too!

Congrats guys you earned your rewards . Not to rush you but what are you building next??????

Congratulations, Dan! It's great when others see the results of hard work and find it worthy of recognition and awards. You've got a fantastic truck, and it's been great to see it come together, and now to be "The Best".

Congrats!!!! It looks to be a beauty!