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Despite the rear axle not actually being bolted to the leaf springs, I was able to roll her out and let her get a little sun today for the first time! I was also able to get the rear driveshaft installed and parking brake cables installed, along with a much needed cleaning with the backpack...

Pretty stoked about this. Sitting back on her own weight finally with minimal paint damage too, now I just need the u bolts.

Finished painting the axle today. Should get it back underneath this weekend.

Part numbers for the energy suspension bushings are as follows: 3.2124 1 1/2 for aft spring 3.2125 1 3/4 for forward spring 3.2126 1 3/8 for the frame to shackle Not sure why the bottom box in the picture has that weird part number on it.

Finally got all my spring bushings in the mail today. Today I got the rear spring shackle hangers installed with some new 7/16-14 grade 8 fasteners and I was also able to get the rear springs installed. I went ahead and drilled everything out on the frame to 7/16” since that’s what the ORD drop...

I’m not sure how I’m going tackle this yet. It is certainly an interesting design. The grounding path for the horn relay travels (electrically, not physically) through the steering shaft, not the steering column itself. So it will either find a path through the upper or lower bearings, or it can...

Apparently the steering shaft is supposed to be grounded through the steering box. When I jumper around the rag joint from the shaft flange to the steering box side flange it works fine, then if I remove the jumper it is intermittent. It also works when the steering wheel is locked with the key...

So come to find out, the horn is grounded through the steering box to the frame. Figured that out yesterday. Odd.

Yes, sir I understand what you are saying. My concern is: the reason that the process you described above changes the steering wheel position is because it changes the pitman arm position. This means that I will be sacrificing steering ability in one direction, and gaining that ability in the...

The adjusting sleeves won’t change the position of the steering gear (pitman arm) relative to the steering wheel position. What I need to do is get the front end off the ground and cycle the steering to ensure that if I straighten the wheel using the drag link adjustment that it won’t bind the...

I’m having a hard time understanding the steering wheel straightening process. On this particular setup there is only one way to attach the steering wheel to the steering column top, one way to attach the intermediate shaft to the steering column bottom, and one way to attach the intermediate...

Got the drag link rebuilt and cleaned up and also the steering shaft disassembled and re-greased. These won’t be getting paint, just a light coat of oil. That picture of the grease boot shows a clump of grease that I pulled out of it. Crazy, it was like clay. The other one was still grease like.

10 gallons. Theoretically should read 1/2. Not a good trend that 5 gallons indicated less than 1/4 and 10 gallons indicates greater than 1/2 but we’ll see what happens.

Bad news. In hindsight I should have just left it alone because there wasn’t anything wrong with it. I was replacing the old ball joint in the center of the double cardan joint on the front driveshaft. There is a special tool for this job which I don’t have so I welded a nut onto the old ball...

Attacked the front driveshaft today. Made a bunch of little blue snakes. It’s like those black snake things you used to get at the firework stand lol. Burned out the factory u-joints and Spicers will be going back in just like the originals, except with grease fittings. Looks like a war zone at...

Working on the tie rod. This is high quality steel, which is why I try to stay with original equipment when possible. 36 year old steel (at least).

Here is a pic of the fuel tank o-ring seal and metal ring part number. Also I took a picture of that Chinese speedo. Notice the extra digit and something else I noticed: look closely at the original gage. It says “CHEV” at the very top. It’s hard to see in the pic because this one is installed...

Got the instrument panel finished up today. I had to replace the speedometer because the one that was there wasn’t responding. Come to find out it was an aftermarket one from china. I thought it looked weird but couldn’t figure out what it was, then I realized that it had an extra number, so you...

Wow I've never seen a battery powered hytorc. Ive used a hydraulic one before, but a portable battery powered unit is very cool. You've got to be careful with those things, they can do damage very quickly!

Got the exhaust cleaned up today. I’m not gonna paint the carbon steel parts. In my experience painting exhaust is like wiping your arse with a hula hoop.