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I miss working on the truck. My home has a rotten wood problem that is taking a long time to fix. I have a half day here and there in on the truck. But I am not getting enough wrench time. I got the hydroboost from eightyduece, A hearty thank you to you sir. I have gone to the big city and had a hose made for the O-ring seal on one end and a SAE flare on the other. The hose place was out of several fittings but managed to make what I needed. I am finding a lot of stores are short on standard inventory lately. I also got the El Camino tank mostly installed. I was going to list what a guy needs to do to make one fit. I need to finish it first and I will post it all up. I found a cool fuel filler reducer that will not slow up the fuel filling. It is slick. I still need to install the chevy tank under the very back too. So I am not dead. I am just busy as heck. ;)
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I am back on the truck work. I have missed it all summer. Moving it around to fix other vehicles and house issues. I kept wishing I was playing with it instead. It has been 50 days today that I woke up and found my wife deceased. I am just sort of running on a confused auto pilot. I don't care about much. But I must keep doing the next right thing. I will never stop missing her.
I left off trying to land both an El Camino and chevy fuel tank under the bed. 38 gallon capacity between both. I got the El Camino tank in and done. It fits like it was made for it. I found a stainless tapered offset reducer to go from 3 inch to the 2 inch on the fuel tanks. No obstructions and it hopefully will flow fuel well.
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The supports.
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Installed.
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The tapered reducer. EDIT:: buyfittingsonline.com
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It lines up well.
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Continued...
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The rear tank is a 41-48 Chevy extra capacity. The filler neck does not line up and I am waiting for a 2 inch 180 pipe from Jegs. I wanted a dual filler just like the front one. So I doctored the fuel filler I had by removing the mounting strap, cutting and reversing the fender mount, and pie cutting the bed mount and adding a small filler piece. Then clocking the filer neck with the vent tube facing forward to allow me to remove the axe without interference. The tools came from home depot. I had to cut off ~ 5/8ths off the bottom of the mattocks and about 3/16 of each side. Then sharpen it. I will make my own black straps later. Unfortunately my welder had a cooling line failure. I am waiting for a part. It made a heck of a mess in the shop. I guess I will clean the house today instead.
Duplicating the holes exactly like the front filler.
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Making some changes to the mounting bracket.
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Everything fits. I wanted fiberglass handles since I am modernizing the truck.
My shovel is the standard 2 inches to long. I will shorten it.
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A little different..
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More later.
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I think that is looking great!
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I was surprised to find copper plating on the entire metal filler neck. I would imagine for the zinc plating? It was zinc I think. All the ones I have seen had either paint or a lot of white aluminum like corrosion on them. It welded back up just fine.
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Found you!
Can't wait to get all caught up on this. Hope you're doing well, Al. Miss talking to you about Walter and Sadie!
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Sadie is in Seattle and has only 600ish miles clocked. Never gets driven in the rain etc. Good to hear from you Greg.
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I am still waiting on the 2 inch metal filler neck piece from Jegs. Ordered on the 4th! I have watched Fed Ex alter the dates and location on where it is at. I was an hour from here and now it is stalled in central Washington. They used to be the best shipper. No one is now. This is NOT the 1990's anymore...
I moved on to the exhaust system. Dual truck mufflers and 2.5 inch pipe. I originally had the exhaust pipes run under the crossmembers. I did not like it and it could catch rocks, logs, and also could cause a problem in deep dry grass here. So I managed to run it above the crossmembers and keep some distance from the body. I don't think I will need heat shields. I need a couple exhaust hangers but the drivers side is done. I am very close with the passenger side. I am working from the muffler back to the rear. Almost there.
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I had to put quick release joints in the pipe so I could remove both sections by the transmission. They have to snake there way in there for assembly.
You can see them between the transfer case mounts. And here behind the
x-fer case.
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The truck is looking good mechanically. When the rear fuel tank and exhaust are done, I will probably start working on the dash. I have a bunch of custom rocker switches to land. When the truck comes apart for paint, I will rebuild the trans, transfer and open up the motor and see what is going on inside there.
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More later.