Thanks for the support on the deviations from original on my truck; hoped you all would understand! Thanks especially to Hanno and Chuck for your very kind words!
Was somewhat busy this past week. The weather has turned nice with the temp hovering right around 100 F, a great aid in working outside!
We accomplished the following:
Installed the floor temporarily to see what our tolerances were for all the engine and tranny parts.
Installed the new drive shaft.
Cut and tack-welded the frame for the bed. We were using 110 and Bob took the frame out to his house to complete the welding with his 220 welder.
Bent and adjusted the new shifting lever to fit the internal; body panel. Had to do a bit of cutting on the opening but it's covered by the rubber boot. (Although I had hoped to use the original shifting arm, because of the shifting traverse space required will not be able to do so.)
Placed the 5" channel on the bumper frames after doing a bit of grinding to get them to fit inside the channel. Need a couple of bands and four "U" bolts made for the brush guard. I'm having these made on Monday.
Turned the truck around in preparation to running some water through the engine to do some flushing. Discovered that one of the tires has gone flat and will need to be dismounted and checked to see if a new tube is warranted. : (Will add the two lug nuts I was missing; purchased a couple of replacements and they arrived today.)
Stopped by the painter and picked up all of the outside engine compartment body parts. He showed me one of the doors which had to have both the inside and outside skins replaced; he's done a great job! After revisiting the door ordered some replacement door handles from Macs.
Found that the air cleaner I recently purchased is too bit for the space as it intrudes into the underside of the control panel box!
Am watching a couple of potential replacements on eBay.
Purchased another fan on eBay after finding that the tapped holes in the alternator pulley don't match up with the fan I have!
Hopefully the "new" one show up next week!
Searched eBay and found a set of manifolds, the right side having the lower profile. Am hopeful for success in the bidding!
Some aggravations but some progress!
Regards,
Jim