Radio Magic

Yesterday (March 16th,2008) my dad and I took a ride in the truck. While riding around I got bored and decided to fiddle with the radio. To my surprise it turned on! It never ever ever turned on before and I had just about given up on it, but it lit up no sound but it lit up. When we arrived at the house we turned off the truck and put it in ACC and turned the radio up as high as it would go and there was.... SOUND!!! not loud barely audible (bad speaker I'll fix it this weekend) but it was working pretty exciting if you ask me.

Testing the Truck

Today I took a good look at my truck and after reading my 69' Service manual I decided to take a look at my air filter. If you can see in the photos it's a bit different it's equipped with a heat stove to make sure all air coming in is above 100 degrees F. It is run by vacuum a thermostat decides to let vacuum through or not depending on temperature. It should let vacuum through at this temperature but would not, so to get past this I bypassed the sensor and hooked it straight to the vacuum motor. Lo and Behold it opened correctly but shortly after I heard an audible POP and it had closed. Looks like I need a new vacuum motor and sensor. Let's call Delco AC! they can help.... not. Anyone got any ideas what I should do? It has an exhaust leak on the left manifold, so if we replace that we can get a regular manifold getting rid of the heat stove, which would let us get a new carburetor. Time to go ponder the great ponder-able

New Running light lenses!

We just received new running light lenses from www.manestruckparts.com
They have everything for 69-72 chevys. Anyways on to the pictures!
Top left new lens on bottom old lens on top
top right same thing as top left middle left old running light
middle right new running light!
last bottom left old running lights

Pictures!

More truck work

This Friday I recieved my 1969 Chevy Truck service book that book has everything in it. I could build my own truck with parts basically. Anyways we did some more painting and i guess a little spray paint goes a long way. Only problems we had was some of the paint "bubbled up" i'm not sure if it was heat or what but we'll professionaly do it someday this is temporary. This weekend we fixed some old vacuum hoses cleaned up some more painted replaced and fixed all running lights and that about sums up the weekend work.

Truck Coming together

Well it's been a while since I've posted but my dad and I have got quite a bit of stuff done on the truck which includes cleaning up engine block and painting it, re-routing hoses,new U-Joints,  painted armeratures, and other general cleaning things. The truck sure is looking a heck of a lot better

Good Work Day

Well today was quite a work day got some big stuff done. The U-joints on the truck were completely worn out, so today we replaced all three of them and the center bearing. The truck is now 100% more reliable then it was before, we also painted the carb and a few other things. The truck repairs have started!