Inliners International Forums General Discussion Truck Talk 1972

this truck is probably as old as some of you fellas out there but its my first build bit diferent mostly old mixed with a lot of knew

let me know what you think i have a billion pictures if you are interested in any certain part and want to see more just ask


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titenn!!!! if you wouldn't mind shrinking theses a little i can't seem to figure it out thanks

The pics aren't hosted on the website, you have to set the size before you post them,in your case Photobucket, the easiest way to do this is in a program like Photoshop Essentials, a good size would be 400x(whatever) pixels, or a 125x600 thumbnail linked to the full sized pic.. As an alternative, you could email them to me and I can size them for you. If you, or anyone, does this be sure to tell me what it is for so I know what is going on and where the pics are going. Make sense? if not, email me.

Tim

Wow! That thing is sweet!

Low 'n Slow

Pete

Hey pete been watching your build! Nice car!


Yes se is deffinately low but not slow come on were talking real INLINE POWER!!

Haha, thanks!

Yeah, I thought the same thing when I posted it... Quote was not that great of a fit. My bad.

Pete

Cars at paint pete totslly excited for you when you bringing it through az?

No update on thd truck bought a house so been funding that!

Hey good for you! Yep, houses are an expensive entity. Makes a car look like chump change. Congratulations!

Believe it or not, I hope to drive it back to the guy I bought it from in New Mexico and give the guy a good beating. (Sarcastic) We've been fighting his bad work since day one! That should take me right through the center of Arizona. A slight detour through Glendale may be in order.

Actually believe it or not, we went right by you on our way home from picking up our Chevy. There was a huge snow storm that closed down the highway in between Flagstaff and Kingman. We had to take a detour on a small country road through the snow down the Phoenix to get around it!





Sorry, didn't quite understand your last post. Did you mean your car's at paint? If so, congratz!

Best of luck!

Pete

Dood love that picture o the car in snow arizona is good for screwi. Routs up been there quite a few times in az and that would be killer if you swung theough gle dale a lot of us in azinliners would be tickled pink to see your car

And no was refering to yours unfortunately mytruck will not be painted for some time after it runs and drives

Well updates are slow but i'm reallytrying to get back at it

For today i got the trans switched over the the mid shift location so it won't hit my seat now also got a plate welded over the top of a stock manifold so i can break my engine in using a carburator instead of my fuelinjection setup

Definately more safe that way

Good deal! Looks great! Slow updates are better than no updates! Good luck with the engine break in!

Cool!

Pete

All progress goes in the + column. I've been trying to fix broken and worn out stuff from the - column and get them into the = column. That is not really progress, it's treading water. So for some part of every day I put on my water wings and flippers and head to the shop.

getting very close in the engine now just got my clutch fly wheel and waiting on my harmonic balancer from tom i can nearly taste the exhaust fumes in my mouth been really busy every day trying to track down all of the little parts needed and its kicking my... butt crank is drilled and the flange is now 1/2 in x 20 and the dowel was drilled for 1/2 in dowel pin

ended up with a hays flywheel and a hays clutch kit to match i am using a bronze pilot bushing and waiting on some arp flywheel bolts

no need to lose toes:)

been doing a lot of reading on getting the tranny straight and indexed so i should be good there

it is a tremec 2600708 5 speed 3550 tko

got the drive line all together and some more metal cut from the floor and a mock up is the new shifter tower noting like petes but it will do!

thanks happy in-lining

Looking good!

Thanks beater the more i wrk on it the more i want to work on it lol

Exciting!

Best of luck!

Pete

I'll have it running for ypu when you visit cali buddy

Well got the dngine mounted in the truck left the clutch out for break in slash tuning purposes while i save my pennies for the rest of the parts neccessary to make it drive will post pictures later for you to check out

Also primered the room anx cab floor for rust protection even though my truck is finally in a garage;)

Happy inlining

I look forward to it! Good for you getting the engine mounted! Getting close!

Fun, fun, fun!

Pete

Some more photos for you to check out nothing crazy for most of you old timers atleast;)

Looks like its coming together nicely. Is it going to be a daily driver or just a weekender.

Daily driver is what i am aiming for i believe i have pictures of the rear en i curious

That blue and silver engine sure is pretty!

Pete

Looks much better when its not detailed woth lime greene tape haha

Well soent all yesterday getting a noce tan digging through the junk yards for a water pump pulley and upper alternater bracket got them cleaned up and painted getting close to firing this baby now just need to strap the itake on fully get an alternater plugs wires linkage and do a little wireing so very close now

Got my starter put on and shimmed cut the fire wall so the valve cover would fit also got the breather installed on the cover need to trim the inside a little bit more to clear the rockers comfortably got my balancer installed and shining like a new penny just need some bolts in the mounts and trans hook the radiator up and put oil in it so hope fully next weekend i'll have some videos of it running but for now only pictures enjoy!!

An happy inlining

At work will post pictures tonight just wanted to say...



It livessssss!!!

Kool!

Well GOT the engine fired up and brike the csm jnyesterdsy most wiring is temporary as I need to oull it ut one last time to finish all the transmission bull! For now I will save my pennies so I can buy the turbo and accessories and some shifters and get my drive line shortened but when I grt near a comouter I will post oictures and try my luck at a video..

Also to note ran a singke barrel carb engine was extremely responsive just didn't have enough air flow so i sprinkled the radiator with a hose every somoften and it stsyed right around 190 next move I guess is try the fuel injection by professiinal products the powerjection 3 see how that works to kill time while I ssve cash monies (american)

That is great. Glad it went well. Keep at it.

Sorry it take a while o do photobucket from a phone here is a picture of the truck i'm going to take my photos and vids tonight for this website so you hard a$$3$ can scrutinize!!

Happy inlining!

Well the distributor is "a tooth off " from the perameters of the 10 deg tom told me to set it atso i was working on that almost got her there snd i figured out why my alternator wasn't charging and how to fix it" was very simple" once i knew of course still got some leaky leakies i need to fix and redo. Took some photos of the engine bay for you gus will work on those right now!

Happy inlining!

Looking good Josh. Sure would like to hear it.

It is always a fun time when getting a project engine running for the first time.

Yes i beed to get a youtube account so i can upload videos onto here for you guys

Well its been a while:/ still collecting parts and knowledge for my fueli jection build. As some o you may hve seen on other posts getting pretty hot and heavy into a plennum multi port injection