Gettin There

 Dog

 Won't be long now

 don't know what happened to the alternator bracket so I made one

 there will be headers in place of the blank space there

that's a p/s pump from the Winnebago so I need to add the reservoir and extra hose

 flash to the bolt on yoke

check out the drive shaft below

 the hood

about 1 inch needs removed from the drive shaft

there are three parts to this drive shaft with three u-joints and a carrier bearing

in the middle of the two shafts

for a 69 it's  pretty clean still

ROUND THREE

 Bottom is buttoned up

 Heads installed

 let's get this going

 added: one Turbo-400

and might as well put it together now

It's been really hot the past week. Had to get Dave Mossburg to take me in to Home Depot to get a new air compressor. I wound up putting the engine together by hand and without a torque wrench. But I worked on the truck all week long, in the afternoon after the shade took over and managed to get the sucker installed. I pulled out the cross member and had to cut the rivets off so it would go into the frame easier. There are holes in the frame in the right place already.

There's the dead air tank. I'm going to add it to the system for more storage. 

and there's the cross member 

 that's a tight fit

and it's even tighter on the driver's side

I'll work on getting it running this week. My budget has no room for this but it'll fetch a good payday when it's up and running. I'm going to have to put a different accelerator pedal on it. Everything else fits right into place except the drive shaft. It's going to take a trick for that but I'll find the fix.

Some Days

Where's the lesson in rancor? I hate flies. That's an upgrade from mosquitoes. When we went out to give blessings to a family in need I found a very unpleasant sight upon exit. It looked like one of the dogs had killed three kittens that couldn't have been more than a week old. The ants and flies were hard at work.
If the rest of the world would just pay attention, all would be as it should. That's why the fly swatter is coming out of the closet. Did I mention I hate flies!
Well, I'm going to the park in about 45 minutes to help with a lesson by our Sister Missionaries. I did find the phone charger for the truck. I have spares but this one is coiled.
The government is no longer for the people. The government is for the government. Every student must be comfortable enough to allow green marshmallows to share the bathroom with left-handed lizards. I still don't like flies.
I have another project ready to go after Scott gets the parts he wants out of the back. I thought that truck was a short bed but he says it's not.

But it's okay no matter what. I need more debt. And did I already say I hate flies?